Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-07-11


lie then pitched into Brother Ritczcl, @
the Trumbull Democrat, for merely giving
as items of news, that the Democratic party
at Baltimore, was Split up" and tina
one faction had nominated Douglas and tn
other Breckenridge. and placing two Ma
tional Democratic tickets at the head of hi
paper, which VIC playfully characterized d
his celebrated two horse act" lie advise
all Democrats to stop taking "the Trumbul
Democrat" as he had done, and contributI
money, and start another paper. Wcncv
or had any sympathy with Bro. Ritzclt
politics, but as 4 citizen VIC regard him q
an honorable and upright man, and ",
think he deserves better treatment from
Democrats, than he received from Mr.. Tod
Mr.. Tod and other supporters of the rum
convention" which nominated Judge
Douglas, and did not nominate johnson
ought to consider that Brother Ritizei Oc
cupics a peculiar position, and that hi
ought to have time to 'just glance at the
ticket before he determines which he viii
support.
Mr.. Tod in substance further said, that
these boiling democrats, President Buchan.
an, Mr.. Breckenridge, Judge Birchard,
Judge Fuller and Mr.. Ritezcl, claimed
that Douglas was not the regular Demo
cratic nominee. did not l." continued
Mr.. T.. '-as President of the National DEM
ecratic Convention, declare him to be tie
regular nominee of the Democratic party,
and ask God to have mercy upon him and
the Union, which he represented?
We had supposed when VIC saw this
form of expression which Judges have
adopted, when ~pronouncing sentence upon
criminals THAT they be hung by the neck
till they be dead" for the crimes they have
committed, as coming from Mr.. Tod as
President Of a Democratic Convention and
applied to Mr.. Douglas as the nominee Of
that Convention, that it was a burleSluo;
but VIC now have official evidence that II
is genuine. Whether or not there is any
analogy between Judge Douglas IS the
nominee Of the half of the Convention over
which Mr.. Tod presided and criminals Of
the sort to which such language is ordina-
rily applied, We do not wish to say, but We
will state that the form is suggestive. We
suppos the Union referred to in the
sentence" is the union of the great dem
ocratic party, of which Mr.. Douglas is the
representative and the type. Is not Mr..
Tod aware hat Mr.. Douglas is the bOltcr
and the traitor, that he bolted the action Of
the party, on the LecomptiOn constitution
which the democratic party supported and
tried to force upon the people of Kansas?
1t is for this crime that the democratic
party have spurned Mr.. Douglas as a
deserter, and had him wounded at Charles,
ton and shot at Baltimore? Don't Mr..
Tod approve of shooting deserters?"-
Well might Mr.. Tod ask divine clemcncy
upon such a hardened political sinner
when about to swing him from a political
gallows, from which he was ito be hung
by the neck, till he was dead"
Mr.. TOds denuneiation and abuse Of
Mr.. Buchanan, Mr.. Breckenridge, Judges
Birehard. Fuller and Brother Ritczel,
seemed to be because they claimed that
Mr.. Douglas was not the regular nominee
of the Democratic party. Why, he said
in substance, did not I "the Great I an
of the Democratic party declare him regu-
larry nominated, and will such small worms
Of the dust Of democracy as the boilers |
have named, call it in question? Let them
be shot down as traitors and outlaws,
give them no quarters. They are Office
holders and Office seekers and as such they
are presumptivesly dishonest. 1t is q
noticeable fact that Mr.. Tod did not pre-
tend that Mr.. johnson was the regular
nominee of the Democracy. He did moi
mention his name in that Convention. lie
was not even in his sentence which he pre-
nounced against Mr.. Douglas. We have
been unable to find out who did put Mr.
johnson in nomination. The Convention
did not, as the record will show. n Ma.
tional Committee was appointed, but will
no authority to make nominations in cas-
either candidates should decline. Wehav(
seen no notice, that the Committee appoint
cd, V had held a meeting. If they did
when and where? Who was ballotcd for
for candidate for the important Office O.
Vice President? Did Mr.. johnson receive
a majority or two thirds of the Committee:
These arc questions which do not mucl
concern us, but democrats have a right t.
know these things. VIII Mr.. Tod give
the public some information on this point!
If Mr.. Douglas should, by and by decline
would the Committee who assumed author
ity to put Mr.. Johnson in nomination il
the place of Nj. Fitzpatrick, who declined
to run as the Candidate of a fraction 0
the Convention at Baltimore, put in nom
i%nation, another person in the place of Mr.
Douglas? If that Committee should do this
would all good democrats be bound to sup
port the ticket thus made, on pain Of be
ing denounced as traitors and shot as dc
scrters if they doubted, or hesitatcd, or re
fused? Mr.. Tod being authority, it woul,
seem so. The distinguished democ. ats t
whom Mr.. Tod by name, referred, do rcfus
to support a ticket thus made up, and the
were coarsely denounced, in his speech, a
dishonest and unworthy of the support q
all good democrats. Upon Mr.. Tod's loe
ic, a majority of those who have hereto Oh
acted with him in the democratic part