Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-08-29
a JUICY SPEECH.

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RICH ACCOUNTS OF THE pEaocRATIc CONTENTIOUS
Henry s. Fitch {son Of Senator Fitch made .
juicy speech at Chicago the other day, which the
Pres and Tribune prints. There are some passages
in Increasingly clever For instance he describes
the bogus delegates from the South as follows: g
TIE BOGUS DELEGATES
A score of Southern ex-gentlemen, with refresh.
ing innocence, of ability and very select limit Of
influence who have for years protested distin-
guished dissatisfaction ut the proceedings Of the
Democratic party. They presented pleasing va
rety Of political yagaries united by great nnanimy
of opposition to Democracr. Their leaders were
men whom fortune had once given position in our
ranks, for which nature had an early age quietly dis
qualified them-of long retired regulations, remark
able for the fidelity with which they had sought
success and the felicity with which they had failed
Political exiles ever eager in revolutionary times
to relieve the tedum of their banishment by reas-
sorting their claims to long abolished titles and con-
fiscated estates.
They certainly deserve some credit, however, for
the perseverance with which they have waged an
"irrepressibe conflict with public opinion relative
to thcr own merits. A majority Of these gentlemen
generously released the Democracy from any annoy
ance in the premises by converting at o hotel, and
with mutual interchange of puffery delegating one
another The balance, laboring under the embar-
rasment OF a first acquaintance with party they
were ambitious of representing, modestly sought
some provincial town, where under the protective
obscurity of their own fame and the rural districts
they went through the motions of Democratic
Convention; manifesting considerable mimic talent
considering their experience with the subject mat
ter These gentlemen came TO Baltimore lead by
Mr. Pierre Soulc, gdrcon Talma of their Boards in
the pride and pomp of his thespian tones and bast-
ard heroics; in some instances ashamed, in many
amused az the impudence OF their own pretensions
Their claims, instead of being summarily rejected,
we're referred to Committee OF Credentials.
This also is very good and very true.
THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY REPORTS
majority report was made in their favor, il that
can be called report which is but clumsy con-
cealment of facts. 1t is political literary and par
limentary curiosity. 1t bids fair to become claS
sic from the very completeness of its stupidity 1t
is without the force of an argument or the ingenuity
ola sophistry, and written in the language of Incl
ther Christian, Pagan man." In lucidity and
logicit resembles Bottoms explanation: "Methought
| was, and methought | had. But man is but
patched fool if he will offer to say what methought
/ was" Mr.. Krum's position, as Chairman of that
Committee, is proof conclusive that Democratic
institutions yet free from any aristocracy Of in
tellect That gentleman, like Boswell will have to
thank the feebleness of his understanding for the
perpetuity Of his fame. lie is original for an utter
helplessness even to initiate. The School Section
evidently disposed of at too early period in
omitted in that report, it is an oversight; Krum
could certainly have supplied it.
have yet to see the Douglas paper so disrespect-
full to the English tongue as to publish it, or the
Douglas speaker reckless Of his reputation FOR
sense as to commend it Yet this Duncaid was
adopted by the Rump Convention-for as Schiller
says:
Against stupidity the very gods fight unvctOrous'
and stands to-day the highest official excuse for its
gross and rank violation of Democratic usage. The
Minority Report on the contrary was Aristotlan in
the serenity of its logic unmpeachable in its state
ment Of facts and unanswerable in its conclusions.
1t differs from Mr. Krums report, inasmuch as it is
the produ .ton of educated gentleman, logican,
and writer of power and clearness. 1t is docu-
ment all Democrats can read with pride and all
Douglastes with profit.
1t was the rejection of the Minority Report. that
caused the second secession at Baltimore and the
final division of the Democratic party-a work for
which we have especially to thank the New York
Delegation.
And this picture is delightful
THE NEW YORK DELEGATION.
Those Algernes of the Convention so lamentably
given to consultation and sack-held the balance of
power upon every test vote and controlled the des-
TIMES of our party for veal or woe. We all know
too we'll how they used their high trust. They
were cunning crowd, albeit mum was the word.
der need be excited at their waverings. No motion
of the Convention, but issued q retirement of New
York and every retirement signaed the safety of
the Constitution, and the compromising Of that fra
grant Ierb-mint in the best French importation.
Strong from this weakness, they would have re-
entered the Convention breathing the bamiest spir
it of Cancellation and-cognac. There was nothing
sectional in their policy rotations. Their devotion
to the North and "Monongahela," which they ex-
hbited upon one motion, was upon the second gen.
erousy transferred to the South and "od Jamaica"
No man shall ever fifty tell the prisoned sweets
of the New York Committee Room-how royal
Bourbon" blcd at every bung, and Douglas leaders
in every purse-how each new scheme of knavery
was stamped with approval and a dozen "green
seals, and each broken pledge decorated with hand
some equivocation and sparkling " Gordon Rouge"
how honest Peter Cagger's oily face glowed with
fresh bumpers and increased brides, while heavy
oaths and light corks reighted the till you would
have sworn there were six Rlchmonds IN the held
These all the sweet secrets for future times and
historians and now that they have rested from their
labor, let us be Just to them. They were generous
in every sacrifice of principle involving their neigh
boris rights and firm in their resolve to be moved
by no weakness for the public veal. With The hon.
or of harlot and the arts of gamester they pre-
sent striking example of how men with philoso-
phic scorn for the "phantom reputation" can yet at
tain brilliant eminence Of infamy, backed by no
merit but the "plain devil and assembling looks"
Wherever that Delegation may be scattered, so
ceaseless so tireless were their lbations for their
country's honor. in whatever vale secluded, upon
whatever mount exalted, there will linger around
them forever in unit and en- m0sse the halo of the
Rogue, and the aroma of Brandy Smash.
For the Standard.
FAYETTEVILLE, Aug 26th, 1860.
MR EDITOR: l see in the Standard of yesterday,
an account of a Douglas meeting held in Carthage
Moore county, on the 18th instant. In order that