Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-05-23
Vol. XVI. No. 21.
Movements of the Democracy.

Movements of the Democracy.
A large meeting Of the Democrats of New Orleans
was held on the sth at which the seeding delegates
at Charleston were condemned, the national Demo-
cratic party sustained and resolutions adopted de-
caring their adherence for the present to the Union
The lame Of Douglas says the True Delta, was
greeted with enthusiastic cheers. The meeting ad-
iourned with three cheers for douglas and the
Union" 10, i..t -. -.-.' ..-. il -.
A meeting was held in Wilmington, Delaware, on
the 10th, at which the secession delegates de-
nounced and the opinion was expressed that Doug
las was defeated at Charleston 'by factious oppo-
sition unprecedented in the history of Democratic
Conventions"
Hon. w. C. Whitthorne addressed a meeting of
the Democracy at Columbia, Tenn, on Monday last.
The meeting was called to appoint delegates to a
convention to select district elector. Mr.. Whit
thorne is reported by the Columbia Press to have
said: II believe Judge Douglas to be Democrat
and that he will stand faithfully by the Democratic
party. Suppose he should be nominated, within
rules, I for one will support him." Also, that he
would sooner trust his interests and rights into the
hands of man in Territory, who felled the tree
by his side, who went to the same mill, and whose
children attended the same school with his, than to
risk them with Congress" Mr.. Whltthorne is one
of the electors for the State at large. y
The Hon. Howell Cobb it is stated, has writtena
letter in response to the Macon Committee, in which
he approves of the action of the Charleston seceders
Mr.. Cobb was Union man in 1850, and united with
the Wings of Georgia in that campaign to defeat the
Democracy. Now he eats fire.
Two Democratic meetings have been held in Mo-
the seceders. Thirty five leading Democrats, among
them Gov. Winston, John Forsyth. and Judge Nc
Kinstry, have signed call for a State Convention
at Selma the 4th of June, to appoint delegates to
the Baltimore Convention. Gov. Winston address
sed large meeting at Montgomery on Saturday
night and denounced the seceders in severe terms.
He said 'they were not for principle but against
one man-Douglas." meeting has also been held
in Montgomery, at which the course of the seceders
was approved Mr.. Yancey. on his return from
Charleston, was received with much enthusiasm by
his friends in Montgomery.
A State Convention will also be held in Georgia
early in June Judge Denning, representing ma
jorty of the delegation from that State to Charles
ton, advises that one set of delegates appointed
to Richmond and Baltimore. The Judge evinces a
willingness in his letter to take the Tennessee reso-
luton.
The Hon. H. R. Warner and Hon. A. R. Wright
of Georgia, have written letters disapproving the
conduct of the seceders Mr.. Wright says:
"The secession at Charleston was a movement
both false and fraudulent 1t purported to be upon
a. principle when it was manifestly to defeat the
nomination of man, the choice Of the majority of
the democracy There was not one of them who If
he could have gotten his man, would not have taken
the Cincinnati platform, simple
As the matter now stands, if no further action is
taken by the convention, Mr.. Douglas is incon-
testbly the choice of the majority of the party, and
as such ought to be supported The Democratic
party contains not within its ranks truer, great
er, or braver man. He has borne her banner to
victory in hundred battles.
With the great leading principle of the Cincinnati
platform, "nonintervention by Congress with the
subject of slavery in the States and Territories and
District of Columbia" he will wave it again over
the fallen cohorts of Black Republicans and revolu-
tonists. | most heartily concur however, in the
sentiment that the State ought to be represented at
Baltimore.
Let us move harmoniously if we can. The mission
of the Democracy is the safety of the South and the
salvation of the Union. May the God of our coun-
try, the God Of truth and right guide her councils,
and enable her to accomplish her work"
The Democracy of Harrisburg, Pa, held large
meeting on the 10th, at which the course Of R. j.
Haldeman, ESQ.,, the Editor of the Patriot& d Union
in voting for Douglas, was warmly commended. He
was instructed to pursue the same course at Balti
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