The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1860-08-24
KENTUCKY STATE CONVENTION.

hS OSAAOSAoeAS OsoSS OSAA'S
Kentucky, to nominate electors to support
Douglas and johnson for the Presidency,
met at Louisville on the 1lth. Eighty-sev-
en- counties were represented, by over 700
delegates. Archibold Dixon, formerly Uni.
ted States Senator and Hon. John G. Ma
son, very recently leading Democratic
member of Congress, from Kentucky, were
chosen Electors at Large. The convention
adopted resolutions repudiating coalition
with the Boilers, and re-affirming the Gin
cinnati platform. The enthusiasm that pre-
vailed was unprecedented, and the greatest
confidence was expressed by all, that Doug
las will carry the State in November.
Hon. James Gutherie, it is thought, will
declare for Douglas. Many of his promi.
nent friends participated in the Convention
and he has already publicly declared that
Breckinridge's nomination is a sectional
one.
Hon. James o. Harrison, of Lexington,
Kentucky, has come out for Douglas. Mr..
Harrison is one of the most eminent lawyers
of kentuck ky-one of the executors of the
last will of Henry Clay-a thorough South
ern man in all his impulses-and the ncble
champion selected by the Democracy of the
Lexington district as their candidate for
Congress when the Know Nothing party
was at the zenith of its power--when Mr..
Breckenridge, for reasons perfectly satisfac-
tory to himself-but rather to the deep sur
prise of many of his friends, refused to make
the race in that district against this "secret
and dangerous foe." Mr.. Harrison is also
related to Mr.. Breckenridge.
At an enthusiastic Douglas demonstration
at Lexington, MIR. Harrison addressed the
assembly in powerful speech, and proved
the following five propositions !:
l. That there was disunon party South
prior to the Charleston and Baltimore Conven.
tions.
2. That that party entered the convention
with the design OF dividing the Democracy on
union.
3. That it aided in the formation of a South.
ern sectional platform, plausible but danger.
Ously delusive, on which said party knew ma.
tional Democrats neither would or could unite.
4. That this sectional platform has been
adopted by the secessionists, and that the dis.
unionists now stand on it.
D. "a natural sequence.) That the tendency
of the platform is to disunion, by bringing on
an irresistible conflict; and that this tendency
is increased by the disunionists, who stand on
il.
Mr.. Harrison in the course of his speech,
referred to letters in his possession, showing
the high appreciation held by Henry Clay
of Douglas.
MISSOURI ALL RIGHT-THE GOVERNOR ELECT
ON BRECK.
The St. Louis Republican of the llth,
publishes returns from forty five counties in
Missouri, showing the following aggregate
vote for Governor:
C. F. Jackson, Douglas. .36,792
S. Orr, Bell. l....................34. 34.020
H. Jackson, Breckenridge. ...... 1854
The Republican says:
We have seen enough to know that Major
Jackson and I. C.. Reynolds have an over.
whelming majority over the highest of their
opponents Buchanan majority for President
was not quite ten thousand. Jackson's MAORI.
ty may go to fifteen thousand over Orr, if it
does not exceed that vote, and our impres sion
is that he will beat the field. Never was vic
tory achieved, and never has such opposition
been made to any man--so combined, untiring
and unscrupulous-in this State. We claim
for him, therefore, glorious triumph-a tri.
umph over all the parties arrayed in opposition
n him and fOllOWinO him with nnrpIpnfinO
fury. The inconsiderabe faction of the Demo
cratic party that broke off from the regular
nominations" and made so ruthless war upon
him and Mr.. Reynolds, because they promptly
declared their intentions to sustain the regular
nominees of the Democratic party for President
and Vice President, may now see where they
stand in the estimation OF the Democratic party
in Missouri. Whole hosts of factOus and un.
principled politicians have been laid on the
shelf by this election, and the Democratic party
will be the better for the publication.
Claiborne f. Jackson, the Governor elect,
in all his speeches after the Presidential
nominations were made, gave Douglas and
Johnson warm support. We make the
following extract from his speech at Jefier-
son City, the capital of the State. He
said:
That Convention which, MAINTAIN, did nOm-
mate Douglas and the platform, was the same
as that upon which Mr.. Buchanan was elected
in 1856.
Such, gentlemen, is the platform upon which
Mr. Douglas was nominated and upon which
ne stands, and as the nominee of the duly ap
pointed Convention, /, true to my cOlOrs as an
unfinching and uncompromising Democrat, am
bound in honor and in justice to support him.
Loud applause.]
But the next question which has been raised
is, did he actually receive the nomination! L
am aware that this question has been mOoted,
but it is not worth while going into long
speech upon this point, and being unwilling to
do so, l will merely give you proof positive on
the point went direct to the record and ex.
amined it for myself and find that upon the
last ballot taken, there were for Douglas, 1873;
Brecknridge, .; Guthrie, 53-there being liz
who did not vote at all, making in all 2O6 votes
being just four over twO-thirds OF the whole.
There also l found that Douglas nomination
was confirmed without a dissenting voice.
[Applause.]
You all know that Douglas was not my first
choice, but when my party once make nOmina-
tions never turn from them. 1 have never
done SO, and never will, so long as live. And
yet, because have been thus true to the Dem.
ocratic party and its long declared principles,
because l would not be dictated to. / am. for.
sooth, to be told that have forsaken nv prin
ciples. No, my friends, l never have. and |
never can, never will do so-come what NAV. |
Loud applause. II
Before leave, let me remind you that it is |
not pretended by t1e friends of Mr.. Breckin. |