Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-06-29
THE VOICE OF rHr PRESS.
The Washincton .Sar saws:

The Washington Star says:
"The Riot Of the Rump-vfor its SEES
sion of Saturday last was neither more
nor less than riotous and tumultuous
assemblage from beginning to end--end-
ed, of course, in the pretended nomina-
ton of Stephen A. Douglas for the presi-
dency, wholly by votes of persons who
were rightfully elected delegates to a
Democratic National Convention, repre-
scented constituencies about as likely to
give Democratic electoral vote as Vir-
GINA to give hers to Lincoln; or, on the
other hand, of persons only as fairly Gu
titled to seats in such body as those
who assumed to represent Southern States
at Chicago, were, to hold seats in Re-
publican party National Convention
" a brief analysis of the composition
of the rump may not prove uninteresting
just now, because likely to be instructive.
Thus, we have to say that with the ex-
ception of perhaps ten electoral votes,
there were no real delegates from the
South taking part in its action; the bo-
gus Southern delegates having no CON
stitueucies whatcver-being seit-elected
every mother son of them, through the
means of pretended mass meetings, as
the basis on which their various claims
were built up. In all, the rump, when
making its pretended nomination, embra-
| ced less than two-thirds the number of
electoral votes in the whole electoral col
lege, and by substracting from the total
number present the bogus votes from
Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Massa-
chusetts, aad Maine, manufactured for
the occasion, and also the minorities OF
Northern (Republican partly States del
egations constrained to permit their votes
to be recorded for Douglas by the sue
cessful preparation Of the unity-votc
fraud at Charleston. and it will be per-
ceived that he Douglas received but q
beggarly minority of votes, really--lc-
gally- elected either to the Charleston
Convention or to the Charleston Conven-
ton as adjourned to Baltimore.
" In another point Of view, an ana
lyss of the rump may not prove uuin-
structiye. Thus, we have to say that
from the moment President Cushing de-
clined to preside longer over its proceed
ings, those proceedings became simply
the acts of a mobbish mass meeting, with
out the government Of any rules other
than the momentary will Of the most
brutal and brazen- lunged who took part
in the uproar in front of the stand. Mr..
Todd, who at once stepped into the po-
sition vacated by President Gushing, ev-
identity a gentleman Of right intentions,
proved wholly unequal 20 the task II
was plain from the start that the rumr
entertained as little respect for him as for
itself; for, though the authority of Presi.
dent Cushing had previously always been
obeyed most remarkably, that of Mr. 7
was as abortiye Of results other than &c
increase the confusion and the rule Of
brute force, as an attempt on his part tC
exercise similar authority over as many
drunken Camancbcs would have been
We traced in the tone Of the proceeding,
here described paipable evidence that the
great body Of those participating ia then
felt, at the time, the full force of the
conviction that they were only "playine
and smashing up things" That they
were well aware that they could not hop,
to give their nominee single elcctora
vote in November next. The madness
that ruled the hour was evidently thc
madness Of desperation--that of scor
pions singing themselves to death OF
finding themselves surrounded by fire
Desperate political games!crs that they
were, they realized then and there tina
they had staked all upon truculen
stocking of the cards, and had lost ever,
count in the game at that"
The New York Day Book says:
"The nomination Of Messrs. Brock
inridge and Lane, on the platform adopt
ed by majority Of the States, viii
doubtless be responded to by majority
of Northern Democrats, and every day
that the canvass proceeds will tend t
open the eyes. Of the honest aud patriotic
men Of the With, not alone to the dan
ger of anti-slavcryism, but to the foil,
and utter uselGssness Of Douglasism il
this great crisis aud conflict Of prnci
pies The Douglas, and Bell, and Ev
erett tickets are merely dead weights
now representing, it is true, certain pha
ses of opinion, but before the canvas,
closes, they viii be seen to be mere mega.
tons, and quite unnecessary even, {
moderate the momentum Of the contend.
ing forces, for in such collision anti.
slaveryism should be ground to powder
rather than oyerthrown or merely defeat.
ed.
For this journal the coast is clear and
the path straight. We shall give an
ardent and devoted support to Messrs
Breckinridgo and Lane, the standard
bearers Of the Union and the glorious
md trusted defenders Of the ark +" Of
Democracy, with the profound conviction
that the principles they represent will
triumph, for to suppose otherwise is to
suppose the breaking up of the Union
and the downfall Of our democratic in.
stitutions.
TIE RicHMoND SEcEDERs' CoNyEN
TroN The Seceders' Convention met il