Glasgow Weekly Times

DISTRICT CONVENTION
The anti-Bentonites are insisting on a convention to nominate a candidate for Congress. Arranged as they and Mr. Green are, and universally conceding as the party does, that Mr. Green must and will be the candidate, it looks rather strange to some that the fuss and formality of a convention to nominate is insisted upon. The Convention is insisted on, alone, as a "party usage," in order that those who go into it may be forced to support the nominee, and all who refuse, whether they participated in the convention or not, may be denounced as traitors. This is one of the tactics of the anties, to put down the Bentonites, who seem to fully understand the game, and are raising a higher 'test question' than the 'regular nominee,' as will be seen by the following extract from an article in the last Jefferson Inquirer, on the subject of the District Convention.

Under no circumstances could we be induced to vote for Mr. G.'s re-election to Congress; nor can we see how the anti-Benton faction could ask to be recognised in a convention of the democracy, without first pledging themselves to stand by the Union, in case Congress passed the Wilmot Proviso. We will join any party in opposing the passage of the Wilmot Proviso, we will urge its repeal if it is passed—but we cannot consent to go into Convention and act and support men for office, whose political opinions are fanatical, and destructive of the peace and quiet of the Union. The friends of Mr. Green should not look for support from the Democratic party—from the friends of the Union—but as Mr. Green has espoused the doctrines of Mr. Calhoun, for support; and to that portion of the democratic party known as disunionists.