The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-09-05

readers TO the following remarks OF his: Y
Got Him, Rather.
JUDGE Douglas and his irierds, says. the Pc
tersburg Bulletin, are great stcklers for what
they call the regularity of his nomination, and
his claims are urged with turbulent zeal because,
as Is said, he received the unanimous endorse
ment Of the convention which nominated him.
But Judge Douglas himself has in former times
laughed to scorn nomination more decidedly
unanimous than he can possibly claim his own
to have been. The very objections, too, which
he opposes to the ratification of that nomination
by the people apply with amazing aptness and
precision to his own case. r.
The annexed article, which We find in the
Richmond Enquirer of yesterday. places Judge
Douglas in a very singular position in relation to
his late Unanimous" nomination All that he
said of Gen. Scott being forced by the North as
a candidate of the Wing party for the Prcsidch-
cy, against the repeated protests of the Southern
half Of the Confederacy, applies with equal IL
not greater force to. his own position as a sec
t:onal candidate Names being changed, Of him
the story is related The following is the article
referred to:
On the 9th of July, 1852, the Hon Stephen
A. Douglas addressed the Democracy Of Rich
mond, Va, in the African Church. Prom the
speech prepared by himself published in the
Enquirer of July the goth, 1859, we make the
subjoincd extracts. twill be remembered that
at the Baltimore Wing Convention of 1852, the
| North demanded the nomination Of Gen. Scott,
and the South resisted the demand. Comment
ing upon the sectional aspect of that nomination,
and the deplorablc results that would come from
il, Mr.. Douglas said:
"Wcll General Scott received the nomination
unanimously, according to the official pro-
cecdings Of the Convention. [I.aughtcr.] Eel
low citizens, did you ever hear of a unanimous
nomination. which was made in defiance of the
fifty times repeated protest and circumstances
of the delegations from one half Of the States of
the Union represented in the Convention Ev-
cry Southern delegation voted against him more
than fly times, day after day and night after
night, and yet the nomination was unanimous
Great laughter The nomination of Gen. Scott
therefore, presents to the American people this
extraordinary anomaly. For the first time in
the history of our party contests has sectional
nomination ever been forced upon either of the
two great parties You may talk of the dangers
to the American Union growing out Of partizan
strife and political contests you may tremble at
the scenes through which we all recently passed,
connected with the slavery agitation yet there
was nothing in all that that was so perilous to
the safety of the Union as a sectional nomination
for the Presidency, where the North demands
the nomination of particular man on section
al issue And the delegations from every South
crn State, without exception, resisted the NOM
nation as dangerous to their, rights and institu-
tons. A nomination forced upon the South by
the JreesoH wing of the Wing party North, is
now presented TO the American people as a
unanimous nomination
+ ut matters not whether the North forced the
nomination upon the South, or the South upon
the North, the danger consists in the fact that
territorial line divided mems opinions, that
Northern men were one way aud Southern men
another But after the nomination is made, we
are told that il was fair compromise, because
the South received the platform, and the North
obtained the candidate, under the direction of
men who defy" and spit upon the platform.
Thus, we have Winfield Scott before US for the
Presidency. After mature elaboration, he pro-
ceeds to accept the platform, and to write the
letter he had promised Mr.. Archer in the private
note that was found in Bolts brooches pocket"
Laughter. '1 10 '4
II the reader will substitute "Stcpien A.
Douglas" for "winfeld Scott" he will have a
just and complete condemnation Of his own NOM
nation from his own lips. Such a nomination of
Gen. Scott, he pronounced, would convert good
General into baAe President, and we ask if it
wouldn't be equally disastrous to Scnatori
IfMr. Douglas could urge the facts connected
with Gen. Scott's nomination rs dangerous" to
the South from the divisions that existed in Bal
timore in 1852, what circumstances would pal
late the evil from the same causes in the Demo-
cratic party in 1860 ''0at Of thine own mouth
do we condemn thee" Stcphen-CotuSpbus
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