Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-29
Retribution.

"o'Aoo AoS d. AoSt OVertaK en- the
criminal. No more striking instance of re.
fr'butlv7 trslice has ever been witnessed in
The political world than the signal over
throw Of the Prince of Demagoguss, Doug.
las, at Charleston and Baltimore. The last
drop necessary to ill to the brim his bitter
cup OF humiliation was poured in on Satur-
Gay last BY the Convention from the Demo.
cratic States. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS,
the FIRST prominent politician in the land on
whose skirts the crimson stain of lives
slaughtered in civil war has rested-Stephen
a. Douglas, the VIOLATOR OF COM
PROMISES = Stephen A. Douglas, the
ambitious Lucifer Of the nation, who sought
to hurl Freedom from her white throne in
the hearts of the American people, to
crafty bis boundless lust for power -
Stephen A. Douglas, who sought to sell the
free soil Of the Territories to Slavery, as
bid fer the Presidency = Stephen A. Dou
glss, the chief Snowman of that most
unmitiga ed humbug, Squatter Sovereignty
Stephen A. Douglas, who sold his honor,
sold his party, sold his Northern country
men, and sought TO sefl MS wno1e country
fn- the furtherance of his own selfish
ambition, and who succeeded in bewilderinp
the minds of the people for few years, the
Arch Traitor of the nineteenth century to
Liberty, on the morning of this 25th dav of
June, in the year Of our Lord 1860, sits
bankrupt IN fortune, bankrupt in health.
bankrupt in political capital, bankrupt in
honor, grasping in his hand the empty
shadow OF the glittering prize for which he
sold all men or angels consider valuable, the
object itself gliding from his grasp Just as
he seemed to have secured it another
Actaop, his own hounds have devoured him.
The last drop in the poisoned chalice which
ne has beer brewing for others for six wears
has been forced down his own throat BY his
accompiices in the great crime of '54. There
he sits in Washington to-day and looks
upon every hope for the future lying dead at
his feet. He las killed himself and killed
ks Iarty forever. No public man in this
country was ever branded with disgrace by
bis own party in 50 signal manner.
Not u single Democratic State remained
in the Convention which nominated him.
KENTUCKY, which had remain ed behind
the Others, withdrew on Saturday morning.
with MASSACHUSETTS, and MISSOURI.
ard CALEB GUSHING, the PRESIDENT
of the Convention. We publish the seeding
States: Virginia, "a out of 80, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, 10 out
of19, Tennessee, 10 out of "a, MARYLAND.
California, Oregon, Missouri, Arkansas, Del
aware, Massachusetts, and Texas-EroHrrrs
STATES. Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia
had irregular delegations, the regular ones
having entirely seeded. Thus Douglas
nomination was effected by fifteen States =
Not Democratic State remained in the Con.
ven ton.
The seeeders that very day joined with the
Southern Convention in the Maryland Inst.
tute, and comprising some twenty two States.
nominated JOHN c. BBEcKINRIDaE for Presi.
dent and JOSEPH LANE, of Oregon. as Vice
President, CALEB CUSHING himself presiding
j This will make change in our table nee
essary. When we predicted that the seced.
p ers would nominate, we did not anticipate
that they would take eighteen States
from the Douglas Convention, and steal their
President into the bargain. As it stands
now, if Douglas remains In the field. we nut
{ the sollowing table on record to bet by: