Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-05-04

WHAT SHALL Now BE DosB !-wsshington
city 10 in a more excited state to-day over the
action Of the two divisions Of the Charleston Con-
vention than at any previous period since the
body met, as intensely excited a. those congre
gated here have been from the frst moment cleo
tricity began to fash intelligence Of the acts Of
the Convention, until now.
As the Convention have left matters, the party Is
certainly disrupted - clearly and unmistakably
disruPtedi every Democratic-party State as repre-
sented In the Convention having refused, from
frat to last to accept either the platform or the
candidate insisted upon by every anti Democratic
party State as there represented.
IL the telegraphic reports in this mornings pa
Pen be true, the remedies proposed by both WINGS
we are very sure, will prove equally Objectionable
to their constituents everywhere. The Douglastes
offer as a remedy, themselves to reassemble at
Baltimore on the 18th proximo, and In the mean
time to put trial before their constituents those
(of the Conventon) who have not agreed with
them--the coolest piece Of political Impudence
and "jockeying" that was attempted. If 1t
succeeds in assembling at Baltimore any such
Pretense Of a Democratic-party Convention as II
aims to get there, Of course IL will be nothing
more than a convention of the adherents of can
didate who was steadily refused by all the Demo-
cratic States in the Charleston Convention for
|
mentary expedients made operative In his favor,
and without obtaining any support for his presi-
dental preensons whatever in the course of those
fifty%even ballots.
Any such Convention, under any such circum-
stances, will be so plainly but a convocation of
the adherents Of single asprant for the nomina-
ton, as will cause the honest heart Of the Demo-
cratic party everywhere TO scout Ii but scuryy
political trick, on a par with those by which il
was endeavored to fasten on the party at Charles
ton, both platform and candidate utterly repug
nant to its principles and desires IL will there
fore surely disrupt the Democracy; 1t being plain
that Mr.. Douglas may never hope to receive the
electoral vote of a single one of the seventeen
States voting the Democratic-party scket under
such circumstances
On the other hand, the alleged recommends
ton Of the secsders in favor of Southern Con-
ventiOn to be held at Richmond if carried out
will prove equally fatal to the future unity Of the
party, and is, therefore, inadmissabIe in the opin
ion OF all who really desire to prolong its exis-
| tence.
If there be remedy for this state of things, II
| lies in assembling at Baltimore or elsewhere an
entire new Convention. A Convention composed
of delegates elected by all the different States.
with the light Of the proceedings Of the Charles.
| ton Convention before their eyes to guide them
in making proper selections.
We know not who has authority to issue such
call-Perhaps the National Executive Commit
tee of the Democratic party. If not, then the
Democratic members of both Houses of Congress
should assume the responsibility of so doing;
and that too, without longer delay than be abso-
| lutely necessary.
Under existing circumstances it is clear that any
Pretence OF representation in the Baltimore Con-
vention as called, Of the seeding States will nee
essarily be but representation Of here and there
handful of Douglasites, who do not number. I'm
proportion TO the whole democratic votes of their
State, more than the proportion of their delegates
to the whole Of the delegations at Charleston from
their respective States, which, when taken into
consideration with the history of the acts of the
charleston Convention, makes IL absolutely GER
tain that II nominated at Baltimore by the rump
o! the Charleston Convention and bogus dele
| cations from the South, Douglas will not get in
| November single electoral vote from single one
Of the seventeen democratic States
The intensity Of the repugnance of those States
10 supporting him for the presidency, is aptly
illustrated indeed in the frmness with which
they resisted the platform sought TO be imposed
upon them for his benefit, and, also, his nomi-
| nation For ffty-seven ballots II was sought to
lnnlct him upon them, and throughout them all
not single one Of the seventeen State. came I.
his assistance-not enc! His whole support from
them outside OF minority Of the MARYLAND dele
CATION and minority Of the Missouri delegation
was one vote temporarily from North Carolina,
and one vote, also temporarily, from Virginia
To justify the policy of his nominal his SUD-
Porters found IL absolutely necessary to insist on
the adoption OF platform disgracing the Southern
states, by demanding Of them to sustain In
November creed avowing that the Democratic
party no longer maintains their co-equality under
the Constitution-the only platform upon which
their candidate could consistently stand.
The frmness with which the seceders and the
anti -Douglasites remaining In the rump resisted
the adoption Of that platform, brought about the
adoption Of the Tennessee proposition In its stead;
the rel Douglastes Of the body adhering to their
efforts to disgrace the South for the benefit of
Douglas, to the bitter end
The South will not fail TO perceive therefore
that she has already gained muc b. indeed bv her
nrmness and unity then and there displayed She
knows now, well, that the nomi nation of Douglas
BY the Democratic party is utterly i'm possible so
long as she stands up in defense of her own robts
as she stood up for them In Charleston and IL I.
very certain that the state Of the popular mind.
from Pennsylvania to the Rio Grande engrnde,ed
by the Charleston Conventions proceedings. will
atonce redouble her determination to vindcate her
rights In all that may be done in American poll.
tics between now and the going down of the s,p
on the first Monday Of Novembef next.