Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-24
Political.

II DC TeCOll6Cteu IllaJ MT. DOuglaS, Ill
response to the friends who serenaded him af-
ter his nomination, acknowledged that the di-
vision of the democratic party would ensure
its destruction. Will the Boston Post please
give the name of the gentleman to whom Mr..
Douglas said, at the Revere House, last week,
that the DIVISION since it had been made, must
be eternal?
The New York World newspaper, establish
ed for the purpose of contributing purifying
element to the depraved journalism of that city,
has devoted itself to a Pecksniffian justifica-
ton of Ex-Governor Hunt, in seeking coali-
ton of the Bell Everett and Douglas forces in
New York. Out upon the scandalous dirt
eaters
Some of the democrats in Connecticut have
arrived at the conclusion that James Madison
Floyd, who is travelling about the country in
the interest of the national democratic conf
mittee, is "a scamp" The New Haven Reg
lister says he is forger, and warns the faithful
to beware of him.
1t is announced that Gen. Cass will address
the state convention of the Michigan democ.
he gives an enthusiastic support. Gen. VIM.
o. Butler, who ran for the vice presidency
with him in 1913, also contemplates taking the
stump in behalf of the same cause.
The Breckenridge ratification meeting last
| Monday week, at Washington, subsidized
some 1900 clerks, attached to the departments,
to march in procession A wag carried among
! them a transparency-a three-sided thing
with the letter b OH each side. On being ask
ed the meaning he replied, "Breck, Bread, and
Butter"
The Houston convention, which was held
in Schenectady on the 18th inst, was com
posed of twenty-five members, but in conse-
quence of some misunderstanding, four of the
number seeded ana organized a separate con-
yention in an adjoining room of the hotel
Mr.. Gerrit Smith has written long letter
to Fred. Douglas, declaring his inability to
vote for any of the presidential candidates in
the field, and announcing his platform as
Temperance, Freedom, and the irrepressible
conflict" The letter is very respondent in its
tone, and anticipates that the only real conflict
| is to be between the shareholders and the abo~
litionists.
Burchard, the revivalist has come out for
Douglas, and is about to get up an awaken
ing on that side of the house.
1t is understood that Lew. d. Campbell is
prepared to support either Bell or Douglas as
soon as he learns which is most likely to defeat
Mr. Lincoln. The republicans of Ohio will be
glad to know that he is determined to support
anybody in opposition to Mr.. Lincoln. His
friendship would be a disaster
The Breckenridge democrats in Vermont
have called state convention at White River
Junction on the 18th of August for the pur-
pose of nominating state officers and presiden-
tial electors. The call is signed by five hun
dred democrats representing every county in
the state.
The Sam Houston convention, held at
Schenectady last week, gave one vote for
| Mr.. Henry j. Gardner Of Massachusetts, as
candidate for vice president. Who is he?
| Boston correspondence of the New York Tribune.
B. F. Hallett called to see Douglas at the
Revere House, and cuddled round him Tor a
while, saying, among other things, that the
party would be re. united by and by. "NEv-
Err p was Mr.. Douglas emphatic reply. "If
you voted against me on principle, being for
intervention, we cannot act together; if you
voted against me out ofpersonal hatred, l know
very well how TO act towards YOU, This was
| pretty nearly the language used. Hallett re-
| tired, impressed, for the first time, with the
meaning of the words "irrepressible contiict."