Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-11
The Double.Barreled C0nven.
tiOnS.

The Double.Barreled Conven.
tiOns.
Tho year 1860 is destined to be famous on
this side of the water for its Conventions.-
First comes the great quadrennial gathering Of
the Harmonious" This dissolves into two
-one claiming to have the true apostolic
succession, and adjourned to meet at Rich
mond, June 18th; the other adjourned to
meet at Baltimore on the 18th of June.
On the 9th of this month, the Old Ladies'
Convention assembled at Baltimore. As 1t
will have neither principles nor spells to fight
for, it will probably pass off very quietly, and
wind up with a small tea party.
The Chicago Convention, on the 10th inst,
will nominate the next President.
The Baltimore Convention, number 2, will
take all sides of every question in its platform,
and nominate Doughface, who will not receive
the electoral vote of six States in the Union.
Under all these circumstances, there is
everything to encourage the friends Of Liberty
and Republican principles to hope for tri'
umphant victory in the coming Presidentia
election. Let them bear in mind that there
are two kinds of success, however--one the
success of winning the Offices and obtaining
the political power of the nation the other
and higher one, the success of maintaining
your principles pure and unrelaxed, and
carrying moral conviction of their right
eousness and your sincerity to the hearts OF
the people. Here lies the secret OF your
strength. Once abandon it for the sake OF
spoils, or Office, or temporary success, and
the party, shorn of its locks, will be betrayed
to its enemies by the very hands to which it
has made concessions Of its principles.
Let our motto always be-OuR PRINCIPLES
FIRST; Victory NEXT.
How WE LIVE AND LEAEN UNDER DEMO-
CRATIC JUDaEs.-Judge fancy nullifies the
Ordinance of 1887, on the ground it does
not mean what it says. Judge Magrath null
lilies the law against the Slave Trade on the
ground it does not say what it means! Judges
Comstock, Selden and Clark are for nullify.
ing the law against slaveholding in New
York, on the ground that it does not agree
with their notions of "comity and justice !"
By all which 1t will be seen that the old idea
that laws can not be set aside by Courts, ex-
cept for conflict with the Constitution, is now
exploded.
The THING CoNrEssED-One of the Geor-
gia delegates, Mr.. Bolden, who remained in
the doughface Convention after the bolt,
boastingly declared that he had on his plan
taton ''negroes direct from Africa" This
shameless admission that he had been engagg.
ed in traffic declared to be piracy by the
laws of the country, was made in the face OF
the Northern half of the pro.slavery Conven-
ton, and no Douglas men will think any the
less Of the pirate delegate for the confession.
What all civilized nations consider infamous
and worthy of death, they thus approve
LORD MAcAULAY's VIEWS OF AMERICA
The London Star publishes two letters
throwing doubts upon the genuineness of
the letter recently published purportiHg to
have been addressed by the late Lord Macau-
lay to Mr.. Randall, of New York, expressing
doubts of the permanence of the United States
government. The writers prove that the SEN
tments here attributed to Lord Macaulay are
entirely incongruous with those which he
expressed without reserve on other occasions.
A MER1rED COMPLIMENT. - The Vinton
Eagle pays the following well-merited COM
pliment to Mr.. Vandever, the Representative
from this District in Congress: "While upon
the subject of nominations, we will say in
view Of the Congressional Convention on the
oath inst, that under the rule of at least two
terms, our present Member of Congress is as
deserving Of denomination as any State otfi-
cial. If there is any exception to the two.
terms rule it ought to be in sending Congress
men more than two terms. We hope Mr..
Vandever may be sent to the 37th Congress"
Southern sympathy has dollar and
cent ring in it, as we see by the Waresboro
(Ga.) Forester, which, in speaking of the
drowning of two negro "boys"-that is slaves
says "Mr. Hitler has our sympathies-the
loss of boy worth So, 500 is great loss"
~ The hotel-keepers of Charleston are
sorely disappointed. They expected $4,000
visitors, and had not half that number. Their
expenses, by way of preparation, were enor-
nous, and their losses correspond. They
lacked common sense, and took the most
effectua measures to fleece themselves when
they announced to the world that they intend
ed to fleece their friends.
~ Gov. Buckingham was inaugurated, at
New Haven, Ct, on the I'd. The ceremonies,
parades and professions, on the occasion,
were unusually imposing. The two Houses
OF the Connecticut Legislature organized on
the same day by the election OF the officers
nominated in the Republican caucus.
CO The Wapello Republican thinks cit
passing strange that the fate of a great nation
al party should depend on one mani" Doug
las or DEATH" is the watchword, and as Doug
las can't be had, it is supposed that the great
national party will Ego the whole hog on
Death, as the next most available candidate !
VIEGlNIA.-An intelligent gentleman resid-
ing in Virginia, writing about the numerous
attendance at the late Republican State Con- .
vention at Wheeling, from every part of the
State, says: "Rest assured, that Republi
can party in the Old Dominion is no longer
myth, but glorious and fixed fact"