| Show f COUR REVIEW RE of past future of the an e gra J yi W J cp cu ap biz at mi mm THE NEGRO ANI AND THE tar democratic PARTY y on the of may 1860 the democratic national convention Jaa 4 t etin the e city of 0 f charleston 8 SC C d after 1 a 11 long iong and very bitter roggle rt stephen A douglas received the ibe nomination for president of the united states but we his nomination was vaa very displeasing to some of the southam ou them democrats and they atter afterwards wards nominated johnc breckenridge of kentucky in opposition to mr douglas the delegates to the second republican yub lican national convention assembled in chicago on the of may 1860 and abraham lincoln was selected teA for president and hannibal hamlin who was a thorough ib democrat was c hosen chosen for vice president the platform which fras as adopted affirmed the devotion of the party to the union of the states and the rights of the states denounced thu the new dogma i that the constitution carried slavery into new st states akmand and territories senator douglas who was w as the great leader of the democratic party prosecuted Prosecute a his hii canvass with remarkable energy and with much zeal and his musical voice rang out dear clear and strong while he was engaged in addressing the acres of people who flocked kea around him wherever he appeared upon the stump but bat it was utterly impossible for him to stem the tide which swept abraham lincoln and Hanu hannibal ibal hamlin on to victory mr douglas beuglas took his defeat very philosophically and when he observed that the majority of the democrats residing esi dirig in the southern states were teat bent upon disrupting the union he espoused the sida of his country cou n try and never faltered in his course and he rendered great assistance to t mr lincoln after he had assum edthe duties of his high office and c the last words which fell from the lips of stephen A douglas were that a there re are only two clai classes ids of df citizens 3 i in IL this country patriots and traitors those wh who 0 favor 1 tulare patriots and a to jt it are traitors EX vanburen strongly ritti ith the Z v odthe north f c y as t 11 AI thi hold and ICU p tiri ja an and 11 iss bh inin j Z bafo before i rf i is he i JM buchanan be W F ave the j rt r t vat t iltha mi j ea oiw 1 1 4 7 5 s1 sa ai g ap 5 s sN 83 71 MM t W a M fesi W 4 afu jj 4 i sit n MM ve W car j IS en a e at 1 1 va mi 4 4 AL 4 ar 4 itaw Z f I 1 I 1 MIA congress the duty of arming him with the power to do this but congress much to its discredit paiano attention to the wishes of james buchanan we must not lose sight of the fact that president liol lincoln and d nil 11 the members of his first cabinet were adverse to pursuing any other policy or course with the southern states other than that which had been pursued by mr buchanan in passing along we must also remember that the republican party had won its great victory upon the sole issue that its leaders were not in favor of admitting new states and territories into the union unless their constitutions contained a clause which would forever exclude slavery from their borders yet notwithstanding this fact mr lincoln and hist associates permitted the new territories of colorado 9 i dakota and nevada to enter the union without any prohibition of slavery and by so doing they completely ignored the very tery principle and the only principle upon which the great battle had been won by the republican republic party james G blaines twenty years in congress vol val 1 I pp ap and to be continued |
