Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-06-09
Popular Sentiment.


The supporters of Mr., Douglas, in Sc
veral places in Massachusetts,, have held
meetings to sustain the Douglas delegates,
but fdled. AT one meeting resolution
censuring Mcssrs. Gushing and Will
liams for going against Douglas was
changed to instructions to abandon Doug
las and support Gushing.
The Newark Evening Journal, makes
the following remarks;
Meetings have been called by the over
Jealous supporters Of Douglas in several
places in Massachusetts since the return OF
the delegates to Charleston, to censure
those of the delegation who went against
the Judge iu the convention, but
the plan has not operated very success
fully. One of these meetings, in South
Boston, failed to censure Col. j. H.
Wright, and another in Lowell refused to
condemn Gen. B. L. Butler; but the
crowning joke was perpetratod at the
meeting held in Newburyport, which was
largely attended by leading Democrats
a resolution was offered instructing Messrs.
Gushing and Williams, by way of ccnsur-
ing their course at Charleston, to vote for
Douglas at Baltimore. a motion to reject
this resolution was voted down, when it
was moved to strike out the name of
Stephen A. Douglas and insert that of
Caleb Cushing, and this motion was car
ried and the resolution as thus amended
adopted by vote of three to one!
The Iowa State journal, heretofore
warmly committed to the fortunes OF SEN
ator Douglas, admits the Jolly of pushing
him longer for the presidency. If Iowa
can be carried only at the expense of twice
the number of electoral votes South, the
Journal says it does not ask for tenn
porary local advantage at so terrible a
cost as the defeat Of the democracy. The
Douglas Journals-por Se-are engaged
not so much in pressing his claims, and
guarding the interests of the party, as in
assailing and wantonly abusing demo
cratic Administration-unw abuse
which we will neither countcnance nor
join.
The New Hampshire Patriot, hereto
fore favorable to Douglas views of squat.
ter-sovereignty, comes out for the Tenncs.
see resolution as upon ono which all dem
ocrats can stand.
The Democrats Of Arkansas sustain
their delegetes, and instruct them to mee
at both Richmond and Baltimore.
The Mississippi Democratic Convention
held on the 29th ult., fully endorse the
action of the delegation to Charleston, and
accredit them to both Richmond and Balti
more.
We learn from the Richmond Enquirer
that the Democratic meetings held il
Northampton, Elizabeth City, Richmond
Buckingham, Hanover, Goochland, Bar
bour and Harrison-on the sea-shorc, in
Central Virginia, and on the borders o.
the Ohio rivcr-all urge the attendance
of the Virginia delegates at both Richmond
and Baltimore, so as to leave no cffor
untried to effect the harmony of the party
upon a platform that will be satisfactory
both to the cotton States as to the from.
tier States and to the whole confederacy
The Democracy of Harrison request theil
delegates to meet with the Southern Del
ogates at Richmond, on the llth day ot
June next, "for the purpose of taking
such action with them as may be deemed
advisable, preparatory to the meeting at
Baltimore on the 18th of June, and tc
advocate reunion of those delegat cs
who assemble at Baltimore, and once NOR
endcavor to give the Democratic party
) candidate and platform upon which al
may ulti to-"