Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-19
RaltlmOre Calcnlatlonn ana Coualp.


The Cincinnati Gazette has over column
of Baltimore special despatches, coming down
.to late Sunday evening. The Douglas men
claim 10 votes on lhe first ballot, and claim
gains in Tennessee Pnnsy lyaniu, Ainneasota,
KeniucRy- Az Missouri. Harris OF Tonnes
see, is the Douglas candidate for Vice Presi-
dent. The report 'is that HoratiO Seymour
is working for Douglas. Nomination by res
eluaol is threatened il Douglas cannot get
two-thirds. Secession would follow the
move.
The Seceders, with Judge Meek and Y L.
Yancey at their head, are on hand ready for
anything 70 turn up. Itis ramored that the
New York delegation are wavering, and
that Douglas isthreatened is with death in the
house Of his friends The Georgia Seocders
say that any man from their State who goes
for Douglas will be mobbed when he gets
home The latest Gazette despatch says, 2 i
Virginia viii not vote as unit. -Four
votes 90 ties 1t is said, to Douglas; the rest
are imm oyable against him, and will secede
if ths Southern bogus delegates are admitted.
Hunter and Mason have manipulated the del
egates at Washington and obtained promise
Of seeding in case Of Douglas being nomi-
mated
North Carolina is splitup. H. w. Owings
fomthe Second District Of Maine, who was
instructed for Douglas, refuses 70 obey orders
Maine will vote 6 for Douglas to 2 against
being one gain for Douglas. New Hamp-
shire is shaky, though the Douglas men think
they can hold them in.
Connecticut exhibits gain of one and
half claimed for Douglas
The Douglas gain Of four and half in
Pennsylvania dwindles down TO one.
The Commercials Sunday night dispatch
has the following l3Ie4 AJG
| have good authority for stating that there
was a caucus held at Mr.. Douglass house in
Washington on Friday night, over which the
Squatter Sovereignty Chief presided
A full programme was perfected, the first
point Of which was the rejection of the seees-
sionist delegation. Douglas agreed to send
no dispatches here, which means war to the !
bitter end. It was determined further that |
Douglas must be the eandidate;-that it was
better even to 60 before the people of the
country and be defeated, than to yield here |
If necessary it was determined that Douglas |
should be nominated by a simple declaratory |
resolution, thus: aResolYed, that Stephen A.
Douglas is the nominee of this Convention y |
This course Of proceeding m erely requires
majority OF votes.
Additional resolutions are proposed by Vir-
ginia to the platform, as a substitute for the |
Tennessee resolution which was dropped |
The object of this move is to furnish an ex-
cuse for Virgins, Tennessee, Kentucky and |
other States to remain Ia the Convention af- |
ter the explosion. Some Of the Douglas men
are taking the bait The amount of it is fol- |
loWs;l .,t 5--F u tili 4
First resolution pledges obedience TO all |
decisions Of the Supreme Court; the second |
provides that should any territory refuse |
obedience to the Supreme Court decisions it |
then becomes the duty of Congress to repeal |
all acts organizing territorial goYernments-
These points are shrewdly borrowed from Mr. !
Douglas Springfield speech in 1853, regard |
ing the disposal of the Mormon= question
The opinion is freely expressed that New
York viii support this, which evades the |
'trugged issue" Of the slave code. 1t, how |
ever, would be more fatal to the Northern |
Democracy than even jeff Davis's resolu-
tons. sa
Douglas sustains some losses in the New
England delegation. 1t is said that New |
Hampshire proposes to leave the Little Giant |
The new Hampshire delegation is in the in |
terest Of Frank Pierce. ....f
There is no Douglas gain in Pennsylvania.
His friends claim gain in North Carolina |
He viii probably have three electoral votes |
from Kentucky. His friends expect Virginia |
at the critical moment to turn in and nomi- |
nate him. The Virginia politicians are al |
most as slippery as the New Yorkers,
The South might whip Douglas were it not |
for her impracticable ultraism and too many |
generals.
Douglas will receive nomination here un-
less some treachery or weakness not now |
perceived is developed. But the feud is ir-
reconeilsble, and a disruption of the party |
and the nomination of two candidates is un-
svoidable.