Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-03-17

The soruotion in The Republican ranks
f~oreshadsws On exciting coasest 10 she
Chicago Convention. Thsse are I've an.
tagon:stical elements q work, aad
The b~iaseraess already manifested BY
the respective Gle leaders and their udhss.
snts towards each other indicates that :
compromise Of sentiment that will result
in harmonious action is very unlikely to
b effected. Upon the n hand are those
Who feel that defeat. and = total disruption
Of the party will be the inevitable result
Of removing. the niger from the promin-
sut position he now occupies upon their
platform Of principles, they therefore cls-
morously demand that the party face the
music With WIN. H. Seward, the great orr.
gin.tor Of the +" irresponsible conflict doc
tri1e Is their standard bearer.
On the other hand are those whose per-
ceptions enable them with equal clesrnsss
to zee that the great farce has been 20 Of
ten repeated ~ to have lest oil ito attrsc-
siens-,has having NO " Bleeding Kansas
with which to carry the multitude under
the impulse Of excitement. success can
only b hoped for BY assuming . position
that will manifest some regard for toe in
seresss Of white men--they pe~rtinaciously
insist upon On abandonment Of their
t%reasonable and sectional dogmas Of the
party, and the selection Of q candidate Of
conservative views whose election would
be . nominal v~ictory-one that would Sc
cure the spoils, though !, should annihilate
the p ideaism now the distinctive char
ac.eristic Of the party. With them Bates
is for the time being the centre OF a.trac-
ton. Ia the main conclusion, upon which
both these wings base their action, each in
our judgment is correct according to the
opinion Of one they cannot. succeed with
out the trigger, while in the estimation Of
the other they will fail with him. We have
not the slightest inclination to interfere IN
this family broil for the reason that in ad-
dition 10 ito being rome Of our business.
We have as little sympathy with the one as
the other of the contessing parties, and We
are therefore wholly indifferent as TO which
may triumph over the other.
W. feel an abiding assurance, which is
strengthened by every re,u ming mail that
STEPHEN A. DorcLAs will be nominated
BY reclamation at the Charleston Conven.
ton, and hat the Cincinnati Platform will
be adopted with equal unanimi,y, and with
this result We care not who may be the
opposing candidate, OF what position the
opposition may assume, he CANNOT be de-
feated. No statesman ever stood higher
in tho esteem Of the masses than be now
stands, nor has our party ever engaged
the enemy with greater enthusiasm, with
more confidence Of success, or = stronger
will to work, than will characterize the
DoucLAs campaign.
So conclusive are the evidences of this
fact, ss exempliicd by the popular expires
sion both North and South, that those po.
iticians Of our own party who have from
various motives sought to manufacture
public sentiment, and forestall the action
Of our Convention 50 as to defeat the will
OF the people are one after another yield.
ing to the force Of circumstances which
they canno, control, and giving in their ad.
hision to the " Little Giant Of the North.
West.