Red Wing sentinel., 1860-05-16

'~''' " y unso O0ugtaS opponents: Fhis
hostility was unrelentipg> in its characte,
until tho edstsr went Up to Charleston. A,
|she Close Of the first week, on the very eve
Of the secession, he thus wrote back can.
did acknowledgment that Douglas was the
man for the occasion. He says:
These causes, then, have operated Nortt
and South eventually to bring Judge Doug
las prominently before the country. At ,ht
North. his doctrine of non-;ntervention and
POPULAR sovereignty is universally popular
and the more he has Been denounced and
vilified by the destructives on that account
the more the Northern people have rallied
to his advocacy and support, until he now
stands the embodiment and personifcatior
of to taem, great and vital principle. lie
is, beyond question:. the representative ma,
cf the Nosth not of one or two states, bu,
Ia great majority Of the free States. lie is
not only their preference from policy, bu,
their supreme choice as Jealous working
Democrats, who will spend time, money
energy. everything, for his success-who will
|go into their contest with him as their can.
didate, with = determination to win, and
never say die - but who will he dispirit.
ed and discomftted if he is not nominated
And in what State of the North does this
feeling most predominate In iAose vera
States 70 ..ere zoe alone can Court on proboJl:
SUCCESS, viz: Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the Northwest gen.
erali,. Can we afford to dispense with the
enthusiastic and jealous support Of our can.
didate by the Democracy and people Of these
S::!stes :. Will not vast majority, yea
nearly :!hc entire convention of Charleston
come % the conclusion that W, must s2cu'1
it in order to succeed Does any sody BE-
lieve that it could be SO safely and sul>ely
done by any other as by Judge Douglas
,,oninations $3.50 }
tits; therefore, my deliberate
opinio? that it would BE- best and safest for
tho Charleston Convention to nominate
,Juo.e Douglas for the Presidency, and we
think it will do SO.
In this tryi,;- emergency hope that Al
ALBANIA will have nerve to do her whole du'
ty at Charleston. 1t is to be hoped hat a
suf1iciency Of her delegates Will remain III
the convention to cast the vote of the state,
and that it will be cast in a nann>r which
will conduce to the success of the sreas
Democratic party, and the salvation Of th.,
country, and this con best be done By getting
for Jaxttqe Douglas. Let the Clays and the
:Yaneeys; ct I'd omne genus howl the De.
mocracy oe Alabama has encountered and
overcome t:.e:r opposition and hostility be-
fore, and they can. if necessary, do it again.
Let the word be onward, whether against
traitors in our ranks, Or the open enemy in
the field. -,
The Mobile Register, after alluding to the
necessity Of prompt action in: e}ecting dele
delegates to fill the vacansies created
by the scccders, and the: re~assem-
bling Of the Democratic National Conven-
ton at Baltimore, on the l8thof june. re-:
marks:
We have always contended, and the
event has corroberatcd our conviction, that
the majority Of our Alabama delegation
misrepresented the State. The delegations
Of other States have exceeded Their instruc-
tions, OARS hsve disobeyed theirs, for instead
Of rsturniag home and consulting their con-
stituency, thew have formed themselves into
IN opposition esavsntion, and taken to their
bosom the rstnsethat the Democracy had
contemptaouslY re5icted--the shameless
factionists Of New York Under tho: lead Of
Wood, and the contemptih6s Of office
holders from Illinois III whose favor not .
solitary vote had bssr cast BY the regular
convention. These delegations having
abused thsir rmandates;sh Voluntarily d.
vested themselves Of thsir representative
character, it behooves- tho Democracy Of
the States whose voice hss thus arbitrarily