The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-08-07
The Honest Indignation ola Noble
Spirit.

1
We give below some extracts from the speech
Of that "uobIest Roman of them alr"-the tlon
Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York. There Is
no one of our public men whose career we have
watched with more interest and admiration. q
cw years ago we had a controversy with one
Of our city contemporaries, concerning the
<oundncss aud lonorof Mr. Dickinson. Through
| that means we hecame more familiar with his
record than we had been before. Since then
We have watched his career with care, and
have eagerly read everything that he uttered.
Dur admiration has not waned. Below will be
found AS overwhelming al outburst of blasting
Indignation as ever fell from an honest orators
lips. The remarks occurred in the course OF a
speech recently delivered at Breckenridge
md Lane meeting in New York.
The Convention assembled at Charleston
and Organized for business. a holy man ar
r,ved in the robes of his sacred office, with
raised hands and fcrvent suppication, invokes
the favor of the Bcncfcent Being who has
vonchsatGd to us, as people, SO many bless
-ings. The whisper Of beauty is hushed in the
galleries-the aged bow their gray hairs i'll
>ympqthetic and deep dcvotion-livity Is hum
lied in silence and even lurking fraud is abasl IL
Cd and covers for lidng-piacc. But The
paryer is over, and a band OF conspirators take
possession Of the assemLIage, and instead OF
National Convention, great huck-stenng
hazaar is ercctcd-a political trade-salc Is opel'.
cd-management nauguratcs her Shiny and
rrpusive court, and the office Of Chief Magls
nate of this mighty republic is put up like the
hoard of a public pampcr to the lowest bidder
It's proceedings bear evidence of deliberate anu
long cherished design, of continuation and
conspiracy to tie up minorties against them
and leave those free who were for them, and
thus attain by fraud or force particular result
regardless Of public sentiment or Of consequent
ces which mi ight follow.
The ruling faction had snufcd up the scent
of four hundred millions Of spoil, and for them
the Administration was expected to rain milk
ard honey, snow powdered sugar, and hal
MoH Is vegetable life pills.
Under nearly two weeks. Of this application
of the forcing process, the Convention proved
unequal to the emergency and paused fol
Lrcalh--a portion of Tie delegations withdrew
and the residue adioarn.d to Baltimore for a
period OF some six weeks, for ventilation. The
public had reason to hope tlrat.s separated
from the influences which surrounded 'them
aud 10 longer breathing the contagious they
enecndered, hut inllalIng healthy moral at
n0spcrc, they might return and dischargc'1lc
duty which they had undertaken. But ab,
>lincnce only edged their. appetitcs, and theil
last state was worse than the first. The same
drilled packed, machine majority met again
composed Of delegates from portion OF States
and asSunrd to sit in judgement upon the
rights of regular delegates from another por-
liOn-to punish them Tor some non-conormlty
10 the ma, ,ority standard e. other delinquency
ill short, to deny to sovereign Democratic
States the riglIt 10 return to their seat nj
baltimore, because they did not occupy them
or the whole period OF The protracted sitting
at Charleston "a. question belonging entirely
to Tie constituency OF those delegations alone
ap,d ->aaBA.!I-;:-.,;. .-..ll Genye yention. had
no business whatsoever. And n'e47..7' 8
these DELEGATIONS expelled uader suclN2a
son, but bogus delegations, made up. to- sult
the convenience aud necessity OF the oecaslcI',
were put in their places.
a decision So aLhorrcnt to every principle
Of common frirucss so rep ete with outrage
aud usurpaliol, divided, disnclibered and
,,roke M the Convention as it should have
Lnur. and us every sensible mind saw 1t would
in. and commend with my whole heart the
>p;ril and approve the conduct OF the Fres'
dent, Gcrcral Cushing, WHO refused longer &c
preside over the tyrannous caOai, ana OF th'
irlcra,ious who, uTdrr the same lresideh'
r,-ar.,anized and placed in nomination MessFs
breckenridge and Lane.
Ike r.luauag iIa:tun, made up chiefly o
dccr.tcs from l;epuLlican Stalcs whose &c
,,ruIlous were the authors OF the great wrong
,I,.n,ivrd Of their head, and without Demo
cratic body, proceeded to nominate MesSrS
l,ourlas and Fitzpatrick, as we we're informed
. minis, tremendous enthusiasm crnonL an'
: other New Engand States, and the who
) Northwest, were pledged to Mr. Douglas
= tsulircl Of course, 20 slight ll'c!'ln'erancc
! Hri by one ALr7.haln l.ircu.n. with dcaen
inc, ,nnIauScs, Some ti;l-hoa!mcn, dcSccndln!
: ,Le Mississippi, in rathera jolly mood, passed
Iousp on lle Shorc where they were hddLn
E, and dancing on the piazza the boat ic'l '"'
~ eddy, aud once i'll each hall hour PaSse
J, ,hc house AGAIN. and the boatnen sworc the
# wrr, tidlliur and dancing Ill every house 10
j , hundred miles Oh the shore OF the river
= willie they had been revolving Ill eddy IN
= srrn but one. The Doayas strength is est
mated in the same way. !,
g Wuivins all questions OF the merits or u'
II merits of Mir. Douglas us Il candidate, II
! mr,rus;ons were pressed upon the Convcntlo
$ .Lsouc,imcs under the prctencc OF plallorl
{ urou which he could stand with convenient
Y SOMETIMES in the admission and rejection
e l,.,tates bv the process OF machinery al
Il r,,,,.ucut. and ut other times III the dire
: rr,.sru,ation of lis namc heyund all precedeh'
=, hounds of courtesy or rclson-ln InanN
nnd in Il spirit and with fec: Ing winch SPoII
J,liauce to nearly onc-I'alt OF the States ol u
A. rout.derac1, when it WAS well known th'
:, would rot acur,icsce in bis nonnation-th'
6, would not support him if nominated. and til
, Ln n,,rI,l moi be elected without their votes
r. dressed. 100, in Il tone and temper, ana vi
lv d,r,rrd abstirrAle persistence, which WAS VT
= ,..,i7H,,,J !, it was not intended, to break
Il, the Convrmtion or force 1t INTO ooe'ie"cc
=, tlI. hchcsts Of :! combination.
ur TL, authors of this outrage, whom we sh"'
II L,d accountable, and who are justly and d're
" " cy,arrcabIe with t, were the ruling m%jo
:; n[ the New York dele CATION. They had
H. ~. nc,. Of power and nEdIy, and sclilSlly' Il
,nrrunily used it for the disruption OF tne
a mocr;,tc party in cndcVor''S 10 'o''e ,a, "r
y fixed point To nsuscrrc ttn II infamous s'''e
They were there charged with hs" 'e:fo,'
- j;mrs by 4 aa,riotic and comtldlnS co"sl,t"ci
ro IN tip crisis OF unusual interest: III the
I.' ,,,r. ,T ,hc parlv aud the conntry- they j"