Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-07-14

Plans Of lhb DisUBjeBjsis,

IennsylVdnla Is 1oreSnauOWeu III tne 4 NIL
adelphia Press edited by tho Black Re-
publican Clerk of the House Of Represcn-
tatives, who is laboring to deserve the dai
ly pay he receives from the worst enemies
of the Democratic party. That paper an.
nounces, by authority, that Richard J.
Haldeman, Esq, the member of the Dou-
glas National Committee from Pennsylva-
nis, will address letters to the different
electors appointed by the Reading Con-
vsntion, demanding of them an explicit
answer whether they are in favor of the
nominations of Douglas and johnson for
President and Vice President. If they
shall refuse to answer, or answer adverse
ly, or question the authority of the Ma
tional Committee to interrogatc them then
the aforesaid r. j. Haldeman, Esq, will
proceed to strike their names from the list
of electors. After this process of purifca-
ton il fully accomplished, it is intended
to call a State Convention whether q
delegate or mass convention hereafter to
be determined which body will proceed
to FIJI any and all vacancies in the electo
ral ticket.
This is the plan by which Forney and
his handful of followers expect to divide
the Democratic vote of Pennsylvania, throw
the electoral vote of the State for Lincoln
and Hamlin, and earn renewed gratitude
and compensation from the Black Repub
lfcan party.
The electors appointed by the Reading
Con vention will treat this attempted usur-
patton Of authority with the contempt it
deserves. They will regard the in,olcnt
intcrrogatories of Forney, or any one act
ing under his direction, with just about
the same amount of consideration as if the
Republican State Committee should address
them, demanding to know their individual
preferences concerning Presidential can
didates. They will say, in reply to the
questions of Hademan-"We were ap-
"pointed by the regular Democratic Con-
''vention OF Pennsylvania, which convened
Sat Reading, We owe allegiance to ths
democracy of Pennsylvania, and to no
"foreign power. The universal and i'm
"memorial usage of the Democratic party
''of this State has been for the State Com.
"mittcc to address us and obtain pledge
Gas to our course, in the event of an cleo
"tion by the people, and We recognize no
'other authority-least of all will we obey
"thc summons of Republican Office hol-
der, or answer the interrogatories of one
"who has been invested with no authority
''fron the Democracy of Pennsylvania. -
Snch, We imagine, will be the tenor of the
replies received BY Mr.. Haldeman, in re
sponsc to hi, demands from those who
condesccpd to answer at all. The majori-
ty will, in all probability, treat the inter
rogatories with that silent neglect due to
oHclOuS lutCrlncuullng.
We have fallen upon strange times in
deed if the Democracy of Pennsylvania
are not competent to settle their own do
mcstic concerns, without the assistance of
a committee outside of the State. This
attempt at interference comes with marked
Inconsistency from those who vaunt their
devotion to the principle of popular sov.
ereignty, and the right Of every commu-
nifty to determine its own affairs as it
thinks best. The province of a national
! Committee is not to regulate State organ-
izations. If it were SO, we might as well
hold no State Conventions, appoint no
State Committees, and resign the entire
control of the party to junta ofindivid-
uals at Washington, with Mr.. Miles Tay-
lor, of Louisiana, at their head, and John
W. Forney-under Republican pay
counsclling and directing for the Democ-
racy of Pennsylvania. This would be
popular sovereignty with vengeance, and
the shortest way of consummating the con =
tract that Forncy has made with the Re
publicans, to deliver the Democratic party
bound hand and foot, to its worst enemies
What Democrat is prepared to submit to
such dictation! We must display the
banner of State sovereignty, and repudi-
ate the designs of traitors and Republican
mercenarics to control the domestic policy
of the Democracy of Pennsylvania.
The compromise adopted by the State
Committee is accepted with rejoicings by
all the staunch Democratic papers in the
State. The Chairman of the State Com
mittee has already addressed letter to
each of the electors appointed at Reading,
to obtain their assent thereto, in accord
ancc with Democratic usages We do not
nunstion that n,oIt of III, ,Ioo..,, Ill 49,