The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-20

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The following is copy Of circular let
ter, addressed by Hon. MILES TAYLOR, of
L., to Hon. HENRY II. S1BLEY, the Mime
sofa representative on the National Demo-
cratic Committee. Mr.. TAYLOR is the
chairman of the Democratic Resident Com.
mittee at Washington, for the present cam.
paign. The letter of Mr.. TAYLOR is q
prompt official denial Of the absurd charge
that the friends of Judge DOUGLAS contem-
plate any union or coalition, north, south,
east or west, with the BREcK1NRIDGE and
YANcEY faction.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ExECUrIvE)
COMMITTEE Rooms,
Washington June 30, 1860.
SIR-Reports have been busy disseminated,
in the shape of Geographic dispatches, from
Washington, appearing simultaneously in news
pa, Jers published in different parts OF the I'm
ion, to the effect that the friends of Stephen A.
Douglas and Herschel V. johnson, Democratic
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi.
dency, presented for the suffrages of the peo-
sembled at Baltimore, were engaged, in several
of the States, with the friends OF John G.. Brock.
inridge and Joseph Lane, candidates designated
for the same offices by the seceders from the
National Convention, in making arrangements
for the running Of electoral tickets in different
States, to be supported by them jointly in the
approaching presidential election, with the un.
Outstanding 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 prevalence, however. is 80 notorious that
when it is taken in connection with the fact
that it is stated in some quarters that move.
ments looking towards such result are about
to be inaugurated in Missouri and New Jersey,
the subject becomes one of sufficient import
ance, in the opinion of the Committee, to be
made the subject of a special communication
to the known friends of the nominees of the
regular convention of the Democratic party ;
and, accordingly, in obedience to the wishes of
the Committee, 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 Democratic
Convention at Baltimore-no person who de.
sires the election of Stephen A. Douglas to the
Presidency, and of Herschel V. johnson to the
Vice Presidency. has ever expressed a wish for
any such arrangement, or entertained, or even
cOuntenanced, Tor q single moment, any sug-
gestiOn or proposition tending towards 1t.
Nor do the Committee believe that any such ar
rangement can with prOpriety be made at any
time, in any place, or under any circumstances,
with those who have placed Breckenridge and
Lane in nomination, and are now their avowed
supporters in opposition to the regular nomi-
nees of the Democratic party.
The Democratic party, as q 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 seeded from tide Bal
timOre Convention, did SO because they were
unwilling to stand on that ground. They have
again and again repudiated that principle, and
both at Charleston and Baltimore declared that
they would sever their connection with the
majority of the delegates assembled in conven-
ton in accordance with Democratic usage, un-
less they, too, would solemnIy repudiate 1t in
obedience to their demand. When the major
ity of the convention refused to yield to their
dictatiOn, and make their actions conform to
the will of the minority, these gentleman Sc.
coded, formed themselves into minority con.
vention, and nominated candidates who are
the open and pledged enemies OF the principle
of ''nOn-interventlOn" by Congress, as recog-
nized by the majority convention, and as id
vOcated by their candidates. Under these cir
cumstances, it is clear to the Committee that if
the antagonism between the seceders and the
majority of the Democratic Convention was
such that the seceders could no longer take
part in their deliberations, and were cOnstrain.
ed to set up candidates in opposition to those
selected by the majority, that antagonsm still
continues, and is such as must preclude the
possibility of any union between them in the
support of common electoral ticket in any
State, no matter what may be the probable
result of the election in 1t without such union.
The Democratic party, which is now 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, it sustained in
the South, necessarily tends, though it may not
be so designed, to the breaking up of the Ma.
tiOnal Government. In the view of the Com.
mittee there is no room for doubt, in the mind
of any National 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 them.
selves in opposition to the principle of Con-
gressional ''non-intervention." National Dem.
Ocrats should everywhere meet the issue now
rendered them, by nominating and supporting
Electoral tickets in their respective States,
pledged, if elected, to vote for Stephen A.
Douglas for President, and Herschell V. John.
son for Vice President of the United States If
the secederS and their friends choose to sepa.
rate 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.