Year: 1860




Union.splitting candidate know not with
whom they are going to contend, and are
wholly unable to lay out the plan of their
campaign They are greatly in hopes that
the National Convention has been rent asun-
derut Baltimore and no nomination nrHde.
They think then that they would have au
easy victory. Again, they are in torment to
know, if there he a Democratic candidate III
the field. what may be his prime pies
whether the Douglas platform at Charlest
has been reconsidered and Il non comuittal
one adopted. or one Southernly sectional II
the Douglas Platform of Nonlntervenliun
remain iutqct. they feel that they have n
hard contest to make. for they know that
the popular feeling is in favor of the right of
The majority in the states aud Territories to
regulate their own atfails The will Of the
minority is alway respected as against that Of
the majority in countries devoted 10 mon
archy or despolism and IL tree Veop will
always recognize the opposite doctline which
declares that the majority shall govern. Ii
is the backbone OF American institutions.
and the Republicans know it well. There
fore they fear the representative of this prin-
eiple thus dear to the American masses. in
the character OF candidate for the Presi-
'ency. They would rather see any other in
the whole broad extent Of the Union uomi-
mated for the Chief Magisiracy Of the Union
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Douglas. of Illinois. (for that very reason
he ought to lie the noniner)


If the contest can he made purely sectional,
they will like it much better If the Ma
tional Convention of the Democracy can lie
pressed to nominate n man pledged to inter
vcnlion l'y Congress in the affairs of the Ter.
ritorirs in tdror of siapery, THEY, with their
candidate pledged to inter. cnIion hy Con-
sress in the affairs of the Territories against
slaeery, will have just the contest that they
desire: for, they well know that. en- pure
ly sectional issue, the North would stand Y
the North and the South Ly the south, and
that the North would have majority soovrr-
whelming as to leave no shadow of chance
for the triumph Of the Southern section.
With Douglas for the candidate. they know
that it would be a war Of sections. an that it
would be hard to rally n purely Northern,
sectional party against one which simply con-
tended for the rights Of both sections and
gave each the same footing. under the Con-
stitution, with regard to the regulation Of do
nestle affairs and interests. Give the Amer
lean people a middle ground upon which to
rally, for the preservation of the rence of the
country, and the majority will stand there,
glad of the opportunity to roll back the op.
posing tides of sectional war This the Re
publicans well know. Conscious of the nu-
merical superiority of the North over the
South they would fain have a purely section
al issue before the country, for then they
would be certain Of victory. They would
like nothing better than to have the oppor-
tuuity Of agreeing with some Democratic
candidate for the Presidency on the main
proposition that Congress had a right TO in
tervene on the question of slavery in the
Territories. Intervention. they would say,
is right, but We of the North will intervene
to prevent slavery. and. since it must be one
thing or the other, why We will intervene
in favor Of our own section.


As for the Lecompton wing of the party.
it is actually amusing to see their anxiety
and confusion. They hate Douglas, but they
are afraid to say so, for fear of the minority
of the party who like Douglas, and who mny
remember them hereafter. when it comes to
the distribution of offices should Douglas
succeed. They take great consolation in a
kind of vague f,ney that Mr. Douglas will
withdraw, for the third time, in favor Of
some non comnttal man, and give them
better chance to crawl into position Many
OF them. Gf we may speak in such manner
of very small squad at the hest) express
themselves as willing to support the nominee
OF the party " ueyer he may be- hut think
that it ought to be some other man than
Douglas Douglas has been too prominent,
lie has wDred on the Administration To
nominate him would look like drliLermte
intention to eXult over the Administration
party


Never was there such stew among poll
tici"ns. aud every man nearly in the country
ls now politician. On the streets and in
all public places. faces weir an anxious as
peet, wherever the sui jet of national poll
tics is mentioned. Nobody knows what to
say scarcely or to do. in n political way.
Especially is it the case with those who are
anxious alwaySt 10 trim their sails to the favor.
ing breeze But, even the staunchest men of


inciple, who are ready to follow their no
tons Of right to the last extremity, whether
through storm Of calm. aiv,rsitv or prosreri
ty, are not without their nnxieties on the
su' Jeet, They hope for the we,f,re Of the
country, and dread catastrophe which may
sweep the Douglas banner from the field
aud give The Constitution and the Union 10
he mad rage of contending sections.


With hashed breath, as it were, the true
Democrats Of California await the news Of
the Baltimore nomination We can only
hope and pray that it may he good tilings
OF good to the Democracy of the nation.
Verify, we believe that it is The day of De+-
tiny for this Republic. She stands at The
turning point of her fate, aud it may be that
the hour of her doom has struck.


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following gentlemen were admitted at the
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