Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-08-04

''Out Of thine own HIOuth,'' &c, Stephen.
Old speeches and old letters have a great
faculty of rising up in judgment against
"wiring in and wiring out " politicians and
the Richmond Enquirer has exhumed a speech
by the Little Giant which places him in
ridiculous light on the subject of unanimous
nominations,
1t seems that on the 9th of July, 1852, the
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas addressed the De-
mocracy of Richmond, Va, in the African
Church. From the speech prepared by HIM
self published in the Enquirer, of July Goth,
1852, the Enquirer Of July Both, 1860, makes
the subjoined extracts It will be remember
ed that at the Baltimore Wing National
Convention Of 1852, the North demandedthe
nomination of General Scott, and the South
resisted the demand. Commenting upon the
sectional aspect of that nomination, and the
deplorable results that would come from it
Mr.. Douglas said:
"Weh, General Scott received the nomina-
ton unanimously according to the official
proceedings of the Convention. Laughter.
FelloW-citizens, did you ever hear OF unani-
nous nomination, which was made in defiance
of the fifty times repeated protest and remOn-
strances of the delegations from one-half the
States of the Union represented in the Con-
vention? Every Southern delegation voted
against him more than fifty times, day after
day and night after night, and yet the nomi-
r.vousunou1 Tf1-aof laughter Il
The nomination OF tsenerii s-eott, tlielsi1I1,
presents to the American people this extruor-
dinaTy anomaly. For the FIRST time in the
history Of our party-contests has sectional
nomination ever been forced upon either Of
the two great partiesl You may talk Of the
dangers to the American Union, growing out
OF partizan strife and political contests; you
may tremble at the scenes through which we
alT recently passed, connected with the slavery
agitation; yet there was nothing in all that
so perilous to the safety Of the Union as a
sectional nomination for the Presidency, where
the North demanded the nomination Of par
ticular man on a sectional issue. And the
delegations of every Southern State, without
exception, resisted the nomination as danger
Gus to their rights and institutions. A nom
ination forced upon the South by the Free
soil wing Of the Wing party North, is now
presented to the American people as a UnaLi-
nous nomination"
at matters not whether the North forced
the nomination upon the South, or the South
upon the North, the dancer consists in the
fact that Territorial line divided mems Opin-
ions, that Northern men were one way and
Southern men another. But, after the nOmi-
nation is made, we are told that it was a fair
compromise, because the South received the
platform, and the North obtained the candi-
date, under the direction of men who "defy'
and "spit-uponn the platform. Thus, We
have Winfield Scott before US for the Presi-
dency. After mature deliberatiOn, he pro-
ceeds to accept the platform, and to write the
letter which he had promised Mr.. Archer in
the private note that was found in Bolts
hreeches pocket. Laughter. =
Now the old Democratic Richmond Enqui-
rer in commenting on the extracts says,
of the reader will substitute Stephen
A. Douglas for winfield Scott, he will have
Just and complete condemnation of his
own nomination, from his own lips. Such
nomination of Gen. Scott, he pronounced
would convert good General into bad
President ard we may ask if the result would
not be equally disastrous to Senator ~
'1f Mr.. Douglas could urge the facts con-
nected with Gen. Scstt's nomination as ''dan-
gersus' to the South, from the divisions that
existed in Baltimore in 1852, what circum-
stances would palliate the evil from the same
causes in the Democratic party in 1860 p
Out of thine own mouth do we condemn
thee Stephen"