New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-19

great oJk Jeff item IN the piesent crlai 20 yinalcae
Ire supremacy az tne Cors'ut ard the equality OF
ihe Siaies lts present administration 10y wise aud
fcrEeeing foreign and 0omesc policy, was qsley au
vsucne the graf interest az the country, in spite OF
The efforts 81 Toes without ard foes Uii'n and D.mo
Crscy WIS in the zenith Of It's trnmDs II, to-day,
that great conservative party OF she pe pie and ths
] G. nstiiutioI-the count'y safety end the patriots
! lopeis crippled ard diSded fits power is weakened,
! i's forces scattered, It's ineiges weighed dowu an
there foIotodii 81 that its proud banner may fall
trailing in TIE dust lei it be remembered that it not
TIE fault Of the party 81 rincpes of it's
that il il thus degraded, but That It is because ia an
evil moment its management ft into the hands OF the
/ selfish corrupt, ana veDal who have betrayed the
trusts half gaired by stealth half conhsd them and
leCaUse in aiteu piug use s 30 TO advance per-
nal e ds only they have destroyed it's organization.
divided it into sections and brought them into conflict
with each other, instead of concentrating all its forces
| upon the enemies of the Constitution.
This organization, the Republican party with many
| clements Of personal ceyerness, bodes evil TO the
best interests of true freed IN aud buuanity-t Is
| founded in sectional dis'urbance-its aiment is
prejudice and passiOn-s efforts calculated TO array
| State against State. section against section, mao
sgaiDst mon, brother against broter-'o destroy all
kindly relations aud ghtup the fires OF sectional die
cord and strife, to end in battles Of blood Thou IN
| its managers threw overheard its great founder
and leader Gov Seward, because he had too plainly
declared ts principles hoping thereby to conceal R dAn-
geroUs tendencies its true theories are belched by the
Summers and the Cheevers and reduced TO practice
by is John Browns IL dturbs aud embitters the 500
cia realions the holy ties of religious broth
erboodit breaks the bonds Of common polite faith
it bots ont the great memories of the reyOlutiOnit
destroy commercial Interests and the interehanges of
tra6e-it degrades us as nation before the env)us
InOnarches of EARTH and depryes US OF our nhersnt
power 10 viodicate rights. IL sows broadcast the
terrible SEEDS of domestic strife and passion, that the
people may reap in due season harvest of ashes and
desolatioD
There was never IA moment in the history of the
Democratic party. or time when the masses OF the
alo,lr Tho ncfa NatiO al
with more con6ding eXpectati6n than when 1t was
about 10 assemble at Charleston in April last. There
time hen such confidence was more
wkedly wanonly and shamefnlly betrayed-when
reasonable expecistiors mady blasted Is ia
the results produced by is action Its proceedings find
no parallel in disgrace and degradation since the En-
pire Of the World was sold at auction for money.
The Democratic party for its steady devotion to the
principles of the Constitution the eatho ty of its creeds
for its grand radical analysis and its Just aud lofty
conservatism, bad the confidence OF the masses
and wruDg unwilling admiration from It's hereditary
opponents and all good looked II in this tbeevil
day of country, for delveTance and safety. Its
Convention assembled at Charleston and organized for
business. holy man anayed IN the robes OF his
sacred Office with raised hands and feryept suppica-
tiop invokes the favor Of the Benefcent Being who
las vouchsafed 20 us az people, so many blessings.
The whisper Of beauty is hushed in the gallerles-he
aged bow their gray hairs ID sympathetic and deep de-
vOjon-levy is humbled in silence and even lurking
fraud is abashed and covers for hiding place. But
the PRAYER is over and band OF cOnsprators take pos
session of the assembage, and, instead of National
Convention great hucks'ering bazaar is erected-a
POLITICAL trade sale is opened-Inanagemen inaugu ates
her 81 NV and repu6ive CONT and the Office OF Chof
Msglsate of this mighty Republic Is put up like the
bazi4 Of public paurer al the lowes' bidder lis pro-
eeeres bear evidence of deli aud lOngcherished
design Of combination and conspiracy to tie up minor
tiles against them and leave those free who were for
them and thus attain by fraud or force particular re-
suit gardess OF popular sentiment or OF consequences
which might follow.
The ruling faction Rad snuIed up the scent Of four
bur dred mill rs of spoil and for them the Adninstra-
lion was exJ eced to rain milk and honey snow pow
dered sugar and nail Moiiats Vegetable Life Pills.
Under nearly two weeks of this application OF the
forcing Diocese the Convention proved unequal To tbs
emergency and paused for brcath-a portion OF the
delegations withdrew aud the residue adjourned 10
Baltim ore for period Of some FIX weeks, for ventia.
ton The public mad reason to hope tnat, separated
from the influences which surrounded them, and no
longer breathing the contagious they engendered but
inhaliDg healthy moral atmosphere, they might re-
tuTn and discharge the duty which they had under
taken But abstinence only edged their appetItes aud
their last state was worse than the first. The same
crilled packed machine majority met again. composed
Of Cel gates from portion OF states ana assumed
III in Judgment upon the rights Of regular delegates
from another porliOn-to punish them for same non
conformity to the majority standard or other deln'
queDcy-n short, TO deny to sovereign Democrac
States the right to return to their seats al Bttlm1re
because they did occupy them for the whole period
of the prorcied sitting at Charlestona gu, sion be-
longing entirely TO the constituency OF those deegaoDs
no business whatsoever. And not only we're these
delegations expelled under such preensions but bogus
del CATIONS made up suit the convenience and neees-
81 y Of the occasion, were put ID Their places
A decision so abbOrrent TO every principle of COM
mon faiI1es-so rel lee with outrage and usurpation
divided dismembered and broke up the Convention, ~
Il should have DONE and every sensible mind siw II
would do, and commend with my whole heart the
sIirt and approve the conduct of the President Gen.
Gushing who refused longer 10 preside over the tyr
apnous catal and Of the delegations wto under the
same PRECEDENT Te-oIganized and placed in nomination
NefsIs. BreCkinioge and Lane,
The remaining faction made mp chiefly of delegates
from Republican States whose delegations were the
authors of the great wrocg, deprived OF their het1
and without DemOcrnic BODY pToceededto nominate
Messrs Dougas and Fitzpatrick, as We were informed,
4md-t TREMENDOUS enthusiasm,- Vermont and other
New. England States aud the whole Northwest, were
ledped 10 Mr. Douglas isuhject of course to sfight
iacamGrdHcc, held by one AbIahlm Litconl, WIN
deatenrg applause Some ht-ooatmen' descending
tie Mississippi in rather jolly mood, passed a house
OH the shore where they were hddDg and daueing on
tie Iaz2a:-tfe boat fell into an eddy, and once IN
each half hour pa,s.d the house again. and The boat
men swore they were tid' ling aud dancing IN every
house for hundred miles the shore OF the river;
while they had been revolving III an eddy, and h!d
seen int one. The Douglas strength is esunated IN
Tie same way.
Waving all questions Of the merits or dement's OF
Mr.. Douglas as a candidate, his pretensions were
pressed uTon the ConventiOH-sometiDes under the
pretense of platform upon which he could stand WIN
CONVEX eDCesOmemes IN the admission and rejection
Of delegates by the process OF machinery ana manage
uept and at other times in the direct presentation OF
LIS name beyond all precedence, bounds of eouL-
tesy or reasoD-in a and in spirit and with
| feeling, which spoke defiance to nearly one,laf OF
the States Of the COnedeIacy whenit was well known
tley would not acquescc in his mountaineering they
would not support him if nominated and that he could
not be elected without their vOtes-pressed too, IN
tone and temper and with logged and obstinate per-
si.tepce. which was well calculated, if it not IN
tended TO break up the Convention, or force INTO
| obedience TO tie behests of a combination.
| The authors Of this outrage, whom we should hold