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~ PRESIDENTIAL TRACK.
AIR— "Camptown Races.
From Illinois there can be foun I— du J.h—.luJah,
Two nags upon the campaign around, dudah, etc.
First "little Dug'*" 1 do declare, dud it., dudah,
And 'spotted Abe" with kinky hai r , dud-h, ISic. I
They are bound to run this fail,
And I am not afraul
To bet my money on "Little Dug,
Wtio'l! bt cw "spotted Abe I"
These horses ran one race before, dudah, dudah.
gfnd old Spot's wind proved very poor, dudah, .Vo.
The pony horse came out ahead, dudah dudaii.
Whilst Abram's friend, looked very sad, dudah, &c.
They are bound to run this fali,&c.
for (n'ny year* old Abe's been kepr, dudah ,Vc.
fty i/iddins he's been rubbed and swept, diiylab,
F . ail the harr seem, off'his tail, dud ih, dud: h,
A though 'twere done with Hank's rail, dudah, Vc.
' They are bound to run this fall, etc.
oU old Parson Pete, dud di, dudah,
seif-ikme spotted horse did beat, du lab. dr-.
And people say it is no use, dudah, duii&h,
For Abe to run so lauf and lo<,s' y dudah, etc.
They are bound to iun tins tail, etc.
?s'o thanks to Corwtn, Abe or clan, duua'i. dudah,
Jo soldier 3 want when they've a matt, duikth, dc.
Like "Giant Dug," the m-.ghty one, dudah. dudah,
Who never lost a race he run, dudah, dudah, na.
They ate bound to run this fail, etc.
•Old Abe this fill will tru'.y find, dudah, dudah,
tlnce more he will be left belli n l, dudah, eta.
£"or all the soldiers in the land, dudah, dudah,
With "Little Dug" go hand sn han l, etc.
They are bound to run this fail, etc.
[£p*The annexed article was handed us by
a friend of Mr. Breckinridge, with a request to
give it publicity. We have no desire to be tin
fair, and, therefore, publish it most cheerfully.
We shall, however, take the liberty to correct
a few "grcss misrepresentations" ci Judge Doug
las'opinions and conduct, made n the atticle.
Before doing this, we shall premise that 'he ai- ,
title is frotn '.he Philadelphia Penntylonnim, a
riper that refused to support Mr. Breckinridge
until bought up by Mr. BRIMM.U, an oiiice-i .1-
<ier in the Philadelphia Custom Hons -. Tuts
paper is sustained by Government patronage,
and is controlled by the bitter personal enemies
of Judge DOUCLA*. ft is a paper that has stab
b'-d lite Democratic parly deeper than ever Bru
tus'dagger pierced the body of Casar. When
the Democracy were fighting that monstrous
robberv of the State, the sham >aie ut th- Main
Line of the Public Works, the Pennsutwiniaa
W33 found at rayed on the side ol the aw mdlers
and jobbers that bribed tiiat infamous biil through
the Legislature. Or this the I'tnnsylvuniih
was denounced and repudiated in (tie Democrat
ic State Convention of 1857. Nor lias it Lad
any influence since then. Philadelphia was !
that year a Democratic city, and ever sine-" it
has given its thousand, of Oup iyi ton majority, i
The Democracy of Philadelphia have repudia
ted it. Their late Ct'v Convention war com
-
posed ol till! d"iegates, 158 o! whom were fot
Stephen A. Douglas and only hi foi John <J.
Breckinridge, and this in a city where the p w
e,- of the oliice-holdefs n wide by exerted. So
t much tor the influence and fiunesty of the I'enn
sylmnian.
The annexed article is founded upon a false
basis, assumed lor the purpose i i gaining sympa
thy for Mr. Breckinridge. It is not true that
Judge DOUGLAS, or any of bis prominent advo
cate?, assert that Mr. Breckinridge is a Disunion
!>t. The charge i made against Yancey, Rhctt,
Davis, Brown, Iverson, fxeitt, and otheis, who
are the leaders and foster-fathers of the Breckin
ridge movement. Mr. Breckinridge is i:\ their
hands. Should he succeed it gives fUetn
encouragement in their diabolical schemes
Everybody knows that Yancey is a disunion
is!. Why ei>n m fas endorsement of
Breckinridge's nomination, he said lie was
"neither fur noj against the Union." The
si'ne is (rue of three-fourths of the
inridge leaders iri the South. They belong to
tt eSecessionists put down by Old Hickory in
the tunes of Nullification, and routed by Clay,
B ebsler, Douglas, Foote and other patriots in
the memorable struggle of 1850. It is not Mr.
" r -ckinridge that is attacked, but the cause,
the object, of the leaders who have put him for
ward.
DIE Pennsylianian asks, "WHEN and where
C'D Mr. Breckinridge ever express the opinion
'"AT Congress should intervene for thp esfab-
LI'THMENT of slavery TO the Territories ?" We
csa inform that journal. Mr. BRECKINRIDGE
I Jp
I 'ook ground in favor of Congressional Inier
venii-.n fir tl.e pnilcction (or estaolishment) ol
•of slavery ill the Territories, in his speech at
Frankfort, Kentucky, on the Cist of December,
V\'.' copy the following extract from
that speech as published in the Washington
Constitution of J in. 7th, 1860, the heading be
ihe ConJitution's o*vn :
SUAVE CODE.
I: present remedies are adequate to sustain
these decisions, ,I would have nothing mor
done, f, with many other public men in the
country, believe they .ne able! It they are not
—-if they cannot he en forced for want of the I
proper legislation to enforce them—suiiicient '
legislation must he passsed,or our government !
t isa failure. [Applause.j Gentlemen, 1 see no j
! escape from teat conclusion.
At the same li ne, fellow-citizens, I make no
i hesitation in saying to you,'that I trust iije tiim J
wit! never come—l trim the time will nev.-r ;
! con.e when li CMV he d<-e n-,1 necessary for the j
, Congress of tiie United States in an. form to in- I
: ei i•. e with this question i i the rerrttones.— j
1 SJ far it has only been product: v of evil to us, ,
! and it would portend only evil m thr f cure.— I
At present tnere is no quest MM bef >re C >ngr >s. •
\ > Southern r-nresenlatu or senator propos.-s
legislation tt,j point ; ftocomplaint comes
, from any Teriitory ; tin-re Hno evidence tiiat
the existing laws and decisi m.- of the court- aie,
not adequate to protect every description i t
property recognised bv the several States.—
, None whatever. I'fwefore, in inv opinion
ani! I submit it hmrtilv arid with deference
our true p dicy is not to anticipite troo >!♦, :,u'
j to iet tiie matter rest ufHiti the Executive, u|ion
:fie existing laws, and upon the decisions of the '
<""" is. [Ajip ause. j I wiii add this :we must
ever give up the piinciple : we must n-ver 1
give up (tie question that has been judicially !
d-nded, that this constitutional light exists.—
We must stand by that decision. We a.,.,; hold
t-. our constitutional rights ; but I wouf.l never '
p ••natur-ly laise (he question u> distract the 1
<:ounry, > arn '.wre is n ; v. ice calling for it,
North, Lis', South or West, [rippiause.j 1
, say we must ii-otd to the principle; we must 1
stand by it ; V. e stand in a good position.—
We have the Executive; we Lav- the laws;
we have the decisions of the ccrtirts, and tnat is 1
I great advance from where v.'e stood ten vears i
ago.
At the time of Mr. Breckinridge's speech, (
i iere was no demand from the South for (.'.jr.- I
gres.-i;>r.al intervention. Shortly afterwards,
however, Senator Brown of Mississippi, hajckeJ.
, by other introduced a ! iH
in the T . S. Seriate providing n si iv.- code lor j
the rerriiories. Mr. Breckinridge's i
f.ien.ls in the South, have since said that the ',
time has come when such legislation mint ne !
ij<!. Mr. Breckiqrtdge, in the a!iove extract,
i - ...
Claim? t.;e consntutuopal ng'>t i ■ t —g,---, t> i
interfere v\ ti!■ -i.tverv in tie* " rritori-an ;
■ iv< mat t ins rig tit must mt be > h ren -red
! lim Democratic Partv, on tim 'tier ham), fi.> i
aiivavs deemd 'hat Congress ti is me light or Itie i
power to meddle wiih slavery in ttie I'erritories. |
It has always held '.hat that question belonged
; io it.e people (d the territories and not to Cull
i gress. J heivfore, Mr. Breckinridge is an In
terventionist for i.iv-rv. jo-t as S--ward is an
Interventionist -iga.nst it. D-*;tv this, who can.
Besides the Breckinridge Platform commits its (
endorsers to the doctrine that every branch o!
the U.-neidl G.i-einment (C-Jtigrejs one of them)
shall interfere tor the protection of slavery in
the Territories. We have no horror of ne-'io
I slavery. As to the morality of the institution,
( we have nothing to ay. But we have a holy
i horror of the agitation of the subject by Con
i gress. and, therefore, cannot agree to # Mr. Breck- f
inridge's doctrine. The Pennsyivaniaa's arfi- '.
| cle is as follows: , j
Judge Douglas and Ins friends are making '
strong and persistent efforts to convince the peo- ,
pie that Mr. Breckinridge is, first, the Disunion j
j candidate, and, secondly, the exponent of the
j doctrine of Congressional intervention for the'
! es a jlishmeiit of slavery in the Territories.
Nothing is more destitute of truth |p ;in
of ti.e-e proposition.-, and none know this better 1
than those who make the charges.
No act or word of Mr. Breckinridge, indica
ting disunion sentiments, has be-n, or can b<
pointed out. Indeed, tiie last speech he made,
which was <Mivtred in Kentucky, after his e-;
lection to the Senate, is lull ol patrioti.-in, con- i
1 ; setvaiism and attachment to tile Un o:>. The ;
strongest characteristic, of that -p-tch, is its
! calm and dignified d-uunciations of those had
; i men ami fanatics, who aim at the disinernbei-i
■; ment of this confederacy. In l -uguage uf fer
vid and majestic eloquence he de; i n, s the dan- i
j gers which they have brought upon the country j
and appeals to all good ami true men to unite in j
a common effort to frustrate their designs, arid j
to preserve in their integri'y the Constitution
ami the Uuioo. But in a lew .lays, h - himself, ]
: pressed to the wall by his enemies, leientle.-sly ;
| pursued by base detraction and malignant asper- ]
will make, before the American people, a vin- i
dication of himself, that will forever set at rest j
this most wanton and unfounded accusa- (
lion.
, i The second charge, idee the firs', is without;
the shadow ol truth.
When and where did Mr. B.ec'iinridge ever
- express the opinion that Congress should inter
-1 vene for the establishment ol slavery in the
j Territories ? We defy ins enemies to answer.
I On the subject of slavery in the Territories, he
'■ holds that doctrine which is common to ail good
Democrats, North and South—the doctrine of
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MOWING, SEPTEMBER 11,1860.
I non-intervention. We know of but one prom
i ioent politcian who advocates intervention fur
the establishment of slavery in the Territories,
ami that is Senator Brown of Mississippi. Si
different are Mr. Breckinridge's opinions on
this point from Senator Brown's, that it has
been thought the Mississippi Senator would
wjlhold from'his support. It is only very re-'
cently that he has published a letter, in which
he finds fault with Mi. Breckinridge f„r i it
maintaining this doctrine of intervention. He
*iys that this constitutes, rn his mind, an nelec
tion to our candidate, but that he wit! su-tam
him on account of the geij.-ral coincidence of
opinions t.-t ween tiie.n on other subject-..
rbis charge that our candidate and his ft i-'ndij"!
h il.t this doctrine of intervention, is not only
•ank injustice.but it is sheer nonsense. Air.
Yancey even ;l ..\s not liold U. In his 'ate speech
he indignantly repudiates it, arid declares that
no Democrat entertains it.
[tut Mr. B'ccktiiridge holds, an ! a.M good
D-mocrats and ill conservative men of aii par
lies ho!'), that in the feriiluries, wtiicti ate the
common property nl the nation, all the citi/. *ns
•I the United S'ates are protected bv the Con
stitution, in their property—the slaveholder a>
well as tiie rest. Tiie Constitution goes into tiie
IVrnlories and covers them as s .on as they be
come American!! Territories. It goes theie be
bre !h '- j j itter, and i! g -s tfiere t. govern
ami protect t.i n until lie is able to govern and
..r-.tect himself. The Constitution does not cre
ate or establish anv property ; it only protects
ti: • cit:/ -n who removes int.) a Territoiv • . to -
eni >vment of his property.
>' hen the Territory is organ
siiflicientpopulation toautnoriz ' i' 'b m.o.e a
Constituiion. n| | t.> entiti- it to a imissTbn i r.to
the Union as a sovereign Stale, then it cafeith
rr admit or p.ohibti slavery. This is the D-n
--0 r.itic doctrine, and farther than th.s! i- Dem
ocratic party has never gin ,
It is stiort-sighted policy in Jodg- Douglas
and his friends thus to misrepresent Mr. Breck
inridge and those who support hi . I; rt.av
take for a while ; it may draw out the insen
sate hurrah, and deceive bra brief hour '.h-ig
norant and unlettered; but in the end, it will
react powerfully against those wtso pursue i'.
The truth cannot he repressed. It will co ne
out and it v\ ill cover with sham- and confusion
t >e authors of thn mi r presentation and injus
tice
• Our candidate is too nob!.- a mm, and too
pore a statesman, to be injured by no scrupulous
enemies.
llow striking is the contrast he pres-nls to
his rival candidate, Judge Douglas ? While, the
iatW, a pilgrim candidate, has been stumping
in tiie East and South, praising himself and mis
representing his competitor. Mr. Breckinridge,
Sit'.- a gentleman, aa 'h- is, even'TnCfi of 'til.; .
ha remained in the retirement it his horn", and
his not op- . .] in> nps to utter one syllable ?.-
gai.K-t Judge Dniglas! Can s. !i a contras
Without !fs e.'.ect upon the Amentao peo
p - ' -.- t.'ii: !c not.
W" would be C e la- to I.aject i to this al
r- -ldy exasperated contest, :iew .eirieiits of dis
! 1 o and strife—indeed, w- desire a union un
-1 der tli - Breckinridge banner, cf ai) conservative
■dements, but (nisi t prrsentati in must be i -t
! 'villi r irieciiiin, aspersion must be ■ p niy ex
; (wised, ami uiiscrujiulous malice must bedisirrn
ed of its sting.
TilE IUJPI liLIiAN CANDIDATE FOR
V ICE-i'RESID I 'N T-A SKRIOL'S
CHARGE.
It has been established a? a fact, by Colonel
j bmait, the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Maine, tnat Hannibal Hamlin, (tie Republi
can candidate lor \ .ce-J'resid-mt, when a mem
ber of Congress, receivi-d a fee of seeen ihoii
snnd dollars br lobbying a claim through Con
gress. Read tiie fo|.owing letter :
PORTLAND, August 6, iB6O.
'-DEAR Snt : —J very well remember tiie iu
, t"re.-t -A iiii li Air. Mill. 1 It) took in iirocuruig the
passage ol tiie resolve extending rb- time for
: tiiiiig evidence before the Cimimissionei's for the
J distiibulion oi tiie Biaiiliio m iemnitv. i'iie
j Seriate Committee reported the i>-i|v, and I
| tliink ii passed upon the same iJa\. l't.u re
j solve provided for nine months* additional lime
j therefor. Mr. Mason moved to amend bv re
! ducing it to four mon'hs, saying he had con
sulted with Mr. Hamim, the Kenalor from
Maine, who had seen ttie (.'ommis-ion -r.
" I'lie resolve was taken up in the House on
j Friday, the day assigned to Private Calendar,
and was forced through be lore taking tip po
. vate bills. Mr. H indin followed tne resolve
into ths House. I saw him conveisuig with
yi ui self an.i oilier*. He spoke ;■meto ai ! tiie
pass.ige ul tiie resolve as a public inea-ure. and
j at the time I aid not dream that tie had a pri
, vate interest in the claim, or was u.-mg iiis Sen
atorial position for his private hem fit. i'he
fir t knowledge I iiad of Hamlin's attorney ship
was on meeting iiuri ori his way to Ma>>athu
setts to take evidence in support of this ciaim
i a.'ter the adjournment.
I < 'Duiing tfte next session of Congress Mr.
j Hamlin n-ad to me a written argument which he
! I.ad prepared and alterwards filed before tiie
the Commissioners in support of the claim
j which he was employed to sustain. Why lie
i was employed by Massachusetts clients, may
i well challenge inquiry. Mr. Hamim iias iiev
i er been distinguished lor eminence as a lawyer,
while he has a reputation as a political and
Congressional manager.
"Mr. Hamlin was successful, and, I under
stood, it'ceiWii some $J8,0l)0, of wide!) his
share was one-fourth, or $7,000. He sain to
me tiiat some Washington banker had advised
him to invest this money in some Western rail
road, and he had acted in accordance with this
advice.
'•The manner of Mr. Hamlin's employment
[ and his peculiar agency in tiie matter must con
| vince every one tiiat bis political position and
' not his professional talent, was the business
Freedom of Tfcong-fit and Opinion.
;I --
I transaction aimed at by his Massachusetts cli- '
■ems.
Yours truly,
"M. MACDONALD.
■Hon. E. K. SMART, Camden." I
.'amment upon-jhis disreputable transaction
IJ needless! The Republicans who support ,
! s idi a man should never say any thing abo A .
Cflvode Coicuiittees. .
SENATOR D JUGLAS AT
NORFOLK- •
jj.n Sitnrdny evening, Aug. 25th, Judge '
I 'J fig las ileliverd an adL'e,-,- at Norfolk to an (
ad a-nee of nearly .-us thousand pe.ipie. The
a-ytress occupied two hours in delivery. Tne
loidrwing j? taken from a report in the .V. Y.
Jli/nid :
iii the middle of his address a slip of paper (
wis handed t . him. It was cut from the Nor- ,
: JkfOnilif Jlrgus, apd con tamed two polite ,
qsp-stioris for Judge Douglas. ,
i Having ascertained tin* question thus pro- i
pjinJeJ, h- siid thereon, lam not in the ha ;it '
m'ausw o ing questions propounded to me in the i
cif.rse of an a Mress, but OH this occasion I will i
c 'fiplv with the request, and respond very
bsnklv awl equivocally to (tie?- two questions. .
Pile first question is, ii Abraham Liucoln
b- i lected President oi the United States will
t?e Southern State* be justified in seceding
tf n the Union '?
To tiiis I emphatically answer "no." |Great
■a iniaus!-.] The "lection of a man to the,
Residency by the American people, in cou
itrrrnty with the Constitution cf the Unite i
Nates, wotr.'d not iustify anv attempt at dis
.splvii g riiis glori ins Confederacy. [App'au.-e.J
Now I will read to you tiie next question, and
l ii answi r ii.
Question. Jf they, the Southern State?,
secede irom the Union upon tli" inauguration
of Abraham Line fin, beiore he commits ati
overt act against th-i- constitutional rights,
will you advis- or vindicate resistance by lorce
to thejr Seces-io: '
Voices. '•No, no!" "Bell men sav no,
Douglas."
JMr. D uglas. I answer emphatically that
it i- the duty of the President ol th- United
•Suites, and ali others in authority tm-'-r hi n,
. ■• enforce tiie law- oi the Usnt"d States as
, passed by Cioigress and as the court? rXpound
the ji. [l'iieeisj And I, a* in duty bound
bv ii;y •> th of tide it\ i > the Constitution,
would do all in my power to ai) i:i the
Goeei iiiuent of the United States HI maintain
ing lite supremacy o! the ia* against a!I re
istuoce to them, com- torn what quitter it
In ol.ser word: I t.imk the
President of the United States, who-ver he
may he, xli■•mid treat aii attempt to break up
tiie f. "non by renistance to its laws, as old Hick- !
oiy treated tfie nulltfier? in 1832. [Applause.]
i'he nil's if,list be enforced, but, at the same
time, je it remembered, it is the duty of every
citiz-n of every State, and every public lu;;c
--fi.inarv, fo preserve, maintain, and vinnirafe
the right of every citiz-n, and u>- rights of
-very State in tf: • U:u n. i bold that the
institution has a remedy far every grievance
tiiat iany aris- within the limits ol the (Jniou.
I im v-ry frank in answering these questions.
I am not in favor of any policy which would
tend to give rise to complaints or murmuring*,
much less to such as would call for ressitance
from aiy quarter. 1 acknowledge the inherent
and inalienable right to revolution whenever a
grievance become* too burdensome to be borne.
1 acknowledge the right of every man to repel
ami change the form of government under
which he lives whenever it proves destructive
to the end- for which it was established. That
a is r-glii, however, never to be resorted tounti!
the operations of the government become mor
griev Dtts than the consequences of revolution.
And therefore I say that the mere inauguration
u! a President of the f mited State* whose politi
cal opinions were in my judgment hostile to
the Constitution and safety of the Union,
without an overt act on his part, without a
blow at our Constitution or our rights, is not
such a grievance as would justify revolution or
secession. ]Ch"er.} Hence, I say, whoever
may t-e elected President of the United States,
lie mu*t be sustained ;n the exercise of a!! his
just constitutional prerogatives arid powers.—
I he irarisi-en is them we will punish him with
all tiie rigor of the law, as you punished J >lm
Brown when he violated your laws-. [A storm
of applause, j [, for one, will sustain with ail
my euergv the President whenever tie may
be in tiie exercise of all the powers conferred
upon hurt by the Constitution, but I would
take jn*t as much pleasure in hanging him if
i.e tianscended those powers, as 1 (Vel plea-tire
in knowing thai you hanged John Brown when
Im was guilty of murder and treason again*'
the State of Virginia. [Renewal of storm.]
I am a law-abiding man, a Union-loving
man, and I believe the Union can be main
tained by a faithful observance of the Constitu
tion, but I insist in • xacting tl.e fulfilment in
good faith of every provision of that Constitu
tion ; I insist on a line of policy which will
place all th- people of all the States in an exact
equality, and maintain and protect them in
their just rights, but which will also compel
obedience to ih~ Constitution and the constitu
ted authorities of the country. Now, these
questions, put to me the first day I landed on
\ irgin.a soil, having emanated from the Iriends
of the Secessionist can lidate, f ask that like
questions may h- also put to those candidates,
; j and that you insist upon such Irank and un
-1 equivocal ansvvei* as 1 have given.
A Voice. "They could not do it square."
Mr. Dauglas. Remember tiiat Mr. Breckin
• ridge was nominated on the theory that the
election of Lincoln was preferable to that of
Djuglas. Now, no man doubts that if Breck
mridge's friends had not seceded at Baltimore,
I , but had acquiesced in the legitimate action of
> the Convention, I would have in this contest '
beaten Lincoln by the popular vote. J
A Voice. "That's so."
Mr. Douglas. Kf-ss than one-third of the
Convention seceded from the two-thirds, cn the
ground that Southern honor and Southern rights
were not safe tn my hands, and that hence it j
was necessary to divide the party in every
State of the Union, so tha Lincoln might have
a chance of running in between the Democrat
ic (.arty, and get elected by a majority vote.
A Voice. "Tti .t's so."
Mr. Douglas. The only ostensible and tru<*
object sought in making a Breckinridge ticket
in the Northern S'.-ites was to divide the demo- j
cratic party so as to give Lincoln every one oi
(lose States, so thai I tell you if Lincoln b- e
lected President it will be the Secessionists:
whom \ou will have to blame for i!.
A Voice. "Tnat'.s so."
Mr. Douglas. Lincoln ha-s no hope of being i
elected except throngm th- efi'.irts of the Seces
sionists, who hav- d '- - id—! the Democratic par
tv supposing ti.at Breckinridge could carry
every Southern State—though it now seems he ;
i? n it gniii ' to carry a single one be the people.
Siiil bv divi ling tl.e North, he gives every on-* ,
oi the States to Lincoln, thus allowing him to j
be elected by tin- popular rote. Why, what
was tiie true as.pi cl of the contest before the e- ,
ceseiou?—Lincoln had no show whatever for;
more than two Sates tiii the Breckinridge di
vision took plac", an i I would have beaten him
in every State but Vermont and Massachusetts.
As it is, I loink 1 will beat him in almost ali of ;
them vet. [Cheers.] But should Lincoln be
elected, the Sece.s.i lists, who nominated and,
now suppott Br* ckinridge, will be entitled to;
l'i- credit of it, and upon them will icst thi i
responsibility oi ha-mg adopted the fatal po!i
cy, and <1 reading the ie*ult of their own rash j
and unpatriotic act, which give to Lincoln a
chance of success, they come forward and ask
me i! f will help them t . dissolve the Union in |
tiie event of Lincoln being raised to tl.e Presi
dential chair. J tell them no—never on earth. [
[Chee'sand cries ot "Good.' j lam for pul
ling down Northern Abolitionism,-but am a'?o
fur putting down Southern Secessionist-, and
that, t JO, by the ( .-.excise of the same coii!itt!-
liolldl powe •. [••(Clod."j I believe thai the i
peace, the harmony and tne safety of tins coun
try depend upon destroying both factions.
[Cheer?, j Both parties, if parties they can be !
called, a;e alii. - in a common cause ; fur how
ever hostile they in.iv' be to each other, liowev- j
er opposed in purposes and objects, yet their
cours- of action lead* to the same deplorable re- j
suit; and without meaning any disrespect or;
personal uakindoe*-, 1 believe that, in tiie event
of the success oi either party, the success ol !
Northern A >alitumi>ts or that of Southern Se
tv<i Jiii- *, tiie Union, and our glunous Con*ti- !
ti'tmn a r o ahk- put m perii and danger. Nor
thern Ahd'h ion ism could not exist tor any ;
: :,.ih o: time, except t.u-re was a counterpoise !
demanding the intervention ot tiie South. 7"he '
Republicans demand Congressional interference
again?', slavery, v.-hil- the Secessionists demand !
Hi,:; C .-ngress sti ;;t loterfe ■ to piotect and ex
tend slavery. '! :fi* . i e pivut upon which i
both partn ? torn ; ti is, :ny friends, is tiie whole ■
state of the case : tli e are the dangers to be
apprehended, and thus it devolves upon you to '
' r'.Bv to the rescup, aud bv vattng the National ]
De.mocratic ticket p.aced before t,i country by •
•tiie Baltimore Convention, t > (/reserve this gio- j
nous Union. [Cnet:; and cries ot "And we i
will do it."]
His speech fit* rr.a !- a most favorable im- '
pression here in Nortoll:. Numbers of Breck
inridge men pubiiciy proclaim defection from j
t'-at party and their adiierenc.e to Douglas.
The Bed and Everett men stand fist to their j
cuiors, and aresang.ioe of the *u.;ces ot their |
NEW DDLGLAS RAPEFiS.
Scarcely a mail that does not bring us one or j
more papers tiiat hive just started, and have at j
once hoisted the names ul Douglas and Johnson,;
or that have been converted to their Cause from j
neutrality or th- advocacy ot other candidates, j
We have taken occasion to give '.lie names of as
many ot them as have reached (is. Among the j
number that, have just come t / hand in the last '
day or two, we notice the following :
The Madison, La., Democrat h-i* taken down !
the names ol Breckinridge and Lane and has :
substituted those of Dougias and Jonnson. ihe
Democrat is one of the largest and must influen
tial papers in the State.
We have received the first a:; I second nnrn- j
hers of the "l ittle Giant," a tieatlv (/t inted and j
well edited campaign paper, published in Ba- :
ton Rouge, La.
The L.diurche, La . Union, an old and in
lluential Journal, coir.es to us with trie names
of Dougia and Johnson flying at its mast head.
The editor in his salutary says :
••We raise to day th.- names of Douglas arid
Johnson, and under that flag we enter the pres
ent contest, prepared to iiattie for standard o-ar
ers, the chosen Representatives ot National
Democratic principles, and to lend whatever ;
help we can to avert the blow of the traitorous j
bands—Black Republican and Yonceyite—that :
aim to strike down ttie Union."
The Union Democrat is tiie name of a good i
sized and spicy paper just started at CKvenstior
ough, Kentucky. Its first 'number gives good
promi-e (or the Douglas cause in Little Owen.
The Peoria Democrat is th-- name of a new
daily German Dougias paper just started at
Peona.
Ttie Union Democrat is the name of a new
Douglas paper ju*t started at Jonesborough,
Union county. The editor, in hi* salutary, re
views the course of tiie Conventions and the
stateof the party, and arrives at tiie conclusion
that the doctrine of non-intervention, and the
candidates who represent it, are the only on-*
who can succeed bofore Ihe people. It, there
fore pledges its support to each.
The people's Champion is the name of a nmv
large and able paper just established at Daven
port, fowa. It is fully committed to trie sup- ;
' port of Douglas and Johnson.
W £*?!,!-; TfSItR, 2919.
! The Daily Herald, published at Lafayette,
the second number of which has been publish
ed, gives a cordial and effective support to Doug
las and Johnson.
We have received th" first numbered the
Newark, New Jersey, Democrat, a good sized,
well printed and ably edited sheet, with the
names of Douglas and Johnson at its mast
(lead.
The Hunterdon, N. J. Gazette, which has
i .'.'to advocated the election ot Beii and Ev
erett, has transferred its jujqx/rl to Doug'aslaiid
Johnson.
A new campaign paoer in the same interest,
has been established at Freehold, Mountain
county, N. J.
•FREE HOMES FOR FREE WHITE MEN."
This is the great cry ol the Black Rspubli
can press and orators generally. But no intel
ligent people will be deceived by th-ir hvpo
cntical appeals on this head. Tnev know that
the homestead law is a D-rnocra'ic measure—a
hill of this character was int. ! uced by Senator
of Tean., and passed by a Democrat
ic Senate, before the Republicans, headed by
Galiisba Grow, thought it expedient, for elec
tioneenrig purposes, to get up anything of the
• kind. Douglas bar always Deen in favor of,
and has always uoied fur, such a law. Lin
coln's position however, is not known, but Ham
iia, liie Black Republican candidate tor Vice
President, lias always be-n against such a law,
; and has a! ways voted against it when he has
bern in Congress.
While we say tiiat Mr. Lincoln's position i*
not known, we have' a right to infer tliat he
occupies the same position as Hamlin, lrom the
fact that while m Congress he voted against the
bill granting one hundred and sixty acres of
laud to the soldiers who fought our batties in the
Mexican war. We piesume his own friends
wi;l not pretend that he would refas" to give
I homesteads to those who never saw a ba'tie
field, [f anybody is entitb Ito a free hcrce up
on the public land, it is certainly first olali, the
poor soldier who has risked bis life and broken
iown his health in (tie service of his country
! and won her battles bv his braverv and prowess.
But the Black Republican candidate for Pres
ident opposed granting them any sucii poor prt
; t.ince And now tiie hireling agitators of this
party prate about "free homes to tree white
j men !"'— Roilidaysburg Standard.
JUDGE DOUGLAS IN THE SOUTH.
! During the last week Judge Douglas has been
; making a tour of the Southern States, and he
has been received everywhere by the people
i With '.he wildest enthusiasm. However much
; tie may be be belied by the fire eaters and disu
nionists- of "tiie South, the hearts of the Southern
I people a r e with him, as will be their votes in
j November. He belongs to a class of statesman
who maintain the -ame positions and proclaim
j the same principles whether in Maine or Vir
ginia—Massachusetts or South Carolina. His
enthusiastic reception in the South is a stern re
uke to those Northern dough-faces who have
">een asserting that "his manly defence nf the
rights of the people of all portions of the Repub
lic, had rendered him unpopular in the South.
FIRST GUN FROM OHIO!
There was a special election for Councilman
:n the Ilth Ward of Cleveland, on the 2Qlh
! irst. A Democratic Councilman had turned
Black Republican and his constituents asked
iiim to resign, which he did. A new election
was ordered. A Lincoln man and a Douglas
| man were each regularly nominated by their
respective parlies, end the- tug of war com.T.en-
I ced.
The Lincoln man was laid out by a majority
jof _.)o being an increase of 115 since the last
; Spring election,
j Boys, do you hear that!
following extract is going the rounds
; of the Republican press, and being a vvell-roun
: ded lie, has, of course, found a place in the col
umns of most ol the papers of that stripe :
j "Mr. Douglas said :
"[ denounce him (CLAY) in the Congress ol
ti: ■ United States, and I now denounce him'a* a
TRAITOR— A.N OLD BLACK-HEARTED
TRAITOR—the first A m erican statesman who
lever attempted TO SELL HIS COUNTRY
' FOR BUI IT Si" GOLD."
This has been flatly contradicted by Judge
Douglas himself—more than once—and the Cin
cinnati Inquirer oilers a premium to any eater
prising Republican who will produce the docu
ment#. The friends and admirers oi Henry
Clay have little confidence in the pretended
symvathy of the abolition higher law organs.
Were he now alive, who can doubt that th
sectronaiists north and south would meet in hirrr
1 their sternest be, and made to cower beneath
the power ot his unequalled eloquence.
T.ir patriot J <hn Adams, it is, said ,was do
-1 signed for a shoemaker, like ins father. One
day Deacon Adorns his parent, gave hi:n some
uppers to cut out by a pattern that had a three
corneied hole in il, by which it had hung upon
a nail,ami it was b in • that lie had followed the
pattern exactly, hole and all. The Deacon,
upm se. iog this deciaied that John wasn't fit
to be a shoemaker, and sa he concluded to make
j a lawyer of tiirn.
_
They have fail.lies in L.-ndan, sometimes that
! exceed anything of the kind iu this country.
: A shoe-dealer in ilia', city, who was supposed
ito he doing "a nice, snug little business," bav-
Img failed, riis liabilities were discovered tobe
' $'255,005, aod his assets $250.
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