Show OUR REVIEW of the past and the future of the me american negro by D W calp A M at D THE NEGRO AND THE democratic PARTY on the of may 1860 the democratic national convention met in the city of charleston f SC and after a long and very bitter struggle stephen A douglas received the nomination for president of the united states but his nomination was very displeasing to some of the southern democrats and they afterwards nominated johnc breckenridge of kentucky in in opposition to mr douglas the delegates to the second republican national convention assembled in chicago on the of may 1860 and abraham lincoln was selected for president and hannibal hamlin who was a thorough democrat was chosen for vice president the platform which was oras adopted affirmed the devotion of the party to the union of the states and the rights of the states denounced thu the new dogma that the constitution carried slavery into new states and territories senator douglas who was the great leader of the democratic party prosecuted his canvass with wital remarkable energy and with much zeal and his musical voice voice rang out clear and strong while he was engaged in addressing the acres of people who flocked around him wherever he appeared upon the stump but it was utterly impossible for him to stem the tide which swept abraham lincoln and hannibal hamlin on to victory mr douglas Doia glas took his defeat very philosophically and when he observed that the majority of the democrats residing in in the southern states were berc bent upon disrupting the U union nion he be espoused the side of his country and never faltered in i his hia course and he rendered great assistance to mr lincoln after he had assumed the c duties of his high office and the last words which fell from the lips of stephen A douglas were that there are only two classes of citizens in this country patriots and traitors those who favor the union are patriots and those who are opposed to it are an traitors ex president martin van buren strongly sympathized with the uprising of the people of the north and endeavored to uphold the hands of president lincoln and his administration and before passing passing away a zy from this thi is earth he condee condemned bachanan Bc chanan because causene cau lie had permitted aemi eted the slaveholding states to secede from the 11 union bat wr mr van v buren de dared however rth that the war between tha ahe moah and the south would end ena without ba baiting g damage to the it is 0 true that abi 7 our presidents U have ja evi r beep go p me tte as unpopular B became I 1 had no to from the amon sarc KA anon aim f jis e tem that ne h i a kz i a h P vj V j P dib V congress the duty of armin arming c him with the power to do this but congress much to its discredit paid no attention to the wishes of james buchanan we must not lose sight of the fact that president lincoln and nil the members of his first cabinet were adverse to pursuing any other policy or course with the southern states other than that which hadi had been pursued by mr buchanan j 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 n es into the union un less their constitutions contained a clause which would forever exclude 1 slavery from their borders yet notwithstanding this fact mr lincoln and his hig associates permitted 1 the new territories of colorado dakota and nevada to enter the 1 union without any prohibition of slavery and by so go doing they completely ignored the very princia principle e I 1 and the only principle upon up n which the great battle had been won by the republican party james G blaines twenty years in Cou congress gress vol I 1 pp ap and to be continued |