Boston (MA) Advertiser, “What to do with Mr. Douglas,” February 23, 1860

    Source citation
    “What to do with Mr. Douglas,” Boston (MA) Advertiser, February 23, 1860, p. 2: 2.
    Original source
    Charleston (SC) News
    Newspaper: Publication
    Boston Daily Advertiser
    Newspaper: Headline
    What to do with Mr. Douglas
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    2
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    WHAT TO DO WITH MR. DOUGLAS. The Charleston (S. C.) News, referring to the chances of Mr. Douglas’s nomination, insists that in such an event, the Southern delegates “should withdraw from the Convention, hold one of their own, which would in fact be the true democratic body, and present a constitutional platform and nomination to the country. It would defeat both wings of the opposition.”

    “The reason for such a course is, that Douglas’s majority comes from the States which are black republican, and whose democratic factions to be represented here, cannot carry them even for their free soil leaders. The South must never consent that these delegates shall dictate the platform and nomination, and force upon her States, which constitute the democratic party, in reality, a man treacherous to their principals and inimical to their interest. The platform and nomination should come only from the States which voted the democratic ticket in the previous Presidential election, and a rule to this effect, if there must be democratic conventions, should be adopted.”

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