The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-07-25
From the Press OF Jane -
COL. FORNEN On THE BALTIMORE
NOMINATIONS.

From the Press OF Jane y.
COL. FORNEN On THE BALTIMORE
| NOMINATIONS.
The Democratic National Convention
after session Of six days, on Saturday last
concluded their deliberations BY ncmina.
ting Stephen A. Douglas for President and
BENJAMIN Fitxpatrack for Vice. President of
the United States.
There has never been a more gallant
battle against prescription and tyranny than
that made BY the friends of Douglas at
Charleston and Baltimore. This is tri.
butte that men Of every party must pay to
them Assailed front and rear-with all
the dependents Of corrupt and desperate
Administration against them-the fanati-
cal slave element, in all its phases, threat.
ening and traducing them, aided BY band
of merccnaries from the Free States. of
which Caleb Gushing is the best type-they
preserved an unbroken column. and steadi-
ly increased in confidence and in numbers
Whatever may be the end of the struggle
between these Democrats and those who
follow the Disunion banner borne by Breck.
lnridge and Lane, and championed by
Rhett and Yancey, we'll known as the re-
cent advocates of Disunion, good mast and
tcsH come Of IL. 1t will elevate and emo.
bic all the divisions of American politics
it will be beacon and warning to future
aspirants and Presidents--and it proves
that no party will submit to the mad and
measureless profigacy of its representatives
and its servants.
The Press, and those who have cc.ope.
rated with it, may now contemplate the is.
sue of the Democratic National Convention
as their amplest and proudcst vindication.
The election of Judge Douglas to the Presi.
dency could not add to the honest exulta-
tion they must feel at witnessing tho com.
plete realization of their hopes, and the ut.
ter overthrow of their prosecutors, in the
events that proceed, and the ovations that
crowned, his nomination. Others will no
doubt profit if Douglas should win the
prize but the bold pioneers in this manly
and memorable contest for principle, which
eliminated in the utter overthrow of the
slave.drivers on the 23d of June, need no
higher reward than tho fact that they hove
fought good fight, and have faithfully full.
filled their accepted obligations. They
have broken down the obstacles in the path.
way of the Northern Democracy. Let
those who shall walk in it hereafter only
remember the brave men who opened it up
to the sunlight of truth, and cleared it from,
the prescriptions and treachery of false and
faithless leaders.
We cannot believe that Mr. Breckenridge
will accept this nomination, although most
most Of his peronal friends were deeply in.
volved in the Secession movement. That
Gen. Lane will accept that which has been
conferred upon him. we do not doubt
| Gen. Lane will, we predict, discover
before the year expires, that when he ad.
vised Oregon to leave the Charleston Con
vention, he was only signing his own death
warrant. Caleb Gushing found natural
and congenial refuge in the Secession
Cabal, after his monstrous treachery in the
regular Convention. What fate hal
been his A citizen of Massachusetts,
of free State-who has spent almost an
ordinary lifetime in assailing the institution
, of the South, lending himself to the enc
. mics of the Union, and gladly consentine
| to that which tens Of thousands of Southern
gentleman reject with indignation. Th'
ecstacies which greeted his departure from
: the Democratic Convention was the sever
est rebuke that could have been admins
: tered to him, and this riddance seemed a
once to relieve that body from the evi
counsels and sinister influences that had St
long divided and depressed it. His depar
ture reminded us of that fallen angel who's
expulsion from Heaven made Heaven hap
py, and whose admission into He'll mad
, He'll miserable.
f A more sublime contest than that whicl
t will take place from this date in the South
ern States could not be desired by the sin
q cerest friends of the Union. Able mel
: will be on the side of the Seceders. an
n more than one gifted and misguided intel
lect will lend himself TO the dark plot 9
g breaking up the Confederacy. But froI
;. the Potomac to the Nueces from th
i Ohio to the Gulf-eloqueDt and intrepi
Il patriots will be enlisted under the broa
banner of the Union. We shall look
!. Virginia to sound the keynote to Coy
1t Letcher, and to Harris. and to Pryor, an
e hosts of others, give the word to the State
e : born of her loins, and following the teaci
r ings of her great leaders. Tennessee wi
e DO held true to her allegiance by Geore
4 w. Jones, Andrew johnson. William /
u !, Polk, and Knox Walker Louisiana wi
~ be led by Soule. Morse, and Gov. Wicl
N life; Kentucky by John e. Mason; Geo
:e gia by Alexander III. Stephens and He
s. schel V. Johnston; Alabama by Forsyt
y and Houston; Arkansas by Rust; Nilsson
t BY Krum, and Claiborne and King an
r Maryland by Reverdy johnson, Hem
d, May, and r. H Brent. This is a giorio'
81 rs array to begin with and We predi
at that their ranks will swell into an arm
ly that will sweep the enemies Of the Unic
4 into an abyss from which there will be
q, a. resurrection. The contest in the Fri
80 80 States will be nothing to this TIE bdtt
rt ,ciU hare to be decided an the Sout
iy For the first time since the days Of JAG
at son, the standard Of Disunion has bet