The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-29

turned adeaf ear to this request, but In Il
most high-handed and reckless manner, wit
70 sacrilegious hands tore down the landmark
lie of the party, and trampled upon Democrat
comfy and usages, in order to foist that o.
= man upon the Convention. With any othe
Democrat they could have had harmony an
union, and presented to-day the spectacle I
united and invincible party. We Lut it
the conscience and the judgment ofevery hon
est man. Are they not guilty of setting u
this one man as paramount to the union {
the States? Are they not guilty Of havin
divided the party? Did they not thus tax
s 'the first fatal and irreyocable stride towatd
disunion Of the States?' From this unenvi
able position no ingenuity nor device. MOI
e wholesale and reckless charges against other
. can relieve them. aInexorable logic" stamp
!. the grave crime upon their brows. Repre-
! senting States nearly all of which were hope
: lessly Black Republican, they claimed tina
! they were entitled to dictate both the platform
!. and the candidates, and to this end the system
: of tactics which we had witnessed outside
, the Convention, was, for the first time in oul
/ history, (and we earnestly hope the last,)
steadily and persistently enacted in it. Rules
were made and violated at pleasure. The
decisions of an impartial President were
| duOplcut anu lueu UtGITulcU, W sui J06lF
purposes. The usages of Democratic Con-
ventions were followed, and then shamefully
violated. as it accorded with their designs
Everything was made to bend to the one
great purpose for which they had assembled
the nomination IF Mr. Douglas. 1t cannot
certainly be considered strange that honora.
BILE men, unused to such scenes, should leave
the Convention, and that it was finally virtu-
ally broken up.
THE UNIT RULE.
The Committee on Permanent Organization
report the following rule, known as the unit
rule THAT in any State which has not pro-
vided or directed by its State Convention
how its vote may be given, the Convention
viii recognize the rule Of each delegate to cast
his individual vote" This rule was in viola
ton of the rule of all former Conventions,
which left to the delegation from each State
| the right to determine how the vote should be
cast and it was smuggled into the report of
| Committee and brought before the Convention
in the,following manner Attn first meeting
the committee, when all its members were
present, this rule was brought before the COM
mittee and rejected The committee went on,
discharged their other business, and adjourned
to an informal meeting in the morning to enable
the chairman to make out the report and SUBJ
NIT it to the COMMITTEES for its approval. At
this latter meeting, when some six or eight |
members of the committee opposed to the |
rule were absent, not having received notice |
of called meeting for other business and re-
garding the work as virtually finished, the
rule was again brought forward and adopted.
In this disrespectable manner was this rule
brought before and adopted by the Convention.
By it the votes Of the minority. in the dele
cations of Indiana. Vermont, New York, and
Ohio, amounting to 2711s, or 80 delegates, OPP
posed to Mr.. Douglas were thrown for him
while on the final ballot, &C Baltimore, it gave
him votes in Massachusetts,, 10; Pennsylvan-
"a. 10 New Jersey, 215 Maryland, %
Virginia, 8; North Carolina, 1; Arkansas, l =,
Missouri, AZ; Tennessee, 8 and Kentucky,
1; in all Il, which be would not have re-
,eiyed had the ancient usages and rules of the
ormer Conventions, leaving the majority in
,ach State to determine how the Vote of the
State should be cast, been adhered to. Yet
he ink was hardly dry that recorded the .
assage of the resolution, before the very men
Who clamored for its adoption. sought to vio-
ate il, and actually succeeded in their efforts
In the case of New jersey, where the State
convention recommended the delegates to vote
3 unit, the Douglas delegates overruled the !
ecision Of the President that by the term
recommended the Convention had provided the
node for casting the vote of the State, and al
owed the two or three Douglas delegates to 4
asst their individual votes.
LESION oosvENTIoN. :
The record Of proceedings show this with '
rawal was done in SORROW and not in anger; q
ot for the purposes Of disunion, but tc receive 5
astructions from their constituents. The q
fiends of Mr. Douglas at least should not
omplain- Words however, are inadequate to d
xpress the bitterness Of their animosity.- s
lad not the Democracy of ithe South the i
anne right to state the terms upon which | /
hey would hold fellowship with their sister I
states, as Douglas had to dictate to them the {
'latform Of their Democracy The Southern
ratio creed, and portion of them insisted 1
lpon its recognition by the Convention as the !
condition Of their support They were denied
his, and Withdrew from the Gonyention.-
They at least did nothing more than pursue !,
be course which Mr.. Douglas announced in I
is Dorr letter be would pursue in the event !
{ his platform not being adopted for, if .
e could not stand on q different platform as ,
candidate, It logically followed that his posi-. ,
on was that of antagonism both to platform :
nd candidate.
But, Notwithstanding the withdrawal of fif-
y-one delegates, no nomination was made at /,
'harleston and, after struggle Of ten days, :
n adjournment was had 70 Baltimore, under :
be following resolution:
1Res0lued, That when this Convention adj
burns it adjourn to re-assembIeat Baltimore !,
q Monday, the 18th day Of June next, and !
nat it IS respectfully recommended to the
democratic party Of the several States to =
AXE provision for supplying all vacancies in .
1eir respective delegations TO the Convention ]
rhen it shall re-assemble.o +,
BALa1NoRE CONVENTION. c
The Convention met at Baltimore. Most s
the States responded to the invitation above d
cited, and their delegates presented their v
and asked admission into the con- v
sntion- How were they treated by the t
lends of Mr.. Douglas? b
= BOGUS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. =
Benjamin +. Hallett was regularly appOin- :
delegate from Massachusetts, to the National !.
invention the same Convention appointed :.
: L. Chaffee as his alternate. Owing to sick =
IS, Mr.. Hallett was unable to attend the !,
invention Il Charleston, and. in his absence, .,
+. Chaffee, his alternate, took his place. At q
altimore, however, Mr.. Hallett was present, :,
1t the Convention actually turned him out y ',
tually turned out the regular delegate, and =
we the seat to the alternate y
MISSOURI. I,
The same course was adopted in regard to b:
e Eighth Electoral district of Missouri. Mr.. | Ia
,hnson B. Gardner, the regular delegate, L
Is nncerimoniously ousted out of his seat and c.
r. OFallon, the contingent, voted in
eretof0re, 1t has always been considered that
e alternate acted only in the absence of the re
incipal, but this Convention gravely deter til
med that the true test for admission into of
at Convention consisted Is an affirmative W
Iswer to the question, Are you for the nom Ell
alton Of Stephen A. Douglas? til
LOUISIANA AND ALABAMA.
m, OF
sss-sse.- fro-a ths- f5szss sof EUuIsana, who
re re-appointed to Baltimore by the Con- d
ntion that originally appointed them, and =. =,
2 to exclude the regular delegates from Ala :
ma who were appointed BY . new Conyen- e.
n called BY the Democratic Committee of -
3 State fhe history Of the cases is this =,
Der the secession at Charleston, the Demo- = :.
tic Central Committee Of Louisiana. the &:
b association in that State having the - -
wer to assemble the Democracy m eonyen- Y Y
q, called together the State Convention. =
every county IN the State, and ~ ~
It convention re-appointed the same dele u'
'es to Baltimore. A few irresponsible men =
led another Conventions ut which the demo- r. r.
acy of the State were not represented. In | -.
case Of Alabama, The Democrats Central ~ -,
mmittee called new convention, to be- =,
cted by the Democracy Of the several 20
mites. This Convention met, and sent
X the regular delegates to Baltimore. A ~
mber Of persons heHsger, issued call, =. s.r
blished in only three papers in the State l sm
lressed to the people not the Democracy Of "a q
sbama, for another convention, which met -
appointed aset of delegates, the leader Of Il. III
ON never cast Democratic. vote IN his ~
and whoopenly aEowed that he was going ..a'
Baltimore % vote for Mr. Douglas, in order ~. W
freak mp the Democratic party Yet the =. -.
;alled National Convention voted out the :" =
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