Newbern weekly progress., 1860-06-26

THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL. CONVENTION

THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL. CoNvENTION-
There can be no question that the proceedings of
the convention which assemblies in Baltimore to-
day will exert very important and significant eff
feet upon the political issues at present before the
country. tits an adjourned convention, the second
assembling together as a body of men who have
once been divided by irreconciable differences of
opinion. It is a convention adjourned from
Charleston city peculiarly Unidentified with
southern rights and institutions; and although the
adjournment has been made to city in which
popular sentiment is as stauch in support of the
South as in any of her sister cities, yet it be
admitted that the convention having been ORGAN
ally organized at Charleston, that should have
been the place for the resembling of it.
This is not point of difference it is true, but
it was movement from the South towards the
North. and one which was followed by the south
ern delegates who had seceder in their ad dourn-
ment to Richmond All this is conciliatory on
the part of the South exhibiting disposition to
do any proper thing for the ultimate vindication
was held pursuant to adjournment. and again a
conciliatory spirit prevailed. and a further ad-
journment took place. Thus by every movement
the South has made, we find willingness to sub
NIT to anything for the peace and harmony of the
nation, and of the party represented in the case,
short of the actual surrender of what is regarded
as constitutional rights.
With the power and disposition so to act the
Convention would do honor to itself and justice
to the party, by uniting upon some worthey.
unObtrusve, honest and substantial man, who,
in his political career and fidelity to constitution
al principles. will pc acceptable to the South and
command the confidence of the North Such
nomination would tend in an immeasureable
degree to heal the dissensions which now disturb
the Union, and confirm the strength of that party
which may possibly alone eombine the popular
vote necessary for the defeat and brostration Of
northern fanaticism
Unless this is done one of several results will
follow. The democratic party will ! g divided,
and the campaign will be inaugurated with two
sets of democratic candidates, neither of whom
will have majority in the electoral college.
Mcssrs. Lincoln and Hamlin will probably be
elected by such division of the democratic par
ty. Unless in the general division and distrac
ton of public sentiment and party fealty the
somewhat negative, but by no means unreliable,
position of Messrs. Bell and Everett should prove
available conservative rallying point for the
people. Mr.. Bell, upon the slavery issue, is
enough for the defence of the South against fana-
tical aggression, and the vote of Mr.. Crittenden
the other day the Davis resolutions is fairly to
be accredited to Bell and and Everett. So that
with strife and division in the democratic party,
and avowed enemy to the South in the repub
can party, the claims of the Constitutional Union
party may rise above all other considerations and
prove eminent!y attractive to conservative men,
North and South, East and West-B0h Sun.