Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-07-06

The Douslas Rasificasion .Aeet.
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7h1vsr AND Brsssmax snlisAssp the Masse.
a. 70 pAo l. Tie Democratic Nominee, and
Inform tksm Of tie ProosedSnas Of the
lharlesess aa6 Bolitnors Conventions.
d Asst is fumored that Judge Thsyer is to be
The Democratic candidate for Congress from
this District, and ss he is said to have taken
recently to delivering most eloquent and
brilliant spet ches, we we're careful to take Q
few notes of his speech, 90 also of Mr..
ut the ratification meeting on
evening. Both. gentlemen may
wish TO preserve copies of their remarkably
brilliant osatorical efforts Of that evening
for future reference, and, for their oonven.
ience. We furnish them free Of charge. As
the Judge took the stand, in obedience to
the call Of the chairman and one or two
voices issuing from the hind corner Of the
table on which the chairman sat, tho eAthusi.
astic assembled Democracy omitted the usual
of cheering They may have
been s'too full'' for utterance.
The Judge commenced with . long
account Of the proceedings at Charles
ton and Baltimore. Az every fact that he
related had be.n published several weeks
since, his taking the trouble to rehsarse it
raised the presumption that the assembled
Democracy" were not able to read. We
are not we'll enough acquainted with them,
individually, to feel justified in contradict
lug the presumption, bat We thought it
uukind, on this festive occasion, to twit
them on their misfortune. The rest of his
speech W Rive In subssenes, % fellows,
using, as near as our hasty notes will admit,
MIR. Thsyer's own language: .
CAUSE OF THE SECESSION.
He said that the South came to the Con.
vention asking for more that the cause Of the
secession was that the internal regulations Of
the Convention did not suit the seceGers
Massachusetts, seeded because Hallett was
rejected. The policy of the Massachusetts,
Democracy was to make the party in that
State as small as possible, and let the other
States elect President, aud then they in
Massachusetts, would have fewer claimants
among whom to divide the offices.
WHAT ARE DOUGLAS STATES, AND HOW He
KNOWS THEM.
Soule bet SIC, 900 on Alabama and SIC, 900
on Louisiana for Douglas. They might there.
fore be counted on with perfect certainty.
Dawson and Cochrane had pledged New Y FORK
and Pennsylvania for Douglas; so that there
was no room to doubt them. One man here
said "hurrahr'l Missouri, Alabama and
Maine were sure for Douglas. The Douglas
men in Maine had held large meeting to
rstify the Democratic nominations, and that
great, grand crowd had declared Stephen A.
Douglas to be their choice. One man -
"Hurrah for Douglas''
sEcEDERs' CONVENTION.
He had the pleasure of being present at the
Seceders' Convention. 1t was not necessary
to tell his audience about that. He had nc
war with the Breckenridge men. The Dem.
ocracy were not strong enough to divide
They had no infant to fight it is the Repub
lican party. The Democracy cannot afford te
lose single man.
| THE POLITICAL DIVISIONS OF sHE DAY.
There are three great parties the Repub
licans, who claim that slavery is barbarous
the Southern Secessionists, who claim thai
slavery is outstanding institution, and
who demand that the whole power of the
Federal Government should be used to protect
slavery; tee Republicans, on the other hand
| ~ 10 oa,,kc hOr1I rrOb ihi
1t in the Territories. The National Democracy
c aim that neither party is right, but that the
people of the Territories should decide the
question of slavery for themselves. The
Judge omitted to state that the Democrats
have refused, to this day, to admit Kansas
because she refused to come in as slave State
! DOUGLAS DOCTRINE BEST FOR SLAVERY.
| This doctrine was really more favorable tt
the shareholders than that of the Seceders
Suppose that Democratic Congress for tn.
South could expect no such action from q
Republican Congress) should pass Law
protecting slavery in the Territories, and the
stakeholder should establish himself there
w;.h his slave property. lie might no sooner
become settled there, with his slaves around
him, than Republican Congress might repeal
| the law protecting slavery, and he would lose
| all his slaves. 1t was safer for the South to
look to the people Of the Territories for pro
lection Of their slave property than 70 s;sek
Republican Congress. Tho South ought,
therefore, to be better satis,sed Nth the Plat.
form Of the regular Convention than that q
tho Seceders, brsause 1T afforded the best
protection to 81 .sery in the 1erritories
DOUGLAS PROVED TO BE DEMOCRAT By THE
| NUMBER OF TINES he HAS BEEN DENOUNCED.
Stephen A. Douglas was good Democrat
He had fought hundred battles for the
Democracy. The treatment of the South to
him was foul ingratitude. He had proclaimed
the same principles on this Territorial question
as Webster, Cass and CIsy. He had been
denounced by an immense meeting in Chicago
for voting for the Fugitive Slave Law, and
had defended himself before an angry crowd,
who at first refused to hear him. The Com
promises of 1850, including the Fugitive Slave
Law, were purely Democratic. The Popular
Sovereignty principle Of these Compromises
was inserted by Mr.. Douglas in the Kansas
AID Nebraska Bill Of 1854. He could have
travelled from Washington 20 Chicago, after
that Bill passed, Ivy the light of his own
burning sfigies. lie stsod forty minutes on
store box in the streets Of Chicago, before
an enraged audience, before he could get a
hearing. The City Council had passed a
resolution of censure upon hirn for his course.
After his speech, they rescinded that
resolution. III, ,-... -. .... -.-ot-
NO PRINCIPLE INVOLVED IN TIE LEcoHpToN con-
TR0vERsY BETWEEN DOUGLAS AND BUCHANAN.
The Lecompton controversy was merely a
question of fact mo: one Of principle. Mr..
Douglas thought that the Lecompton Constr
ton was no. fair exposition Of the wishes
of tho people of Kansas. MIR. Buchanan
thought that It was. That was all the
difference. o.. -'
BRECKENRIDGE AND LANE. s
Mr.. Breckenridge was one Of the ablest
statesmen of the nation, and good Democrat.