Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-07-07
The BaltimOre Nomination.,
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For the FIRST time in the history of our
country, the Democratic party is split into
two intensely hostile faction, aud presents
to the country two aDtagonistic Platforms
and Presidential tickets. There have been
local feuds and fractures ere now, such as
the detection from the support of Mr. Van
Buren, under the banner OF Hugh l.. White
in 1856, and the bolt of the New York
Radicals against Gen. Cass in the canvass
of lS4S but nothing like general divi-
sion since the consolidation of the party,
under the leadership Of Gen. jackson, in
1928. Now there are two Democratic
tickets, bearing separate names for both
President aud Nice-President, with strong
probability that each will have its Electo.
raj Ticket aud its earnest and busy support.
ers in every state Of the Union. Add to
this the independent or stump nomination
of Gen. Sam Houston, which seems to
have considerable vitality in several states,
and to be likely to carry at least the state
of Texas, and the Democratic party would
seem to have reached that crisis in its his.
tory which was encountered by the old Re-
publican or Jelfersonian party when it was
torn to pieces by the ambition of its rival
leaders in 1925 and disappeared from the
actual world.
That the antagonist Democratic factions
are to succeed in beating each other in the
impending election, would seem beyond
doubt. When they formed one party, they
were hardly able to maintain a doubtful
and precarious ascendency in two or three
free states divided, hostile, and with the
favor and patronage of the Federal Exc
cutive thrown Into the scale of the weaker
faction, they can of course do nothing but
evince their mutual impotence. The scheme
Of running joint Electoral Tickets, which
has been suggested by few unscrupulous
politicians who have personal or local ends
to subserve, can hardly be seriously consid-
cred. In the first place, it can at best, il
entirely successful but throw the election
into the House, which insures the defeat of
Douglas, and the triumph of the Brecken
ridge faction through the choice of Laue
as VicePresident 10y the senate, provided
he shall be one Of the highest Two candi-
dates-at all events, the defeat of both
Douglas and johnson. Then the Douglas
faction, to give it even q chance of success
in any Northern state must resist and de-
nounce the demand that slavery shall be
upheld and protected in every territory,
even though nine.tenths of the settlers are
adverse to it and how can this be done
if the votes for Douglas are partly to enure
TO the benefit of Breckenridge ? 1t will
not be found possible to bring the masses
into the support of any such arrangement.
For this contest, then, divided Democ-
racy is inevitable, with the certainly that
either faction must prefer the success of the
Republicans to that of its Democratic an.
tagonist. If Lincoln is elected the sup
porters Of Douglas and those of Brecken-
ridge stand on even ground while the tri-
umph Of either faction is the humiliation
of the other. 1t did not need this to in
sure Lincoln's election but this makes,
that consummaton inevitable.
Mr.. Douglas has jealous friends, and is
bimself a desperate worker yet it is to.
day very doubtful that he will obtain a sin.
gle Electoral Vote. The manifest proba.
bility is that Lincoln will carry every free
state except possibly California, and add
Delaware to the number, being thus cho.
sen by a strong electoral majority, and
that Breckenridge will divide the slave
states with Bell, leaving Mr.. Douglas in
the position occupied by Mr.. Fillmore at
the close Of the last election, if not in
that Of Mr. Van Buren, at the close of AS.
If the four tickets are run independently
and squarely, this is the probable result.
And this wonld be a verdict not against
the' map but against his position. The
struggle is an earnest one those engaged
in it are mainly earnest men, who value
party assendency only as means of giving
effect to certain cherished ideas and p1rpo.
ses. If they desire slavery extended, they
will vote for Breckenridge if they desire
it restricted, they will vote for Lincoln
if they desire to sleep through the contest,
their natural course is TO render mild pla
cid couutenance to Bell and Everett. There
is really no room in the field for Mr.. Doug
las-no solid ground under his feet-no
clear vista before him-no goal to be at.
tanned through the triumph. Popular
Sovereignty" modified by the one past and
many future Dred Scott decisions-the
clear right of any man to plant slavery in
a territory, with the dubious, qualified
right Of the great mass to vote it out, legs
late it out, at some indefinite future period
is not creed that a man could well die
for, unless himself its leading champion
aud candidate.
Of Mr. Douglass agency in stirring mp
and letting loose the bitter waters of strife
through the agency Of the Nebraska Bill
no more need now be said. He uudoubted
ly regarded this as giving him strong hold
on the gratitude of the south, aud all but
insuring the AN hail hereafter Is there
not a moral in his present attitude which
the ambitious may well take to heart? H. C
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