New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-12
THE WAY THEY DO EFT.

The Fire-Eaters procured the holding of the
Democratic National Convention of 1860 at
Charleston, S. c., in order to pull the party
further Southwark in their candidates and plat
form. That Convention met accordingly, and
offered them the Cincinnati Platform with the
bred Scott decision annexed which was as eff
fectual reputation of Squatter Sovereignty as
could be desired. bred Scottish and Territorial
Popular Sovereignty are Us Incompatible as
fire and gunpowder But the "Chivalry" were
not content to have the Oyster-they must have
the last shell asO-and, failing to secure it, they
bolted This bolt threw the Convention into the
hands of the Douglasites and nominated their
chief There was no intent TO nominate Douglas
on the part of the majority; but the "Chivalry"
acted so as to preclude any other result. And
Douglas being nominated, they put up boiling
ticket and deliberately broke down their party.
We do not know that Mr.. Lincoln might not
have beaten the united, harmonious Democra-
CIV: we do know that it was much easier and
safer TO encounter it divided. And it is
notorious that the Fire-Eaters deliberately pre-
ferred the election of Lincoln to that of
Douglas, and have conducted the canvass with
that yiew They knew from the start that their
course at Charleston, Baltimore, and since, rem
dered Lncons election inevitable; and as they
are by no means fools, they must have designed
what they 50 determinedy accomplished
Here, then, is the question now submitted to
conservative citizens, North and South: The
Fire-Eaters having disore0nzed and divided the
Democratic party so as to elect Mr.. Lincoln
shall they now be permitted to break up the
Union because the end they worked for has
been attained Just consider the following
beasty exhibition of their spirit, in the presence
and on the person of lady who is esteemed and
admired by all who know her:
"SryAToR DOUGLASS RECEPTION AL,BAsaTheS Southern
Confederay tells the following sory gentleman and
Der the Breckenridge party informs that he present
when Judge Douglas arrived in Montgomery from Columbus
the night OF the h Of November This gentleman Whose
hiss been cooboated by half dozen eye Witnesses
ths when Judge Douglas sehted from the carriage to ascend
the steps Of Exchange Hotel Montgomery that there
three eggs thrown The FIRST egg struck Colonel Seblos
editor of The Coderae the second egg struck Colonel FL
more and the third struck the nat Of Judge Douglas bursed
discharged its contents Ia The face Of hs rife who stood inn
medely his left These the facts detailed to by
several gentlemen who witnessed the disgusting affair."
Are the men whose hands perpetrate, or
| whose harangues instigate, so dastardly an out
rage this, likely to be soon intrusted with the
founding of their darling Southern Military and
African Slave Trading Republic?
The naked truth is, that the Fire-Eaters have
for thirty years been plotting aud working a dis
| solution of the Union. Ever since it became
evident that Mr.. Calhoun could not succeed Gen.
Jackson, these intrgues have been prosecuted.
! In 1888, they boosted as loudly of Southern CO.
| operation with South Carolina in defense of her
nullifying course, as they now do. Then those
| in the plot were as fierce for DisunOn as they
| have ever since been; but they did not break
nor bend Old Hickory. He knew them; and
| they knew hm-sO there was no blood shed.
| They tried to make the Admission of California
in 1850 ground of DisuniOn, but the People of
their own States voted them down. Mississippi,
Georgia, Alabama all declared against them:
and South Carolina did not see fit to ego it
"alone." They tried to get Texas into their
clutches last year; but Sam Houston thrashed
them into quiet. We shall be sorely disappointed
if he gives them aid or comfort now.
Douglas could not have been nominated had
not the Fire-Eaters bOted from the Convention.
Lincoln would probably not have been elected
without their indirect aid. With it, he is elect.
ed; but the next Senate certainly, the House
very probably, and the Supreme Court unques-
tiOnably, are anti-Republican. AT the worst, the
friends of Slavery will control two of the four
great repositories of Federal power; more prob
ably, three of the four In this dilemma in step
our good friends the Fre-Esters, and purpose to
| hand over to US both Houses of Congress as they
have already done with respect to the Executive.
| And with both Houses of Congress we may re-
model the Supreme Court. With Congress
voluntarily purged Of its Toombses, Chesnuts,
&C.. there will be a rational probability of some
bencfcent action. The Pennsylvania Justice was
right who decided that as with God all things are
possible, il was not certain that had not
bitten bis own nose off; if it had been de-
creed that he should do so, it followed of course
that he had done it. But dexterous as that man
may have been in performing this rather difficult
feat, the Firc-Eaters could give him odds and
beat him at it out of sight