The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-10

HON. HENRY MAY.
vIcEPREsIDENTs:
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, Hon. Robert J. Brent,
Lambert Giaings, Col John S. Wright
Thomas NJ. Lanahan, D. Preston Parr,
DR.. Milton N. Taylor, Dr. Henry s. Hunt,
Jervis Spencer, John Carson,
Col. Thomas Lee Col. George P. Thomas,
George Cassard Leander Warren,
Reyerdy johnson, Jr., John W. Wilson,
Robert T. Banks, James Stockdae,
DR.. Wilson r. Carr, DR. George Merryman,
Andrew Sterrett Ridgely, A. Leo Knott
John Creagh Archibald Campbell,
William p Spencer, l.. Z. Ballard,
Col. Richard H Miles, Col. John. NJ Bruce,
William II. Roberts, Robert H. Carr,
Francis A. Gibbons, Lemuel W Gosnell,
Patrick Mclaughlin, Amos F. Musselman,
Robert Renwck, Hugh Clifford,
Laurence P. Byrne, Alfred II. Polett,
William j Stone, S. J. K Handy,
Col. John r Johnston, DIR. Joseph Eschbach,
Philip Sherwood, e. H. H. Cropper
Peter N. Rust, J. T. Kirby,
Henry F. Carey, Dr. T. A. Lynch,
John NJ. Brewer William Z. Griffith
John |. Gross, John Wilson,
James Mullen, ofo.. 7. William Timpson,
Nicholas Robertson, James Boyle,
William II. Ward, John U. burst,
William H. Hooper, William W. Thomas,
Peter Votz, Richard C. Murray,
James Harding, NJ. T. Gosnell,
George J. Gordon, George Cotton,
A. C. N. Matthews, Daniel McCann
Henry Fairbanks, John T. Maddox.
John E Hooper, J. j. Finley,
J. G. Fitzpatrick, John Wills,
Charles H. Myers, Ballard johnson,
Benjamin B. Lancaster, John franklin
Joseph H. Bean, II. E. Huber,
Chris. Hergeshemer, Jr., William Culver,
John Slater, Edward Stabier,
Jacob Fl. Hayward, N. R. Woodward,
Daniel Dwyer, Z. F. Lupton.
William West, Samuel Brown, Jr.,
Charles E. Harrigan, Joseph RUPERT
John o. Conner, Patrick Reilly,
Thomas McCobray, Mortimer Carroll,
W. B. Luptun, George Vandaniker.
Daniel Lepson, William R. Brown,
John 5. Clements, William &. Miller,
T. Joseph Rogers, Thomas Moran,
James McCann, Joseph 7. Pierson,
Thomas Bromley, George Reynold,
John Strible, Frank Hewitt,
George Rhinehardt,
SECRETARIES.
John NJ. Tormey, Robert Lyon Rogers.
Lewis W. Wolfe, James W. McElroy,
lie wis r. Cassard, John A. Renwick
N. c. Robinson S. J. Kennedy Campbell
f. l.. Laroque.
The Hon. HENRY MAY forward and said
Ny fellow citizens-I only speak few words A
wounded voice forbids speech but cannot rbear max
ing few remarks the circumstances which have called
together. We here to ratify the action of our
national organization, to support its platform and its
nominees for tho first officers of the Republic-eminent
citzess worthy of its highest honoDouglas and John
son. We hail their names with cordial and faithful
appreciation, We have met to maintain with devotion
the affirmation of tried and heretofore frequently
victorious platform. platform which has heretofore
given us the control of the Federal Government and
which is alone competent in the future to maintain
mower to preserve our uuitv and under the benigr
auspices of Providence and Democratic party pre-
to country the blessings of its Constitution ant
the Union
We present platform of compromise and of peace
non-intervenon by Congress with slavery in the Terri
tories
Erected by the great patriotic statesmen OF all
ties in 1850 for the sake of the country-ts prosperity
its perpetuity-Clay Webster, Cass, and all the grea
and good in National Congress united in con
sructing it. glorious work There it stands in our
plaformadopted with every sanction of party by
Democratic Congress-ts Convention and its Presidents,
and there it will stand despite the attempts o
Republicans seceders and disunionists and al
combined-a faithful guardian of our blessed Union
minister of peace and prosperity by its NUTS let
be Judged And We here to rafy another principle
asserted platformthat questions of constitutions
Law ought to be expounded by the Supreme Judiciary
thorn her tbpvO nh
to respected by all good citizens and enforced witt
promptness and fidelity by every branch Of government
dispositions of peace and union with spirit o.
obedience 10 the law, as the paramount duty, are here
associated together.
What nobler platform than this Democratic citizen
desire construct
1t is the precisely that our Democratic State Con
vention, with perfect unanimy, lately pledged
to support and 1t is the ark of our political safety Why
conservative successful platform be
broken down on the eve of national election let those
declare their who have sacregously attempted
to throw it down, and most Of ALL those delegate:
and other leaders of our States who lately in
State Convention most prominent in asserting and
ratying it with every circumstance of patriotic fervor
Are we. children, that we play with great
POLITICAL truths as with toys or with bubbles? Are
vital principles upon which rest the hopes ant
happiness of glorious and free Republic, to s'
the sport of schemers, of demagogues or dreamers
the paythngs of seceders disunioniss deserter
Let the indignant spirit of the people, outraged by su cf
trifng answer
down, whether it from the North in Republican
platform, from the South in Seceders platform
e.
Happily not electoral vote the obtain in
slave holding States-and not the other il
the free States. wide impossible gulf divides
country upon those two sectional platforms and will!
do So while intervention by Congress is claimed in
advance of clear judicial recognition of its power to
terfere.
And neither the Seceders Republicans expect any
such votes The scheme of the former is with con
tempt popular sovereignty ignore the voice of the
people in electing their President and manage that af
fair for themselves in the House of Representatives
the Senate. Thus repudating the sovereignty of thu
| nn1n pf fha do pf he
| lberae plan contrived in that hot-bed o
political mischief Senatorial caucus, and which
| in advance audaciously undertook to order the
platform of the party against the expressed will of it
delegates, and failing in that then attempts to rob tn
people of their choice of President bold effort t.
overthrow the suffrage of the people in its highest
stutonal exercise. But must not enlarge.
We met together for another and still higher duty
duty above respect for platforms candidatesa
duty of loyalty great national and patriotic party
| We have met to show our devotion to it, and t
let it be that have not deserted its ranks to
allegiance and to still stronger affection for it
to stand by and support bleeding from the wounds
inf cted by its former frends-those whom it has
ished into political life, and bestowed upon them its re
wards and honors and who have conspired ogethe
to stab its very vitals.
time honored party. Who daes to its exis
by the period of Presidential election, or its pow
by the of its candidates These nsgncar
considerations compared with the long and bright futur
before it, if we prove faithful to obligations Coin
down to the latest time, and carrying its blessings
! our latest prosperity.
Is nothing due from to the lfe-the existence IL
authority of our organization Is there no principle
featy of fidelity of gratitude in us. Do notl
ing great party for what it has done for and fo
| our country? In the utter nsensibty manifesto
to these impressive obligations can our princip;
disasters 1t is wild, reckless insubordnation-a spr
muny and defiance of all the usages of party ths
alarms me the most For the loss Of candidate of
selection brings to be present disappointment bu
the failure of Democratic loyalty-of its disrupng an
| open defiant desertiou of its authority-these sho
tie loss of party, and leave future to console
This my fellow Democrats, is the terrible wrong il
cted by the seceders, and for which, as surely as h
will rise again, they must hereafter meet merte
1 retrhution.