Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-05-08
The Adjourned Convention.

The Adjourned Convention.
The adjournment of the Charleston
Convention to Baltimore seems to have
made confusion worse COMPOUNDED. Our
wisest politicians are completely in a
fog, 50 to the probable issue OF the de
alterations of that body. The friends OF
Mr.. Douglas are still playing their
favorite game of brsg with character
istic efirontery, aud assure us that the
Constitu ional Union Convention soon
to assemble at Baltimore, will be entire
ly controlled by Douglas men, who have
only to bring forward the name Of the
little Giant, when the rump of the
American party OF SO will take him up
in q whirlwind Of enthusiasm, and join
the eight hundred thousand votes which
Fillmore received in the last campaign,
to the united vote of the Democratic
party. In short, they declare that no
party lines will be drawn in the South
ern States, but that the era Of good
feeling, celebrated 10 the days of Mon
roe, will be revived in every part of the
South, and that the union OF the Dem
cratic party and Flllmore's supporters in
the North, will ensure New York and
the other great States to Mr.. Douglas.
The idea is certainly very fine one, land
brsg is avery good game, but unfortu-
nately it does not always win. There
always happens to be in every party
little knot of incredulous men, who are
disposed to gather facts with caution
to weigh them carefully-and to excr-
else the same judgment in drawing
their conclusions in politics, that they
employ in any ordinary business trans
action. Such men are thorns in the side
Of dealers in political fancy stocks. AS
general thing, they have too much re-
spect for, and confidence in themselves
and their party, to pin their faith to the
sleeve of any politician, no matter how
gigantic he may appear to his pigmy
supporters. To them it seems too plain
for argument, that the Fillmore politi-
clans of the South, who are interested
in keeping up sn organization in oppo-
sition to the Democratic party will
not consent to have all their political
capital and prospects swept sway, to
crafty the ambition of any man. The
moment they should become supporters
Of Mr.. Douglas, they would be swal
lowed up IN the Democratic party, aud
like all new corners, obliged to take
back seats, until they hac passed thei
probation. Moreover, but one party
would then exist in the South, and the
history Of the country demonstrates too
plainly for denial, that there Away
ought to be, and will be, two hostile par
ties, even if the only ground of differ
ence between them is the division O
the spoils. But this not all. What sym
pathy is there between the Fillmore
men Of the South and Mr.. Douglas, be-
side their joint opposition to the Ad
ministration, and the Democratic major
ity in Congress! None whatever. The
opposition in Kentucky and Tennessee
in their last Gubernatoral campaigns
contended for slave code for the Terri
tories, in the most decided manner, and
are, therefore, committed, as far az men
can be, to those very doctrines which
Douglas now denounces as rank here
sizes. 1t is likely that Douglas may have
afew friends 10 the Constitutional Union
Convention, but there is not the remotes,
probability of his oversaughing Bel
and CrittendeL, as his hackers now
boastingly assert that he will.
We confess We Lave great doubt.
about a satisfactory termination of the
deliberations of our own convention
Mr. Douglas friends intend to call new
conventions in those Southern States
which seeded from the National Con-
ventlon at Charleston, III the expectation
that as the secedcrs and their support.
ers will keep aloof, and refuse to partic-
ipate In the new election Douglas del
sgations may be secured from those
States. 1t is not at all improbable that
the Douglas men may carry the new
CONVENTIONS by default, and then Doug
las must inevitably be nominated by the
adjourned convention at Baltimore. but
in that event his troubles will but be-
GIN, for no sensible man can shut his
eyes to the fact that the seceders will at
once set to work to sustain themselves at
homeby organizing an opposition par
ty, based on the platform reported by
the majority Of the Charleston platform
committee, which is as acceptable to the
South as is ''the Cincinnati platform as
construed by the Hon. S. A. Douglas
to Iowa politicians Of the Dorr and
Dr' Eads' school. If Douglas cannot
carry united South, the election will,
% thrown into the House, and as that