Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1860-10-17
mn CllAn0E OF sROrION tLIsM.


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oegly used b the Opposition. against ,ll
, Democratic FAIRY, il ~ .lsu.a as Il is IN
just, The charge may he made with NOR,
Jasliee against themselves The rule adopt
ell by them TO prove seeiionaiism upon Mr.
breckenridge, il basel unon the number o
States represented in the nominating ton
venlion, the Plaiform escaping with impu
nifty, II this rule be applied "a Mr.. Bell
We hnl that he Is mort sectional in BIZ
nomination than Mr.. breckenridge.
In the Convention that nominated Mr.
He'll. ihere were only 23 out Of the 80 State,
represented, and some Of these by proxy
foriy-nine electoral votes were not repre-
scented at all, aud some Of those claiming q
representation, were not delegated by the
people or Convention in their own State
Washington Hunt, who voted against the
admission ~ Florida, because her Consti,
tuition was pro-slavery, and opposed the
annexation Of Texas on the same grounds
aud twice voted for the Wilmot Proyiso
presided over the Convention. so much
For the presiding officer and his sectional
anieeedents, Judge Mclean, was voted
for In the same convention, a Black Repub-
lican Judge who disSented from the opinion
In the bred Scott decision, AMI denied the
South her rightsin the common territories
Of the Union. Gen. sam Houston, who was
waited for in the Chicago Convention re-
ceiyed very respectable vote in the Bell
everett convention. John Bell had befor,
this received the endorsement Of Greedy,
under his allitefaiive programme, aDell,
Bates, or f:;is. The opposition journals
Of Baltimore anl other places, hnd conn.,
sclcd, previous TO the meeting, the selection
Of some man who would be acceptable to
the Republican wing, so us to secure n
united vote of all the opposing elements.
The hycna cry of Yanccy, loaccy is
heard from every distracted partisan that
mounts the stump for Bell or Douglas, and
yet they forget that W. l.. slarkey, Mis-
sissippi firc-caior and President of the Nash
VIM NuHN'HlloHi anu .hT. ctuTkc' 'oHl-
missioner from Mississippi to the late
Southern Conference and other iirc-eaters
worse than Yancy, such as lIerschell V.
johnson, White, Soul0, Pcyton and Win
ston, are now all supporters, either of Bell
or Douglas. There are many of these wan
dering orators who see in Mr.. Yancy, raw
head and bloody bones, and any amount of
Dabolism, who feel their delicate nerves
unshocked by the dsunion proclivitics of
these men, aided and Allotted by the Black
Republican, Lewis ID. Cambell, who now
supports John Bell with all the ardor of n
first love-
The charge is thus seen to be unfoundcd
and to pertain more TO MIR. Bell than to
Mr. Breckenridge. No Breckenridge cleo
tor within our knowledge has uttered a
sentiment stronger or more patriotic than
that of Baltic peyton, in a late speech, and
no one morc'sectonal as the weak hearted
brethren of the Opposition would term it,
He said and said it boldly too, that in the
event of Lincoln's election, any man of
prominence ain the South, who will accept
office from him Nincoln,) should not only
be branded as II traitor but should be put
to death with terrible torture"