Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-07-19

and what have we received IN return
/ Denunviaton and abuse. The one million
! five hundred thousand democrats who last
year cast their votes for the lamcnted
! Douglas, although standing on the same
platform, as regards the slavery question,
which was adopted by the National Dem
ocratic Convention at Cincinnati in 1876,
have been stigmatizel and denounced as
worse than abolitionists Our noble
standard bearer. by far the most elo-
quent and able champion of all their le-
gitimate and constitutional rights, was re-
warded by defamation and obloquy. This
is the return, fellow democrats, which we
have received No, ours is the last party
which should feel under obligation to the
South, unless We desire to thank them for
our destruction. The Republican party
on the other hand, are under no small OBJ
| legation, for to the South, they owe both
their existence and their victory
Had Southern Statesmen continued to
maintain the same doctrine, which they
advocated but five years since-the doe
trinc established by the compromise of
1880, confirmed by both the whis and
democratic parties in 1872, and again rat
iiicd by the Cincinnati Convention in
1856 and the Convention, which nominal
ted Douglas in lS60-had they, | say,
continued to advocate aud sustain this
doctrine-the principle Of popular sover-
cignty-and carried it out in good faith,
it would in my judgment, have prevailed
in every Northern or free State, and the
Democratic party would have maintained
its ascendcncy. But this was not to be,
and it has no doubt been ordered for the
best
This infamous aud shameful rebellion
commenced without any apparent cause or
proyocation, unless the election Of Mr..
Lincoln be SO considered. On the 9th of
last November, the people Of the United
States assembled in obedience to law, and
for the 10Th time in our history to elect a
chief magistrate, for four years from the
4th Of March then next. Every State in
the Mon from Maine TO Texas, and from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, partic-
ipated in the election. No onc-not even
the boicst secesSionist has ever dared to
pretend that the election was not fairly
conducted, and in accordance with the
form, Of Law and the Constitution. Oue
among the several candidates received a
clear AMI decided majority of the cleo
toral votes; and whatever might be our
Individual preferences for the different
candilate,-whethcr pleased or displcased
at the result, our duty was plain and un-
equiyocal-to yield implicit obedience to
the expressed vail Of the nation. No
sooner, however, was the result known
with certainty, than South Carolina rats-
ed th1 standard Of revolt and commenced
proceedings to ahnul all their consiitu-
tional obligations, and to set the ',overn-
ment at defiance. Since the organization
cf our government, We have passed
through many exciting elections, IN which
the=hopes, the fears, and the passions OF
thePeopie have been n'lamed aud wrought
up to The highest pitch, but when the
election has passed and the result Known,
calm has ever succeeded the storm ana
ioreiele resistance to the verdict Oh ','e
people has been unknown. The cheerful
aeqalescencc OF the minority on such oe-
cas.ons has heretofore been one OF the no.
hlest illustrations oi the harmonious anu
feasible operation OF our institutions, and
has ever been source ct national con-
g:atu!atlan. pom several occasions pop
uIar opposition has been made to- the exc
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