The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-11
Nine Reasons for Refusing to Sup
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Hon W. D. Morgan, editor of the New
ark (O.) Aduocate, formerly Auditor of the
State, and for many years one of the most
influential Democrats IN Ohio, gives nine
reasons for refusing to support Mr.. Douglas,
as follows Lou. C0atr. e sfsu
: i. He is not the candidate Of the Demoe
I racy of the whole United States, but was
nominated by disrupted Convention whose
elements were almost rs sectional as those
of the Convention at Chicago, which, as
we'll as the Douglas Convention at Balti-
more, contained scattering delegates from
several of the Slave States. .5 g.
2. To vote for Judge Douglas in Ohio, in
his present position as a halfnominated
candidate would do him no good because
after receiving our vote he would still lack
80, 900 to 100, 600 votes of carrying the
electoral vote of Ohio.
3. Because Judge Douglas being an ir-
regular candidate, and his forced nomina-
ton being destitute of any element en-
titling it to respect therefore, to vote for
him, would be to become his voluntary in
dorser.
A. Because we believe Judge Douglass
leadership of the Democratic party has been
tickle, headstrong, selfish, and unsafe, and
has brought upon the Democracy number
less defeats that wise counsels and skill
full generalship would have avoided. sa s.
5. Because Judge Douglas, actuated sole
ly by considerations connected with person
al ambition, commenced a war on the Ma
tional Administration of the Democratic
party, and combination between himself
Broderick, Forney, Hickman, Haskins, and
the Black Republicans in general, succeeded
so far in weakening its strength before the
people, as to throw the lower House of Con-
gress into the hands of the Know NOthings
and Black Republicans. III
6. Because Forney, Haskins, Morris of
Illinois, and o .her enemies of the Democrat
ic party, known to be in the personal conf
dence and favor of Judge Douglas, prompt
ed and voted for getting up the Covode and
other infamous Committees having for their
sole object the disgrace of President Buchan-
an, the Cabinet, and the Democracy by
whom they were defended.
I. Because Judge Douglas, by aiding and
abetting in the nefarious attempt to per-
suade the public mind that Mr. Buchanan,
and the chosen National Administration of
the Democratic party, sought to fasten slave
ry on an unwilling people, has done more to
manufacture recruits for the Republican
party than has been accomplished towards
that end by the whole Republican press of
the Union during an equal period.
- 8. Because Judge Douglas, through his
principal q blowers and strikers" has sought
to degrade the great Democratic party of
the nation into one mans party, and to
make fealty to Stephen A. Douglas test of
Democracy. ...
9. Because, to vote for Judge Douglas
after the unparalleled course of his friends
at Charleston and Baltimore, would be to
sanction that course, and thus to give an
IHdo. o.scIuoHt tU the persistent and head
strong adherence of the delegates 10 a man,
at the sacrifice of the harmony, union, and
success of the great National Democratic
party of the Union.