Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-09-17
tFrom the Sentinel
The Democratic Convention

! HAD the spirit of evil. which seems r.
be abroad in the air, gone over the Iowa
state of Wisconsin and gathered from ev
| cry hamlet and school district the elements
! ofpolitical strife and garnered the isolated
cases of northern disloyalty; had the sui
len disafected political hacks and marty
bigots who hate the government, been thus
assembled together, the convocatiou
would have been identical in spirit and
and purpose with the so-called Democrat.
bic Convention, which within the last two
days, has presented the anomoly of adyo
/ eating political strife in WISCONSIN. while
| 1t prayed for peace in the country al
/ large.
| The mongrel elements of the Conven-
! ton do not deserve the name of democra-
| cy he great and loyal party under
whose flag the convention sailed, or rather
wallowed disowns and denounces them
1T spoke to them from their own rostrum.
and appealed through known and distin-
/ guIshed democrats to them to put away
partly discussion and recriminations until
the enemy now thund erinr at the gates
| OF the capital shall be put down. The
memorable words of the patriot Stephen
a. Douglas, were read TO them, counsell-
ing the same wise course but they hoote5
at one and hissed the other.
The address prepared for the conven-
! ton TO be published to the democrats of
W NIsconsin-a document fraught with mis-
chief to the North and overiiowing with
TIE bltterest partisan enmity-a document
prepared with all the skill and suhtlety
OF the distinguished lawyer who wrote it.
was carried as by a whirlwind of sudden
popularity over all objections, against all
advice and in spite of the warning and an
peais OF the few men In the Convention
who saw the danger and deprecated the
step.
Not another thing was ACCOMPLISHED
/ he session shows no other fruit than
thIs. The member came together to iind
that sympathy III evil which they could
not get at home. They met to ventiiate
the acnmony OF their hearts aginst the
Convention, as was said by one of their
own speakers they would not be tolerated
IN any loyal community, and the man was
selected to engross their sentiments who
IN intensity and bitterness could alone
do them justice, but whose discretion. un
fortunately for the party, is not equal to
his ability
W c cannot regard this convention in anv
other light than that Of disioyal iunta.
Its object was to fan political differences.
at time when such differences are pro
ductlYe only of evil. 1t met to place
party over patriotism, at time whe. low
al men OF all parties abjure the very name
OF polltIcs. 1t met to breed opposition to
the government, by a time when the wisest
democrats counsel cooperation and the
government appeals Tor support 1t met
20 frame and publish to the world a proof
at TT time Wien It It ffssntIment IS at the north
should be united to man. 1t met to con
coct and put into the mouths of the dis
affected new arguments for the Rebels. at
ii time when the rebels are threatening
The very archIeves OF the government 1t
met 20 deprecate conhscatiOn and cmafci-
pdCioh, and all measures likely to incense
our southern brethren, at time when
the people Gt CInclnu I'll are working in
trenches to save their city from the
southern torch. 1t met to retard enlist
mems, by telling democrats that the war
was brought about by the abolitionists and
the aggressive policy of the nor. hern agi-
tatorS-at time when the imperrilled
nation cries aloud for men 1t met to
advise democratic to place party above
everything else; to expend their strength
in organizing opposition to other parties;
to give their best abilities and all their
powers to the building up of a political
faith in opposition to the administration
and this at n time when above all, par
ties and creeds or political Vaccinations
are distasteiul, aud disgusting to the peo
pie who regard everyt hing but the disper
sion of the rebels and the speedy restora-
ton of the Union as dust IN the balance
These were the objects of the conyen
ton, and the convention selected q man to
express its purposes who perhaps was
better qualified than any other man in the
state lie successfully aimed to accom-
plsh ali these things in his address and
in his speech, and he will fail Of success
only because, even among democrats, the
admiration for his honesty cannot over
come the contempt that they have for his
indiscretion; and because the men to
whom the address was read and by whom
it was adop,ed will never dare in the
state Of Wisconsin to 60 home and tell
LOYAL Democrats that they voted down
the patriotic counsels of Stephen A.
Douglas and adopted the disloyal disquis-
ition of Il. O, Ryan.