Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-08-11


nsurpation-dvided, dismembered and
broke up the Convention, as it should have
done, and as every sensible mind saw it /
would do, and / commend with my whole .
heart and spirit, and approve the conduct .
of the President, General Cushing, who ,
refused longer to preside over a tyrannous
cabal and of the delegations who, under
the same President, reorganizcd and placed
in nomination Mcssrs. Brcckinridgs and
Lane. The remaining fraction, made up
chiefly of delegates from republican States,
whose delegations we're the authors of the
great wrong, deprived of their head and
without democratic body, proceeded to
nominate Mr.. Douglas and Fitzpatrick, as
we were informed, amidst tremendous en-.
thusiasm-Fermont and other New En-.
gland States, and the whole Northwest,
were pledged to Mr.. Douglas (subject of
course to a slight incumbrance held by
one Abraham Lincoln) with dcafenDg ap-
plausc. Some fatboatmcn descending the
Mississippi, in rather Jolly mood, passed
house on the shore where they were fd.
ding and dancing on the piazza-the boat
fell into an eddy and once in each half
hour passed the house again, and the
boatmen swore they were fddlng and
dancing in every house for a hundred
miles on the shore of the river-wLile they
had bc.u revolving in an eddy and had
seen but cue. The Douglas strength is
estimated in the same way.
CAUSES OF DIsRUpTIoN-TnE AUTHORS
OF II.
Waving all questions of the merits or
dement's Of Mr. Douglas AZ candidate,
his prctcnsions were pressed upon the Con-
vention, sometimes under the pretence OF a
platform upon which he could stand with
convcnitnce, sometimes in the admission
aud rejection Of delegates by the process,
of machinery aud management, and at
other times in the direct presentation of
his name, beyond all precedence or bounds
Of courtesy or reason, in Il manner and in
a spirit and with feeling which spoke
defiance to nearly one half Of the States of
the contrdoracy, when it was we'll known
thy would not acqaiesce in hi, Aomina,
ton, that they would not support him if
nominated, and that he could not be clcc
ted without their votes; pressed, too, in a
tone and temper, and with dogged and
obstinate pre- istencc which was well cal
cuated, il it was not intended, to break up
the Convention or force it into obedience
to the behests Of Il combination. (Chcers. }
The authors Of this outrage, whom VIC
should hold accountable, and who are
justly and directly chargeable with it
wee the ruling majority Of the New lorl
delegation. They held tn. balance o
power, and madly aud sclfshly and cor
ruptly used it for the disruption Of til,
democratic party in endeavoring to force
it up to a fixed point to sub,crye their in
famous schemes. They were there charg
cd with high responsibilities by patriotic
and contidin5 constituency in II crisis 0
unusual interest in the history of the part.
and h. ountry-thoy in an evil moment
held in their leproua hands the destini.S 0
noble party and Of this country--thc.
pro.rsscd to be governed by honovabl,
considerations and to desire the unity, anC
harmony, and success Of the democracy
(Cheers.) They proclaimed, PERSONAL.
and through their accredited organs, tha
in their view the Southern States were Ell
titled 10 name candidate, and dcclaret
that i, would be their first policy to sccon'
such suggestions as were made in tina
quarter, and support such candidate a
should be named by, or be the most ac
ceptable to the South and with such pre-
, tensions and false pretences OH their lips
they went to Charleston, But from tn
moment they entered the Convention a
, Charleston, until it was finally broken u
. by their base conduct which secured theI
the designation of political gamblers upo
the floor Of the Convention, their every az
was to oppose the wishes and resist eacl
t any, and every candidate who would b
| acceptable to the Southern States, au
: their every effort in season and out of sei
son, by night and by day, was to fore
} upon the Southern States caudidat
= whose creed they repudiated and condemn
c ed candidate they had declared, in tt
e most solemn form and with repeated a.
. seyeratious, they could not and would NJ
o support; a candidate who was at open WI
!, with the democratic administration, wi
n had but a single supporter in the demC
y cratic Senate, and whose special adhereu