The gazette and Democrat. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1860, 1860-07-05
For lho Gnrello nnd pem6elat:. !.

Nationality md Regularity of the Douglas
ConventiOn---Iaegularity of Douglas NOm-
inaiiOn---Trinmph of Principle.
is astonishing with what pertinacity
tbs Douglas faction discolor the facts and
pervert the circumstances Of the Balti-
more Convention. No argument is too
far-ietched. no sopbism Is TOO fallacious.
no ialsehood is too glaring to be pressed
into service, Tor the purpose Of demonstra-
ting the nationality of the rump Con-
vcntion and the regularity" ofMr. Doug
las nomination at Baltimore.
The Convention that nominated Mr..
Douglss was not ''ndtiOnol" nor was bis
nomination Irregular" The most obsti-
nate blindness to Truth, the most per-
verse shutting of eyes against the light,
the most piiiable absence ofreason, judg-
mont and common sense can alone justify
the nationally" of the convention, or
the "regalurity" of the nomination. Can
il be possible that convention without
delegates from Of the democratic States
with bogus, fraudulent and Unauthorized
delegates fromL louisiana, Alabama and Geor-
gia with miserable andscarcely mentiona-
BILE minority from virgiria, Kentucky,
Missouri, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Ma
ryland and Arkansas; with but q divided
representation from New York, Pennsyl.
vania and Minnesota; in fact with a ma
jority OF States BY a majority Of their del
egates refusing toparticipatc in its pro-
ceedings, and every certain democratic
State in the union protesting against its
acts can make any prelonce to "nationali-
y," or "rcgularity." Can it be possible
that few miserable factioniSls, without
electoral strength representing no prinoi.
pie, led on by an agitator, opposed by
democratic administration, and formally
read out Of the party by the President,
whose heretical doctrines found but one
supporter in democratic Senate, whose
principles have been overruled by dem
ocratic court, can claim to be national.
can claim to be lcmocratic-the true rep
resentatiye Of the once powerful, once u
nited, harmonious Democracy. Such a
claim is prepostcrous and is calculated
only 10 excite ridicule and contempt. The
fact is. the Douglas party is mere fac
ton of spoil-hunters, who seeing that true
democracy had become odiOus and un-
progtablc in the north, who feeling that
nationalas wellas local power was passing
from their grasp have broken off from the
regular organization with a hope of secu-
ring spoils in the local contest.
A mere party Of Adventures who have
stakod their all en- Mr.. Douglas success,
and who having taken with him "ihe
short out to all the ends of Black Repub-
would have bean black-repub.
licanizod or guillitoined il any other man
than Douglas had been nominated.
The claim 10 regularity of nomination
is no less silly; neither faction, and espec.
tally no! the Douglas trump" have any
pretcxt to "regularity." Without the
regular president, without representation
from many Of the States, without dele
gates enough to nominate in accordance
with tho we'll established of the par.
~ and in conformity with the rules of the
Convention as adopted at Charleston, the
nom ination could not be regular.
Never in the history Of politics, was
more bigh'handed, iyrannical and dospo-
ate game played, than the one played by
ho Douglasitcs at Charleston and Balti-
noro- They bad stakod their political
lecks on Douglas's success, if he lost,
hey with him went down so low as to be
'eyond the reach Of tie hand of political
csurrcction. 1t was better for them that
he Convention disrupt and the party 60
o atoms !han that Douglas fail. If he
allied they were dead and damned politi-
ally. without hope; if they succeeded in
is'rpting the party and making Douglas
he candidate of a faction, they could hot
o worse, and might succeed in bearing off
be spoils in n feD township and county
Iections. To tho accomplishment Of
heso ends they deliberately set about
10 trick was unplayed, no moanness un-
that could secure their results,
'y as unprincipled piece Of meanness
8 ever disgraced free people, they per.
Isted in crushing out and suppressing the
linoritissin oil the States whore Douglas
ad a majority Of the delegates. By this
rocess six votesin Ohio wero cast for
Douglas that were in fact opposed TO him.
n New York fourteen were controlled in
he Same way; and so with o.he, States,
'lile IN the States opposed to Douglas.
Individual delegates who favored his NOM
nation, were permitted to vote their SON.
ments. By this arbitrary and suppress.