Year: 1860

meaning of its position, for it declares and
reiterates that the Convention ought TO have
done differently. Well, suppose that every
individual Democrat in the country should
assume that one way was right and another
wav was right, where would the deciding
tribunal be ? Party discipline and party or
ganization require that all these matters of
admitting delegates ct eetera should be sub
mitted absolutely to the decision Of the Ma
tional Convention. All objections are fore
closed by the action of the majority, and no
true Democrat can demur to the proceedings,
for they are a fnality. individuals may
bolt, but that is their own business, and they
cease to be Democrats, until such time as they
repent of their ways and come back into the
regular organization.


We have shown that the National Conven-
tion admitted delegates at Baltimore who
were enemies of Douglas as well as those
who were friends. There was no discrimina.
tion used, although everything was in the
hands CT the Douglas majority, and they
could have done as they pleased. 1t is evil
dent, then, that the Convention was governed
by fair and just and even more then just con
siderations; for they were liberal to the mi
nority to degree that could not have been
expected, and certainly not demanded.


The Express says, the Convention did not
do right. Well, two hundred and twelve
delegates oppose their judgment to that of
the California Express Which will the peo-
pie believe in, the National Convention or
the Express?


The Express claims that Douglas was not
reguloriy nominated, because some of the
delegates had retired from the Convention.
Was there ever such effrontery? A small
minority bolt the Convention, and then un-
dertake to say that nothing that is done after
they have left is regular! Why did mt they
stay, then, and make it regular? But the
fact is, that, according to the usages and rules
of all Democratic Conventions, when a por-
ton of the Convention bolt, the majority left
behind go on and act without regard to the
Boilers at all, and Just the same as if the
Convention was full and complete Conven-
tions cannot break up and suffer the party to
be broken up, because a few seceders and
boilers choose to retire from the main body.


Douglas was nominated by the unanimous
voice of PIP. over two-thirds of the entire
electoral vote of the Union. But had his
nomination not been made thus unanimous,
he would still have been the regular nomi-
nee, having received on previous ballot
over two-thirds Of the Conv ention, as con-
stituted, after the seceders retired The rule
in regard to a two thirds vote is, that it shall
be two thirds of the delegates in the Conven-
ton and not two-thirds of the entire electo-
raj vote of the States. Anybody can see this
by reading the rule which is as follows and
which was adopted in 1882:


RESOLVED, That each State be entitled. in the
nomination TO be made ofa candidate for the Pres
idency and Vice Presidency, to a number of votes
equal to the number tina; they will be entitled to
IN the electoral colleges under the new apportion-
ment in voting for President and Vice President,
and that Two-THIRDs OF THE WHOLE NUMBER OF
VOTES IN THE CONVENTION shall be necessary to





definite construction of this rule was
given in lS4S, when Cass was nominated by
two third vote Of the Convention only, and
not two-thirds vote of the electoral college.
On that occasion. New York had two sets of
delegates Half of each were admitted, but
both halves declined to vote. The Chairman
of the Convention considered that, as New
York refused to vote, she was in the same
predicamentas if she had retired from the Con,
vention or was not in it. Cass lacked under
these circumstances, 90 votes of receiving
two.thirds of the electoral votes, but he was
nevertheless declared the nominee on the
ground that twothirds of the Convention
had voted for him.


1t follows, then, that the Express is grossly
wrong on every point which it urges against
the regularity of the Douglas nomination,
and must accept the position of naked and
unqualified Bolter.


FoR DoUGLAs.-The Union, which being at
the Capital, has means Of knowing, says, it is
certain that j. w Denver ex-Goy Weller