Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-04

The Charleston Convention.

This convention has sought escape from trib-
ulotion by adjourning to meet in Baltimore on
,be 18th dav of June. 1t had become pub
Iic nuisance, causing an unspeakable amount
- nrofane speech among the democracy, and
Greatly disgusting all attentive observers. We
hear from Washington that president Buchan-
on had advised an adjournment, and it is said
on tbe other hand that the Douglas men claim
the adjournment as their policy. 1t is likely
that all parties had become wearied with the
contest and is quite certain that the enemies of
Oouolas, after having put him hors du combat,
ala not consider it wise to undertake anything
more at present,
From the outset we have regarded the NOM
;nation of Mr. Douglas as very doubtful, if not
;nonossible; and now the insurmountable diff
culties in his way must be apparent to his
most enthusiastic supporters. Long before
the Charleston convention met it was evident
that the first business in that body would
be great battle over Douglas This bat
tie has been fought; Mr.. Douglas is
laid aside; and when the convention
shall reassembe in Baltimore he will be
considered entirely out of the question. 1t
Mr.. Douglas were as wise as he is combattive,
his present position might be different Per-
sonal enmity has been the chief force at work
arainst him. True, there has been talk of
"squatter sovereignty" and irrepressible plat
form conflicts have taken place. But the har-
mony of the convention would not have been
disturbed very seriously if Mr.. Douglas had
not been candidate for nomination. His ar
rogant and relentless "pluck" has made per-
sonal enemies in every direction; and many
of these enemies are among the foremost lead
ers of his party and, they all know very well
that if he should be elected president they
would be ground to dust. They have all COM
bined against him, and we see the result
The fight has demoralized the party, and
turned against it, in every state north, many
who were trying to be so foolish as to regard
that party as a pleasant refuge against the din
of slavery agitation. 1t is very likely that the
business of "healing divisions" will be carried
on very extensively for the next four or five
weeks, and that the convention at Baltimore
will have in it delegates from all the seeding
states but it cannot recover the ground that
has been lost at Charleston, nor bring to the
support of any ticket that may be nominated
the full strength of the party. The nomina-
ton of Mr.. Douglas, if that were now posi-
ble would divide the party into two hostile
bands in more than half the states and the
nomination of any other man will be received
with GOODNESS and curses wherever there is a
democrat to resent the defeat of the Hill
nois senator, or to feel the humiliation to
which the northern wing of the party is
constantly subjected. Certainly, the DEM
ocrats are not commencing the presidential
campaign with that magnetic enthusiasm,
which takes away the breath of opponents, and
draws after it all the floating sovereigns of the
country They do nothing to disturb the re
publican expectation of victory, next No
vember, nor even to convince any sensible
man that their dilapidated old organization is
worth preserving. Let the republicans be
wise, and firm, and earnest in their work, and
their triumph over this confused, quarrelsome,
broken, worn out party, cannot long be mat
ter of doubt anywhere.