The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-15

wise and patriotic men who created it. If the
Republicans shall succeed in that object as
they hope to, they will be held in grateful re-
membrance by the busy and teeming millions
OF future ages.
Lam, very truly, yours, H. HAMLIN.
10 Hon. G. Ashmun, President, etc.
LAWRENCE OBJ. BRANCH, leading Dem
ocratic member of Congress from North
carolina, has written letter to bis constit-
uents' In which he takes strong grounds for
Congressional non-intervention. He con-
dennis the Charleston seceders, and is down
on the ultraists generally. The letter is an
excellent one, and will have good effect in
the South.
WE met yesterday, citizen of Mime
sofa, who has been spending several weeks
in south western Tennessee-the heaviest
cotton growing portion of the State--and
has also visited Mississippi. He states that
the masses of the people of Tennessee are
as enthusiastically for DOUGLAS as the peo.
pie of Minnesota, and only the office hold
ers and secessionists oppose him. DOUGLAS
will carry Tennessee over BELL by tre-
mendous majority; and at Baltimore, our
informant states, DOUGLAS will get the votes
of from one half to two thirds of the dele
cation from Tennessee He conversed with
several delegates who are earnest for DoUo-
LAS nomination.
IT is noticeable fact that while innu-
merable meetings are being held in favor of
Mr.. DOUGLAS in all parts of the country,
and while the manifestations of popular favor
in his behalf are made in every conceivable
form, that no other candidate has any such
backing. Since the adjournment of the
Charleston Convention, and since it became
manifest that Mr.. DOUGLAS was the choice
of the party, not public meeting has ex-
pressed choice for GUTHRIE, BRECK1N~
RIDGE, HUNTER, LANE, or DICKINSON, in
any quarter of the Union. These gentle
men may have few personal friends and
admirers, but, if they are candid, they will
admit, what all know to be true, that every
one of them is entirely destitute of popular
support for the Baltimore nomination.
Their names are scarcely mentioned among
the people. 1t is because the friends of
Mr.. DOUGLAS know that he is the choice of
the latter overwhelmingly that they will
not surrender him.
The DOUGLAS meeting at Philadelphia
was tremendous demonstration. The In
quirer a Republican paper, says that at the
meeting, spirit of ardent and obstinate
attachment to the little giant was displayed
on all sides, which would carry him into
the Presidential chair, if exerted all over the
country, on the same SCALE" A resolu>
tioD was adopted, recommending that the
Baltimore Convention " before it proceeds
to ballot for candidates, to adopt a rule
requiring each delegate to pledge him
self to support the nominees as the on ly con-
dition upon which they can be admitted to
participate in the proceedings of the Con-
vention." DANIEL DoUGHERrY Esq :, among
others, made a most eloquent speech. We
quote single paragraph:
am for Mr.. Douglas, not because am wed
ded to his fortunes; will follow the lead OF 10
man. l never had political idol but one, and
he, Heaven save the mark was James Bu-
chanan! never will have another. | am for
Mr.. Douglas, because he is now and always has
been a Democrat. (Applause.) He is one
whose career is the type of our institution.
Unaided by family or friends. with nought but
those jewels which the exploring mind brings
from the caves of knowledge, he bought his
ransom from the twin jailors of the daring
heart-lOw birth and iron fortune" The hum
BILE and unnOticed boy is now the Senator
whose praises fill the worlds ear, and whose
name will start shout that will drown the
thunder. He was a cabinet maker twenty years
ago, and next March he will be a Cabinet.
maker again. (Applause.) He is one who, in
defence of the right, has barred his bosom to
the storms of fanaticism in both sections. He
is one who, in every political struggle, has
tOiled with a giants strength for our cause. He
is one who dared to be true to the solemn
pledges made to the people in 1856. He is one
Senator in the National Senate, who, faithful
to his allegiance to God and his country. would
not surrender his judgment and sacrifice his
soul to carry out the cOwardly policy of Pres.
ident who, in the teeth of truth and Justice
trembling at the threats of trators-violated
his compact with the people, and struck the
blow that levelled our proud party to the dust.
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