Gazette and sentinel., 1860-07-07
Which is the Democratic Candidate7

two fragments and nominating two candidates.,
on different and antagonistic platforms, it be-
comes a serious question, which is the true
Democratic candidate, on whom the Demo-
cratic party--snd particularly the Democracy
Of the South--should centre, in order to
overthrow the Black Republican party Of the
North.
When we take into consideration the cir.
cumstances attending the disruption Of the
convention, there cannot be a shadow Of
doubt that the ticket headed by JoHN c.
BRECKENRIDGE is the true representative Of the
principles Of the party rs held by the Demo
cratic States of the Union ; that Il affords the
only guarantee for the protection of the equal
constitutional rights Of the States; and that
the action Of the portion of the convention
which placed it in nomination, was based on
the laudablc determination to suffer defeat
rather than submit to an aiuiteraton of the
principles OF the party, for the purpose of el-
evating a rebel 10 Office. Our rights had been
violated by the Back Republican party to
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terpositiOn Of the strong arm Of the Democra.
cy TO uphold them. Those States, both North
and South, which we can hope to carry for the
democratic candidates, agreed, at Charleston
and Baltimore, TO incorporate in the Demo
cratic platform a plain recognition Of the rights
of Southern citizens in the Territories, to the
protection Of their property whenever assaiied
by unfriendly legislation. 1t was on this
sound Democratic platform that the delegates
from the Democratic States, after having been
driven from theconvention by the revolution
airy conduct Of the straw delegates from States
which never cast q Democratic vote, placed IN
nomination the distinguished democrats whose
names appear at the head of our column
The candidates are fit recipients Of honors at
the hands Of such a conventon-true expo
nents OF the principles enunciated in the plat.
form. Neither has ever betrayed the party
that has so often honored them, bnt have
spent their lives in defence of the prime pies
they have accepted as the chart toguide them
in the impending struggle. They are both
sound, conservative, national statesmen, and
5 the charge Of the Douglasites that they are
disunion candidates, is as absurd and unfound.
ed as the thousands of other falsehoods they
have fabricated to advance the political for.
tunes Of their ~favorite. If, therefore, our
contention was Democratic, our pLdtrorm De-
mocratic, and our candidates reliable Demo.
Gratis, what more can the Democracy ask2
On the other hand the trump convention
which nominated STEPHEN A. DoUGLAs, repre-
scented neither the Democratic party nor its
principles. Il was simply the representative
of one man, and he a traitor Of one idea, and
that a heresy. \ numerical majority Of dele.
gates from non Democratic States had deter.
mined to nominate Douglas or break up the
party; Douglas had determined that himself
and Squatter Sovereignty alone be recognized
as Democracy proper and no means We're
deemed too dishOnorable to be adopted in the
accomplishment of their nefarious purposes.
Never before, in the history of the party, did
a candidate attempt to dictate, in advance of
the meeting ofthe convention, what its platform
should be; never before did a candidate per
sist in forcing himself upon the party, in the
face Of so serious an opposition. Martin Van
Buren, was more clearly the choice Of the party
in 1874. than Mr.. Douglas in 1850, and yet
Mr.. FahButen acquiesced in the nomination
Of another man. The one quilted the party
several years afterwards on another pretext,
the other has quilted it now because it would
not nominate him for the Presidency. It is
not d ficult to decide which occupies the most
enviable position. The rule ofthe Democratic
party with rseard 70 seserters is as stern and
iniiexibIe as the law of war. Mr.. Douglas
has left us; let him GOETHE door is closed
against his return.
Between thessssp tickrts--the one Demo.
cratic and the other advocating principles
more dangafoas than Black Republicanism--
there can be no doubt as to which will receive
the support Of the Democracy of all sections
OF the country. or the two candidates for the
Presidency--the one the author Of a doctrine
hat would forever crush the rights of the
South, and the other a distinguished Southern
statesman--there can be no doubt as to which
is the choice Of the people of the South. We
believe we can elect Breckenridge ard Lane.
II not We can at least unite the South, and
purify the party of traitors at home and
abroad. We again call upon the Democrats
of Louisiana to rally to the support of their
candidates. This crisis demands that every