Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-13
THE DEMOCRATS AT CHARLESTON.

THE DEMOCRATS AT CHARLESTON
The democratic national convention whic'
will meet in Charleston, on the 2Sd day of thi
month. will have in it more doubt than hope
more anxiety than confidence, and more ferc
antagonists than delightful harmonies.
meets under circumstances very different iron
those which attended the democratic nations
convention OF 1852. Then, great many un
sophisticated people had been led to believ
that joyful EZRA of good feeling" was al
hand The Fillmore administration was tn
scapegoat for most of the political sins thai
had excited indignation, and popular teelin
and expectation turned to the revived, an
once more vigorous, democratic party III
nomination of Franklin Pierce did not mov1
the country to send up shout of exulta
ton; but great many free-soil democrats
believed honestly that the party would
now take its stand on the old democratic
doctrine of state rights, and exclude the slave
ry question from national politics. Hence the
New York Evening Post helped elect an ad
minstration of which jefferson Davis and
the most fanatical slavery extremists becam,,
the controlling forces.
Never again will that party engage in its
favor so much honest confidence and hope
Faith in it is no longer possible; and it is sur
prising now that anybody but the Shareholders
had faith in it eight years ago. fit is in trou-
Bile now If it is broken down in all the free
states, end in serious confusion everywhere,
there is in all this nothing but the Legitimate
fruits of its "Kansas work." its bred Scott
conspiracy, and its innumerable vllainies, per
petrated in behalf of slavery propagandism.
1t is something to marvel at, still, that
the democrats could have the audacity to I'M
dertake a repeal of the Missouri compromise,
Immediately after the country had listened to
the inaugural address of President Pierce.
We are not wrong in feeling that those
who did this would not be likely to scruple at
anything; and because this feeling is preva-
lent in the country, the party does not find
itself followed to Charleston by such assur-
ances of popular support as are necessary to
guarantee success. The Pierce administra"
ton brought into power the most fanatical
of the slavery extremists, and they have
brought the party to its present condition.
The list of candidates for nomination
o Charleston has been very large. Some forty
or fifty aspirants for this honor have been
heard of but, name after name has heen uui-
city dropped from the catalogue, or reluctantly
withdrawn, until only four or five remain.
Douglas and Hunter are now the two most
prominent candidates, with two or three others
in the background, either of whom may be-
come the '4avorite of fortune" if the heat in
the convention does not cause an explosion
which shall reduce the old party machine to a
hopeless wreck. If the slavery extremists
would now stand by the principles to which
they consented during the Pierce administra
ton, to justify their repeal of the Missom
compromise, Mr.. Douglas would be nominate
on the first ballot. But they have gone on
lower deeps, and will cruelty Douglas, becaus
he cannot at present follow them with alacr
ty,-because he complains that they go to,
fast,-and because they are accustomed to
have their own way without question. 1t
does not now seem possible for Mr.. Doug.
las to get the nomination. The work
against him has been done too earnest
~ anu thoroughly 10 ieaFe MIN Inucn
chance, and all reports from Washing
ton say, he is entirely out of the question.
He is prescribed not because he was ever
known to utter an anti-savery sentiment, nor
because he has not done everything in his
power to serve the slave interest, but because
he has aspired to assist the southern master
in the business of ruling.
1t is high time the democratic party wa
broken to pieces, 1t should be made to folio
the old wing party. The well being of tt 4
dountry requires it. 1t is nothing but blr |
agency of the slave power, and, while it
lists, it will be impossible for anything else
the slavery question to be heard of in our
tional politics. Charleston is a fl place for Il
death scene of this old troubler, and it is to |
hoped devoutly, that this will be the last of il
national conventions