New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-09
u,cuuoND AND BALTsmORE.

Richmond and Baltimore, to see il il cannot weld
itself together again. The earlier OF these sup
Elementary gatherings will come of next week ut
Richmond; and it is already morally certain that
th, can amount to nothing. There will be no sub
stantia responsible delegation to it from any Free
State and but partial and questionable repre-
sentation from several Slave States. 1t will meet,
and organize, and talk large, and act fussiy, and
adjourn over TO Baltimore, or to await the doings
ct Baltimore 1t has in fact no essential vitality,
no independent force, but is avery lame contrsance
of the Slave-Code ultras, designed to bully the
regular Convention into adopting Slaye-COde
Platform and throwing overheard Judge Douglas.
II il magazine of the diaboical masks wherewlth
Chinese army adorns its collective visage when
advancing to strike terror into an embodied foe.
When the charging warriors shall have dscerned
that their paper diabolism is simply laughed at,
they will heave it away as an incumbrance, and
trutt to the less imposing but more reliable virtue
that may inhere in their arms.
The real battle Is to be fought at Baltimore; and
il will be struggle TO the death. Hall the seedy
Democratic politicians who have been quietly los
silizng for the last quarter Of century have had
it whispered in their respective ears thar, II
Douglas can only be killed of, they may zach be
Prcsident--thnt s to sny, each OF them Is assured
Ii at he is the Coming Man. if the Little Giant can
but be disposed OF. A man who once gets the
Presidential moggot in Ia IS head is Prtmd taeie
fool ever more: he listens to fiatterers and shuts
his ears to all unwelcOme truth: bit the Demo-
cratic aspirants have been especially dszzed and
demorazed BY the amazing luck which beiell sue
cessiyely Polk and Pierce. Forty men in different
.ecton. will be eagerly holding their ears to the
end Of t.lcgIaph wires ten or twelve days hence,
in the fond expectation that they viii hear that
the great prize in the Presidential lottery has
fallen TO them; when the bare suggestion of the
Possibility Of such thing would excite the unsui-
nous delison OF their neighbors. These plotoous
of expectant candidates, with their battaions Of
ambushed bottle holders, constitute one main OBJ
stacle to Douglass nonlil alton.
The hot ambition of these gentlemen refuses to take
account of the chief element Involved in the srug
gle. They fancy that the Cotton States hate and
fear Douglas prominently, and will eagerly accept
any one who can manage - suppant him in the
favor Of majority of the Convention. But the
controversy into which they are so eager to be
thrust concerns principle mainly, and deals with
men only they embody or affect that principle.
Judge Douglas ia hated and opposed at the South
as the champion of 'Squatter Sovereignty" and
for no other reason. fla candidate pledged to let
the Territories deal with Slavery as they shall scy-
orally see fit is to be nominated, they would as
soon have Douglas as anybody ese If he would
adopt and stand on their Slave. Code Platform, he
would even yet be acceptable TO the South; but
then be would be weak as any other impossible
candidate at the North The seedy aspirants can
not comprehend that Party Platforms are anything
else but so much clap trap, intended to mean as
little or much as the exigencies of the occasion
OF the location may require; but this mater Of
popular Sovereignty" has oyergrown the confines
OF little court house cabals aud Washington dinner
partes and become familiar and woll-canvassed
topic in machne-shops, around work-bencbes and
by backsmith's FORCES; and no cunuiog jugglo of
ambiguous words will now suffice for its disp0si-
ton. Suppose two or three thousand Northern
mechanics and farmers chose to migrate
to and settle in some Lew Territory, with
less than bali 50 many Southrons as their compat-
riots and neigbbors, shall the majority be con-
strained to have Slavery planted and fostered
among them or shall they be at liberty to say de-
cisiyely that they do not want an enslayed negro
element in their community, and will not have il
The question thus moOted is of far greater moment
than the personal exaltatOn of Stephen A. Douglas
or any one else, and il has been discussed until
The masses perfectly comprehend it. The assertion
that the South is ready to take Dickinson or Sey.
mcur, or Pierce, or Touccy, or some other enigma,
without a platform, is utterly unwarranted. If
the Cotton managers consent 10 the nomination of
any asprant Who is not himself n Slaye-COde
Platform, clear and unmistakable, they will do 80
on the strength Of private pledges that he is with
them, body aud soul. Unless the Popular Soyer-
eighty" Democrats want to be cheated, are snx-
ious to be swinded out of the whole matter in dis
pute, for the sake of another chance at :" the
"spoils, they will not touch mystcriously silent
and mutually acceptable candidate. Better have
JEFF. Davis or Wigfall at once: for YOU would then
know what to depend upon.
Ii the Platform adopted at Charleston shall
stand unaltered, and Mr.. Douglas shall be placed
upon it, We shall have contest Of principle worthy
of the best days of the Republic. We do not
think Judge Douglas can now carry Illinois; for
Mr.. Lincolns start Of full month is worth TO him
Five thousand votes. But not Illinois merely but
every North-Wetern State will b. contested by
his partisans with bouBdess energy and stern re.
solve; and We do not think their look for Indiana
af all G'.nilI