New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-11

seetion lism more properly pertaned to the princi.
pes and d licy Of their opponeDts than to their.
hui ,ho, bov., never til now been able to i,pnal.
TIE Democracy ON their own definition Of section.
alsm. Each Of tn two recent Democratic Ma.
tional Conventions. ten.>'d by their own definition
was as purely a sectional body as either Of the
Conventions which nomtsteG' remoDt or Lincoln.
The delegates to the Douglas co,'ee'e"ere chiefly
from the North. The SOuMs, the for'yths, the
Kings, and their few associates FROM Ihe South,
represented nobody, were mere adyentureh With
out constituencies at their backs, and their A,ts
are repudiated by the mass Of their party at hone.
So of the BrecLiDridge cabal. The delegates ws,s
almost wholly from the South the Cushings, the
Schells, the Halletts, who stole in upon il from
the North were not sent to that body, and have no
hold upon the Democratic sentiment Of the States
where they reside.
AS to Electoral votes, We doubt if even Mr..
Douglas himself has the audacity to claim (snd We
could not put the case 10 stronger terns) solita
ry Southern State; while, if Iago were alive, and
a leader of the National Democracy, Gas be, Of
course, would beg, be could not make up face
brazen enough TO assert that Breckenridge win
carry one Northern State. SO much for /" Sec
/" tiOnalism the single string upon which these
political Paganins have so long played their doleful
tune.
As 10 the threat of dissolution of the Union in
the event of the election of o Republican to the
Presidency and which has frightened some juve-
nile politicians, and few olddowagers in breeches,
of course il has always been as audacious hum
bug as Mormonsm, as preposterous delusion as
Millelism. Southern brsggsrts threatened it
Nol thern demagogues echoed it-a few simplet0ns
feared it. But, transparent IS has ever been this
gasconade to all sensible people, it is ouly till now
that this charlatan trick coud be so efectuaDy
exposed as to silence cay and doubt
Mr. Douglas, in his speech at Washington ac-
cepting the nomination, though he never believed
the nonsense for moment, thinking TO make
&c cd hit 1.-THE Breckenridge men, and not Dire aiming
that their chief would repudiate the entire capital
upon which they have foryears transacted business,
charged them with being pledged to disunlon in the
event of the election of Lincoln. Stung to the
quick, Breckenridge, the representative of the
fdDctys, Uses, b"'ieco,
the Currys the ToOmbses, the Iyersons, the
Keitts, who have been making good Douglass
charge any day these four years, leaps upon the
first stump, and solemDly, in the name of his sup
porters, denies the charge point blank, appealing
in touching terms to his own antecedents, bis geo.
graphical position, his personal character, for tho
devotion of himself and his friends to the Union,
even though it were imperiled BY tine election Of
score Of Lincolns
In fine, the actors in this melodrama Of "sec-
Z" tenalism" and "disunion," having fallen to
auarreliDg among themselves, suddenly throw aside
their sleazy robes, dash down their tin helmets,
wash of the paint and, rushing in front of the cur
tain, tel the credu'ous auditory, whom they have
swndled out Of their shilings that oil the threat
eniDgs which have afrighted them were simulated,
that the passion was mere mounting and grimaee,
that the thunder that roared so terri6cally was
nothing but sheet iron that the swords wielded so
were all wooden, and that this bloody
tragedy, from the opening scene to the finale, has
been naked, shameless sham. In confessing
themselves hypocrites, the actors in this mockhe-
roic farce impose upon their applaudiDg auditors
the eonsOing necessity of admitting themselves to
have been dupes.