The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-07-26
The Divided Denaocracy--Dan-
fel q. Dickinson in New York.

icl y. Dickinson i'm New York.
The Breckenridge demonstration at the
Cooper institute, New York city, on Wednes-
day evening last, is said by the New York
Journals, to have far surpassed in point of
numbers and enthusiasm the late Douglas
ratification meeting in that city. The princi
pal speech was made by Daniel s. Dickinson
1t was from first to last fiery declaration tf
war and q bugle call to arms against Douglas
and his men. We quote few specimen
paragraphs s....-r .-.
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION
PUBLIC EXPECTATION.
There was never a moment in the history
of the Democratic party. or time when the
masses of the people looked TO the sitting of
a National Convention with more confiding
expectation than when it was about to assem-
bic at Charleston in April last. There was
never time when such confidence was more
wickedly, wantonly and shamefully betrayed
when reasonable expectations were so mad
" blasted as in the results produced bv its
action. It's proceedings find no parallel in
disgrace and degradation since the empire Of
the New World was sold at auction for
money. ......,. ....... ...
The Democratic party for its steady devo-
ton to the principles of the Constitution, the
catholcy of its creeds, for its grand radical
analysis and its just and lofty conservatism,
had won the confidence of the masses
and wrung unwilling admiration from
its hereditary opponents, and all good
men looked to it in this, the evil day Of
our country, for deiverence and safe.
ty. Its Convention assembled at Charleston
and organized for business. A holy man ar
raved in the robes of his sacred office, with
raised hands and fervent supplcation, in
vokes the favor of the Beneficient Being
who has vouchsafed to us, as people, so
many blessings. The whisper ofbeauty is
hushed in the gallerics-:he aged bow their
gray hairs in sirnpathetic and deeo devotion
--levty is humbled in silence, and even Turk
ing fraud is ahashed and covers for hiding
place. But the prayer is over, and band of
conspirators take possession of the assem-
blage, and instead of National Convention
n great huckStering bazarr is erected-a DO
litical trade sales is opened
inauglrates her slmv and repulsve court
and the Office of Chief Magistrate of this
mighty republic put up at the lowest bidder
FITS proceedings bcai evidence Of deliberate
and long cherished design, Of combination
E and conspiracy to tie up minori'ies against
. them, and thus attain by fraud or force a par.
= ticular result, regardless of popular senti
,nent or ofconsequences which might follow
: The ruling faction had snuffed up tne scent
of four hundred millions of spoil. and for
them the administration Of Douglas was ex.
: pected to rain milk and honey. snow pow
= dereh sugar and hail Moffat's Vegetable
Life Pills. Laughter. Under nearly two
, weeks of this application Of the forcing pro-
4 cess the Convention proved unequal to the
emergency, and paused for breath-a portion
Of the delegation Withdrew, and the residue
adjourned to Baltimore fhr period Of some
six weeks, for ventilation. The public had
reason to hope. that seneratetl frrn the in
, fiuonces which surro, n1eI them and no long
er breathing the contagious they enwendere
Init inhaling n healthy moral atmosphere,
. thrv might return and discharge the duty
y which they had undertaken. But absti-
y nence only edged tEeir appetites, and their
u last state was worst than the first A voice
, -"rhat's So The same drilled, packed.
. machine majority met again, composed of
" delegates from portion of the States and
- assumed to sit in judgement upon the rights
: of regular delegates from another portion
e to punish them for some ronconformity to
- the majority standard or other delinquency
in short, to deny to sovereign Democratic
States the right to return IT, their seats
at Baltimore, because they did not occupy
them for the whole period of the protracicd
=, sitting at Charleston-a question belonging
entirely to the constituency ofthese delera
u tons alone, and with which the National
% Convention had no business whatsoever
e And not only wer. those delegations
expelled under under such potensor
hut bogus delegations, made ur
% to suit the convenience and necessity o.
g the ;casion, were put in their places His
9 ses and cheers. J. A decision so abhorent tc
9 every principle Of common fairnesS-co re
- plete with outrage and usurnation divided
= dISm"mberea and broke M the Convention
as it should have done, and as every sensible
l. mind saw it would do, and commend with
+ my whole heart the spirit and approve thu
conduct of the President, Gen. Gushing, wht
3 refused longer to preside over the tvrannou:
cabal and Of the delegations who. under thu
= same President, re-orcanized and placed il
! nomination Messrs. Breckenridge and Lane
: The remaining fraction, made up chiefly o
. delegates from Republican States. whose del
II egations were the authors Of the great wrong
II deprived ofther head and without Demo
= cratic body, proceeded to nominate Mr. Doug
-, las and Fitzpatrick, as we were informed
amidst tremendous enthnSiasm-Vermont
and other New England States, and the whole
g Northwest, were pledged to Mr.. Douglas
fsuhiect of course to slight encumhrance
held by one Abraham Lincoln) with deafen
= ing applause. Some fat boatmcn decendin.
the Mississippi, in rather a jolly mood. passed
e a house on the shore where they were fiddlinl
It and dancing on the piazza-the boat fell int
r an eddy and once in each half hour passed
. the house again, and the boatmen swore they
i were fddling and dancing in every house 70
| a hundred miles on the shore of the river
n while they had been revolving in an edd,
y and had seen but one. The Douglas strength
), is estimated in the same way.
lie then goes into the canvass of the dis
= ruptioa and charges upon the ruling major.
y ity of the New York delegation the respon
sibility Of it, To these gentlemen and thei,
political associates, he addresses himself as
follows:
!, Those who ruled AMI dict,ted to. and vie,
. ded the vote ofthe New York decoration
- TIN ough the frau lulent process Of unit vot.
q "a rule forced nnon large minority ofthis
a delegation to stile their sentiments. while
, small minorities were released from it in 9th
3 er> to suit the purposes Of the conspirator,
u will hereafter he known nv the name plain
a " brand ID upon their guilty. foreheads a
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