Year: 1859

The shameless Boiling institution on First
street attempts to Justify itself for proving
traitor to the Democratic party and boiling
the regular Democratic organization OF this
county by charging the said regular Demo
cratic organization with boiling the regular
State organization of the party in 1858. The
delegates of the County Convention. says
that consistent sheet, went into q boiling
State Convention instead Of into the regular"
Convention to which they were sent. Ad-
mitting that it was true, which is was not,
what justification does it afford to that paper
for bolting the county organization None
whatever. The delegates were wholly unin.
structed After their election they acted up
on their own responsibility and their acts
could not invalidate the absolute and perfect
regularity of the body which chose them
Certainly, if the county convention which
selected these delegates was not the regular
Democratic convention of the county, there
was no regular convention at all. But no
one is silly enough to dispute the perfect reg
ularity Of this convention. Because the dele
gates of the convention chose to go into an
irregular body, acting upon their own re-
sponsibility admitting for the sake Of argu-
ment that they did-how preposterous the
idea that the regularity of the county con-
vention or of the general organization of the
county could be affected You might as


we'll say that because jet from a fountain


falls into muddy place, the whole fountain


is polluted.


But, Gs we have said, it is not true that
these delegates went into IN irregular body.
! They went into the regular State Convention
Of the Democratic party First, it was the
regular Convention, because Democratic prin-
ciples were therein recognized. And, second
ly, it was the regular Convention, because n
majority of the regular and duly elected dele
gates of the regular county conventions
throughout the State were there assembled.
The anti-Lecompton Convention contained a
clear majority Of the regular delegates to the
Democratic State Convention called for Au-
gust 1858, The party was, therefore, there
represented. This majority was excluded
from the convention presided over by jim
Hardy by mere trickery True the Douglas
majority did not suffer the trick to go into
actual execution, because they saw through it
at glance. The trick was to recognize as
,mcontested delegates all the Lecompton men,


and these uncontested delegates were to de.
eide as to the right of the other delegates TO
admission. 1t had been previously so ar
ranged that the seats of all the regular Doug
las delegates were to be contested. The un
contested delegates, being Lecompton, though
in minority, would thus have power to ex-
clude the entire Douglas delegation of every
county, and admit the Lecompton contestants
who had not a shadow of title to sit in the
convention. Seeing through this contempt
bic trickery, the Douglas delegates chose not
to submit to it, and held a separate and dis
tinct convention oftheir own, composed of
the majority of the legally elected represen-
tives of the Democracy, passed Democratic
resolutions unfurled the banner of the regu. !
lar Democracy and refused to recognize the
boiling tricksters Of the Lecompton Conven-
ton in any shape or manner.


Such is the position of things, and our First |
street cotemporary is B otter in every sense
of the word.