Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-05-19
Movements Of the Democracy.


large meeting Of the Democrats of New Orleans
was held the sth at which the seeding delegates
at Charleston were condemned, the national Demo
cratic party Sustained and resolutions adopted de-
claring their adherence for the present to the Union
The lame Of Douglas, says the True Delta, was
greeted with enthusiastic cheers. The meeting ad-
Journed with three cheers for douglas and the
Union" r u ~ -, y.,T,I.....,,
meeting was held in Wilmington, Delaware, on
the 10th, at which the secession delegates were de-
nounced, and the opinion was expressed that Doug
las was defeated at Charleston 'by factious oppo-
sition unprecedented in the history of Democratic
| Conventions" r...srs .a .-.-fr
Hon. W. c. Whitthorne addressed meeting Of
the Democracy at Columbia, Tenn on Monday last
The meeting was called to appoint delegates to a
convention to select district elector. Mr.. Whit
thorne is reported by the Columbia Press to have
said: 81 believe Judge Douglas to be Democrat
and that he will stand faithfully by the Democratic
| party. Suppose he should be nominated, within
rules, for one will support him." Also, that he
would sooner trust his interests and rights into the
hands of man in Territory, who felled the tree
by his side who went to the same mill, and whose
children attended the school with his than to
risk them with Congress-" Mr.. Whitthorne is one
of the electors for the State at large. ft ..
The Hon. Howell Cobb, it is stated, has written
letter in response to the Macon Committee in which
he approves Of the action of the Charleston seceders
Mr.. Cobb was Union man in 1850, and united with
the Wings of Georgia in that campaign to defeat the
Democracy. Now he eats fire.
Two Democratic meetings have been held in No
bile Ala. One sustained and the other denounced
the seceders. Thirty-6ve leading Democrats, among
them Gov. Winston, John Forsyth. and Judge Nc
kinstry, have signed call for State Convention
at Selma the 4th of june to appoint delegates
the Baltimore Convention. Gov. Winston address
sed large meeting at Montgomery on Saturday
night and denounced the seceders in severe terms
He said they were not for principle, but against
one man-Douglas." A meeting has also been held
in Montgomery, at which the course of the seceders
was approved Mr.. Yancey. on his return from
Charleston, was received with much enthusiasm by
his friends in Montgomery
A State Convention will also be held in Georgia
early in June. Judge Denning representing ma
jority of the delegation from that State to Charles
ton, advises that set of delegates De appointed
to Richmond and Baltimore. The Judge evinces
willingness in his letter to take the Tennessee reso
luton.
The Hon. Fl. r. Warner and Hon. A. r. Wright
of Georgia, have written letters disappearing the
conduct of the seceders. Mr.. Wright says:
1.-THE secession at Charleston a movement
both false and fraudulent 1t purported to be upon
a. principle when it was manifestly to defeat the
nomination of man, the choice of the majority of
the democracy. There not one of them who, if
he could have gotten his man, would not have taken
the Cincinnati platform, simple.
As the matter stands, if no further action is
taken by the convention, Mr.. Douglas, is incon-
testby the choice Of the majority of the party, and
as such ought to be supported The Democratic
party contains not within its ranks truer, great
er, or a drawer man. He has borne her banner to
victory in hundred battles.
With the great leading principle of the Cincinnati
platform, "nonntervention by Congress with the
subject of slavery in the States and Territories and
District of Columbia" he will wave it again over
the fallen cohorts Of Black Republicans and revou
tionists. | most heartily concur, however in the
sentiment that the State ought to be represented at
Baltimore.
Let us move tremendously if we can. The mission
of the Democracy is the safety Of the South and the
salvation of the Union. May the God of our coun-
try the God Of truth and right guide her councils
and enable her to accomplish her work"
The Democracy of Harrisburg, Pa, held large
meeting on the 10th, at which the course of R. j.
Haldeman, Esq, the Editor of the Patriot Dc Union
in voting for Douglas, was warmly commended. He
was instructed to pursue the same course at Bati-
more.