Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-06-23
BALTIMORE, June 22-l2P N

BALTIMORE, June 22-l2PM
The regular report Of the nights proceedings
OF the Convention will convey TO the Sta,;s
readers all the particulars of the death of the
Democratic party, that breathed its Last as a Ma
tional organization then and there; so I need
not repeat them here. The first Of the elaborate
series of frauds by which IL was killed was the
lex Of a man named Cessna, of Pennsylvania. al
Charleston. He was that States member upon
the Committee on Organization and in that com,
mittee he proposed the unity-vote rule, by which
with only some 1870 votes really for Douglas. his
managers were enabled to command the assist
ance Of l52k votes then, and here, Of $50 In all:
two or three anti-Douglas delegates having taken
their seats here In lieu of Douglasite aIternates
who acted In their stead there. Cessnas propo-
slhon was voted down In the committee, but next
morning he assembled all its friends and refused
to notify some of its opponents (of the called
meetlng], 10 nave another vote upon il, and thus
smuggied us approval into hatcOmmit tee' report
IL proved the cockatrice egg out of which the
oea'n Oh 'he party has been at length hatched
The shameless frauds upon the Southern Democ-
racy involved In the exclusion Of their repressnt.
tves and the introduction Of counterfefts in tb.i,
stead, who have no more constituency than the
Southern States representatives, in the Cbic,ao
Convention, is Of piece with this man Ce.,na,s
sharp practice worthy expedient of the cans.
In which it wss essayed The hot haste I'm which
any and everybody claiming the seats of d,I.o,t..
who retired last night were voted into them.
demonstrated the purpose of putting in DOUGLAS.
ties enough to make up an apparent two-tbirds
vote (of the whole electoral collcge) in his fave,
The South, as here represented cares not bo,v
many such delegates may be admitted, or what
their action may be. Tomorrow morning al,
the seceders from the whole fifteen seeding Dem
ocratc States for the hree-fourths of the Kan
lucky delegation who retired last ght to consul,
entertain no idea whatever Of going back-wilI
meet In church here and make nomination.
Delaware, though she will not act with them.
declines to act with the Deuglssite sectional
gathering; and at least half the Missouri DELE
CATION, II not more, will do likewise II Ga
not vet positively known what the msio,itv
OF Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
and the minority of Minnesota, Maine Nsyv
Hampshire and Connecticut will do. tbopgb q T.
anticipated that they will decline voting unon
any question among the Douglas possi bIv 70
naming present among them, II by SO doing they
can prevent the conspira,ors from polling a nom.
inal two-thrds vote Of the whole electoral col.u.
for Douglas. Their hope. however, is a veIv
futile one; for the Douglasites will admit anv ~
their paftizans from any State to I'LL a seceder,.
seat, upon any pretense he may set up; until they
have sufficient to complete the series of fraud.
upon popular rights through which they proooss
to steal the pretended two thirds-vote nomination
they aim to give him tomorrow.
w. ID. WI.