The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-07-18
Important Circular from the National
Democratic COMMITTEES.

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| Democratic Committee
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COMMIT J
TEE RooMs,-WAsHINGToS, June 80, 1860. 7
]. W. GRAY, SIR: Reports have been busily
disseminated, in the shape of Telegraphic des-
patches from Washington, appearing simultan-
eously in newspapers published in different
parts of the Union, to the effect that the
friends of Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel
V. johnson Democratic candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, presented
for the suffrages of the people by the National
tGeaVention recently assembled in Baltimore,
we're engaged, in several of the States, with
the friends of Johu c. Breckenridde and Jo-
seph Lane, candidates designated for the same
offices by the seceders from the National Con-
vention, IN making arrangements for the run
ming of electoral tickets in different States to-
be supported by them jointly in the approach
ing presidential election, with the understand
ing that the votes of the Electors, elected by
such combination, shall be given for Douglas
and johnson, or for Breckenridge and Lane, as
subsequent events might require. What gave
rise to these reports, and to what agency their
| circulation is to be attributed, we have no
means of determining The fact Of their pre-
yalence, however, is so notorious, that when
it is taken in connection with the fact that it
is stated in some quarters that movements
! looking towards such a result are about to be
inaugurated in Missouri and New Jersey, the
subject becomes one of sufficient importance,
in the opinion of the Committee, to be made
| the subject of special communication to the
known friends of the nominees of the regular
| Convention of the Democratic party; and, ac-
cordingly, in obedience to the wishes of the
Committee, 1 now address You this circular
So far as is known to the members of the
resident Executive Committee, no person who
supports the action of the National Democrat
ic Convention at Baltimore-no person who
desires the election of s. A. douglas to the
Presidency, and of III. V. johnson to the Vice
Presidency, has ever expressed wish for any
such arrangement, or entertained, or even
countenanced, for single moment, any sug-
gestion or proposition tending towards it
Nor does the committee believe that any such
arrangement can with propriety be made at
any time, in any place or under any circum-
STANCES, with those who have placed Breckin-
ridge and Lane in nomination, and are now
their ayoEed supporters in opposition to the
regular nominees of the Democratic party.
The Democratic party, as National party,
stands now, where it has stood for years, upon
the ground of non-intervention, by Congress,
with the subject of Slavery in the States or
Territories Those who seeeeded from the
Baltimore Convention, did SO because they
were unwilling to stand on that groud. They
have again and again repudiated that principle,
and both at Charleston and Baltimore declared
tlaat-.l-cJ---wovrld- d--evcr=tteir connection with
the majority of the delegates assembled in
Convention in accordance with Democratic
usage unless they, too, would solemnly repudi-
ate it in obedience to their demand. When
the majority of the Convention refused to
yield to their dictation and make their actions
conform to the will of the minority, these gen.
tlemen seeded, formed themselves into mi
noflty ConYention, and nominated candidates
who are the open and pledged enemies of the
principle of "nen-intervention" by Congress, as
recognized by the majority Convention and as
advocated by their candidates. Under these
circumstances, it is clear to the Committee
that if the antagonism between the seceders
and the majority of the Democratic Conven-
tion was such, that the seceders could no longer
take part in their deliberations, and were con-
strained to set up candidates in opposition to
those selected by the majority, that antagon-
ism still continues, and is such as must pre-
clude the possibility of any union between
them in the support of a common electoral
ticket in any State, no matter what may be the
probable result of the election in it without
such union.
The Democratic party, which is BOW united
in the support of Douglas and johnson stands
upon the only principle which is capable, if
maintained in its integrity, of preserving and
perpetuating the union of the States. The Sc
ceders and their candidates, are opposed to
this principle. Their course, if sustained in
the South, necessarily tends, though it may
not be SO designed, to the breaking up of the
National Government In the view of the
Committee there is no room for doubt, in the
mind of any N ational Democrat, as to the path
of duty in the present crisis. The "seceders,"
by withdrawing from the National Convention
and setting up their candidates, have arrayed
themselves in opposition to the principle of
Congressional non-intervcntion." National
Democrats should everywhere meet the issue
now rendered them, by nominating and sup
porting Electoral tickets in their respective
States, pledged, if elected, to vote for Stephen
A. Douglas for President, and Herschel "
johnson for Vice President of United States
If the seceders and their friends choose to
separate permanently from the Democratic
party, and run ticket in opposition to the
regular nominations, let them do SO. Upon
them be the responsibility of the result
MILES TAYLOR, Chairman