Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-21

nus, which was the cause of Conner's melan
choly end. The proprietor, with some dis.
play of common caution for the nonce, for
bade the ascension for that day, the weather
being as it was on the former occasion, gusty
and uncertain. So Miss Rosella is postponed
for one week. and the lovers of the extrava-
giant and fool-hardy will have to content
themselves by seeing Monsieur deLave walk
taut rope over Patterson falls, with coffee
sack appended to each footl
Grand Democratic Ratification Meeting
in San Francisco.
We condense the following from the report
in the Call of the grand mass meeting of the
Democracy, held Wednesday night, in front
OF Montgomery Block, in San Francisco:
The entire space from Washington to Mer-
chant street was flled-a crowd certainly
numbering at least 1000 persons TThe Her
aid estimates the number of persons present
at 6,000-ED. Dem VIM NJ. Lent presided.
assisted by thirty-eight Vice Presidents.
Mr. Lent explained the objects of the meet
ing in few brief remarks, in which he
styled Douglas the invincible Champion of
Popular Sovereignty and the leader of the
Democratic party. We had assembled as
well to rebuke treason from within as Black
Republican from without The open hostili-
| ty of the seceders had removed q weight
! from our shoulders which would enable us
the lighter and more easily to marcn on to
victory He concluded by auguring for
Douglas and johnson a majority of 10000
votes in this State
The first speaker after the Chairman was
! Edmund Randolph, Esq, who, as Chairman
of the Committee on Resolutions, in few
terse and eloquent remarks introduced the
resolutions coried below. Mr.. r. looked
upon the nominee as the champion of lib
eral conservatism-the exponent of progress,
and true to the Constitution, true to the peo-
pie, and true to his own honor.
Resolved, That we most heartily endorse
the nominations made by the National Dem
ocratic Convention at Baltimore, of Stephen
A. Douglas and Hershel V. johnson, for
President and Vice President of the United
States.
Resolved, That the nomination of John c.
Breckinridge and Joseph Lane, by faction,
at Baltimore, is, in our Judgment, a secession
movement, aimed directly for the destruction
Of the Democratic party-the only organiza-
Resolued, That we endorse the platform
adopted by the regular Democratic Conven-
ton at Charleston and Baltimore, in part and
in whole
ResolOed, That we hold the doctrines of
non-intervention and popular sovereignty in
the Territories of the United States, as main
tanned by Stephen A. Douglas, to be the
true doctrines of the Democracy, and that on
their maintenance depends the welfare Of
the Federal Union.
ResoIUed, That we will maintain the doe
trines of non intervention and popular SOW
ereignty, against the Abolitionists of the
North, the Secessionists of the South, and
the whole army of official dependents who
have arrayed themselves under the banner
of secession.
Gen. d. d. Cotton then, on behalf of the
minority of the committee, reported the fol-
lowing resolution, which was clamurously
applauded and adopted without opposition
Resolved, That the Delegates sent to rep
resent this State in the National Democratic
Convention by absenting themselves from
that body, thereby disfranchising California
in the great National Council of the Demo-
cratic party, and by assuming the authority
| to represent her in a sectional irregular, self
constituted, disunion organization, have out
ragged the rights of the people in manner
unequalled only by the course of the present
Administration in indorsing and supporting
the nominees of sectional, antiDemocratic
and disunion party; and that both have
| thereby forfeited the respect and lost the con-
6dence of the Democracy of California
Mr.. Cotton was followed by the Hon.
Humphrey Griffith, Mr.. G. denounced the
action of the delegates from California in the
National Convention. The speaker then
contrasted Douglas and Lincoln and prophe-
SLED that the success which attended the
contest between those men in '5S would be
but the forerunner of success TO the same
chief in the contest of 1860. Mr.. G.'s re-
marks were loudly applauded and evidently
commanded the acquiescence of the meet
ing.
Gen. Jas. A. McDougal was then called
for, and introduced to the meeting, He con-
graduated the Democracy of the Union that
the ablest man of the country the champion
of Non tervention, had been selected as
their standard bearer. The National Demo-
Gratis had as little to fear from the Secession
lists of the South as they had from the Abo'
, litonists of the North. Both were working
for the same end-disunion. William L.
Yancey, of Alabama. and Wendell Phillips
of Massachusetts, were equally traitors. The
former led the secessionists at Charleston and
at Baltimore aud under his lead the ticket
which is now calculated to distract and de-
feat the Democratic party, was nominated
Why should California assist Yancey in his
treasoa by voting for the ticket through
which he is attempting to accomplish his vile
object? John Brown and Wendell Phillips
to be sure were traitors; but neither John
Brown or Wendell Phillips were so despica
BILE in their treason as Yancey, the man who
led the seceders [The General here read q
letter from Yancey TO friend, in which he
sets forth plan for destroying the Union by
procuring power in the Democratic party
corrupting the minds of the Statesmen of the
country, and tampering with Legislatures
then to withdraw from the party, leave it O
fragment easily to be defeated by the party
obnoxious to the South, and then TO set up the
standard of disunion. 1t is to carry out the
reasonable designs of men like Yancey, that
the people will be asked to vote for the tick
ct of the seceders and against that of Tho
National Democracy. And who are the
leading men that Yaneey has used to carry
out his plot? J. G. Breckenridge is one
What do we find in the history of this gen
tleman to entite him to the high honor o
the Presidency of this Union / look ovei
his history and | find that he has been thrice
electected to Congress; once elected Vic'
President, and once elected to the United
States Senate. But look in win to fine
that he has ever during all that time intro
dueed any great national measure; that ht
has ever taken leading part in any grea
national movement; that he has shown him