Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-27
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while, however, we shall support the cleo
ton OF Stephen A. Douglas, the Press will in
no respect be a party newspaper 1t can
scarcely go further in vindicating him than it
has already gone, and while following the path
il has marked out, will not hesitate to do jus
tice TO other candidates and to other parties,
by absiaining from all imputations upon their
integrity, and by reiterating none of the silly
scandals and calumnies of their adversarles.
To this remark we must make one exception
The Press is the uncompromising foe of the
disunon secession administration party; the
foe of its candidates. of its leaders, It's organs,
and its apologists, north or south "
The New York Times says =
Thousands and tens of thousands, who be-
lieve in the practical wisdom of popular sover-
eighty, will vote the republican tcket,-be-
cause they recognize in that party the only
compact, responsible, and effective political or
ganization oil the day 1t is the only party in
position to achieve success, or to use it wise
| ly when it has been won. 1t represents and
embodies to-day, far more thoroughly than any
! other, the democratic conservatism of the
country. 1t stands midway between the pro-
slaveryism which has ruled the federal gov
eminent so long, and the anti-slaveryismIwhc
would overthrow it altogether. 1t holds the
constitutional ground and doctrine on the sub
Ject OF slavery, and respects, thoroughly and
rigidly the limitations which the constitution
imposes upon its action. 1t holds the absolute
majority of nearly all the northern states al
ready while in those which are doubtful it
will be substantially aided by the nomination
of Breckenridge. In Illinois and Indiana Mr..
Breckenridge has a positive strength which
will give him twenty or thirty thousand votes
in each in Pennsylvania the power of the adj
minisuation is sufficient to give him quite as
many, and in New York we believe it safe to
predict that he will withdraw fifty thousand
votes from the support of Douglas The action
of the democracy at Baltimore seems, with
reasonable diligence Oh the part of the republi
cans, to have insured the success of the repub-
lican ticket"
81. S. p" the Washington correspondent
of the New York Tribune, speaks of the mat
ter thus =
But of the future. In my judgment the
Douglas nomination will prove a prodigious
abortion. He has no chance of anything
south of Mason and Dixon. The slave states
will be divided between Bell and Breckin-
ridge, with chance for Lincoln in perhaps a
couple of them. Bell will certainly get Mary
land, and if the Douglas men prove to have
any strength in the south, he may sweep Lou
isiana Kentucky Tennessee, North Carolina,
and possibly Virginia and Georgia. 1t is GER
tain ii he does not carry these states Breckin-
ridge will. Mr.. Douglas, then, is merely
running to get into the house as one of the
three highest candidates from which future
president is to be taken in default Of an cleo
ton by the people. What chance has he to
carry free state Is there to be a Breckin-
ridge ticket run in Pennsylvania, New York,
Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey Certainly
there is, and in every other state where there
is dream that Douglas has chance. The
republicans have had to beat the third ticket
everywhere hitherto The Douglas gentlemen
have got to do it this time. And this little cir.
cumstance, which we do not think is at all
necessary to secure their defeat in just about
all the free states, is nevertheless the little fact
| that loses them the battle before it is begun.
1t will not only help in their defeat, but it will
| convince everybody in advance that that de.
feat is inevitable
But if this were otherwise, the Douglas men
will see on reflection that even if they had the
power, it would not do to throw the election
into the house, for there either Breckenridge
would be chosen, or there would be no choice,
and the election of vice president would there
by deyolve on the Senate, who are sure for
Jo Lane, who, when chosen would assume at
once the honors OF the White House. The
effect OF throwing the election into the house
| is thus nothing more nor less than giving
certain triumph to the seeeders either in one
way or the other. When the supporters of
Douglas at the north shall have opened their
eyes to this fact, as they soon will, all their
motives for pressing him will have vanished.
They certainly do not prefer a seceder to Lin
coin. 1t is on this ground | conclude that the
Douglas nomination is to prove an abortion so
tar as success in the election is concerned. 1t
may be and will be used no doubt to give
strength to local tickets for congress, and for
state officers in various quarters, but even in
those cases the ticket will have a weak and
imping gait, in view Of its inevitable destiny
1t may fail even here to effect anything, while
a general stampede to the Republican candi-
dates all over the free states, is not at all I'M
possible.
The Albany Evening Journal says :-"But
protracied and bitter as the quarrel has been,
and deadly as is the hatred it engendered, we
are nevertheless disappointed at the result
We did not believe that it would be fought out
to the "bitter end" After beating and rebuk-
ing his enemies we supposed that Judge
Douglas would esteem that "glory enough" for
one campaign; and that his friends would con-
strain his enemies to come into the support of
such men as they might nominate. This-our
only apprehension from the begnning-was
not done, and the result will be, if not an easy,
CERTAIN triumph for republicans. That the
clear-headed friends of Douglas intended to
force his nomination, by dismembered con-
venton, regardless of consequences to him, to
themselves, and to their party, is not to be
supposed. The obstacles to different course
must have been found in the mprdcticdbility of
the arrogance and the eXactions of slavery
The spirit which Gen. Taylor encountered in
his determination 10 admit free California into
the Union, intensified occasioned the breach
at Charleston, and will now work the ruin in
the democratic, that it brought in 1850 upon
the whig party"
This judgement of the matter is a very
shrewd one /; and the Albany Argus and Atlas,
the democratic organ, confirms it, The editor
of the Argus and Atlas who was member of
the Baltimore convention, shows in the follow
ing paragraph what were the real intentions
OF the New York delegation:
"'The admission of the southern delegations
precisely carried in the convention-hdd Il
not been followed Jy a seceSSon--would not have
nominated Mr.. Douglas. He could not have
secured two thirds, even Of those present. and,
we speak confidently when we say that there
was no purpose-certainly not on the part of
the New York delegation-to declare him
nominated without Il two-third vote of the
delegates present. Further than this we are
entirely satisfied that, had there been no Sc :
cession, after it had been demonstrated by a
few ballots that Mr.. Douglas could not receive
two thirds, he would have been withdrawn by
his friends, and harmonious nomination of
some other person would have taken place.
II not Withdrawn, lCe are certain he Would hare
been abandoned byd sufficient number 10 hare qiven
another candidate a hCOtiird nomination. The
secession nominated D0agidS Had there been