Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03

E7zzszx- whole electoral college should be necessary to choice. Finding that they could not succeed in making a nomination, they adjourned the conven- ton to Baltimore, on the 18th of June. In the meantime, the seeding delegates returned and con ferred with their constituents, who without one single exception indorsed their action, and hoping to see a reconciliation eflected they accredited them to the
 BALTIMORE CONVENTION.
 Upon the meeting of the convention at Bati- more, delegates appointed by meetings gotten up by the friends of Mr. DOUGLAS without the shadow ofauthority, from the States of Aladama, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas, and several other States were there claiming right to seats in said convention in place of the regularly accredited members, who were there ready to claim their seats, should the convention manifest disposition to do justice to all parts of the Union.
 The contestants or unlawful, irregular bogus del- egates were admitted from the States of Alabama and Iousnna, and the regular delegates gcere eT- cLuded, and other irregular delegates from Arkan- sas, Georgia and other States, friendly to Mir. Douglas were admitted with power to cast cor- responding vote--against winch unusual, unjust and corrupt proceedings and manifest sacrifice of principles for the sake of men, the whole South with California, Oregon and a number of delegates from the other northern States, entered their solemn protest and withdrew, numbering (without counting the eight votes of South Carolina) l05 votes out of the 303 yotes which left in the DoUG LAS convention l90 votes; less by l2 votes than pos, the numberof votes necessary to make nomi- nation. But it was resolved in the convention by vote on appeal from the decision of the presiding officer, that the minority ofthe Georgia delegation could not vote in the convention Gjter he mGjoray had acihdTd,cn.''
 By the application of this rule to the other dele gations, (which is but just, and to which the friends of Mr. Douglas cannot object) tte minor iy Dotes cast in the convention for Mir. Douglas from the States of New Jersey, Maryland, Massachu- sets, Virginia North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky, 261s votes were inn properly cast in the convention, the majority of the delegations from said States having withdrawn. To this add the bogus delegations from Alabama and Louisiana, 5 which were cast without thority making fl 15 votes. To which add the Is votes cast from New York, from Ohio, 4l5 from Indiana, cast under the unit rule for Mir. Douglas, and it leaves but l23 votes regularly cast for Mr. Douglas. But according to the count of the Douglas Executive Committee as given in their address before referred to, where the names and numbers are given of the persons who were in the convention which nominated Mir. BRECKENRIDGE, they admit 105 votes, which would leave only l98 less than 2 of the whole electoral vote; rendering it impossible for that body to make nomination under it's rules. So much for the regularity of Mir. Douglas nomination. He is not the nominee, and by his own mouth he stands condemned as un- worthy of support.
 In 1852 he made speech at Richmond, Va, in which he said:
 C We'll, Gen. Scott received the nomination uanmoasys according to the official proceedings of the convention. Fellow citizens, did you ever hear of unanimous nomination which made in defiance of the fifty times repeated protests and remonstrances of the delegations from one half of the States of the Union represented in the conven- ton. Every southern delegation voting against him more than fifty times, day after day and night after night, and yet the nomination unanimous. tl,1, ,,F to the American people this extraordinary anomaly. For the first time in the history of party con tests, has sectional nomination been forced upon either of the two great partics'
 By inserting JUDGE DouGLAs for Gen. Scott in the above, it will apply with greater force to him than it did when applied to fen. Scott. But he was declared, after repeated baliotings, the unaRin,ous nominee of the convention. And after the convention had performed it's work, and many of it's members had left, Mr. Wcklil, of Louisiana, introduced the following resolution intending to give quasi Endorsement to the opinion of the Supreme Court so that he could have some excuse for asking Louisiana to support Mir Douglas, and the resolution was adopted, and is appended to the Charles resolutions as a part of the platform; and held out to the world as the sentiments of Mir. Douglas, when i'll fact Mir. | Douglas has since repudiated the doctrine con- tained in the resolution on almost every stump in Illinois and in the route of his recent pilgrimage | in search of his mother
 l In his speech at Springfield, Mass, he even went farther than he had heretofore gone, and ad- vocated the higher law ' doctrine for the people ofthe Territories.
 "The dogma that the citizens of Territory derive their power from Congress is the old tory idea that the citizens of the original colonies de- rived their power from the crown. They exploded this idea in the of the revolution, and the prin cipe of popular sovereignty born. We hold Therefore that the citizen does not derioe poaer from 1 Congress, for he has already deriUed h from God Alndghty."
 Can any southern man in the face of this testi- mony claim that he (Dou9tdS,) is in favor of car rying out in good faith the decrees of the Supreme Court, and of metng out with an even hand, justice to all sections of the Union?
 BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE.
 It only remains to consider the claims of the only national candidates now in the fed and we challenge the strctest investigation into the record of our candidates, and the platform of principles upon which they stand. When all hope of reunion at Baltimore had fed-when it was made evident that the friends of Mir. DOUGLAS determined to nominate him or nobody-when the southern delegates ruthlessly ejected from seats in that body-their equality positively denied in the con venton, and by their platform rirtHatly denied iR the Union; they gathered up the platform which had been indorsed by the whole South and the two Pacific States (l7 in number) at Charleston, and | which was repudiated and spit upon by DOUGLAS and his friends while they admitted it "to be ceptionable," they assembled at the Maryland h. stitute, organized themselves into convention, adopted that rejected platform embodying the true constitutional principles, without alteration, owit
 THE PLATFORM THAT BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE STAND
 UPON.
 ReSolced, That the platform adopted by the de- mocratic party at Cincinnati be affirmed, with the l following explanatory resolutions:
 l. Resolped, That the governmental territory, organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the territory without their rights of either person or property being destroyed i'm paired by congressional territorial legislation.
 3. Resoloed, That it is the duty of the federal nnt in all it's denartments to nrOtect when