Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-20
THE DEMOCRACY AT BALTIMORE,

Thereports from Baltimore are not cheering
to democrats of the Douglas persuasion. Their
fayorite is likely to be overwhelmed by his
enemies He loses ground, and all the signs
indicate that he is TO be slaughtered on the
altar of compromise" 1t is fundamental
rule of the democratic party that the minority
must govern. For years, the party itself mas
been nothing but continuance Tor giving
some 800, 900 Shareholders exclusive control oil
the government; its two-thirds rule Tor ma
tional conventions was intended to give few
southern men power to dictate presidehtiai
nominations, and no part OF It's machinery
was intended for the benefit OF the
majority Yes, in that party the minority rule;
and they will rule out Douglas at Baltimore.
And there is not a state in the Union where
minority supported by the domineering slave
interest in power at Washington, will not
make itself master of the organization. Fro
baby nine-tenths of the democrats IN Mas
sachusetts are very earnestly in favor OF MIR,
Douglas but what can they do against Whit
ney, Butler. Cushing Loring, and the others
who assist in the slaughter of Douglas Why,
they can write fiercey eloquent philipics and
print them in the Bay State and some other jour
mails ; and they can swear trighttully, II they
like; but, at the state convention, tho coming
autumn, Whitney, Butler & Co. will lash
them into the most impotent kind of submls-
sion. Such now is the fashion of democracy.
AT first this convention at Baltimore SEEM
ed no more likely to illustrate the beauty of
tl,oO n nd nj lpH q
Charleston A fierce explosion, which would
wreck the party ald put in the field two pres
idential tickets, appeared to be the only posi-
Bile result and many of the anti-Douglas men,
north and south, undoubtedly desired this.
Their belief was that such result would de-
feat an election by the people and throw the
presidential question into the house, which
would fail to decide it and thus leave
the making of the next president to the
senate. To carry out this scheme prop
erly, the man intended for the presden-
cy must be nominated for vice president.
Therefore we heard talk of Caleb Gushing
and OF Joe Lane for president, with Jefferson
Davis for the vice presidency. 1t is thou
sand pities that they cannot be induced to try
this game, for they could not play it out with
out getting slight notion of thunder and sun
dry other unpleasant things. Perhaps they will
yet try it, for the convention is evidently
volcanic concern, and may explode at any
time, with su dden vehemence, in spite of all
the wisdom and eloquence that may be EN-
ployed to control its fires. But it seems now
more likely that there will be forlorn truce,
laughter of Douglas, and hopeless break
down Of the party.
If the democratic party were thousand
fold better than it is,-if it were not devoted
to the service of savery,-if it had not re-
p called the Missouri compromise patronized
border rufiansm in Kansas, and made James
Buc hanan president,-it should nevertheless
be broken to pieces and swept out of the way !;
for in. country like ours, no political party
should be allowed to become permanent in
stitution. Parties should be temporary. They
have no right to exist at all, save as the means
to carry out useful measures and enforce i'm
portant principles; and, when political party
is permitted to outlive its usefulness, it will be-
come public nuisance. The country would
be in a much happier condition to day, if the
old dem ocratic organization had been crushed
out years ago; but, after its legitimate work
was finished, slavery took it in hand for base
uses, and has kept it alive until now. James
Buchanan, the fit representative of its present
character, has the prospect of being its last
successful nominee for the presidency and
what relief it will be to the country, when a
republican president shall take from him the
office he has so foully disgraced, and expel
his servie creatures from the federal offices,
which they have won by following the exam
pie of his own meanness and consenting to be
his instruments