Year: 1860

withdrew his name, and permitted Mr.. Bu-
ehanan to be nominated. He could easily
have defeated him had he seen fit to do so.
but he saw, notwithstanding his own large
vote, that Mr.. Buchanan had the majority in
his favor and cheerfully yielded him the po
sition of the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency.


In regard to the unselfsh and dignifed
manner in which Judge Douglas has ever act
ed, the Georgia Constitutionalist well re-
marks:


"Well we are reminded how, in 1852,
when the vote of the conv ention stood Marcy
90, Douglas SS, Pierce 55, Mr.. Douglas with
drew his name for the sake of harmony
how, in 1856, when the vote of the conven-
tion stood Douglas 1872, Buchanan los, he
again withdrew his name how he never
faltered or failed in voice or vote until the
Lecompton Constitution was laid at his feet
az a snare by the Administration how Bu-
chanan instructed Walker to have the consti-
tuition submitted to the people how the Ad-
ministrOtion press opposed the constitution
uLtil it was found out that Douglas was for
fair play, and insisted that the pledge to sub
nit it to the people should be kept and that
the land frauds it contemplated should not
be perpetrated how he bravely opposed
document that did not express the voice of
Kansas as they proved by their subsequent
majority of ten thousand against it /; how
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trained against him; how the party press,
| North and South, solemnly communicated
him by "bell, book and candle" for taking
the ground that the Administration had not
courage to hold"


This is putting the matter in its true light.
The Lecompton Constitution was undoubted-
ly laid at the feet of Douglas as a snare. Mr.
Buchanan knew that the author of the
Kansas ebraska Bill could not eonscien-
tiously or consistently vote for that Consti-
tuition, and he hoped thus to place him in
hostility to his Administration and crush him
out. Instead of the desired result he has
only lashed the political ocean into wrath
and fury against himself and has been com
PEELED to seek shelter in the nearest port.
Finding that he cannot exeommunicate Doug
las from the Democratic party, he is deter
mined that he will at least prevent him from
receiving the nomination for the Presidency.
In this, too, we believe be will fail As for
Judge Douglas, himself, he is sublimely in
different as to whether be gets the nomination
or not, but his friends are outraged at the
persistent prosecutions and houndings of the
President, and they will stand by their man
though the earth itself should topple from
its centre. They consider that Douglls is
entitled to the nomination, according to all
former usage of the Democratic party. lie
has received larger vote, by far, than any
other man before the Convention, is the
choice Of a clear majority and that the other
candidates are in duty bound to retire and
leave TO him the field. Why should the
manifest choice Of the Democratic party give
way for indifsrant individual who
! like Dickinson, can only get two or three
votes out of S03, when that choice (Douglas)
is in the field Is it not preposterous idea
that a small sectional squad, like that of the
Yanceyites, should undertake to dictate to
the entire National Convention of the party


GONE DowN-The Sacramento Daily Dem
ocratic Standard has gone under. Cause,
want of support. Well, we wish the late
proprietor and editor no harm,-his ability
we never questioned, and We always gave
him credit for being sincere in his opinions
but we cannot say that we consider the sus-
pension of the Standard as any loss to the
Democratic party. 1t had evidently started
out on the baleful track of one of the most
dangerous isms that ever jeopardised the in
tegrity of the party to which it professed to
belong, to-wit the extreme ultraism of the
Southern advocates for Congressional protec-
ton of slavery in the Territories Because
the Democratic National Convention refused
to incorporate this ism into their platform,
the Standard rebelled against its proceedings
and openly bolted its authority. The death
of the Standard will be regretted by the few
extremists of the party who have so far
sprung up in California. but the great maori.
ty will shed no tears over its exit from the
stage of political existence.


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