Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-06-27
The News.
Douglas s. Br. ckenridge in the Field
The Democratic Party Dissolved!
LINc6LN's TaIUMPn CERTAIN .

Our telegraphlc column this morning. IS
full of the most thrilling interest. 1t an
nounces the disintegration, or rather the
fnal dissolution Of the Democratic party.
IL announces that one Of the factions of
the old party. have nominated stephen A.
Doug a. for the Presidency. and Benjamin
Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, for ths>Vice Pres
ideucy. II announces that the other fac
ton has nominated John O. Breckenridge,
Of Kentucky, and Gen. Joe Lane, OF Ore
gon, for the same Offices. 1t announces
that both Conventions were in session at
the same time, and in the same city. 1t an
nounces that Caleb Gushing, the President
of the first Democratic Convention, left the
chair, then left the Convention, and with
the delegates from nineteen States, organi.
zed another Convention, became its presi-
ding officer, and put in nomination for the
highest Offices in the gift of this people.
the gentlemen last above named.
Such is the interesting outline of the
news in to-day's issue of the Express
news that absorbs the public mind 10 de.
gree of intensity seldom witnessed.
For almost half century has the Demo
cratic party had the control OF the affairs Of
this General Government. 1t has been the
most powerful, the most imperious, and
the most corrupt party that was ever or
ganized in popular form of government.
Its behests became the law and its politi-
cal dogmas assumed the binding force of
legislative enactments. 1t did not request,
but it commanded its members. 1t used
the official positions of the Federal Gov
eminent for the most corrupt purposes,
and exhausted the Treasury of the Nation
with mercenary and reckless hand. The
individual whom it made President. has
been proven guilty of official populations,
vice and immortality and wickedness and
dish nesty stalks bare-faced through all
the Departments and exults in their cor
rupt achievements 1t has grown old in
sin, and az the Growing act Of its audacity
and yickedness, IL aFowed its willingness
to dissolve this Union, and has dissOiUed
Itself
That same Providence who gave this
government TO our fathers, threw dissent
ions among those men recently assembled
at Baltimore, checked their onward course
of corruption and dissolution, and will
bring back our institutions TO that degree
of purity which they possessed when our
fathers gave them to their children. We
recognize more than the hand of man in
all this.
The political condition Of affairs in this
government is, at this time, singu!srly
peculiar. The Democratic party having
divided, there are two candidates 10 the
field for the Presidency both claiming to
represent the true doctrines of that party.
Mr. Douglas evidently i the exponent Of
the Democratic party North, aud Mr..
Breckenridge of the South. The one. IN
der the circumstances. can not hope TO
carry one Northern State, while the other
may, by possibility. carry large num-
Der. if not all the States south Of Mason 4
Dixon's line An electoral ticket. we have
no doubt. will be form ed for each through
out the North. ahd perhaps some OF the
Southern States. The administration,
which is fully represented by Mr.. Breck
enrIdge, will pnsh his claims, and stand
BY his fortunes through the North, while
the Southfrn States. which are so largely
Democratic. aill. in all probability. give
hin. their entire electoral vote. The chances
OF Mr.. Bell 10 the Southern States are thus
effsctually destroyed aud hence his friends
throughout the North will cease to hope
for his election. The Democratic party
being so largely in the ascendant. in the
msiority, If not all the Southern States,
and having so popular an exponent Of
Southern doctrine before the people,
must. in all probability. carry the whole
South. This being the case. the friends
Of Messrs. Bell aud Everett can not have
the least hope of carrying any one Of the
thirty-two States.
Under all those circumstances, the pros
poets Of the Republican party grow.
brighter, and the honest and incompatible
man, who. with a unanimity almost I'M
parallelec, was declared the exponent Of
Republican sentiment at Chicago, is pollt-
icalIy certain to be the successor Of James
Buchanan: Let Us adopt for our motto,
friends, "Bejust and fear not"
Woy'r co ABOARD We received yester-
day morning q private dispatch informing