Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-08-24
A GRAPHIC SKETCH OF TIE DEMOCRATIC
SPLIT,

Cincinnati convention IN $780, IS Daniel
S. Dickinson's account of the way the
Douglas men controlled matters at
Charleston and Baltimore. il occurs in
his speech at the New York Breckin-
ridge meeting:
+" The convention assembled at Charles
ton and organized for business. A holy
man arTayed in the robes Of his sacred
Office, with raised hands and fervent sup
plication, invoked the favor of the Ben
Efficient Being who has Vouchsafed to Us,
as people, so many blessings. The
whisper Of beauty Is hushed in the gale
ries-the aged bow their gray hairs in
sympathetic and deep dsvotion-Ievity
is humbled in silence, and even lurking
fraud is abashed and covers for a hiding
place. But the prayer is over and
band Of conspirators take possession Of
the assemblase, and, instead Of nation
al convention, a great huekstering ba-
zarr IS erected-a political trade sales is
opened management inausurates her
Shiny repulsiye court, and the Office Of
chief magistrate Of this mighty repub-
lie is put up like the board of a public
pauper, at the lowest bidder. It's pro-
ceedings bear evidence Of deliberate and
long cherished design, of a combination
and conspiracy to tie up minorities aginst
them, and leave those free who were for
them, and thus attain by fraud or force
particular result, regardless Of popu-
lar sentiment or consequences that might
follow. The ruling faction had snuffed
up the scent Of four hundred millions Of
spoil, and for them the administration of
Douglas was expected to rain milk and
honey, snow powdered sugar, and hail
MoAatts Vegetable Life Pills. Under
nearly two weeks Of this application of
the forcing process, the convention prov
ed unequal to the emergency, and paused
for health-a portion of tie delegation
withdrew, and the resilue adjourned to
Baltimore for period of some six weeks
for ventilation. The public bad reason
to hope, that separated from the in4u-
ences which surrounded them and no
longer breathing the contagious they
ensendered, bat iuhaling healthy mo-
raj atmosphere, they might return and
discharge the duty which they had IN
deFtaken. Bat abstinence only edged
their appetites, and their last state was
worse than their FIRST. The same drilled.
packed, machine majority met again,
composed Of delegates from a portion of
the States, and assumed to sit in Judge
ment upon the rights of regular delegates
from another portion-to punish them
Tor some non-conforrnity to the majority
standard, or ether delinquency-in short
to deny the sovereign democratic States
the tight to return to their seats at Bal
timore, because they did not occupy
them for the whole period of til G
prOtraeted sitting at Charleston - a
question belonging entirely to the con-
s.it1ency Of these delegations alone. and
With which the national convention had
no business whatsoever. And not onIy
were these delegations expelled under
such pretentions, but bogus delegations
made up to suit the convenience and ne.
eesity Of the occasion, there put in theil
places. A decision so abhorrent 70 eve.
ryprinciple Of common fsirness-so re-.
Pleie with o. age and u urpation, divide
dismembered and broke up the conven
ton, as it should have done. and as eve
~ sensible mind saw it would DO. and
commend with my whole heart the spiri
and approve the conduct of the presi
dent, General Gushing, who refused long
er to preside over the tyrannous cabaI
and OF the delegations who, under tn,
same president, Feorganizad and placed
IN nomination Messrs, Breckenridge AM
Lane. The remaining faction, made ur
chiefly Of delegates from e pubiicar
States, whose delegations were the au
thors Of the great wrong, deprived o
their head and without a democratic bod,
proceeded to nominate Mr. Douglas ano
Fitzpatrick, As we were informed. amids
tremendous enthusiasui-Vermont anf
other New England States, and III,
whole northwest, were plesed to Mr.
Douglas Subject Of course to a sIiuh
encumbrance, held by one Abraham
Lincoln) with deafening applause. Som,
nat boaimen descending the Missisppi
IA rather jolly mood passed a hons,
on the shore where they were fiddiD,
and dancing on the piazza-the boa
fell into an eddy and once in each hal
hour passed the house again, and III
boaimen swore they we're fiddIing an,
dancing IN every house for a hundre,
miles on the shore Of the riyer-whil
they had been revolving In an eddv an.