The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-05-25
Enthusiastic Democratic Meeting at Red Wing.
Speeches Of Hon. w. w. phelps and
Judge Wilder. alr
SOUND RESOLUTIONS ADOpTED.


Correspondence of the Pioneer and Democrat
RED WING, May IS. 1860.
The Democracy of Red Wing assembled
in force last night, at Philleo Hall, to vel.
come home our delegate from Charleston,
Hon. w. W. PHELPS, to hear his report of
the proceedings there, and to express their
sentiments in relation to that Convention
and its action. Though the notice of the
meeting was necessarily short, the Hall was
crowded to its utmost capacity by live and
enthusiastic Democrats. The meeting was
organized by calling to the chair the Hon.
W. W. SwEENY.
Mr.. PHELPS being called upon, then made
bis appearance, and proceeded to give the
history of the Convention, with which you
are familiar. He dwelt upon the causes
which produced the secession from the Con-
vention, and on the combinations which
sought to defeat the nomination of Judge
DOUGLAS, and the shameless and unscrupu-
lous means which those combinations had
employed to accomplish their ends. He
was sorry to state that the only delegates
from the Northwest who had faltered in
their support of DOUGLAS, were two gentle
men from our cwn State. What their mo.
tives were he could not say-they themselves
could best explain their course. The object
of the leading spirits in the secession move-
ment was the dissolution of the Union.
They had co-labOrers at the North in their
unholy work, but they would be defeated by
the conservative sentiment of the country.
The friends of DOUGLAS would never desert
him. They had stood by him in an unbro-
ken phalanx through more ballots than ever
before were taken in Democratic Conven~
ton, and if the Charleston Convention were
still in session they would be voting for him
yet. They will support him until be
is nominated at Baltimore, and triumph
antly elected in November next, and be
will support himself like JACKSON then.
The speech was enthusiastically received.
every mention of DOUGLAS and his support
ers calling forth uproarious applause.
On motion, Messrs. WILDER, SANFORD
and PIERCE were appointed committee to
draft resolutions expressive of the sense of
the meeting, and after short recess the fol-
lowing were reported:
RESOLVED That the Democracy of Red Wing.
in mass netting assembled, heartily approve
OF and endorse the platform adopted by the
National Convention at Charleston as eminent
~ just in its spirit, conservative in it's charac
ter. and national in its scope and practical re.
| suits.
RESOLVED, That we cordially welcome to his
! home among US, our fellow citizen, the Hon.
W. w. PHELPS, and to him and his associates
OF the Minnesota delegation to that convention
who, as honest and honorable men, were true
TO themselves and the Democracy of this State
the nomination of the acknowledged candidate
OF the people for the Presidency, we extend
me need OF praise Well done, good and
faithful servants
RESOLVED, That as to those of our delegates
VINO, forgetting themselves, their honor and
the people, became the willing tools of cor
rupt and INSCRIPTIONS administration to defeat
the popular will, We have only to say that we
| leave them to their own consclences and to the
! lgnominy attaching to the betrayal of a politi
cal trust, voluntarily assumed.
RESOLVED, That our confidence in, admira
OF, and anectlOn for, STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS are
put strengthened and increased by the unhal-
lowed efforts and combinations made at Charles.
ton to defeat him and the Democracy of the ma.
ton; that the reasons for his nomination have
day by day multiplied until it is no longer a
cholce between candidates, but between sue
cess with DOUGLAS and defeat with another, and
that hence the duty of supporting him. and him
Baltimore. no inb
mandate of imperative necessity.
RESOLVED. That the PIONEER & DEMOCRAT,
Chicago Times, and Red Wing Sentinel be re-
quested to publish the above.
The resolutions were read amid great APP
plause, and on motion were adopted by
unanimous shout of aye. No vote in the
negative
Hon. Judge WILDER was then called up,
on. He arose, and responded 10 his usual
happy and effective manner. He endorsed
that delegate at Charleston, who offered to
the seceders, the scriptural consolation of
go and be damned" A weight had been
lifted of the Democratic part, and all that
was corrupt in it, sloughed off. The seces-
sion would not weaken our ranks. Judge
DOUGLAS would carry every Southern State,
onu III 1uC NOECu We WOuIO make great ac>
cessions The speaker scathingly rebuked
the Administration, and its traitorous and
ungrateful course, and then referred to the
admiration and love with which Judge
DOUGLAS was regarded by the American
people, inside and outside the Democratic
party-an admiration which he bad won
for himself by his honest and manly de-
votedness to principle. He then spoke of
the value and necessity of the Union. He
thought there was no danger of its dissolu>
ton, yet Democrats should be no less ac-
tive on that account, for until DOUGLAS, or
some man like him, if any could be found,
was elected President, the traitors and dis
unionists would never completely be crushed
out. We and he alone can do it now, and
the great principle upon which all free
governments are built, must, the second
time, be endorsed and ratified, to be cues.
toned never more. III
The speaker was frequently interrupted
by applause, and was loudly applauded at
the conclusion.
Three cheers we're given for Hon. WV
PHELPS, and Our faithful delegates to the
Charleston Convention. Six were proposed
for DOUGLAS, aud were given with a will
that left many an excitable Democrat hoareo