Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-09
Breckenridge and Lane COnven.
tiOn at Indianapolis.
SPEECH OF JESSE D. BRIGHT.

SPEECH OF JESSE D. BRIGHT.
an E7ectordl I5ekd Non,iuatecl- The Olire Branch
held ont 10 Douglas Met-Holc Bright and Fitch
rM agree to United IIckes, and houc Neg scorn
i-ConplimeTats and Insuts-Doaqlas tie lit
tie Dodger Of Illinois" The 'Duek Hadles."
the "Agitdtor" and the "DenlGgogue' Great
Enthusiasm.
The Breckenridge and Lane Mass Convention
Of Indiana met at indianapolis yesterday. 1t
was a Mass Convention and could not be emu
merated. How many delegates came from
distance could not be ascertained, but over
thousand men. intensely interested and most of
them prodigiously enthusiastic, clustered around
the speakers stand. The great men Of the par
tv were present-Senators Bright and Fitch be-
sides other conspicuous politicians, who have
hitherto been proud TO labor with the "old line"
Democracy.
Speeches were made by Judge Eeklcs, Sena-
tors Jesse D. Bright and Fitch, DR.. Sherrod, Dr.
Mullen, and others, and their remarks were
greeted with yociferous applause. The follow
ing report of Mr.. BIS speech indicates the temper
of the meeting. Nevertheless, the reading of it
Will convey to the reader an impression of lis
bitterness, cf the mildest type, compared with
the defiant and insulting bitterness of tone and
manner in which it was delivered. No pen can
describe the profound scornfulness with which
he buffeted the name of Douglas, and none but
Hoosiers could send up such yells of applause
as those with which his derisive assaults upon
the Little Giant were received. But even his
ferocious attacks upon the" Little Dodger" were
mild as milk compared with the CALLING and ex-
coriaiing speech of Senator Fitch. He denounc-
ed the connection of Douglas with the Demo-
cratic party as ga history of unmitigated evil
to the party he was to the "New YOrk Dele
CATION of political gamblers" their faro-bank,
and his friend George Sanders, their banker"
The Baltimore Convention that nominated
him was rightly denominated the "Rump" Con-
vention, and the New York gambling delega-
ton was the trump of the Rump Convention"
When they were drunkest they were hottest for
Douglas. When they got 4 little sober then
they were seized suddenly with slight conserva-
tism and tried trading for other candidates, and
better platform. They were doing nothing
but gambling for the offices and drinking; they
begged leave to retire from the Convention 10
consult and to drink: they came back into it 10
ask leave to retire again to drink and to consult.
People might think he was actuated by person
al feeling, because Douglas had interfered TO pre-
vent him from taking his seat in the Senate
He would say this was not so. Notwithstand-
ing Douglas had tried TO secure the return TO
the Senate of one Black Republican and zone po-
Etical mule" (Judge McCarty.) He (Fitch, } did
not care whether Douglas voted for him Or not.
"He (Douglas,) aras kao,n al Washington"
knoru as an Agitator and a Domagogue, and had
not a particle of influence" He OR. f. kneIg
that. And therefore cared nothing for his sup
port.
The sole object of the followers of Douglas,
is office and plumber, and they knew that with
out him they could not get them. Therefore.
he was nominated. And although they Teceiv-
ed him as their man, yet they kicked his prin
ciples out of doors, rs their proceedings will
show. They nominated him only for the Of
fees and jobs of the federal government. Some
two or three of them have appeared in this
crowd to-day. He (Douglas) took the docrine of
Popular Sovereignty from Cass' letter when it
was fair and comely, and converted it into
cross-eyed, cross legged, bump-baek, hideous
misshapen lcaven of Squatter Sovereignty
Everywhere he goes, to Bunker Hill from hotel
ratings, from this place and that he talks about
"ny doctrine Of Popular Sovereignty" He
don't steal. Oh, no. He only appropriates the
plagiarisms of other plagiarists: He says, "my
doctrine &C., which underlies the constitu-
tion" "In claiming this doctrine" said DR..
F., "he LIEs-under very gross mistake. He
has made the true principle OF Popular SOyer-
eighty i homely hobgoblin of Squatter Sover-
eighty"
lie Las Drought 10 tne DeHlocrtiic party, HOt
any good. but unmiiigated evil. Not good
measure could come up, but he mixed evil with
it, until he has almost ruined the party for his
own purposes. And so the Doctor continued,
and wound up one rasping philippe with an
allusion to the lies of the Douglas men, to the
effect that the Breckenridge party are disun-
ionists Said DR.. Fitch. IF Jalsehood ,cds car
harides, erery (Douglas) tongue '0ould be NiSterod
so that co,ddneur find distinct utterdnce." (The
Doctor himself. however, uttered one contempt
ible lie. He repeated the oft-refuted falseh0od
that Lincoln voted against supplies for the army
in Mexico. DR.. Fitch knows that TO be false,
for Lincoln was not then in Congress.)
DR.. Sherrod followed with rs much bitterness
as Fitch, and with fierce vigor. He was on the
Douglas electoral ticket prior to the party split,
but withdrew afterwards. The other speakers
were also strong on the same side.
Taking the speeches altogether they made
probably the bifterest batch everspoken on one
subject in one day from the same platform.
The Convention met in the State House yard,
at half-past eleven o'clock A. NJ, and held on
until 4 O'clock without intermission, when it
adjourned.
SPEECH OF HON. JESSE D. BRIGHT.