The register. (Monroe, La.) 185?-1861, 1860-05-24
Terrible! Terrible!! Terrible!!!

Terrible! Terrible!! Terrible!!!
A SoNa TO BE SuSa BY THE DouGLAs MEN
AFTER THE ADJOURNMENT OF TUE BALTIMORE
(RuMP) CONGESTION
nThey fou't and ft,
And scratched and bit.
And struggled in the mud,
Until the ground, ....,-....y -.
For miles around
Was kiycred with their blood"
The Southern Press On the Com
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| Our Southern exchanges, those of the true
Democratic State Rights character, come to US
filled with expressions of joy and congratula-
ton in relation to the firm and impressive at
titude assumed by the Southern delegations at
Charleston ~" I. -A- ,'' Tr {.'j- '- "a
The practical question on which the two seq
lions have sundercd is very simple. The South
ern people say, as the highest Court has deci-
ded, that the Territories Of the Union are az
open to the Southerner with his slaves as to
the Northerner with his motions" This the
Northern Democrats (the very cream Of the
Consttution-lovers Of the North) have just re-
fused to coneede. If we yield. we and our
slaves are shut up in our present limits, while
the North goes Oh in rapid series of expan-
sions. If we resist. we will either compel the
North to concede the right, Or We will take it
with the strong hand!
Slavery cannot long endure without this
right of expansion. Every one acknowledges
this. To consent to give it up, is to say that
we consent to regard this institution, which is
"Aesh of our flesh," as temporary! How many
are willing in the South to agree to smother the
Il ;pok tu+ Wo al not of the
numbcr.--Montgomery Nail.
The nomination would not reunite the Con.
vention. Only one thing is to be done, and
that is to begin anew and put explanatory planks
in the platform. The Cincinnati code is sub
jcct to two interpretations. The removal Of
this ambiguity is what is necessary; and we
applaud our delegates for insisting on Its re-
moval. A party whose principles are devised
to conform to the opinions Of an individual will
have very short life It ought not to live
one instant. A victory won by such policy lie
a disgrace to any party.
This is a profound sentiment among thought
full men in the South; and we are glad of it,
Seward himself would not he o greater calami-
ty than victory won by this means.
| The trouble, then, in the Convention is more
complicated than it seems at a first glance
Our Southern delegates may get over it by
compromise Of some kind, but we can hardly
see how. They have made u movement which,
if they respect themselves, they must stand by.
They cannot retracc their steps and rcjoin tho
Convention without concessions from it.-lN.
bile Tribune. .f..
The telegraphic wires never conveyed more
glorious and gratifying intelligence than the
withdrawal Of portion of the Southern dele
cations from the Convention at Charleston.-
Demanding the plain constitutional rights Of
the South, and determined to be satisfied with
nothing less, they have reflected the true SEN
timents Of on overwhelming majority of those
who have contiled their honor and their inter
csts into their hands, by withdrawing from the
Convention and refusing to cooperate longer
with those who have urged more timorous coun-
sells, and would have them sacrifice the dearest
and most vital rights Of their constituents upon
the altar of concession md submission Colup-
bus (Ga) Sun.
Whatever the motive. and whatever the view
Of the law the Convention entertained upon the
subject of its power to adjourn to, or to appoint
a convention to be held at a new place not de-
signated by the Committee, it is now apparent
to the whole country that the towering ambi-
ton of one man who would rule or ruin, and
the pertinacity of his friends, which amounts To
a species Of madness, has been the cause Of all
the troubles which have beset the Democratic
party at Charleston First, to propitate
Northern frcesoil sentiment, they contemptr-
ously kicked out Of the Convention dncIara-
tion Of principles that the South was all hut
unanimous in favor Of, and substituted another
which is wanton and gratutous insult to the
South. aud so abhorrent to Southcrners as pla-
cling in jeopardy their most cherished and va
lucd rights, that, as we have said, eight States
have seeded, carrying with them fifty -four
electoral votes, and creating disaf1ection among
those which remained Secondly, when they
!. saw the disasters they had brought upon the
party, and were bringing upon the country, in
the disruption they had produced, and when il
was yet not too late to remedy the evil. they
persisted in standing by the ubiquitous platform
they had set up, and thus compelled The secc-
ding States to remain aloof from the conveu-
+ ton, and proceeded as mere Bump Conyen-
r ton, with mock earnestness to the work of !.
nomination which they hoped (vainly, we ina
ginc) would be cralnmed down the South,
F, though more than half the Southern States had
Indignantly betaken themselves away from tho
council board. In the third and last place,
they had carried their rule or ruin policy in
their Rump Convention to that extent that they
; have actually adjourned, at the imminent risk.
: in our opinion, of never meeting again in the
character of National Democratic Convention
rather than any other man should receive the
recommendation of the Rump concern to the
American people as a suitable man for The next
Presidency.-Mobile Mercury.
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