Year: 1860

this paper, in due time, informed our readers
that the Democratic National Convention
adjourned on the Sd inst, at P. NJ, after
a session of ten days, including Sunday
As there was just as much work done on
that day as on the Others it is fair to count
it. we then have the spectacle of a Nation
al Convention of party claiming to be
very harmonious, remaining in session q
third Of month for the purpose of nominat-
ing candidate for President and Vice Pre-
! sident, and making platform; and after
quarreling like lot of cats and dogs, and
actually splitting into fragments, dispensing
without making nomination This opens
up prospect for the party which will dis
courage all their efforts and lay them at the
mercy of a united Opposition


After the split, the Dougias men thought
il wouId be easy To nominate their Idol
There would be no trouble after the fire.
eaters were gone -oh no! But they found
more trouble than they imagined. The
of the whole number Of delegates was re-
adopted from one oftwo motives. lst, Doug
lass friends were sUre of nominating him
even with 2O2 votes, aud W wishcd the advan-
tage of the moral effect and prestige that
a nomination by two-thirds of the whole
number of delegates would give; or I'd,
his friends were-some of them-fals,
friends, and consented to the adoption of the
rule for the purpose of killing him. off in
the easiest manner, and thus re-uniting the
party.


The latter hypothesis is the more reason
able one. So long aS he was the rising
star, many men were his friends, who, when
he had eliminated and had begun to wane,
deserted him on the first favorable occasion.
Douglas aeas slaughtered IN the house Of his
friends. He can not he nominated in June.
When he consented to the post2onement Of
the Convention, he consented to have his
political throat cut


Douglas may, between now and the 18th
Of June make it ''all right with the South
by a course OF action favorable to the "pecu-
liar nstitution;' but the probability is that
he cannot regain the lost confidence of the
Southern Democracy. He cannot this year
be the nominee of National Democratic
convention. He is now on the shelf and
the effort between the present time and the
re-assembling of the Democratic Convention,
will be to harmonic the different wings of
the party and unite all the disaffected on
some moderate man--most probably a
Southern one-Guthrie or johnson. In
this case, the so-called popular sovereign
ty' platform adopted by the Convention,
would be satisfactory to the South, because
the possession OF the Presidency and remain
der of the Administration, the Senate, and
the Supreme Court, is all they want to carry


The Opposition may be sure that the De
mocracy will be united and by the 18th of
June to present their strongest mau. Who
that will be no one knows but we believe,
Guthrie, because he had the highest vote on
the closing ballots next to Douglas. The
Chicago Convention will then make up its
mind that they must put up their strongest
man. 1t will not do to count on any mis-
takes of the Democracy. The strongest man
Of the Opposition we still believe to be Ed
WARD BATES. Where there was one reason
for his nomination before the Charleston
Convention, there are two now. He Will
get stronger from now to the 10th of May.