The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-07-11

At Leavenworth July 9th destructive fire
occurred.
Mr.. Breckenridge calls on "Divne Providence
to save him" "Divine Providence" has q grea,
deal to do with our elections
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Opinions
OF THE OPPOSITION AND INDEPENDENT
PRESS ON THE NOMINATION OF
Mr.. DOUGLAS.
From the Detroit arena Independently
The announcement of the nomination of
Douglas produced an electrical effect
throughout the North Gas shown by our
dispatches elsewhere not, We imagine ex-
clusively in respect to the man, popular as
he may be with the masses,) but as to-
ken Of the qualification Of the course of the
mass Of Northern delegates, who, for the
first time in the history of Democratic Ma
tional Conventions, refused to yield, ulti-
nately, any vital point in controversy, to
the South For this the majority at
Charleston, as at Baltimore, have earned,
and received the plaudits of the North, as
it will have the respect and probably the
suffrages of the South for their nomi-
necs.
The result creates new era, not only in
the history of parties, but in the history of
the country. 1t is the result that has for
years been foreseen as inevitable-it is a
result now made historical.
The discounted disunionists, after gath
oriag what they could from the debris of
the secession, and then securing the town
for stray Errmonters. and such Massachu-
sets Democrats as Whitney, of the Boston
custom house, could muster, numbered, as
they pretended, 105 men. South Carolina
to her honor, refused to make hcrsclfa par
tv to the sham.
Whatever may prove the ultimate sue
cess of the canvass, and of that it is not
necessary for us to have a newspaper opin-
ion; it i a glorious victory to the North,
and to the country, already won The
squad Of dsunlonists from New England
and Alabama, pretended to nominate Brock
enridge, of Kentucky, and Lane, Of Oregon,
for President and Vice President. such
men as Hunter refusing to permit the use
of their names.
Our present impression is, and we be-
lieve it is the impression of the most saga
ciouS Republican leaders, that the Douglas
ticket will receive the compact vote Of the
South. Notwithstanding all that Southern
men row say to the contrary. In the
North, there will he dusty hunt in Hi
noiS, as we'll as in New York and Penn
sylvania. As to what these States will do,
il IS not too much to say that the most ar
dent, Intelligent Lincoln men are not by any
means positive.
The campaign on this day opens, and
with vigor on one side at least, we under
take to say, few anticipated, after the dis
ruption at Charleston.
From the NJ Y. Commercial Adcertiser,
(Linrola Rep)
1t is only in the South that Vice Presi-
dent Breckenridge, after his extreme pro-
slavery speech of last winter, can expect
any real or general support Neither Lin
coin or Douglas has anything to fear from
him in the Free States. All Southern men
who sympathizc with the secedcrs will sup
port the nominee of the secessionists, not
with any hope Of elevating him to the Pre-
sidency, but in order to test their numeri-
cal strength.
All those at the South who are opposed
to that secession will support Mr.. Douglas,
good enough Democrat for all but
Southern fre-eaters, in order to show their
superiority in numerical strength.
From the Canandaigua Repository, (Silper
GrayD
The nomination of Douglas was hailed
with great enthusiasm by his friends in
every part Of the country, on Saturday,
and in the principal towns and cities i'm
promptu meetings were held, speeches
were delivered, salutes fired, and other
marked demonstrations were made, signi-
flying their heartfelt approval of the nomi-
nation. II ~
Our Republican friends are in ecstacies
at the prospect before them. But they for
get that Douglas is the regularly nomina-
ted candidate of his party-that with the
exception of the opposition he will meet
with from the Administration, which is
now weak and powerless, the great mass
of Democratic voters of the North are dis
posed to go for him.
In fact, all the enthusiasm of the party,
in the Northern States, is in his favor, and
occupying, rs he does, so far as sectional
antagonisms are concerned, middle
ground. and encountering, as he has, a
most relentless opposition from the ultra
Southern men. which he has ably and
manufnlly resisted, he aciW be likely to Sc
cure The sHmpathy and support Of large
cote outside Of his o,on party.
From the ~ Y. Times, (Rep.)
The secedcrS have acted with good deal
more malice than wisdom. 1t was sup
posed that they would select candidate
from the extreme South, in order to carry
beyond per-adventure the cotton States,
leaving Douglas to make such fight as he
could in the North, and thus to carry the
election into Congress.
But they have taken a candidate too
. thoroughly identified with the administra-
ton to be popular anywhere, and not suf-
ficiently strong at the South to be certain
of any Southern Stat. Their object
plainly is to ensure the running of their
electoral ticket at the North, for the sake
of rendering the defeat of Douglass all the
more secure.
1t is not quite certain that they have sue
cecded even in this. Douglas has very
strong position at the North, made all the
stronger by the hatred and persecution Of
the South; and he may gain as much from
this sentiment as he can loose by the hos
tility Of the administration. .I......
The n. Y. Tribune, the sharpest Repub-
iican paper in the country, thus gives
the alarm to its political friends. 1t