The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1860-06-28
Political Death of stephen A. Douglas.

Political Death of Stephen A. Douglas.
Suicide Of the Black democracy! ="
The Black democratic" Baltimore
Convention cat IN taoo, horizontally;
the upper portion bearing the head,
(Caleb Catshing,) nominating John
c. Breckenridge, and the ratnep halt,
Stephen a. Doaglas!!!
The hoadesof the Slave Power, re-
congregated at Baltimore, on the 18th
instant, and after Spending five days in
riotous wranglpg diversified with
divers knock down fights, was broken
up on Friday evening by the secession
of the great body of the delegates from
the slave States with considerable pro-
portion of those from the free States.
The seceders on the next Saturday
morning re-assembled in convention,
were Joined by the President of the
original body, Caleb Gushing, and with
him in the chair, proceeded as the
Democrats National Convention" to
adopt the ultra pro-slavery platform
which that section had insisted upon at
Charleston, and to nominate John G.
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, for the
Presidency and Gen. Joseph Lane, Of
Oregon, for the Vice Presidency.
The runp portion of the divided body
at the same time, with Ex-Gov. Tod,
of Ohio, in the chair,) proceeded by
majority vote, (more than one-third of
the original convention having sece-
ded,) to nominate Stephen A. Douglas,
the political Tom Thumb, sometimes
called the little giant" of Illinois, for
the Presidency, and Benjamin Fstz-
patrick, United States Senator from
Alabama, for the Vice-Presidency.
This Fitzpatrick is supposed to be
an Irishman, or at least of Irish paren-
tage. Be that as it may, as he has no
national reputation of any sort, he has
obviously been nominated in compli-
ment to the catholic Irish element
which enters SO largely and naturally
into the black democracy North
and South.
In saying he has no national reputa-
ton, we mean he has none for any
manifestations of statesman either in
theory or acts. He has however,
reputation but one remove from infa-
my as an ultra pro-slavery disunionist
of the South Carolina School; as one
of the most determined advocates of
Intervention in favor of Slavery in the
territories; of a slave code for the
territories, and one of the most deter
mined and denunciatory foes of that
Stephen A. Douglas doctrine for swind-
ling public sentiment in the Free States,
called popular Sovereignty" In
proof of this it is only necessary to re-
fer to the recent record of the ayes and
noes on the passage of JEFF. Davis
Resolutions in the Senate. Those
resolutions, it will be recollected, utterly
repudiate and scout this doctrine of
popular Sovereignty" and insist not
only upon the right but upon the duty
of Congress to protect slavery in the
territories by special legislation; in
other words, by slaue code for the
territories!
On the passage of these resolutions,
this Fitzpatrick and every other 'demo-
crat" present in the Senate except
Pugh, of Ohio, voted "aye."
Douglas sore throat which comes
SO conveniently when he don't want to
speak or vote, happened very oppor-
timely to recur on that day, and his
throat on that special occasion, was so
very sore that he didn't dare to use it
so far as to say "nay" to the nulli6ca-
cation by the highest Legislative body
in the land, of the doctrine. bis pre-
tended advocacy of which constitutes
his sole claim to the-votes of the People
IN the Free States!