The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-06-27
BALTIMORE, June goth, 1860.


The Convention is at dead lock. =
The committee are hesitating and doubtful
what to do-they see in every direction
danger and discord and the almost certain
division of the party. They are anxious to
preserve the party, and yet see no course
open by which their action can do 1t. There
is undoubtedly an irreconcilable question OF
difference in the party, and 1t will take
more than committee on credentials OF a
Convention of angry and impracticable poll
ticians to settle it. 1t is the old question,
which has brought discord into the councils
Of the nation-the question of free and
slave labor-the question of dominancy in
the government-the question whether the
North shall yield to all the demands of the
South and let her dictate the terms of the
treaty. The Douglas men here are opening
their eyes. At Charleston not one of them
was allowed to utter his sentiments to The
public without meeting with the jeers, in
suits, and opposition of mob. Here they
are bold to state the issue between them
and the southern opponents of Mr.. d..
They say the question presenting itself
to them in this Convention is, whether
they shall yield submissively to the de-
mands of the South-whether their past
services to the party are to be disregarded
and they be compelled to swear alleg glance
to this new party test of the Black Code.
They say that forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue and that the time has come for ac-
ton.
| have heard in the convention and at
Barnum's Hotel (the headquarters from
the mouths of Northern Democrats, senti-
ments, often and over again repeated, which
when spoken by Republicans in Indiana
| have been denounced as sectional and traitor
GUS. They boldly declare that if their let
alone policy of non-intervention is discarded,
and the issue is forced square upon them,
they will prefer exclusion to propagation of
slavery, and that they will prefer Abe Lin
! coin to a slave-code Democrat When
! Southern men ask them what they will do
if Lincoln is elected, they answer that if
necessary they will shoulder their arms and
march to Washington to inaugurate Kim
they bow to the will of the majority
Judging from their declarations, there is no
more determined and uncompromising dele
CATION than the one from Indiana, and of
these none are more vociferOus than our
Sheriff, Gavitt. What will be the sequel it
is impossible now to determine, but a storm
appears inevitable.
| 1t is plain to be seen that the South does
not desire harmony, unless purchased by the
| servile submission of Douglas and his adhe-
rents. They are secretly anxious that the
seeding delegates may be excluded, or
that such extreme action may be taken as
will unite the entire South, which even in
| the democratic party is much distracted.
The ultimate aim of Yancey and the lead
! ing spirits is disu Mon, and the establish
ment of kind of Spartan, military, oil
| garchical government, where the slave-hold-
er may have the undisputed power. They
! know, as have heard them acknowledge to-
day. that the people of the South are not
prepared for disunion, but that they can
| precipitate that crisis, by harassing the
! Douglas men into acts OF indiscreton by
which the South will become Indignant
! They are thus desiring that the people may
be Il" educated up D." to that point, and pre-
pare for that grand military, chivalrous
| government of aristocrats. | am confident
that Garrison never presided over a Boston
/ Abolition meeting wherein were uttered so
many sentiments of disunion and disloyaIty
! 10 the government as by the delegates TO
this only " National Constitutional Conven-
ton" Dissolution is openly avowed, and
we are entertained by the brilliant schemes
/ for this new government that is 20 rise upon
| the ruins of the dismembered fragments OF
! the American Union.
Truly, the people should turn their eyes
to Baltimore ana see what this great demo
cratic party is, and whittier it is tending.