Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1860-09-11
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 5. 1860.
The Douglas Democratic COVentiOn
The MetiyesFtTlat Actuated these
xx-I,o took Part Therein.


The Convention of the friends of Douglas
and johnson held at Raleigh last week is ac
knowledged on all hands to have been one Of
the most harmonious, determined and enthusl-
lstic bodies ever assembled in the Capitol of
our State 1t was the people and not the poll
tcians who met in council; the lovers OF the
Union and defenders of the Constitution contend
ing for the perpetuation of great principles, and
not the wire-wOrkers and office-seekers VINO
have no one in view but self and contend for no
principle bat loaves and fishes.
The Convention re-affirmed the Cincinnati
platform and declared the principle of non-in-
tervention by Congress with the subject OF slave
~ in the Territories to be not only the true and
only correct position in relation thereto but the
time-honored measure of the democratic party.
In 1850 when Douglas, Clay and the god-like
Webster came together in fraternal council to
save the Country from the damning heresies of
abolitionists and secessonists, non-irrtervention
was declared to be the principle upon which all
conservative parties were to act thereafter; and
the subsequent National Conventions of the
Democratic and Whig parties declared it final
settlement of the vexed question. Why will
the seceders resuscitate it now? What can
they hope to gain by it unless they really sup
pose in their wild fanaticis1n that disunion will
prove blessing? We tell thefa now that the
American people, South as well as North, will
never submit to the doctrine of Congressional
Intervention with slavery in the Territories.
If they, the Seceders, are determined on its
adoption they can break up the Union and es-
IL
racy as soon as they choose; the people will
have none of their aboIninable doctrine Of inter-
renti0n.
Believing Douglas and Johnson to be the
nominees and the only nominees Of the Demo
cratic party, and that they are the only men
that have the shadow of chance to beat the
fanatics, North and South, we participated in
the deliberations of the Convention, and we
wish it distinctly understood that we are re-
sponsbe for it now and hereafter If the
Brcckinridge Executive Committee will with
draw their dangerous ticket--tiangerous be-
cause supported by every disunionist in the
and--the two wings of the party may yet come
together and carry the State but should they
not pursue this course shall insist that the
friends of Douglas reject all other propositions.
We have been denounced because we support
Douglas. Why do we support Douglas? Sim
ply because view the contest one of Enion
>r UiSuni0H, and We conceive it to he the duty
ot all Union-loving patriots who have the we'll
fare OF the Country and the happiness and pros
pcrity of the people at heart to take part in the
contest. No intelligent supporter Of Breckin-
ridge suppoSes for a moment that he will be
elected they know that nc has no party in
the North, the entire democratic party in that
section being for Douglas and that he has only
Il reasonable chance to share the South with
Douglas and Bell Why then do they run him ?
Simply because say their leaders, that they
expect by running Breckenridge to defeat Dou-
GiaS and secure the election of Lincoln thus
giving them pretext for precipitating the
Cotton States into revolution" We know
shat the masses Of the party, who are suppor
ting Breckinridge are honest Union-loving and
patriotic men, but they are being 1nisled by in
triguing politicians. All they want is light |
and truth and they will rally to the support of
Douglas the great champion of Democracy, as
one man. But the leaders, Rhett, keitt, Boyce
and Orr of South Carolina Davis of MISSISSIPPI
1i Cobb and Toornbs of Georgia, Yancey of
Alabama. and all the other intercentionists say
that if Lincoln hc elected the Union must be |
dissolved and in the next breath they say that !
he ccW certainly be e2ected What confidence |
can the people have in such leaders? Douglas |
and his friends say that the election of Lincoln
will be no cause for dissolution; they say that |
if he be elected according to the provisions of
the Constitution, he should be peaceably in |
augurated, and that when in office if he does |
not observe the provisions of the Constitution !
of the United States in the execution Of his |
office as President we, the people, from whom |
all power is derived, will hang him on gallows |
high Haman's despite all the Abolition |
fanatics in chrstendom.
The National democrats of North Carolina |
have set their faces alike against abolition IA |
natics of the North and disunion fanatics at the !
South, and they are determined not to look |
back The friends of Douglas who met in Raj:
eigh on Thursday last, who impudent officials |
dared not attempt to crush OUT were the |
representatives of power in North Carolina
that must and shall be respected, and with |
TRUTH justice and right on their side they must
ultimately triumph
We have been denounced by federal office
holders and men high in authority as a :" dis
organizer" traitor to the democratic party"
&c., and for what, pray? Simply because af-
ter the breaking up of the Charleston Conven-
ton followed in the footsteps Of His Excel |
lency j. W. Ellis and W. w. Holden E. G. Hay
wood and A. NJ. Scales, Esqrs, in denouncing
the Seceders as traitors to their party and their
country. These were the gallant, boasted |
leaders of the democratic party in the State; /
one of them on the stump as standard bear |
er for Governor, another the editor of our CEN
tral organ, and the other two Electors at large |
for the State. They were all originally Doug
las men-all stuck to him, applauded him and |
denounced the Seceders Gas traitors mind you,) |
from the breaking up of the Charleston Con
vention clear through the month of May, and
way into the middle of June They declared !
hat the rIatforro ~, which tho Convention hoI-