Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-08-17
somE uNDENIABLE FACTS AND
CONCLUSIONS.

6nmE ~
CONCLUSIONS.
We would like to ask any intelligent,
fair Democrat whether be has a shadow
of a doubt that the Southern leaders,
the very class Of men who manipulated
the Tammaoy Convention in 1868, de-
liberately broke up the Democratic party
in 1860? Judge Douglas had certainly
served the South faithfully and well in
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
and in securing for shareholders the
right to take their human chattels
wherever the local laws would permit
their introduction, and his claims upon
it were fully recognized in 1856, when
Mr.. Buchanan was nominated on the
express ground of e1pediency, with the
clear understanding that the Presiden-
tial succession four years afterward was
to be the reward Of the services of the
Little Giant" The Democratic Con-
vention which met at Charleston, and
again at Baltimore, 10 1860, split upon
this question. The South, which had
discovered that slavery could not be ex-
tended through the operation Of the
principle Of Popular Sovereignty, threw
aside Douglas because be vas NJ longer
of any special use to it, and determined
upon the experiment which was begun
at Fort Sumter in the April following.
Judge Douglas would inevitably have
been elected in 1860 had he received the
vote Of the slave States, and the de-
struction Of the Democratic party, as a
national organization, would have been
postponed for at least four years ; but
the South, to secure its own selfish
ends, brote up the party through which
it had for so long a time ruled the coun-
try. John @. Breckenridge was run, not
with the most remote expectation Of
making him President, but for the ex-
press purpose of defeating Mr.. Douglas,
and forcing the election of Mr.. Lincoln.
Thi, end accomplished, there was no
difficulty in "'Gring the Southern heart"
The destruction Of the American Union
was the primary object with the South
ern conspirators, and they did not hest
tate to destroy the Democratic party as
an essential preliminary. Will any
Democrat attempt to deny this2
The Union vas too strong to be
broken up by traitor hands /; the Demo-
cratic party, less strong, yielded and
went to pieces. It was the desperate
hope Of re-cementiug these scattered
fragments that caused tho calling to-
gether of the Tammany Convention.
Strangely enough, to the hands of the
very men who had committed treason to
their party as we'll as to their country,
was committed the work of patching up
the old crazy and rotten fabric. With
q s~el6shuess that is peculiarly Southern
where politics are concerned, they have
so constructed the party platform and
put such men upon it that its success at
the polls will secure for the South all
that it failed to obtain in the field. But
this hoped-for success is only the gam
bler's chance, and the South under
stands full we'll that while defeat cannot
make its own condition any worse than
it is at present, such a catastrophe must
prove a death-blow to the Northern De-
mocracy, which, in its desperate hope
for rebel aid in the coming contest, has
taken upon It's shoulders such awful
loads as Reputation, a partnership
with leading rebels and a candidate
who, in advance, proclaims his readi-
mes, to traupls upon the laws o: Con-
gress and re~-inaugurate bloody civil
war. Will any intelligent Democrat
venture to deny facts that are so patent
10 the world
When a political party thus PROSTATE,
itself ut the feet Of a faction that once
divided aud defeated it, and then
attempted to destroy the nation when,
at its dictatiou, it enunciates principles
that are ~disgraceful, and accepts a can
didate who Is infamous, it argues at
once an utter want Of manly spirit, m
entire lack Of patriotism, and the des-
pera,ion that prompts the ruined gam
bier to stake life itself upon the last
throw Of the die. Will any intelligent
Democrat venture to deny the truthful
ness Of this conclusion :?