Year: 1860

The National Democratic Party.

 Our readers before this are in possession of all the facts connected with the difficul7 ties in the national democratic convention at Charleston, and its adjournment without having made any nomination for the Presi- dency. The regular convention adjourned to meet again at Baltimore on the 18th of June, and the convention of the secedars adjourned to meet at Richmond, Virginia, on the 1lth of the same month.

 It is an easy matter to assign a cause for this rupture in the party. Douglas and his odious squatter sovereignty doctrines have produced it, and, until he is out of the way, there will be neither peace or harmony in our ranks Whether he has the patri- otism voluntarily to retire from the contest, and permit the party to be again united upon platform that will be acceptable to the South, remains to be seen. We trust and believe that he and his friends will care fully review the position they now occupy, see its disastrous effect upon the party, and periodically yield the ruinous contest they are now maintaining-a contest from which the utmost that can be hoped is denatlon- alization of the democratic party, and the election of a black republican to the Presi- dency, or the throwing the election into the National House of Representatives, where the democracy are in minority.

 We do not by any means yet despair of 1 the national democratic party. Although | the Charleston convention resulted Tn a | failure, we believe it has had the salutary effect to place the South in proper attl- 1 tude. and to awaken the democracy of the North to the great importance of protection to the rights of the South. As far as they went in retiring from the convention when a squatter sovereignty platform was adopt ed, and refusing to take any further action in the proceedings, we indorse and approve the course of the seeding delegates.- Their action was perfectly proper and they could not have done otherwise. The plat form adopted by the majority convention was so thoroughly odious to the South that no other course was left them.

 But we think the matter has gone far enough for the present. While we approve the course of the seeding delegates, we should not like to see it persisted in until the last hope of the adoption of a sound platform and the nomination of true man is utterly abandoned We should like to see the original delegates return to the con- vention at Baltimore, or, in case of their refusal, the appointment of new ones, again to demand at the hands of the northern democracy recognition of the rights of the Sputh in the territories. We believe, at all events, we hope, that stfch demand, so reasonable in itself, so vitally important to the South, will not, after the delibera- tion that will be had before the 18th of June, be again and a second time refused US. We believe that the democracy will meet at Baltimore determined to do the South full justice and to heal the last and only breach in their ranks.

 Such are our views and hopes. The one may be incorrect and the other fallacious But our attachment to the Union as 1t was formed and handed down to us by our fath- CTS, and our belief that it's perpetuation de- bends solely upon the unity and success of the national democracy, is so great that we are unwilling to take the final step towards the dismemberment of that party until the last hope of obtaining justice to the South at its hands is destroyed and abandoned. We can loose nothing by again appealing to the convention to be held at Baltimore, and might secure all we desired In going into the convention again and demanding justice once more, we yield nothing of the position we now occupy, nor surrender an iota of the rights we claim under the con stituton.

 This subject is one of the very gravest importance and should claim the considera- tion of every democrot. As for ourself we do not yet despair of the nationality of the democratic party. We look forward to the 18th of June with much confidence that we will have presented to us national plat form and a national candidate for the Pre- sidency that the South can indorse and support.