Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-06-21
Baltimore Calculations and
GOSsin.


Baltimore Calculations and
Gossip.
The Cincinnati Gazette has ever a col
umn of Baltimore special dispatches, COM
ing down to late Sunday evening. The
Douglas men claim ITO votes on the first
ballot, and claim gains in Tennessee, Penn
sylvania, Minnesota, Kentucky and Mis-
souri,. Harris of Tennessee, is the Doug
las candidate for Vice President. The re-
port is that Horatio Seymour is working
for Douglas. Nomination by resolution is
threatened if Douglas cannet get two
thirds. Secession would follow the move.
The Seceders, with Judge Meek and Y.
L. Yancey at their head, are on hand, ready
for anything to turn up. 1t is rumored
that the New York delegation are waver-
ing, and that Douglas is threatened with
death in the house of his friends. The
Georgia Seceders say that any man from
their State who goes for Douglas will be
mobbed when he gets home. The last
Gazette despatch says:
Virginia will note vot as a unit. Four
votes 60 ties, it is said, to Douglas; the
rest are immovable against him, and will
secede if the Southern bogus delegates are
admitted. Hunter and Mason have ma
nipulated the delegates at Washington
and obtained promise of seeding in case
of Douglas being nominated.
North Carolina is split up. H. W.
Owings from the Second District of Maine,
who was instructed for Douglas, refuses to
obey orders.
Maine will vote for Douglas to 2
against-being one gain for Douglas
New Hampshire is shaky, though the
Douglas men think they can hold them in.
Connecticut exhibits gain of enc and
a half claimed for Douglas.
The Douglas gain of four and half in
Pennsylvania dwindles down to one.
The Commercials Sunday night dis
patch has the following:
1 have good authority for stating that
there was caucus held at Mr.. Douglas
house in Washington on Friday night,
over which the Squatter Sovereignty Chief
presided.
A full programme was perfected, the first
point of which was the rejection of the
secessionist delegation. Douglas agreed
to send no dispatches here, which means
war to the bitter end. 1t was determined
further that Douglas must be the candi-
date that it was better even to 90 be-
fore the people of the country and be de-
feated, than to yield here. If necessary
it was determined that Douglas should be
nominated by simple declaratory resolu-
ton, thus; aResolve, that Stephen A.
Douglas is the nominee of this Conven-
ton" This course of proceeding merely
requires majority of votes.
Additional resolutions are proposed by
Virginia to the platform, as substitute
for the Tennessee resolution which was
dropped. The object of this move Is to
furnish an excuse for Virginia, Tennessee,
Kentucky and other States to remain in
the Convention after the explosion. Some
of the Douglas men are taking the bait.
The amount of it is as follows:
First resolution pledges obedience to all
decisions of the Supreme Court; the sec
ond provides that should any territory re-
fuse obedience to the Supreme Court de-
cisions, it then becomes the duty of Con-
gress TO repeal all acts organizing -territo-
rial governments. These points are shrewd-
ly borrowed from Mr.. Douglas Springfield
speech in 1858, regarding the disposal of
the Mormon question. The opinion is
freely expressed that New York will sup
port this, which evades the "rugged issue"
of the slave code. It. however, would be
more fatal to the Northern Democracy
than even jeff. Davis's resolutions.
Douglas sustains some losses in the New
England delegation. 1t is said that New
Hampshire proposes to leave the Little
Giant. The New Hampshire delegation is
in the interest of Frank Pierce.
There is no Douglas gain in Pennsylva-
mia. His friends claim gain in North
Carolina. He will probably have three
electoral votes from Kentucky. His friends
expect Virginia at the critical moment to
turn in and nominate him. The Virginia
politicians are almost as slippery as the
New Workers.
The South might whip Douglas were it
not for her imparcticable ultraism and too
many generals.
Douglas will receive nomination here
unless some treachery or weakness not
now perceived is developed. But the feud
is irreconcilable, and disruption of the
party and the nomination of two candidates
is unavoidable.