The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-08-22

Is even no" ~ our uoots, can conquer IL
again. [Cheers.] The republican party has
not an element of success. 1t has not the
confidence of the American people. 1t has
appealed TO sectionalism, and passion and
prejudice; and although it is franght, as we
have seer, with elements of evil, there are
other elements of evil at our doors to-day
that threaten us farmore than the republican
party. [Chcers. The DISCUSSES of the re-
publican party are all stripped off; it stands
out to-day before the American people undis-
guised in its purpose, and, therefore, it is rob
bed Of nine tenths of its power to do harm.
But what is it that threatens the integrity of
this Union, the integrity of the Constitution,
the integrity of the equal rights of the mass
es 1t is the division of the great democratic
party; and that is the absorbing question of
the day and of the times, and to which we
must practically address ourselves. The
democratic party is in the field with Breck-
inridge and Lane-[great applause names
that are no strangers to the country, that are
no strangers to the democratic party, no
strangers in the public councils, no strangers
upon the field of battle, no strangers TO serv-
ice in the ranks Of the democracy. They are
names that are written high upon our coun-
try's history in every department of life,
whether as intrepid soldiers when our coun-
try is imperiled and battling upon foreign
soil, in the records Of Congress, aud of their
respective States, and in the service of the
democratic cause wherever the great doctrines
of liberty and equality are preached. They
are well known; they are inscribed on the
| democratic banner, and the democracy are
going to fight this battle of the Constitution
under the name of these great, and worthy
and honored leaders. But the chief impedi-
ment to democratic progress is division, I'M
der the pretence of another nomination called
/ a democratic Eomination--a nomination based
upon the idea of Sherwood Forest:
"For wbyg because the good old rule
SuiIiccth them: the simple plan,
That they should get whohavc the power
/ ana lhey.SnOulu Keep VINO can.
That party is in the field with its candi-
dates. have nought to say of these candi-
dates personally, for these arc questions that
reach lower, rise higher, and spread out in cx-
tent clear beyond personal considerations,
whether worthy or unworthy. They 90 be-
You'd mere man or men, AMI have nothing to
do with them as such. Questions Of organi-
cation. movements of bodies, principles, that
underlc aud form the foundation of all these
matters, are fit subjects for discussion, and
will treat of them and lay persons out of the
question. Nor do dwell upon the techni-
calities of regularity of convention or dele
gates, or this, That, and the other; start
with this bold, broad, and defiant PROPOSE
ton, that the party--thc division opposed to
isis as sectional to-day as the republican
party, aud ten times more mischicvous. APP
plausc.l You need not tell me that it is not
sectional because it has a small support here
and there in the Southern portion of the Con
fcdcracv. II was conceived in sectionalisn,
brought forth in scctionalism, and it has all
the mischicvous elements Of scctionalism
around it and about it, whether YOU view it
up and down, round about or diagonally.
L"Good?'l What was it that disrupted the
Charleston Convention! An effort 10 force
upon a portion of the States candidate
whom they would not accept. What was it
that finally dismcmhered the Baltimore Con-
vcntion; it was precisely the same issue; and
then we fluid both Conventions unequal to the
task of nominating democratic candidate
for the Presidency, in this time of eytraorti-
nary interest and extraordinary peril, because
a nominal majority held the rule Of the Con-
ycniion IN its hands, and was determined TO
force a candidate upon it who was unaccept-
able TO a portion of the States-eycn TO
majority of the States of the Union; | insist
that it is essentially sectional, and it has all
the mischiefs of a sectional candidate, under
whatever name it may be called or pretended.
care nothing neither for its particular plat
form, real or pretended, original or amended.
1t is an organization formed and supported
by portion of the States against another
portion, when numerous considerations, at
this time of all other times, suggested that
no such sectional issue should be pressed
upon the National Convention or the country
admit that a great many Of the elements
enter into this that have entered into other
struggles; | admit that it has in it many of
the elements of ordinary struggles, and that
many who participate in it do not believe it
, is intended for sectional movement but it
has one element in it that, il it has been dis
covered has not been as fully exposed as it
deserved to be, and which is the great and
controlling element in this opposition to the
democratic party. And it is this: laying
aside all other elements, worthy or unworthy,
that enter into this campaign upon the part
: of this organization, it clearly has this--it
has a secret motive power that prcpels on
this terrible train of evils that threatens the