Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-08-30

80 Wis 0"'S'"n'Af0 ueClSloD, mangleQ as they wished
" tnange It, was not the entertainment to which we
were to be invited 1t was sought to make the Supreme
court the arber of political principles-to drag down
tne efmne OF the Court into the contests of parties
Whe at the same time the Democratic party was asked
u aonegate It's right of decision upon political questions
OF the gravet character and deliver itself over to the
changing views of branch of the federal government
That would have been political independence and regard
TOR States Rights with vengeance But we forget.
The rights of the States to be at discount with
certain class OF politicians and any one who avows him
sell their advocate is to be decried as dsunions and
sugmatlsed as little better than traitor. But the
ola!es maze rights. Yea, even the Southern States,
and the best friends Of the Union those who would
most sacredy respect those rights and most jealousy
guard them. The General Government exists for the
protection of the citizens of all the States wherever the
local authority of such States docs not extend on the
General Government to neglect to extend full and ade
quate protection to the person and property of any c
in any of the territories would be neglect of duty
"a failure on the part Of that Government to fulfill the
objects for which it created "a observation-disclosures
intervention against the persons and property so left
unprotected. And yet Mr.. Dick, clamoring for
Nonintervention," advocates as such the Douglas
idea that territorial legislature the creation of Con
gress can intervene by direct legislation legislation
of an indirect and unriendy character to drive South
ern property out of the common territory.
Mr. Dick refers to speeches from hotel balconies and
elsewhere We know what occurred in Convention and
among the delegates as such Much is said about Yam
cey. Where Mr.. Gaulden of Georgia, Douglas
man and quite popular with that side of the house. Mr.
Gauden was preaching slavetrade and the reopening
thereof not only from all of street pupits but
IN the very hall of the convention ITSELF Governor
Winston the leader Of the bogus Douglas delegation
which came to Baltimore from Alabama actually recon-
mended dsunion in message to the Legislature of that
State. Mr. Gardner OF the Augusta Constituencies,
the great gun of the Georgia Dougastes who den0unce
the Seceders ACTUALLY seeded from the Georgia
State Convention, with little tail of some forv-fve
out of Convention of three to four hundred How
Mr. Dick associated he is with these men, charge
dsunon secession anything else upon the friends Of
Breckenridge and Lane and the equality of the States
because Mr. Yancey happened to be member of the
regular and only true delegation from Alabama and be-
cause further, Mr.. Yancey being very eloquent man
people liked to hear him Is Mr. Dick willing to be
held responsible for all that Mr. Gauden said? Is Mr.
Dick an advocate of the reOpenrg of the slavetrade
because Mr.. Gaulden is? We are sick of this cuckoo
cry of Yancey, Yancey.
Mr.. Dick says that Mr.. Douglas lost more than he
gained by the rule of voting adopted We kno1c that
he gained fifteen in New Y0rk-iye n Ohio five or six
in indiana, and odd votes elsewhere. Will Mr. Dick
be so kind to point out the votes that be lost and
ochere he lost them. Where the voice or vote of
Douglas minority suppressed? Mr. Dick 5 wholly mis-
taken
Mr. Dick certainly not one of the Douglas mi
nory whose vote stifed neither were the Douqlas
men from Virginia among such for they cast their votes
as they pleased The fact the rule of voting adopted
was keen dodge no doubt previously calculated
at Washington. 1t did not pass in full Com
mtee on organization, and could not have passed An
occasion taken to pass when the Com mitee man
from more than Southern State was absent and ap
pearng to come from the Committee without mirori
ty report few in Convention not up to the dodge |
thought OF examining it, and thos who were up to said
dodge, did not, Of course, let the out of the bag
Mr. Dick talks about the filling OF vacancies etc. and
about the application of Mr. Yancey for readmssion st
Baltimore. Mr.. Yancey sent back by the regular
Democratic State Convention of Alabama not like his
competitors tor the representation of that State who
claimed authority from bogus gathering, the call
for which invited birds of every feather to come
up and send Douglas-not Democratic delegates
The Douglastes wanted to apply tests to the gentle
men regularly appointed or re-appOinted from the
States whose delegates had withdrawn at Charles
ton. They yielded that before the storm of South.
ern reprobatlOD, but took the other premeditated
step of bringing in all the bogus unauthorized Doug
Iasites they could, and of excluding all the regular
possible, where their vote might be nimica
to Douglas Why, at Charleston, when an effort was
made just alter the withdrawal of the delegates of some
seven States to br0g about reunion of the Conyen.
hoci
different from what has been generally known as the
<ennessee PLATFORM ex-GOv. Richardson of Illinois
distinctly stated in the of the North Carolina del
egatlOn tat no such thing could be done would be
agreed to by the Douglas men-they would not have
the withdrawing delegates back-they would not have
the Convention unit. We state that Gov. Richard
son spoke to this effect though do recoect the
precise words and this upon hearsay evidence This
we think, on the Monday night of the second week of
the Charleston Convention while the awful freeaters
were waiting, willing and anxious for any fair compro
mlSe,-any honorable concession-doing nothing not |
even contemplating any separate action, only maintain
ing position to be uncOmmted to anything that thew
could not approve yet anxious to cooperate with anV
thing at all like what they thought right We never so
tuly realized the programme and spirit of the Douglas
ties until we heard the remarks and noticed the tone of
GOV. Richardson then that tone was maintained
throughout by the Douglas cohorts-the regular letan-
ers OF the house Of douglas. The action and manner
and tone of these regulars was the same at Baltimore
only more SO. They had got bogus men appointed by
bogus Conventions to take the place of the regular del
gatons appointed according the usages of the party
from several States, Their programme arranged at
Charleston was all ready to be carried out. The rights
OF States were to be ruhesy volaed-the regular Or
CARNATIONS OF the Democracies of States were to be ig
nored. Regular delegates from Massachusetts and
Missouri were to be turned out to make way for alter
mates who happened to be Douglas men, while their
principals were not. We, at least could not lon
ger remain in body wherento men were to be
WhO had no MOI rSuhfk 20 Al
would any number of men picked up on Baltimore
street MIR. Dicks views were different we do not
impugn his motives. We can cheerfully return the
language in which Mr.. Dick refers to those whom he