The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-09-07
"Out OrThimc own Mouth" &c.
stephen.

"Out OF Thine own Mouth" &c,
stephen.
Old speeches and old letters have
great faculty Of rising up in Judgment
against "wiring in and wiring out" poll
ticans; and the Richmond Enquirer has
eXhumed a speech by the little Giant
which places him in ridiculous light on
the snhihai- -af nnnnin nAana ii----.
1t seems that on the 9th Of July, 1859,
the Hon. stephen A. Douglas addressed
the Democracy Of Richmond, Va, in the
African Church From the speech pre-
pared by himself published in the Enqui-
rer of July goth, 1859, the Enquirer of
July 80, 1860, makes the subjoiued cx-
tracts, It will be remembered that, at
the Baltimore Whig National Convention
of 1859, the North demanded the nomin-
alton Of General Scott, aud the South re-
sisted the demand. Commenting upon
the sectional aspect Of that nomination,
and the deplorable results that would
come from il, Mr.. Douglas said:
We'll, General Scott received the nom
ination unanimously according to the of
| fetal proceeding Of the Convention.-
| Laughter Follow citizens, did you ev-
er hear of unanimous nomination, which
was made in defiance Of the fifty times
repeated protest and romonstrances of
the delegations from one half the States
of the Union, represented in the Com
vcntionl Every Southern delegation vo-
/ ted against him more than fifty times
day after day and night after night, and
yet the nomination was unanimous
! fGreat laughter. The nomination of
Gen. Scott, therefore, presents to the
American people this extraordinary an
omaly. For the first time in the history
Of our party contests has a sectional nom
ination ever been forced upon either OF
the two great parties. You may talk OF
the dangers 10 the American Union,
growing out of partizan strife and polite
al contests; you may tremble at the
scenes through which we all recently
passed, connected with the slavery agita-
ton; 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 nominn-
tion of a particular man on sectional
issue. And the delegations Of every
Southern State, without exception, re.
sisted the nomination as dangerous. to
their rights aud institutions A nomipa-
7 tion forced upon the South by the Free
soil wing Of the Wing party North, il
now presented 10 the American people
as a unanimous nomination"
at matters not whether the North
, forced the nomination upon the South, oI
, the South upon the North, the danger
consists in the fact that Territorial line
divided mems opinions, that Northern
men were one way and Southern mer
another. But after the nomination d
made. we are told that it was fair com
promise, because the South received the
platform, and the North obtained the can
didate, under the direction of men whC
defy aud spit upon the platform. Thus
we have Winfield Scott before us for the
= Presidency. After mature deliberation
/ he proceeds to accept the platform, ant
to write the letter which he had pronis'
ed Mr.. Archer in the private note thai
was iOuuu lu nVtt1 uItochto poehSts
: Laughter.
Now the old Democratic Richmont
Enquirer in commenting on the exrac
ssys: "If the reader will substitute
Stephen A. Douglas for Winfield
Scott he will have just and complet,
condemnation ofhis own nomination from
his own lips. Such anomination of Gen
eral Scott, he pronounced would "eonyeri
a good General into a bad President
and we may ask if the result may not bs
equally disastrous Of SenatorP'
"lf Mr.. Douglas could urge the fact
connected with Gen. Scott's nomination
7 as dangerous to the South, from the di
visions that existed in Baltimore, in 1885,
what circumstances would palliate the
evil from the same causes in the Demo
cratic party in 1905 "out Of thine owl
: mouth dc we condemn thee, Stephen -