Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-25

Saturday last was neither more nor less than
riotous and tamultuous assemblage from begin
ming to end-ended, Of course, In the pretended
nomination Of stephen A Douglas for the Presi-
dency, wholly by votes of persons who were
rightfully elected delegates to a Democratic Ma.
tonal Convention, represented constituencies
about as likely to give Democratic electoral vote
as Virginia to give hers to Lincoln; or, on the
other hand, Of persons only as fairly entitled to
seats In such body as those who assumed to rep
rsent Southern States at Chicago, werr, to hold
seats In Republican party National Convention
brief analysis Of the composition Of the
ramP may not prove uninteresting Just now, be-
cause likely to be instructive. Thus, we have to
tharwith the exception Of perhaps ten electoral
votes, there were real delegates from the South
uking part in It's action the bogus Southern del
egates having no constituencies whatever-beine
self-eiected, every mothers son Of them, through
The means Of pretended mass-meetings, as the
basis on which their various claims were built up.
In all, the rump, when making its pretended
nomination, embraced less than two-thirds the
number Of electoral votes In the whole electoral
college, and by substracting from the total mum
ner present the bogus votes from Louisiana, Ark
ansas, Alabama, Massachusetts, and Maine, man.
nsctured Tor the occasion, and also the minorities
OF Northern Republican partly States delegations
constrained to permit their votes to be recorded
for Douglas by the successful perpetration of the
unity-Vote fraud at Charleston, and 1t will be per-
eelVed that he tDouglas) received but beggarly
minority OF votes eally-legally-electede either
70 tne Charleston Convention or to the Charleston
convention as adjourned to Baltimore
ID another point Of view, an ANALYSIS of the
rumP may not prove unlnstructve Thus we
have to say that from the moment President Cush-
ing declined to preside longer over its proceed
ings, those proceedings became simply the acts of
a mobbish mass meeting, without the government
OF any rules other than the momentary will of the
most brutal and n-lunged who took part in
the uproar in front Of the stand. Mr. Todd, who
al once stepped into the position vacated by Pres
ident Cushing. evidently gentleman of righ,
Intentions, proved wholly unequal to the task, II
was plain from the start that the rump entertained
as little respect for him for itself; for though
the authority Of President Cushing had previously
always been obeyed most remarkably, that of
MI It. was as abortive of results other than To
increase the confusion and the rule of brute force
as an attempt on his part to exercise similar
authority over as many drunken Camanc hes would
have been We traced in the tone of the proceed
fngs here described palpable evidence that the
great body Of those participating in them felt, a
the time the full force Of the conviction that thew
were only 'Playing-and smashing up things -
That they were well aware that they could not
nope TO give their nominee a single electoral vote
In November next. The madness that ruled the
hour was evidently the madness Of desperation
that Of scorpions singing themselves to death on
nnding themselves surrounded by fire. Desperate
political gamesters that they were, they realized
then and there that they had staked all upon a
huculent stocking Of the cards, and had lost every
count in the game at that