Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-06-30

The NOMINATIONS AND THE PRosPECTs-The
turn 10 the disease of democracy seems to
have been reached at Baltimore, 10 the nomina-
tion of the two tickets by the respective wings ol
hopelessly divided party. The last Office Of
committing its remains 10 the gravel, becomes
only question Of time, to be decided by the ac-
tivity of the elements Of decay and dissolution.
Douglas is nominated, but the manner of that
nomination, and the acceptance Of it, is only
another mode of fixing nail in his own coffin.
Nominated by fragment of party, by votes
too few in number to nominate him in accord
ance with the rules of the convention, by ac
clamation when legal majority could not be
obtained, by unanimous consent when half the
Union had been driven from the Hall and of
those remaining whole States remained in omi-
nous silence. The President had left the Chair
aud gone to preside over an ahtagonistic body,
and of the 800 votes which should have been
cast, only 1924 remained to be thrown Ell
ther for or against the champion of squatter
sovereignty.
And Douglas has carried his platfOrm-but
how Against the angry dissent of all the
States especially interested in it and the fatal
logic of eontrsdictiDg itself written on every
plank. Douglas comedies, and so do the Seces.
sionists, that shareholders have right to carry
ih,ir property - slaves into the Territories
But the Secessionists not only claim the right,
but claim also that Congress shall protect them
in its exercise. Douglas cOnceding the right,
denies the protection. He is neither fish, flesh,
nor good red herring to the sppetites of the
South and they reject him with loathiDg.
There is glorious justice in this lie re-
opened the discussion, broke down the barriers
OF sectionalism, opened the struggle of slavery
anew and did it all to cajoIe the South. And
now they turn from him, scout his lying doctrine
and brand him as traitor to the interst before
which ne has bowed down and licked the dust.
On the other hand Breckenridge and Lane
the candidates of the Seceders stand before the
south as the undoubted friends of slavery.
TAere is no chopping of logic in their platform.
They assume the right and declare that it shall
be protected. They come before the slave states
With the strongest possible claim for the ultra pro.
slavery vote. On the part of the more moderate
meu of the South, there is a supreme contempt
Of the trickery Of Douglas which will direc
their votes to the representative Of moderatisu
ct the South, the Uhfon candidates. The south
ern states that Breckenridge cannot carry, Bel
will.
At the North Mr.. Douglas will find himsel
much in the position which Van Buren occupi
cd in ls4s. he will be supported with some
fling Of the same spirit and like him will mos
likely fail to carry . single electoral vote, while
the Breckenridge ticket will have also a sup.
port net formidable in numbers, but Frequent
Of death to Douglas from the fact that every
vote il gets will be so much taken from a par
~ With no strength to spare. United, the de-
mOcraey had but gloomy prospects 10 any north
ern state. Divided there is no contingency ne
doubt, no misgiViDg Of any sort 1t must be
beaten.
For Lincoln the skies are bright. The whole
Republican vote. harmonious, cheerful and ami
mated With II will 60 twO-thirds Of the Old
Wings and Americans and any strength
which the other third can carry or to Bell and
EVeEstt will be more than eOunterbalsneed by
the division Of the democratic vote.