Year: 1860

How TIE IRIsu PAPERS STAND.-Ihe IRISH
News, the Boston Pilot and the Irish Amer'-
can are cut for Douglas and johnson as the
Regular Nominees. The latter, published at
New York, says:


The Democracy have invariably stood by
Southern rights in every contest, even TO lhe
sacrifice of their local interests, as has often
been the case, in Northern States and III
the present instance we thnA they could not
Lave given better earnest OF their desire to do
Justice to their Southern brethren than Is to
Ue found in the resolution adopted hy the
Convention which nominated stephen a.
Douglas, declaring their determination to en-
dorse and abide 10y The decision OF the 0u-
preme Court on the question OF Slavery IN
the Territories, whenever occasion should call
! forth that decision in proper and authentic
form. Further than this the South has no
right to ask us to 90. The doctrine Of nom
Intervention was adopted and defined at the
demand Of Southern sttosnen under its in
spiration the party has more than once fought
and conquered and it, now. it suits the ideas
Of some hut-headed zaaluts TO repudiate that
! dogma of the Democratic creed, the advocacy
of which never cost them any ything, that Is no
reason why we who have sus asned it hy so
many sacrifices should take this further step
in advance and add self fs,utihcntiun 10 the
load we have already to bear.


While we shall not question the sincerity
Of any man who chooses to vote the Breckln-
ridge ticket, we repeat, we can only regard
1t as a sectional movement unworthy the sup
port Of any conservative Democrat. 1t has
rot even the merit of consistency about its
origin; for if the Charleston secrssionists had
any confidence in themselves or in the Justice
of their cause, they should have adhered to
their action regardless of the Convention
from which they had severed themselves. They
took the first step o this end in ndjourning
to Richmond; but there they fhtered and
stopped, or rather commenced the nautical
game OF backing and filing, to avoid drci-
sve measures. When they re assembled at
Richmond, instead Of going to work like men
who felt they were sustained by the senli-
ment Of their constituents. they continued 10
adjourn from day to day TO await the action
OF the Baltimore Convention. And even this
they did not do: leaving their Chairman and
Il few delegates to keep the doors open i'll
Richmond, the rest proceeded to Baltimore to
demand admission in body upon which
they had no more claim than the men who
nominated Lincoln at Chicago. They had
voluntarily withdrawn from it at Charleston,
had formed rival organization, had taken
no part in the action which adjourned It's ses
sion to Baltimore but had, on the contrary,
assisted to continue the other Convention,
which professed to he in session at Richmond
at the very moment they were demanding
double recognition at Baltimore. That their
intentions were fictitious the sequel showed.
Had they been admitted into the regular
Convention, they would haye adopted their
Richmond organization. They were refused;
and they did drop it, nevertheless. They
showed what a farce it was by ignoring its
existence and forming still another Conyen-
tion on the spot: and the Breckenridge nom
ination came from this double bolt. Whal
became Of the craft stranded at Richmond
history will never tell: the deserting crew
did not deem the hull worth even the trouble
of breaking up.