Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-09-06

didate asprant for the Presidency became the dow
er of his own trumpet or the vender OF his own wares
he sunk in the opinion of an intelligent people as lacking
in that dignity of character without which no man
is fitted to occupy the chair of Washington, or preside
honorably over the destines Of a great people Has
that time passed We will not believe it. We all re-
collect bow indignantly public opinion rebuked General
SCOTS sumpng under the name of tour of inspection
nor can yet have passed from the view of many how
even the great personal charm of Mr.. Clays eloquence
and popular manners failed to secure him from loss hya
somewhat similar mistake bis Southern tour had
some share in his defeat.
But now we find Presidential aspirant or nominee
advocating his personal claims in public and in private
from his seat in the Senate, and from hundred
trumsin the coarse but expressive language of
change seeming the great dignity as it were like
beagle, and yelpiEg he runs" We surely have not
come to this yet that such undisguised seseekng
be sanctioned by great and sefrespectng people It's
enough humiliation to know that gentleman possessing
the really great abilities that all accord to Mr. Douglas
should have so yielded to the promptings Of nord
nate ambition. 1t would be too much to suppose that
the people who are blinded by no such motives nfu
cnces should fail to accord to such Of action the
censure and reprobation it deserves.
Talk about non-interventicn When did ever pre-
sidential candidate to State under such circum-
stances as attended Mr. Douglas recent visit to North
Carolina To be present. to advise with and encourage
bis friends and supporters III organizing such move
ment in his could only result granting to it the
fullest of success in such rupture OF the Dem
ocratic party of the State must deprive it Of that
tendency which had cost its abestand truest members
long years to achievewhch must, il successful give
the State to the bitteres opponents of Dem0crayto
opponents whose bitter nvectves had been heaped upon
him and his doctrines in days gone by-to opponents
who never had good word for him till they recognised
in him an agent of disruption it was apparent that
he was playing into their hands and giving them the
only possible chance to revive the Nothing party
against which the Democrats Of North Carolina, assis-
ted by many odline Wings, had striyen manully in
many hard fought contest 10 show that we make no
vague statement in regard to Mr. Bel, give his own
language taken from one of his speeches. Referring
to the Order" Mr.. Bell says
81 am not member of the ORDER but feel that at heart
true to the great and leading principles as could
be formally initiated into one OF its councils.
But the organization of political party, upon the prnc
pies policy of Withholding the support and suages OF
the members of the members of that party in the public
elections from Roman Catholics and naturazed citizens
and that s all the American party proposes to doGannot
by any fair reasoning or ingenious sophstry
attempt establish religious test to prescribe any
class Of Citizens"
And so on. Whatever Mr. Bell may think Of all this
the people Of North Carolina formed and expressed
opinion pretty decidedly 1885, against its advocates,
Messrs GiImer and Fillmore. And it is to this entertain
ment that the intervention of Mr. Douglas would invite
the Democrats Of North Carolina
But then say Mr. Douglas and his supporters, Breck
inridge and his friends dsunionistsMr. Dick ex-
Cludes them from his sympathy equally with Lincoln
be calls them his foes Let us look little at the facts
of the case. What says John G. Breckenridge himself
and his truthfulness and hghtoped honor have never
been called in question =
clam an American CITIZEN aKentuckian-who never did
act cherished hought thai not full of devotion
The Constitution and the Equality of the States These
symbols of everlasting Union Let these be the rayDf
cries OF the people,
Are these the words of digunOni8t?
But it might be amusing if not instructive to lock
little into the history of political events in connection
with this Oh Tge of digunion made by the friends
Mr.. Douglas and applied to those who support Mr.
Breckenridge on what is known the majority resolu
tols reported at Charleston, 1t is little remarkable
that the unanimous choice for the Vice Presidency,
the Douglas men, of those who denounce the doctrine
equal and adequate protection to all classes OF property
mischieyous hereses and mere party tests which
will, if successful produce the dissolution of the Unot
itself we say it is little remarkable that the frs
choice OF these men for the Vice Presidency should hav
been Senator Fitzpatrick of Alabama, who had voted
for the Senate resolutions emphaticaIy repudiang Mr.
Douglas theoresor that their present candidate fo
that position should be Hershell V. johnson of Geor
gia who not many days before, at his home in Georgia
had gone emphaticaly for protection to property as
right which every citizen justly demand, and which
the General Government cannot deny without failing il
its duty and falling short Of answering the ends for which
it was created-for which it is maintained, and fo
which The people Of the South equally with those of the
North pay it heavy taxes We never before heard th
doctrine aVowed that allegiance could Justly be demand
ed where protection is denied.
But Mr.. Douglas comes to North Carolina and Vir
GINA to stump-in one he carries his intervention so
to be present at meeting called expressly to fix hi
own machinery for his own purposes. Let us make
few extracts this time for the purpose Of showing
how he was recently regarded by the Bell and Everett
party, that party to whose advantage in these State
can alone enure. We quote from the Richmond Whig-
leading if not The leading opposition paper at tn
South, which is now busily engaged in ratting Mr.
Douglas on the back.
The Richmond Hhtg some time since said of him an,
his principles
So far as the views of The two the question of slave
ry in the Territories concerned, THOSE OF sEWARI
ARE INFINITELY LESS DANGEROUS TO THE SOUTI
THAN THOSE OF DOUGLAS. In word the mass O
the Southern people of both parties concur opino
expressed by Er Calhoun that WILMOT PROYISOIsM L
PREFERABLE TO SQUA1TER 6OVERElGNTY-the on
doctrine being direct and gay and the other sidiou
ana S9eGlng but both looking to the object, tn
EOh0nBdn EXCLUSION OF SLAVERY FROM ALL TIL
IEhhILOhlEs OF THE UNION. Under Douglas theory
twenty or ten or i've thousand squattes from ALI end
OF the earth may prohibit Southern men from going into tn
Territories witheir slave propertytbe decision
Of these squatters on this question: being final against tn
South and Southern On the other hand there mur
less to be feared in the naked proposition Of the Wilmo
Provsofor the that before begin to opera
at ALL it must command the sanction Of both Houses of Con