Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-25
Manifesto of the Chairman of the Nation
al Democratic Executive Committee.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES Rooms
WASHINGTON, June go 1860

WASHINGTON, June 80, 1860
Reports have been busly disseminated, in
the shape of telegraphic dispatches from
Washington, appearing simultaneously in
newspapers published in different parts of the
Union, to the effect that the friends of Ste
rhen A. Douglas and Herschel V. johnson.
Democratic candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency, presented for the suffrages
OF the people by the National Convention re
Gently assembled in Baltimore, were engaged,
in several of the States with the friends Of j.
G. Breckenridge and Joseph Lane, candidates
designed for the same offices by the seceders
from the National Convention in making ar
rangements for the running of electoral tickets
in different States, to lie supported bV them
jointly in the approaching Presidential elec
ton, with the understanding that the vote of
the electors, elected 10y such combination,
shall be given for Douglas and Johnson, or for
Breckenridge and Lane, as subsequent events
might require. What gave rise to these re-
ports, and to what agency their circulation is
to be attributed, we have no means Of deter
mining. The fact of their prevalence, how
ever, is so notorious that, when it is taken in
connection with the fact that it is stated in
some quarters that movements looking to-
wards such result are about to be inaugu-
becomes one of sufficient Importance in the
opinion of the Committee, to be made the
subject of q special communication to the
known friends of the nominees of the regular
Convention of the Democratic party and,
accordingly, in obedience TO the wishes of the
Committee, | now address you this circular
So far as is known to the members of the
resident Executive Committee, no person who
supports the action of the National ID emocrat
ic Convention at Baltimore no person who
desires the election of Stephen A. Douglas to
the Presidency and of Herschel Y. johnson to
the Vice Presidency, has ever expressed a
wish for any such arrangement, or entertain
ed, or even countenanced for single moment
any suggestion or proposition tending towards
it. Nor does the Committee believe that any
such arrangement can with propriety be made
at any time, in any place, or under any cir
cumstances, with those who have placed
Breckenridge and Lane in nomination, and are
now their avowed supporters in opposition to
the regular nominee of the Democratic party.
The Democratic party is a national party,
stands now where it has stood for years, upon
the ground of non intervention by Congress
with the subject of slavery in the States or
Territories. Those who seeded from the
Baltimore Convention did SO because they
were unwilling to stand on that ground
They have again and again repudiated that
principle and both at Charleston and Balti-
more declared that they would sever their
connection with the majority of the delegates
assembled in Convention in accordance with
Democratic usage, unless they, too, would
solemnly repudiate it in obedience to their
demand. When the majority of the Conven
tion refused to yield to their dictation, and
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minority, those gentlemen seeded, formed
themselves into minority Convention, and
nominated candidates who are the open and
avowed enemies of the principle of "non-
intervention" by Congress, as recognized by
the majority of the Convention, and as advo-
Gated by their candidates.
Under these circumstances it is clear to the
Committee that if the antagonism between
the seceders and the majority Of the Demo.
cratic Convention was such that the seceders
could no longer take part in their delibera
tions, and were constrained to set up candi-
dates in opposition to those selected by the
majority, that antagonism still continues, and
is such as must preclude the possibility of any
union between them in the support of COM
mon electoral ticket in any State no matter
what may be the probable result of the elec-
! ton in it without such union
The Democratic party, which is now uni
ted in the support of Douglas and johnson,
stands upon the only principle which is capa-
ble if maintained in its integrity, of presery-
ing and perpetuating the Union of the States
The seceders and their candidates are oppos-
ed to this principle. Their course, if sustain
ed in the South, necessarily tends, though it
may not be SO designed, to the breaking up
of the National Government. In the view Of
the Committee there is no room for doubt, in
the mind of any National Democrat, as to the
path of duty in the present crisis. The sece-
ders, by Withdrawing from the National
Convention and setting up their candidates,
have arrayed themselves in opposition to the
principle of Congressional non-interv ention.
National Democrats should everywhere meet
the issue now rendered them, by nominating
and supporting electoral tickets in their re.
speOtive States, pledged, if elected to vote for
Stephen A. Douglas for President, and Her
schel V. johnson for Vice President Of the
United States. If the seceders and their
friends choose to separate permanently from
the Democratic party, and run u ticket in
opposition to the regular nominations, let
them do SO. Upon them be the responsibility
of the result.
MILES TAYLOR, Chairman.
DEATH OF A SISTER OF KossUrH--A Saint
Louis correspondent writing July Sd, says:
Nine Emile zularsky Kossuth died three
days ago, at her residence in Brooklyn, aged