The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-26
THE PRESIDENCY.
THE BALTIMORE CONVENTIONS.
r II r NO MIN z z S.
MONS OF THE PRESS
HOW THE NOMINATIONS ARE RECEIVED.

are as as tne pOlltcal status OF tn
journals. The anti-DOuglas Democratic papers
whilst deporing the schism in the party, neverthe
less accept it the mcst desirable alternative be
tween it and the nomination of Mr.. Douglas. Tht
Douglas journals on the other hand, are exult an
over the nomination of their choice, and predict hi
election in November, whilst the Republican pres
are satisfied that the disruption of the Democracy
has rendered certain the election of Lincoln. We
present below the opinions of such respectable
journals came to hand yesterday:
From the National IntelIigencerl
| 1t will be that the members comprising
majority of the Convention, as re-organized at Bal
| timore, have selected the standard bearers o
| the Democracy whom they represent the Hon
Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, for the PreSiden
cy, and the Hon. Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Alabama
for the Vice Presidency of the United States. The
seeding delegates, the other hand, have united
upon the Hon. John G. Breckenridge, of Kentucky
as their candidate for President, and the Hon
Joseph Lane, of Oregon, for Vice President of the
| United States
The names of each and all of these distinguished
gentlemen are so well known to every reader that
IL woulo De work OF supererogatiOn our part
| to state the grounds which their public reputa-
tion is based any more than the nature of the re.
cent issues by sympathy with which they have won
the confidence of their respective adherents belong
ing to different divisions of the Democracy
| The name of Mr.. Douglas is identified with the
history of the Democratic party during years Of
long and laborious service in the National Councils
while that of Mr.. Breckenridge is which his
political confederates have ever delighted TO honor
| The rival candidates for the Vice Presidency, VT
need not add, have throughout long series O
years exemplified their loyalty to Democratic princ
| pies, as formerly understood in the country.
| From the Philadelphia Press
| The Democratic National Convention, after ses
sion of six days, Saturday last concluded their
| deliberations, by nominating Stephen A. Douglas
for President, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick for Vice
| President, of the United States.
| There never has been a more gallant battle
| against Prescription and Tyranny than that made
by the friends of Douglas at Charleston and at Bal
| timore This is a tribute that men of every party
must pay to them. Assailed front and rear-with
| all the dependents of corrupt and desperate Ad-
ministTatiOn against them-the fanatical slave ele
ment, in all its phases, threatening and traducng
them, aided by band of mercenaries from the free
| States, of which Caleb Cushing is the best type
| they preserved an unbroken column and steadily
| increased in confidence and in numbers. Whatever
may be the end of the struggle between these Dem
ocrats, and those who follow the Disunion banner
borne by Brecklnridge and Lane, and championed
by Rhett and Yancey, well known as the recent ad-
vOcates of disunion, good must and o0U come of it.
| 1t will elevate and ennoble all the divisions OF
| American politics-it will be beacon and warn.
ing to future asprants and Presidents
| and it proves that no party will submit to
the mad and measureess profgacy ofits repre-
sentatives and its servants. X i
While, however, we shall support the election of
Stephen A. Douglas, the Press will in no respect
| be party newspaper. 1t can scarcely 20 further
in vindicating him that it has slready gone, and
while following the path it has marked out, will
not hesitate to do justice to other candidates and to
other parties, by abstaining from all imputations
upon their integrity, and by reiterating none of
their silly scandals and calumnies of their adversa-
ries. To this remark we must make one exception.
The Press is the uncompromising foe of the Dsun-
ion-secesson Administration party; the foe of its
candidates OF its leaders, its organs, and its apollo
gists, n Orth or South. And the strongest claim
that Douglas has to the sympathy of the American
masses is probably to be found in the fact that he
is the avowed antagonist of all enemies of this Con-
federacy, and particularly of the men in the slave
States, who seek to make slavery the only test in
Democratic politics, and eagerly accept every pre-
text to endanger the existence of the Republic.
From, the philadelphia Ledqerl
The representatives of the National Democratic
party at Baltimore, have effected at last what APP
peared to be inevitable from the first, the rupture
of the party, and consequent separate nominations
by the two divisions into which it is now split
The Richmond Convention, composed of the sece-
ders from the Charleston Convention which assem-
bled IN May last, has yet to act and, it is likely,
will adopt the nominations of the Maryland Insti-
tute Convention. The position of affairs will then
be-tbe Democracy of the South very nearly united
upon one Presidential candidate, for the Douglas
enthusiasm does not appear to have struck very
deep in that quarter generally, and the Democracy
OF the North divided between the ticket which
will be sustained in nearly ALL if not every one of
the Southern States, and the ticket with Mr.. Dou-
glas at it's head.
From the Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Enquirer
The long agony is over. Douglas and Fitzpat-
rick, Breckenridge and Lane, are now the Demo
cratic candidates for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency. L will not pretend to give the various
opinions of the two factions, expressed after the
nominations were made. The Douglas are
sanguine that be will carry the entire Northwest,
Rhode Island, Connectieut, New York, Pennsylva-
MIA, New Jersey, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Louisiana, and perhaps Georgia. The Breckin-
ridge men are no less sangune that he will carry
the entire South, California, Oregon, Pennsvlva-
mia, New Jersey, Indiana, Rhode Island, COnnecti-
cut, Minnesota and perhaps New Y Iork. The Dou-
glas men say that they are the simon pure DemOc-
racy, because they have the nomination of the
regularly organized Convention. The Breckin-
ridge men contend that they are the simon pure
DemocracT, because the only regular Convention
was the one over which Caleb Cushing presided.
From the Philadelphia PennSyluantan.l
1t is idle to disguise the fact that blind devotion
to men, far more than adherence to principle, was
the governing power of bare majority of the Con-
vention, and to this fact ascribe all the difficult
ties dangers and disasters which beset the proceed
ings. The friends of Mr. Douglas secured his choice
by divided Convention, while the friends of ma
tionality put forward John C. Breckenridge as the
exponent of their views. As between the record
of these gentlemen the people have to Judge 1t is
all important that the basely reasonable doctrines
and candidates of the Chicago Convention shall be
defeated, and that the guarantees of common
Constitution and Union be main ntained. Both ends
can only be secured by the independent action OF
conservative men in this hour of national danger.
From the New York Worldl
This paper, after expressing the opinion that the
election of President will be thrown into Congress
SAYS:
Judging both from the political complexion o
the House, and from the protracted and obstinate
contest which proceeded the election of Speaker
last winter, the probabilities against its reach
ing any choice at all. In that event, it becomes
question of great interest who will be the two
highest candidates for Vice President. One o
| them will, of course, be Mr.. Hamlin. If by tbt
| fragmentary condition of the Democracy, Mr.. Bel
should make good run in the Southern States, Mr.
| Everett may be the other. If this should come
| about, that accomplished gentleman would be oul
| next President; for there be no question tha
the Senate would prefer him to Mr.. Hamlin, if the
choice Of the Vice President shonld devolVe on tina
| body.
To say that disappointed does not express
| our feelings Our dearest rights have been triheC
WITH and the interests of our party and our cOun
| try jeoparded by the failure of delegates tC
| that Convention to make those necessary conces
sions we urged, and which would have enabled
| them to unite and harmonize, and present but ont
ticket for our sufrages. The masses of the party
believing and feeling as we do, will hold these de
legates responsible, we have no doubt, for the
| dereliction of duty.
From the N 2. SUM-
| The Douglas men have made bold and deter
mined fight, and though they cannot hope to elec
| their candidate, by the popular vote, they have in
| augurated political revolution which may resul
| in good to the country.
| From the New York TimeS-Repd6Licda.l
| The seceders have acted with good deal more
malice than wisdom. 1t was supposed that they
| would select candidate from the extreme South
! in order to carry beyond peradventure the Cettol
States, leaving Douglas to make such fight as ht
couldfn the North, and thus carry the election
into Congress. But they have taken eandi
date too thoroughly identified with the Admins
tration to be popular anywhere and not sufficiently
strong at the South to be certain of any Southern
State. Their object plainly is to insure the running
of their electoral ticket at the North, for the SAX
| of rendering the defeat of Douglas all the NOR
secure 1t is not quite certain that they have sue
ceeded even in this. Douglas has very strong
position at the North, made all the stronger by tn
hatred and persecution of the South; and he ma,
gain as much from this sentiment as he can lose b!
| the hostility of the Administration. His chances
of success, however, not brilliant. The pro
ceedings at Batimore-the factious character 0
both Conventions, the recklessness of principle
and the selfish devotion to men which marked thei
| action, have demoralized the party and disguised
the country.
| From the Richmond Whigl
| 1t will be alike absurd and criminal for any Dem
ocrat in Virginia and the South, vino sincerely de
sres to prevent the election of Lincoln and to pre-
serve the union of the States and the rights of tn
States to vote for either Breckenridge or Douglas
Both of these gentlemen are sectional candidate
and the candidates of sectional parties and no cor
servative, national, Union-loving Democrat, Mort
or South, conscientiously and patriotcally SUP
port either Nor there the slightest use in vo
for either, for neither stands the ghost of a chauc
of an election.
The Richmond Enquirer places the names