The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1860-06-28
The Rival Democracies.

1ut hltdl OCuAUCAcSAOc'
The National Democratic Convention
has at length split its party into two II.
val and intensely hostile factions, and
has nominated two antagonist tickets, as
follows:
l. For President
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, of Illinois.
For Vice President,
BENZ. FITZPATRICK, of Alabama.
2. For President
J. C. BRECKENRIDGE. of Kentucky.
For Vice President,
Gen. JOSEPH LANE, of Oregon
is noteworthy that all these candi
dates are taken from the Sepate-oham-
ber; Mr.. Breckenridge presiding over the
Senate as Vice President, while the other
three are Senators. Mr.. Fitzpatrick
takes us BY surprise, as we have counted
him one of the Senatorial majority who
have waged so fierce war on Douglas
for the last year or two. He sustained
the Lecompton policy throughout, voting
for the Lccompton bill and against Doug
las at every stage of the controversy; and
wa have understood that he concurred in
the policy of ejecting MIR. Douglas from
the Charm an.hip of the Committee on
Territories. His vote. if we mistake not,
stands recorded in the affirmative on the
Senatorial Caucus resolutions, connected
expressly to put MIR. Douglas and bis fol-
lowers out Of the Democratic party. to
which the Senate has devoted good part
of the session, to the neglect of it's proper
and pressing duties. All things consid-
cred, Mr.. Fitzpatrick's position seems to
us an awkward one, badly requiring elu-
cidaton. He is. like Douglas, a man OF
ability, was formerly Governor of his
State, and has. politics apart, maintained
f respectable position in the Senate.
The boilers ticket is far weaker in tai
ent and character. bnt has prestige OF
, personal good luck Mr.. Breckinridge il
: vet comparatively young-not quite forty
wears of age, (tbough be will be hun
dred before be is elected President) lie
is a grandson of John BreckinEidge, who
s was U S. Senator from Kentucky il
, 1901, and died Attorney General under
! Jefferson in 1906. The son volunteered
for the Mexican War, too late to see any
service, but early enough to gain the rank
i, i, and title of Major. 10 1851, he was e.
lected to Congress, and 1853 reelected
in a District which had previously beer
> opposite (Wbig) politics; but his relation
ship to Wings in it was very extensive
: while the age of Mr.. Clay, and the Ger
tsiuty that be would never be President
had disposed many to regard change
with indifference if not with positive favor
,, "Gen. Combs" said BreckiDridge tc
Leslie, while ago, 81 consider that yo'
have done more for your party and receiv
. ed less return for it than any man living.
Just the opposite of your case,' respon
\ ded the General; II judge that you hav'
! I done less for yo1r party, and got NOR
for it, than any other live maD-'-An'
b they were both pretty nearly right
q Mr. Breokinridge delivered in the Hous
very good eulogy on Mr. Clay, and ha
probably made some good stump speech
es, but they do not bear printing. III
made one in 81 or So Oh Kansas and th,
=. Lecomrton scheme, which was not onl,
bad but poor. and another on 'Southern
Rights in frankie last Winter which
! was distinguished By every trait of th'
worst illusions of the Fire Eaters abilit!
n and eloquence. Unless We sadly mis-
Judge, be is destined to be badly beatel
4 in his own State.
As to Gen. Lane, currently known a
"Joe Lane" he is just the poorest sticl
; ever set up for SO exalted station. h
is son Of Gen. Amos Lane, who wa
one of the inventors of the jackson part,
in Indiana, ran for Congress and was bea
e ten sundry times. but finally ran in oil
the top of the jackson wave in 81, ant
vas again elected in "a, when he subSi
/, ded. We seem TO remember that the sol
made his way into the Legislature of In
diana some fifteen or twenty years ago
. and know that be volunteered iD the Mex
lean War, wherein he was made Colon
ell, which title has expanded, under care
full nursing, into that Of General. w
! have seen him called "the Marion Of to-
IdeXtcau w at, out CduHOl IecAtI III OK
a plot hicb would seem to justify that ii
tie. He emisra:ed or was sent soon af
ter to Oregon, whence he returned in 81
as Delegate, having been chosen in JUNE
9 of that year. He was re elected in '53
again in SIS, and again in 81, when h,
received 5,665 votes to 3,47l for Lawson
; Republican. Having run the Democrat
10 machine for several years, he now, oil
{ the adoption of State Constitution, wa
sent (or sent himself to the United States
Seuate, wherein he has distinguished bin
self by the most unbouuded servility tc
the extreme Pro Slavery faction. HI
has done his little all to prescribe Doug
las and drive him out of the Democratic
party, for which he is about to be rewar
ded by one of the most humiliating de-
feats ever administered to an unprinci
pied, small ll-minded deuagogue. lie
tclesraphed the Oregon delegation tc
; bolt at Charleston when the Slave. Code
platform was voted down, and has beer
most abiect tool of the Fire Eaters