Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-05-23
DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, NAY %, 1860.
Tha Issue Prosentad.

The issue is now distinctly made. Tho South
ern Democratic Convention has adjiurned 10 niee
at Rchmlnd on tho second Monday of June, aud
invites all the States vt tho Union TO send dele
gates. In this the Southern seeding delegations
haze acted wisely, Although there eau be uC
doubt that their position will he sustained 10y ~
overwhelming majority of the party in their own
States, and although it Is equally certain that
those Statos would cast their electoral votes ioi
any candidate representing tho principles upon
which tho movement is based, il iS advisable, II
possible, 10 unite tho whole South In resistance
" the attempt Of tho Northern Squatter SOver-
eighty men 81 takO possession OF the Democratic
organization and to suhycrt its forms and its dis.
oiplne 20 their own sectional and heretical pur-
poses,
By the time tho Richmond Convention mcc.s
public opinion in those Southern States whose
delegates failed to participate IN the Constitu.
tluunl State Rights movement, will have declared
itself with sufficient emphasis to admit of no mis-
construction. The true Democratic. sentiment OF
those States will have crystalizcl into compact
and lucid forms. The issue will he distinctly
made between those who, for the sake of party
ttadti0ns, which nre nuw lulsiiied are willing u
divide 10 weaken and destroy tho South, anu
those who arc determined ut all hazards to main
tain the rights of the South, inside Or outside oi
the Union, inside or outside Of national parties.
1t is probable that on the assembling oil the
Convention at Richmond tho Southern delegations
will al! he present But il those from the hor
der slave States should prefer to maintain hol'
low alliance with tho Sguattcr Sovereignty Doug
asites OF the North, their places will DO filled by
other delegations which more truly represent the
Democratic sentiment of their respective States.
Moreover those Democrats OF the Northern
States, and they are not few in number or dell
cient in influence, who are sincere in their de-
yOtion to the Constitutional rights OF tho south
who repudiate and despisc the shallow artlhces
by which sectional ambition designs to cloak
itself beneath the cquivocal phraseolOgy of fraud
ulent platforms, who do not wish to see tho De-
moor tic party abulitionized, will have an oppor
tunity of making their voices heard, apart from
the calnor Of Squatter Sovereignty demngogues,
and the appeals Of ambitious or time serving po'
liticians. We have no doubt, therefore, that on
the assembling Of tho Richmond Convention II
will find itself nationalized-if we must use a
term which has been prostitutcd even to the de-
structiOn of the Democratic organizatlon--no'
only in principles, but by the presence OF dele
cations from almost every State, perhaps from
all the States in the Union.
Ii will then be ample time to make nominal
tion, and we lecl confident that tho choice will
fall upon some one who, rs the accredited rep
resentutive of Democratic State flights principles
will command the votes of Il large majority OF the
Democratic States. We believe that such " can
didate will beat tho nominee OF the Squattcl
Sovereignty Baltimore Convention out OF the field
that he will command more electoral votes thar
the Squatter Sovereignty candidate, and that
should the election go to the House OF Repressn
tatiyes--a contingency now not by any mean
unlikely-hc will have by far the best chance o
election. Clothed in the shining armor OF truti
and Justice he can iearlcSsly encounter the direc
assaults of the Black Republicans, and deIy th'
indirect attacks, the stratugcms and ambuscaue'
Of the Squatter Sovereignty Douslasitcs.-