Year: 1860

Declaring for Douglas.


The masses Of the Democracy, throughout
the whole State, are declaring for Douglas as
the regular nominee, with an enthusiasm that
Enthusiastically indicates the destruction OF
the Breckinridge party. Those Boilers, who
think they carry the Democratic votes OF this
State in their breecbes' pockets, will find
themselves most egregiously mistaken. They
count without their host, and their doom is
sealed.


The majority of the Democratic party, in
this State, though undoubtedly for Douglas,
refused in the two last State elections in Call
fornia, to sustain an organization which
ennuciated his principles, because they did not
consider it, according to Democratic usage,
the regular organization. They held the
same principles, identically, with that organi
zation, but refused to act with it, because in
their judgment it was not regular. AT the
same time, they declared their full and perfect
sympathy with an organization in Illinois,
which announced precisely the same princi
Piles, because it was, in reality and beyond
all question, the regular organization in that
State. 1t was a well understood thing in this
State, that there was great sympathy be-
the regular" organization and those who
composed the irregular" (so.called) Organi-
zaton but that they could not carry that
sympathy intopractical operation, on account
of the dividing line of regularity and irreg-
ularity. An effort was made to get rid OF
this difficulty, at the period for calling a
ton, 10y ignoring all tests save that of a
pledge to abide by the action of the Charles
ton Convention. This the Buchanan men re
fused, and so the Douglas forces were kept
divided, and Buchanan delegates sent to
Charleston This being done, it was under
stood 10y the Democratic party generally that
the National Convention would put forth
its platform and its candidates, and that
then, as a matter of course, all Democrats
could at least vote the Democratic ticket at
the polls. The National Convention adopted
platform embodying the doctrine of non-
Intervention, and thus confirmed the cor
reetness of the principles of the Illinois or
ganization and of the so>called irregular
organization of California. The National
Convention, being in every respect regular,
it was expected that every Democrat in the
nation would abide by its action, because be-
yond the National Convention there was no
appeal, and, thus, the National Convention
having declared the principles of the party
all regular and all irregular organizations of
the Democracy (there being no longer any
doubt as to the true doctrines of the National
Democracy would be blended into one solid
Democratic organization. Such was the just
and natural expectation for the Administers
ton party had continually howled for regu-
larity, and the purely Douglas men had ex-
pressed their determination to support the
regular nomination and the regular platform,
as put forth by the Democracy of the Nation.
The only point upon which the so-called
irregular organization in this State insisted
was that it was not for Mr. Buchanan to de-
fine the principles of the Democratic party,
but for the grand National Democratic Con-
vention.


Now, there is no reasoning by which these
pretended sticklers for regularity con avoid
the responsibility of Boilers, and brazen-
faced ones at that, if they do not sustain the
regular nominee The masses of the De-
mocracy see the point clearly, and they are
not going to be led off from regularity into
irregularity, and from nationality into sec
tionalsm.