Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-08-06
POLITTC1L.
Mr. Irv;ne's speech at Richmond.

Douglas meeting in Richmond, must have
been quite an animated one, Judging from
the reports OF it that we have seen, and not
at all calculated to please the Breckenridge
wing of the Democracy. Among other things
he said. 1.-THE friends of Douglas had no com
promise 10 offer to the friends Of Breckin-
ridge or Bell. The party had been deserted
by placemen and political gamblers at Wash
ington and Baltimore and now, it had
thrown Douglas upon the broad bosom OF
the people. There are Democrats who may
blink the issue, but Democrats rs loyal as
they are to the usases of the party, and who
are opposed TO corruption and intrigue, will
assemble ut Staunton and form an electoral
ticket. (Applause.) A sufficient response
to the tricksterS who speak of the import
ance of maintaining the State organization,
is the interrogatory, us this State cleo
tom" If it is, why did the delegates from
Virginia 90 to Charleston. They voted there
fGy-secen times to put r. NJ. T. Hunter ON
the same platform that Stephen A. Douglas
now stands upon without the dotting of an /;
(applause) and yet, these men come here
and ask him to believe that they seeded on
principle. 1t is well that they don't 90 to
Stanton, for DR.. Strbling, President of the
Lunatic Asylum would deem it his duty to
put any Democrat into that institution
whom he might find supporting Breckn-
ridge and Lane daughter and appause.)
WHY didn't they secede at Charleston? Be-
cause portion were for Mr.. Hunter and
portion for Mr.. Wise, and they were willing
to take them on any platform. Mr.. |. remark
ed that he knew it might prove offensive to use
this language, but he must tell the whole
truth aud be responsible for its utterance."
Resuming his address to the meeting, MIR.
|. said they went to Baltimore and seeded
on miserable question Of organization. III
they had been honest and true, they would
not have fed at the first skirmish, bat would
have "stood fire." to see if their principles
would be affirmed. They were sent to a
National Democratic Convention, aud they
had no right to 20 to any other. The nomlna-
ton of Breckenridge was a fraud and a usur-
patton. Admitting the force of the reasons
assigned by them for seeding from the Ma
tional Convention, they could only be .justl-
fed in their withdrawal. Then they were
functns oHiciO, and it was their duty to re-
turn to their constituents.
Mr.. Irving related dream he had, the
substance of which was that he started to
Baltimore while the convention was in ses-
sion and met Messrs. keitt and lancey.-
The latter said to him, The Democratic par
ty is disrupted; have removed the last OBJ
stacle to the dissolution Of the Unlon.-
Scarcely had he recovered from the shock
which the announcement caused ere he met
his friends, VIM. Old, Lewis Haryie and
John Seldom. Uarvie said to him, whats
the use Of preserving the Union, now; we
can't make Bob Hunter President. Present
", he met Dir. Thompson, Of Dinwiddic, and
Fisher of Accomac II. said what's the
use Of Keeping the Union together; Wise
can't be nominated Whether, said Mr.
l., this dream did OF did not occur it pre-
SCENTS a solution of the present divided con-
dition of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Irving then read I; resolution offered
by Mr. o. Jennings Wise, at the Democratic
Convention i'll so, rejoicing at the success of
the Democracy of Illinois, in securing the
reelection of Douglas to the Senate, when
Lincoln was his competitor. The resolution
was published in the Enquirer Of December
10th, 80. 1t was seconded by MIR. Roger
A. Pryor, and he lrving) voted for it him
self, and was here tonight to vindicatc it
He supposed that Mr.. Pryor seconded that
resolution because he contemplated Mr..
Douglas nomination for the Presidency, and
he was not averse to it. lie supposed that
Mr.. Wise's object in Offering the resolution
was to endorse "Pa" in his antiLecompton
letter. daughter and applause.
The Democrats of Greenbrier, says the
Era, worked themselves iuto i considerable
snarl on Monday last, to the infinite anusc.
ment of outsiders Several speeches were
made on the OCCASION, and the speakers sad
some very hard things about their opponents
As it was a family affair, the Wings stood
altof and looked on. Mr.. Smith and Mr.
Dennis both became excited and made hery
speeches, abusing the Doug las men with II
hearty good will Mr.. Dennis said among
other things, that Douglas was an abolltI"n-
ist of the deepest dye and between the two
he liked Mr.. Lincoln the best. As Il matter
of course, these remarks excited the Douglas
men considerably. Col. Davis, thereupon,
took 10 the cudgeI on the other side, and
smcared Mr.. Breckenridge with a thick coat
of bad odor The result of the proceedings
was, that two sets of delegates were appoint
ed--the Douglas men are to go to Stanton,
and the friends of Breckenridge, to Charottes-
Vile
The Charlottesville Ictfersonian says -
"W begin 10 entertain very seriously the sus-
picion, that the Breckenridge movement is
disumjon in disguise. We do not believe Mr.
Breckenridge is disunionist He is merely
a tool Nor do we believe that all who sup
port the Breckenridge and Lane ticket are
in favor Of disunipn We believe there are
very few disunionsts in Virginia. But we
have reason TO think that in South Carolina
Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, &c, the
whole movement has been deliberately con
cocted TO "preci plate the cotton States into
a revolution" Mr.. lancey has been the
ruling spirit in the whole business at
Charleston and in Baltimorc--and prior to
the meeting Of these conventions in A!aba-
ma. 1t will be remembered that it was
Alabama which first in her State Conycn
ton passed Il resolution, instructing her del
egates to secede at Charleston"
In view of the remarkable position taken
by Mr. keitt, who counsels tie immediate
disso'ation Of the Unioa, in the event Of
Lincoln's election, the Richmond Index, 4
Douglas paper, pertinently asks: "lf the
Union is in the breeches pocket of Mr.. Brock
inridge, why did not his .triemiS at Charles
ten remain in the Convention, and there no.
bly, battle for freedoms champion?" Why