Year: 1860

ment which they would never have made.
had they not been driven to the wall 10y the
swords and lances of the Douglas party. Here
are these Democrats, we say, who, had they
been sustained by that unity of action which
was marred by the fears of more timid men
to come forth from the Administration ranks
woull this day be the recognized constitu-
ents Of great controlling Democratic organi
zation ofthis State for the fight, on the side
of the Administration party, was merely for
organization and not for principle, and had
the masses Of the Douglas men OF this State
acted in unison in Withdrawing from all part
or lot in the Administration rnks-in other
words had they followed the war cry which
was raised by the men who dared to do it,
and still dare TO take the responsibility of
having done it, both the organization and the
principle would have been with the Dougas
party. In short the Democratic Organization
Of the State would have been like that of
Illinois a Douglas organization. These nd-
herents Of the Administration, ell-pampered
Office holders and their parasites eXelaim,
"Why didn't you stay inside the organiza-
tion ?" Our reply is that 'the organization"
as you call 1.-THE same as you would call
the shell an oyster, when it had no oyster in
1.-THE organization" rs you call it, was


con rolled, (when the Kansas issue arose and


war was made upon Douglas and Popular


Sovereignty by men who were resolved to


crush Mr.. Douglas and to read him out Of the
| Democratic pariy,-the same as james Buch


auan had already individually done. SO Ear as
! his own dictum could do it, The State Con-


,ention which assembled in 1858 was about


to be organized in such way as to accom-


p'ish this Object, and the friends of Mr. Doug
/ las, who believed and who knew that he was


right in resisting the Lecompton fraud and


iniquity, were determined that they would


not see him sacrificed They therefore or.
/ ganizrd separately, held Convention of their
own, and fought for his principles The other
/ organization, in >iew Of this formidable front.


were afraid to condemn Douglas, and never
did dare to do it. until Douglas men thcm-
selves in the last election, under the silly fear
Of an alleged too near contact with RepuLli-
clnisn. chose to abandon their banner and
surrender themselves Internationally into the
hands Of the Administration organization.


We say, that these staunch and true Doug
las Democrats, who have stood by their
standard in the storms and tempests Of the
past. still battling though the star of success
was gloomed in the clouds, are the men 10 |
whom Douglas will be indebted for the tri-
umphant vote which lie will receive in this
State, when he comes before them as the
nominee Of the Charleston Convention They
are the men who have Douglasized Cdlifor-
MIA, for they have revealed from the stump
and from the press and from every center and
source of information for the masses those
facts and truths which the Administration
enemies Of Mr.. Douglas would have nest
studiously suppressed, distorted or concealed


Organizations will make no difference when
the people come to the polls to vote for q
President Of the United States, and that
period will show, in the thunder Of the peo.
pies voice, what kind of work and how much
has been performed 10y the men of whom we
speak. Therefore the friend. Of Mr.. Douglas
have no concessions to make, no pardon 10
beg, no iavors to ask They were anxious to
see the Democratic party united upon the
approach of Presidential contest, partly be-
cause the Kansas issue had been decided in
favor of Douglas. or at least Douglas had


been enabled triumphanty to maintain his
position in the Democratic party whence the
Buchanan forces had attempted to read him


out and partly because they were anxious to
conjoin their strength with that Of the Dour


las element inside the Administration organi>


zation in order to do him some good in the
| Charleston Convention. But the enemies Of
Douglas We're opposed to this union, for fear
that they would lose something. .-perhnrs
their heads-and so, with their tests and their


discipline and their colnmitteeships and their
little trckeries Of tactics, they have barred out
some thirty or forty thousand good and true
Democrats, who are for Douglas. They have
even carried their petty exclusveness so far
as to make q test in this little canvass for city
Offices, which forbade the Douslas men from
any participation in the primary elections
Having done this for no other reason than
that they feared that certain cliques might
not have everything their own way and get
all the offices, they now, through their organ
the Express, come wheedling around the
Douglas Democrats and Say, Now is your
time to get back into the Democratic parrv."
As though they had ever been ont ofthe


Democratic party and as though. if they hnd


they would be getting mtoit, by knuckIing TO


n lot OF brazsn faced Boilers who onenIv Lo.


long to an acknowledged Bogus COUNTY ar


ganization Letthe Express and those WHOM,
it represents learn this thing that the Don,


las Democracy will take their own time for
frateruizing with them or for lowering their
standard to the general flag of the United
Democracy. They will do that when the
Democracy is united and that will I've when
the Charleston Convention has settled the
divisions Of the party and presented us with
Democratic candidate for our suffmges-
No danger that, for the sake Of giving your
kind oil the Offices in this city, we are going