The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-06
SAINT PAUL, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1860
Pennsylvania all Right--Speech of
John L. Dawson, Chairman of the
Pennsylvania Delegation.

FcnnSYlvan1a
Hon. JOHN L. DAWSON, the chairman of
the Pennsylvania delegation in the Balti-
more Convention, and an enthusiastic friend
of BRECK1NR1DGE, prior to the nomination
of Judge DOUGLAS, after casting the vote of
his State for the nominee, made the following
speech:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Con-
vention-It is scarcely necessary tor me to
say that at no time during the sittings of
this body did Judge Douglas receive the
united vote Of the delegation from Pennsyl>
vania. and may further add that in the
consideration of a platform, majority of
US united with our Southern friends, ready
to give them all that we believed them enti-
tied to under the Federal constitution. In
our judgment they asked for nothing more,
and we were not willing to offer them less.
[Applause. In our action then we have
been overruIed by decided majority of this
body, and for Pennsylvania I am free to say
that, attached as we are to the Democratic
party, its principles, its discipline, its Or
ganization, standing there forever, in the
eloquent language of the President in bis
opening speech at Charleston, standing as
perpetual sentinels, upon the out.posts of
the constitution, we will, l trust, abide its
decisions and support its nominees. Cheers
and applause.
Judge Doug las is man of acknowledged
talent, and everywhere regarded as an &C
complished statesman, skilled in the art of
ruling: Born under New England sun,
yet by adoption citizen of the West, hon.
ored in the Valley of the Ohio, and cher.
ished on the slopes of the Atlantic, be now
should be of the whole country. Cheers.
Unframed, to some extent, in early life in
the learning of the schools, the deficiency,
if any exists, has been largely compensated
by the generous measure in which nature
has dealt upon him her choicest gifts of
intellect and character. Applause. Like
Henry of the Revolution, like Peel of Eng
land, these noble qualities have made him
the architect of his own fortune. Cheers
and applause. That the Union is con-
fet eracy endowed with special powers, the
States composing it retaining all the undel-
egated attributes of sovereignty, is the
fundamental truth Of our political system.
In defense of this truth we are about to
engage in new contest, and in the com.
prehension Of its character we have thor
roughly to EDUCATE the public mind. The
popular heart is to be won back to loyalty,
by holding up to its contemplation the im>
age of the constitution, in its serene beauty
of lineament and proportion.
The erring conclusions of our felow-citi-
zens of all sections are to be corrected by
thorough and persevering exposition of their
fallacy, and 10 place of these are to be in.
culcated the paramount claims of the federal
compact to the hearty allegiance, in letter
and spirit, of every American who can COM
prehend and appreciate the institutions of
his country, and who really cherishes de-
sire for their perpetuity. Applause. If
here, in this beautiful city, which looks out
on the Chesapeake, we have needed any in
citement to broad patriotism in our de-
alterations, it should have been found in the
associations in the midst of which we are
assembled; for it was at Annapolis, at the
close of the Revolution, that Washington
resigned bis commission. 1t is also within
sight of the spot at which we are convened
that imposing monuments rise to the great
ness of bis memory and TO the patriotism of
the sons of Maryland. Cheers.
Pennsylvania, the State in which indie
pendence was first proclaimed, and the work
of the Revolution proclaimed by the Federal
Compact; the State which holds within her
bosom the ashes of Franklin, and boasts the
first battlefield of Washington, will be true
to her noble memories, Applause, and in
the fullness of that enlightened conservative
sentiment, for which she has been distin~
guished, will rally, hope, in giant strength,
cast the dust from her eyes, and aid the
friends of the Democratic party once more
to elect their nominee. Cheers and pro-
longed applause.
Pennsylvania gave BUCHANAN $4,000
majority over FREMONT, and $500 majority
over the united vote of FREMONT and FILL
MORE. In November she will give DOUGLAS
100000 majority over the combined disuniou
vote.