The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-07-19
The President on the STUMP.

and Lane. The occasion was the vlsi1
of the friends Of these candidates tc
the White House, on Monday evening
last, after having ratified their nomina
ton. There are some points in the
speech worthy of note; for the cold
public fanctionary" gives his views Oh
the question that divides the Northern
and Southern branches of the Democ
racy, with freedom an earnestness
and directness that shows his heart ia
be in the work. The President begins
his address by glowing endorsement
of the characters of his favorite candi
dates, congratulating his audience that
they have been nominated cover all
competitors" warmly endorsing their
conservatism, by a shrewd reference to
their great services to the nation, both
in war and in peace, and by pledging
his reputation that their adninistra-
ton! will be conducted on the great
principle of the equality of rights of
all citizens. He then proceeds to give
a history of the two-thirds rule-its
cause, use, and necessity, and finally,
of its violation at Baltimore, and the
cause of it. This he does-so he in
forms his hearers ito remove one
stumbling block out of the way"
After having given history of the
adoption of the two-thirds rule, he
says: This rule acas a main pillar in
the edifce Of National Conventions
Remove it and the whole must become
a ruin. This sustaining pillar soas
broken to pieces at Baltimore By the
Convention aohich nominated Mr..
Douglas. After this the body acas no
longer a National Convention, and no
Democrat, however devoted to regular
nominations, aoas bound to giUe the
nominee has support he was left free
to act according to the dictates of his
own judgment and conscience. And
here, in passing, l may observe that
the aoisdom Of the taoo thirds rule is. JUS
tilted by the events passing around us.
Had it been faithfully observed, no
candidate could hare been nominated
against the aoiW and aoishes Of almost
every, Democratic State IN the Union
all the Democratic Senator's
and more than threeJoarths Of the
Democratic Representatives an Con-
gress."
Having thus disposed of the regular
ity of the Baltimore Convention, that
nominated Mr.. Douglas, which he con-
siders sufficient grounds why Douglas
should not be supported by the De-
mocracy of the Nation, he returns to
Mr.. Breckenridge and gives at length
his reasons why he shall support him
and why all the faithful should do so,
and then pays his. respects as follows
to the doctrine Of popular sovereignty,
which he denies was ever embodied in
the Cincinnati platform. We quote:-
"There is but one mode, and one alone,
to abolish slavery in the Territories.
That mode is pointed out in the Gin
cinnati platform, sohich has been as
much misrepresented as anything I
haze ever k7aoaon. That platform de-
clarcs that majority of the actual
residents in Territory, acheneuer their
number is sufficient to entitle them to
admission as q State, possess the pow
er "to form a Constitution with or
without domestic slavery, to be admit
ted into the Union upon terms of per-
feet equality with the other States"
If there be squatte1' sovereignty an this
Ihave neyer been able to
preceiye 1t. If there be any reference
in it to Territorial Legislature, it has
entirely escaped any notice. 1t pre-
sents the clear principle that at the time
the people form their Constitution, they
shall then decide whether they will
have slavery or not. And yet it has
been stated over and over again that,
in accepting the nomination under tn at
platform, / endorsed the doctrine of
squatter sovereignty. 1 suppose you
have all beard this a thousand times.
A voice-"We all knew it was
liel"1
Well, / am glad you did,"
The speech occupies almost two col
umns of fine type in the N. Y. Tribune,
but the above is all that we can find
room for. 1t is pronounced on every
hand to be an unheard-of breach of
decorum. But, as contemporary very
justly observes, it cannot be expected
that President who brides members
Of Congress with money and offices to
vote for such denominations as Lecomp-
ton who tries to buy the support of
Editors with Postoffice printing, who
disburses to partizan journals the
fraudulent proceeds of the public prin.
ting, and who turns faithful District
out of Office for preparing to
enforce the laws against partizan