The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-05-04
Republican National Convention, . at
Chicago, May IO.
The Charleston Conventional Great
Split in the Democracy.

The Charleston Conventional Urea
Split in the Democracy.
The somewhat meaSer returns which VI
give from Charleston will be perused with
great interest We may give later despatch
in another column, but at the time we write
this no nomination has been made 1t vii
be noticed that after eight days of storm!
discussion and angry wrangling, the grea
national" democracy has gone into insolven.
CIV. Several of the Southern States have
bolted and organized another convention
The Douglas faction are plucky, and it ma!
be overbearing, but it is meek or nothing
with them. with more than an even chanc.
for nothing"
20 1t has long been the boast of certain
Of their papers. that the democracy was q
INIT and rational. What say our neighbors
now? 1t is proposed by a friend at our ell
bow. Who deals in the article, that little of
"Spalding's Prepared Glue might be usefu
in this emergency. Nothing asked for sug-
sestions.
Death OF JOHN S. ROBINSON Hon
John 5. Robinson, one of the delegates a,
large from Vermont to the National Demo
cratic Convention, died suddenly at Charles
ton of apoplexy, on Wednesday morning OF
last week. BY a union of rum, democracy
and free soiism in 1868. Mr.. Robinson was
elected governor of Vermont by the Lesisla-
ture on the Goth ballot. and he was well
known as the only Democratic governor Yer,
mont ever had He was between fifty and
sixty years DID,
TIE PRIZE FlGuT-We give elsewhere
some particulars of this brutal affair which
has occasioned so much interest on both sides
Of the Atlantic. We will not SPEAK at length
upon it. We believe pugilis.ic encounters
bar5arous even among barbarous people, and
how much more so are they in civilized and
Christian nations. The Springfield Kepub.
licln closes an article on this affair in SC
sensible and caustlc a manner that We viii
copy the last paragraph:
but seriously, what subject we have
here for Christian contemplation. What q
theme for eloquent discourse about human
progress. refinement and all that sort of
thing. The two most Christian of Christian
nations more interested in the comparative
ability of two professional brusers to pummel
each other into jelly than in any other cur
rent event. The whole thing is irred,ema-
hly barbar5us and brutal The fight OF IIee.
Ian ana Savers was so much more brutal
than dog fight as a man is supeIio: to a
dos. We 20 ior muscle. and the muscular
movement and muscular Christianity, and all
that-but the muscle men must try their sci
ence and their brute force on something be.
sides each others noses and land achieve
something better than the nu,iation of 1.-THE
human form divine, to entitle themselves to
public respect. or to secure the right to take
rank above the naked savases of cannibal
islands. or tie hungry dogs in the kennel
who fight ard draw each others "caret' O.
Yer bone. There is something of the brute
in all men, but it is not worth while to cult
vatc it, ard it IS by no means thing to be
proud of or grow eloquent about. The dogs
have now had their day. Let them retire to
their kennels"