Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-05-11

ton, says the Cincinnati Gazette, has at
last tired itself out 1t had tired every
body else, long since. The net results Of
these ten or twelve days of contiguous eau
cussing aro--no platform settled, no candi-
date nominated, and no Democratic party
left, 1t has proved failure in general and
in particular, in substance and in detail (;
and no bankrupt measure can ever again
put insolvent Democracy on its legs.
The party has died of Douglas. From
the time it became manifest that his policy
was "rule or ruin" it was tolerably certain
that it could not be the former Some peo-
pie honestly thought so, to be sure. Some,
whose feelings were strongly enlisted in his
behalf, could not even understand how any
body should sincerely doubt his nomina-
ton. And some sagacious people like the
editor of the Tribune, though not particu-
larly anxious for that result, have persist
emily asserted that Douglas must be the cand-
idate. Even so late as Tuesday morning,
the paper Just named, still held out in its
former faith, and declared: "This boltingis
intended to stop the nomination Of Doug
las, but will not succeed. He acW be nom
mated to-day, probably on the first ballot"
So another complacent and persevering
prophet loses his prestige and repute.-
Douglas has never really stood any chance
from the first day of his Auti-Lecompton
rebellion
Next to success, with Douglas, is the sat
isfaction of having ruined all present pros
poets of his competitors. The shorn and
Gudicially) blinded Giant tears down the
pillars of the party, and perishes in the
general overthrow.
To be sure, there are still Baltimore and
the 9Th of June. The odds and ends, the
trump" and remnant, which survive the
grand collapse, are to be gathered together
in the hope of recognizing a party out Of
such materials as are left. But the old par
ty is gone forever, and with it, as severy new
development will more and moro clearly
show, as tho time of the new Convention
approaches, the man who has caused this
mischief has ceased to be power in poll
tics. Douglas will bedropped. New York
henceforth must openly desert him, casting
off the disguise under which it struck the
fatal blow against him at Charleston. In
diana and Minnesota are already hangingin
the wind before the final dispersion. Even
Ohio will have a sober second thought
New England, with the time now afforded,
will turn her thoughts upon new and more
promising favorite.
Under this certainty, there may possibly
be another general gathering of hostile
clans and factions at Baltimore in juno. A
hollow pacifcation may be asSented to or
all sides, but no real life or unity can again
be infused into the discovered limbs and
trunk of the party. No success awaits the
Iill.omened efforts to be made month
hence.
The Republicans certainly will not throw
away their brilliant chances by any mao
procedure at Chicago. They willnominatc
man through whom they can avail them
selves of the advantages of their present
position. The voice of the Central and
Western States must not be drowned by
the New York clamors, but all should har
moniously and kindly consult the best inter
ests of RepublicaHism. The Chicago Con
vention will then be brief harmonious, or
derly and successful; in everything the op
posite of the wretched "hurly-burly" now a
last "done" at Charleston.