Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-05-08
THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION.

WHICH the sO-called Democratic party
is composed, the Convention broke up in
a row without being able to make a nom
nation,
Of all the scenes of strife, rivalry, un-
disguised hatred, confusion, fanaticism
and sectional and personal jealousy ever
enacted, this Democratic Convention
stands without parallel. No where,
..e-'tside of the turbulent assemblies of
the Jacobin Clubs of France, in the
bloodiest period of her ''reign of terror" :"
sllas the world been called upon to wit
moss such spectacle in any civilized
country.
! With the deceptive boast Of National
sty on their lips, they presented scene
lof sectional animosity never before ex-
'hibited. Claiming that the doctrines of
the party were the same everywhere, they
presented series of platforms designed
tor. every locality, with the hope of prof
sting by every local prejudice.
Protesting to regard principles above
men, Douglas and his camp followers
insisted upon his nomination, or the dis
sruption ofthe party. All factions a greed
that their only hope consisted in deceiv-
ing and cheating the people, but in the
game of fraud and circumvention to be
practiced in order to reach the spoils,
they could not trust each other. Like a
piratical crew, they thirsted for the plum
der, but happily for the country they
have fallen out about the division of the
speils before they were taken
1t has been the confident boast of the
Northern.wing of the party that Doug
las would be the nominee. Nearly all
the Democratic papers iu the free States
have reiterated from day to day that no
other man stood the shadow of chance
of election, if nominated; while nearly
all in the South, with equal assurance
declared that they could not and soouzd
not ttatst tie g Traitor. 1t is true, he had
done more for the spread and perpetuity
Of slavery than any other man in the
Union. He had laid his ruthless hands
upon the time e-honored compromises of
the fathers, and with view of securing
the vote of the South, with more than an
Arnold's treason, betrayed the interests
of, the North For this treason to prin-
ciple and the interests of free labor, he
and his followers demanded, as reward,
that he should be made President. But
ike the British in the case of Arnold,
the South, while accepting the treason,
despised and contemned the traitor They
used him for their purposes, but would
not trust him, and boldly declared that
they infinitely preferred that Seward, or
any other honest Republican should be
eiectea. rne deptr urrvnrciHpt In mizivi.
Douglas is held by the South is only
explicable on the same principle which
made Arnold an outcast in England,
after he had attempted to betray his
country into her hands. Men are so
constituted that they cannot choose but
despise traitor.
When it was ascertained that Douglas
Eeuld not Withdraw his name from the
Conventit n, the great majority of the
Southern States withdrew, and refused
utterly to hold association with him and
his hackers. 1t was then announced by
telegraph all over the land, that the
remnant Of Delegates left would nomi-
nate Douglas on the first ballot. But
even in this he failed After more than
fifty ballots, in which nearly all the
Southern States refused to participate,
he could not come within fifty votes of a
nomination After spending two or
three days in the vain effort, and finding
it absolutely impossible to effect the
nomination of Douglas even in this
"Rump" of Convention, the members
who remained, adjourned to meet again
in Baltimore on the 18th of June.
And 50 ends the existence of the once
powerful and triumphant Democratic
party, and the political hopes of Stephen
Arnold Douglas.
We believe that great good will grow
out of the disruption of this vast organ
ization. The charm of unity and the
prestige of success has aided the leaders
heretofore to deceive and cheat thou
sands of honest citizens into its support.
This can be done no longer. Another
double faced platform, got up for the
purpose of deception, can hardly gull
the people again, as in the case of Bu-
chanan and the Cincinnati platform, even
if the leaders at Baltimore should sue
eeed in framing one. We are happy to
know that the. eyes Of some who have
heretofore acted with the party are ef-
feetpally opened, and there will be hun
dreds of such in all sections of the
country. r.
ksss FANATICIsM.
6 All reform is progress. Given, one
condition Of people, to elevate them to
another-this is the reform Problem