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THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
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REGULARLY NOMINATED
SJEAIOCE,ATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
YEE33N A DOELAS,
OP ILLINOIS
FOR • VICE PRESIDENT,
EBSII V aIcSON,
OF GEORGIA
DMIXOCRATIC STATE NOMINATION,
FOR GOVERNOR,
HYJNDIY 13 ICSIII,
OF 'WESTMORELAND
To the Democrats of Huntingdon County.
'The Democratic citizens of the several boroughs and
townships of Huntingdon county. are hereby notified to
meet at their usual places of holding primary meetings,
on Saturday, Augn , t 11th,1S6O, and elect two delegates
from each, who will Ilsenible upon the following WEDNES
DAY. AZGUST 15TH AT '2 o'cLocx, P. N.. in the Court House,
at Huntingdon, to nominate Ticbet for County Officers,
to be voted for at the approaching annual election—to
elect three Congressional and three Senatorial Conferees
to put in nomination one candidate for Congress and one
for the State Senate, and to transact such other business as
may be thought advisable for the success of the party.
The election in the several townships to be opened at 4
o'clock, P. M., and continued open two hours, and in the
soreral boroughs at 7 1 / 2 o'clock, and closed at 9 o'clock,
P. A.
By order of the Committee.
DEMOCRATS OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY, COME,
LET US REASON TOGETIIER.—The last Hun
tingdon Union, a paper commenced just one
year ago, and pledged to the support of Dem
ocratic nominees, has already kicked out of
the traces. We find in the last number of
that paper, the following extraordinary dis
-organizing paragraph :
"'lnnis county, Breckinridge is stronger than Douglas.
Our strong Democratic townships are dead against him,
.and in Cass, which is heavily Republican, we do not think
Douglas will get a vote. Ills strength is fabulous—looks
large on paper—but " grows small by degrees and beauti
fully less," when we come "to count noes." We have no
desire to estimate the numbt.r of his friends less than it
really is; we want the truth and nothing but the truth."
Thirnaoth.ts of Cass—Democrats of the strong.
Democratic townships—Democrats of the
county—how do you like to be represented
as occupying a position hostile to the regular
nominees of y , :ur party. We do not believe
that the Democrats of the strong Democratic
townships are ready and willing to.say by
their votes that they will • not support the
nominees of the Democratic National Con
vention. We are not prepared to believe that
they are ready to be counted with the Yan
cey-Breckinridge bolters and disorganizers.
Stephen A. Douglas is the Democratic Na
.tional nominee for President—no political
power on earth can deprive him of that honor
.—and as such he must be supported or op
posed. If the strong Democratic townships
are prepared to bolt the National organiza
tion and its nominees, they should not be
afraid or ashamed to elect delegates on Sat
urday next, who will openly and fearlessly
-declare in County Convention their determi
nation not to recognize the action of the Na
tional Convention as binding upon them.
"WE want the truth and nothing but the
,truth." We want to know where to find the
Democrats of the county—of the " strong
Democratic townships"—who have, during
late campaigns, damned the men who dared
refuse to give their support to Democratic
nominees. We want such Democrats in par
ticular, and all others in general, to say
through their delegates in County Conven
tion, where they are Now—whether they are
supporting or opposing the nominees of reg
ular ' Democratic Conventions. We want
the Democrats of the county "to count
noses" on this question. We want the only
National party of the State and Union to
know where the Democracy of " Old Hun
tingdon " stands—whether with or against
-the National Democracy. We want our
, County Convention to speak out in language
not to be misunderstood, that in all future
the record may be referred to with pride, or
indignation. Democrats, buckle on your
armor, a battle well begun is half won. We
want to hear from those " strong Democratic
;townships," and we want to record their vote,
for or against DOUGLAS and JOHNSON,
the only nominees of the only National Dem
ocratic Convention held in 1860. There can
be no middle ground taken. Democrats must
face the music, and be heard through their del
egates in the County Convention on Wednes
day next.
Aer. The Democratic County Delegate Con
vention of Dauphin county, which met in
Harrisburg on Tuesday of last week, adopted
ted a resolution declaring Stephen A. Doug
las, Herschel V. Johnson and Henry D.Foster
the regularly nominated candidates and as
such they receive the support of the Demo
cratic party. Good for the Democracy of
Dauphin,
ATTACII'T EXECUTIONS,
EXECUTIONS,
DEEDS,
MORTGAGES,
JUDGMENT NOTES,
NATURALIZATION WKS.,
JUDGMENT BONDS,
S. T. BROWN, Chairman
CAN THEY BE TRUSTED ?—Some of the
Presidential Electors, selected by the Read
ing Covention and pledged by that body to
the support of the National Democratic nomi
nee for President, whosoever he might be,
have already refused to be bound by that
pledge. They act separate and apart from
the declared sentiments unanimously ex
pressed by the Democracy of the State in
that Convention assembled.
That Convention also adopted a platform
of principles—the same platform upon which
Buchanan and Breckinridge were elected in
'56, and upon which Douglas, the regularly
nominated Democratic candidate, now stands.
This platform a portion of the Electoral
ticket repudiate—repudiate by declaring that
they are willing to cast the Democratic vote
of the State for Breckinridge and his sec
tional platform. Can such men be trusted?
Can the Douglas Democracy, the National
Democratic party of the Union, trust such
men ? Never. If elected—repudiating the
pledge of the party that made them—they
would be as ready and willing to cast their
votes for Lincoln to defeat Douglas as they
would be to cast them for Breckinridge.—
There can be no double-headed smuggling
game played off on the National Democracy
this campaign. The proposition of the dis
organizers to have Breckinridge recognised
as having equal claims with Douglas, upon
the Democratic organization, is offering an
insult to every man who believes there should
exist a National organization of the Demo
cratic party. Those who are against Doug
las are against the regular organization of
the Democratic party, and, occupying that
position, are giving " aid and comfort" to the
Opposition. Such we sh'all treat as political
enemies—enemies to our principles, party and
organization. With such we cannot com
promise on any other proposition than the
withdrawal of Breckinridge the disorganizer.
Every man voting a fusion, double-headed
Electoral ticket this fall, compromises his
principles, his party organization, and his
honor.
No VoIcE IN THE PARTY.—The man who
bolts the nomination of Douglas can have no
voice in the National Democratic party.—
Breckinridge and Lane are bolters. They
have severed their connection with the Dem
ocratic organization, and are now lending
themselves to the enemies of the party.—
Hence they are not within the pale of the po
litical church and can have no communion in
it. Those who support them are bolters and
must be treated to the same fate. They can
have no voice or consideration in the party—
none whatever. The man who talks for
Breckinridge talks for Lincoln, and the man
who supports Breckinridge aids Lincoln.
There is no alternati.,l for Democrats who
desire to redeem the State and take the elec
toral vote from Lincoln, but to support Doug
las, hence those who do not do so, will be re
garded as in favor of aiding Lincoln to carry
the State. That is the practical view of it,
and no other view can be taken. That is the
view the solid Democratic voting men will
take of the matter. To talk of Breckinridge
and Lane as the nominees of the National
Democratic party, is to talk nonsense.—
They are the regular nominees of the Rich
mond Disunion Convention, and were never
nominated by any other Convention. The
squad of bolters who nominated them at Bal
timore did so without any delegated authority
whatever.
"The National contest in this State has ceased to be for
victory ; it is but a fight, by the enemies of the Democratic
party, for vengeance."—Huntingdon Union.
An honest confession, it is said, is good for
the soul. Here we have the bold declaration
of a Yancy-Breckinridge disorganizing sheet
that the fight for Breckinridge is not for a
victory, but as enemies of the Democratic
party, the fight is for vengeance on the
regular Democratic nominees and the Demo
cratic National organization. We want no
better evidence than the declaration of the
Union to satisfy Democrats that every Breck
inridge paper in the State and in the Union
is in the interest of the Yancey Disunionists.
Forewarned, forearmed!
" Are the true friends of Douglas ready to be sold to the
Republicans ? IP: H. Wash.
No, sir. The true friends of Douglas don't
intend to vote for purchasable material—for
Electors who refuse to recognize Douglas as
the Democratic nominee. The true friends
of Douglas are too old to be caught napping
—they are of mature age and wont be sold to
the Republicans nor to the Yancy Disunion
ists.
A FACT TO BE REMERBERED.—There is not
a, single avowed Secessionist or Disunionist
in the slave States who does not heartily and
cordially support the Breckinridge and Lane
ticket for President and. Vice President.—
Does not this fact satisfactorily prove, when
we consider the proverbial political sagacity
of these men, that they, without exception,
deem this ticket satisfactory, and well adap
ted to further their Disunion purposes ; and
does not this fact account for their unanimity
in supporting it?
COMING BACK.—The Richland, Ohio, Dem
ocrat states that quite a number of Democrats
in that vicinity, who left the Democratic par
ty in 1854, are now coming back to their first
love, since the party has been purged of dis
unoinists, and will vote for Douglas and John
son. So it is in every State of the Union.—
Let us cut entirely loose from these bad cor
rupt men, and then we can redeem every
Northern and Western State. Down WWI
the Yancey-Breckinridge Dieunioniste
THE TRUE DOCTRINE.—Judge Parker, of
New York, eminent , as a jurist, and at the
two last State elections the Democratic can
didate for Governor, understands what it has
been the purpose of the Democratic party to
accomplish. In a letter to the meeting at
Albany for the ratification of the nomination
of Douglas he says:—" Mr. Douglas is the
regularly nominated Democratic candidate.
He stands on the platforrri of " non-interven
tion," which is eminently national and just
to all, and on which the campaigns of 1852
and 1856 were successfully fought. It will
relieve the country from dangerous agitations
by withdrawing from Congress the whole
subject of slavery, and leaving to each com
munity and to every individual the full en
joyment of whatever rights have been secured
by the federal constitution. It is the safe in
termediate ground on which all Union-loving
men can stand together, the ultra secession
ists of the South on one side and the mad
Abolitionists of the North on the other.
THE CONSPIRATORS ALARMED.—The Ohio
Statesman thus speaks of the alarm in that
State : " There is alarm in the Republican as
well as in the secession camp. The Douglas
shouts that rend the air, and are growing
louder and more frequent, spread dismay in
the ranks of the interventionists of both the
Giddings and the Yancey school. They af
fect great calmness while they are shaking
with mortal fear. They outwardly pretend
that Douglas is of no consequence as a Presi
dential candidate in this campaign; that he
cannot even carry a single State, or get a sin
gle electoral vote, while they give the lie to
these assertions, by the prominence they are
compelled to yield to him as a candidate.—
Abandoning all support of their own candi
dates and platforms, the Republicans and se
cessionists concentrate all their force in Con
stant and combined attacks upon the life,
character and opinions of the people's favor
ite and the nations' choice, Stephen A.
Douglas."
WHO ARE IN FAVOR OF THE FUSION ELEC
TORAL TICKET ?—Not an honest faithful friend .
of Douglas—not an honest faithful Democrat.
There are men upon that ticket who have al
ready forfeited all claim to the confidence of
the Democratic party. Keim, one of the elec
tors at large, and others on the ticket, deny
that there has been a Democratic nomination
made for the Presidency. If such electors
should unfortunately be elected, their votes
would be in the market for the highest. bid
from any party. We cannot support such a
ticket—it is unworthy the support of the true
Democracy of the Keystone State. The cor
rupt dollar would be, as it has been, the con
trolling influence with all electors who deny
the regularity of the nomination of Stephen
A. Douglas. Much better would it be forihe
present and future of the Democratic party
that our nominees should be defeated fairly
by Abe Lincoln, than to be sold either to him
or the Yancey-Disunionists of the SOuth.
Ler The Yancey-Breekinridge disorgani
sore are in great trouble because the friends
of the regular Democratic nominees, Douglas
and Johnson, did not go out of the organiza
tion in the action of their Convention at Har
risburg on the 26th ult. The veteran Demo
crats in that body have the principles and
success of the party too warmly at heart to
he even suspected by honorable men of med
itating a wrong to the Democratic party; It
has come to a pretty pass, indeed, if Demo
crats cannot be privileged to meet together
for consultation—to ratify regular nomina
tions, and to devise honorable means to de
feat foes within and foes without. Disorgan
izing pigmy- dictators will be taught a lesson
they will not soon forget. God and Liberty !
Democratic principles, Douglas, Johnson,
Foster and Victory ! We compromise on no
other platform.
WHAT IS LINCOLN'S CHANCO—Tho Cleve
land Plain, Dealer shows that the idea that
Lincoln can be elected by the people is a weak
one. It estimates the following vote against
him:
The South cast 120 electoral votes.
California, 4 44 44
Rhode Island, 4 " Si
Perinsyvania, 27 gt St
nzg
This is yielding to him every other North
ern State. But he cannot carry Illinois nor
Indiana. He cannot carry Ohio or New
York. Douglas and Popular Sovereignty
will carry them all. Since the Disunionists
and Administration corruptionists have con
spired to put Douglas down, the honest Union
loving people of this country will combine to
put him up. It was so in Jackson's time, it
will be so now; and it is our opinion that
this Union feeling will become so strong and
contempt for official insolence and corruption
so intense that Douglas will be elected with
out the vote of a Southern State.
THAT'S THE TALK.—The editor of the Dem
ocrat, published at Montrose, Susquehanna
county, in this State, and a paper, until re
cently, opposed to Senator Douglas, in his
issue of the 26th ult., says : " Our belief is,
that Douglas will so far lead Lincoln in this
State, that he can afford to divide a compli
mentary vote with Messrs. Breckinridge and
Bell, and still come out ahead. Even in Sus
quehanna county, hitherto so terribly be-rid
den and be-fooled by the, Montrose clique of
abolition demagogues, we - have strong hope s
that their small majority of last year will this
fall be turned under through the popularity
a the 'Little Giant.'"
The Meeting of the Democratic State
Committee.
The Pittsburg Post, a paper that opposed
the call for the late Harrisburg Mass State
Convention, says : We have strong hopes that
the Democratic State Committee, which takes
place on next Thursday, the 9th, at Cresson,
some measures will be adopted which will
preserve the integrity of the State organiza
tion, and at the same time, give to the Demo
cratic voters of Pennsylvania the certainty
that they are supporting for President the
regular nominee of the party. We regard it
as the duty of every Democrat to support the
nomination of Stephen A. Douglas, with his
entire influence and ability. To cast the in
fluence of the Pennsylvania Democracy for
any other man, is to desert the regular nomi
nee of the party, and is contrary to all rules
of the organization. The regularity of his
nomination is admitted by even those who
pretend to prefer the nomination of the Se
cessionists. All the attempts which have
been made to justify the opposition to Mr.
Douglas, and to place the Disunion candidate
upon an equal footing with him before the
Democratic voters of the State, have been
received with cold disfavor by the masses of
the people. The tone of public sentiment is
in favor of supporting regular nominations.
The sensible men of the party know that the
Disunionists of the South care nothing about
either the Democratic party or the union of.
the States. When they find themselves in a
hopeless minority, they retire from the Con
vention and set up for themselves. Why
should any true-hearted Democrat leave his
party and side with these disorganizers ?
Are the political trimmers, adventurers and
spoilsmen of the land to be acknowledged the
National Democracy? In their support of
the candidate, they claim no prestige of a
regular nomination. They set themselves
up as a minority to defeat the will of the ma
jority.
It seems almost incredible that there are
men in Pennsylvania ready and willing to
aid in the disunion practices of these Seces
sionists—men who are willing to sacrifice
the party organization of the State to gain
their nefarious ends.
We know that they cannot succeed. The
Democratic party cannot be swindled into a
surrender of its principles, and supporting
the infamous exactions of Southern nullifi
ca.tors.
We hope that on its assembling, the State
Committee will take open, fair and square
Democratic ground. The contest must be be
tween the conservative doctrines of Douglas
and the extreme Abolition doctrines of Lin
coln. If the Committee find themselves una
ble to settle upon a plan which shall secure
such a contest, let them refer the whole ques
,tion
,back to the people. There is yet time
enough for a new Convention, .and we have
confidence that the people will do right.
CALLING HARD NAMES.—The Memphis Av
alanche, a fire-eating Democratic journal, calls
the Convention that nominated Douglas, "the
Baltimore Rump Mass meeting." We don't
so understand the division of the great Na
tional Convention. The Head and Shoulders
remained in the original meeting, and it was
the Rump and Tail that went off', and have
presented for their candidate the Rump of
Buchanan's administration ! Many of the
delegates in this Rumpenridge Convention
were thoroughly bogus and irregular. The
seceders were in a minority, and therefore
constitute the Rump or Tail of the last origi
nal stall-feed for the occasion I Half the del
egates in this Rump Convention, were with
out regular credentials, and therefore the
whole affair was an arrant humbug !
,ANOTHER BRECFZINIUDGE FIZZLE. —Th e
Breckinridge and Lane men of Graves county
Kentucky, thinking themselves in a majority
there, called for a ratification meeting. Rand
hills were accordingly printed and distrib
uted, and great efforts made to rally the faith
ful. But, lo I when the meeting assembled
—composed of several hundred Democrats—
but fifty supporters of Breckinridge could be
found in the whole vast assemblage ; and the
meeting, instead of ratifying Breckinridge
and Lane, passed resolutions in favor of
Douglas and Johnson, as the regular nominees
of the Democratic party, and pledged them
selves to their support. The poor Breokin
ridge Disunionists looked chop fallen. Break
inridge will not carry a single county in the
State of Kentucky. Mark that !
CHEERING NEWS.—Large and enthusiastic
Douglas ratification meetings are held through
out the Southern States. The indications are
that the conservative Democracy will run the
Yancy-Breckinridge disorganizers completely
off the course. The Disunionists of the South
have led the Democratic party and the coun
try to the verge of ruin—the masses have risen
in their might and say, " thus far and no fur
ther."
Tun DIFFERENCE.—Wherever Judge Doug
las shows himself, the people seem to be car
ried away with enthusiasm.
On the other side, a gentleman informed
us last evening, that he came through with
Mr. Breckinridge from Washington city to
Cincinnati, and that at every station in Vir
ginia, Maryland and Ohio, Mr. B. was treat
ed with a coldness bordering on contempt.—
No persons met Mr. B. at the stations, no
person shouted for him, and no person seemed
to notice him, by way of giving him a sere
nade at Cincinnati, which place he remained
over night, and it was well known publicly
that he was stopping at the Burnett House.—
" How the mighty have fallen." Or, as Col.
Benton once remarked, "What a sad picture
is presented—the fall of a degenerate son of
a noblg
=re
Who is the Regular Nominee ?
Capt. Geo. N. Smith, who represented the
18th Congressional District, in the National
Convention, in the subjoined gives his reasons
for his vote and present support of Stephen
A. Douglas. 'Mr. Smith is the editor of the
Johnstown (Cambria) Echo, and the Demo
cratic candidate for a seat in the popular
branch of the Legislature, in which position,
he has, on several occasions, represented the
county. He had the name of Mr. Brechin
ridge flying at the mast-head of his paper un
til after the nomination of Mr. Douglas.—
We commend his remarks to the Democracy of
Huntingdon county.
" Now what are the facts in reference to
our votes in the National Convention? At
Charleston Mr. Breckinrigde would not al
low his name to be used as a candidate for
the Presidency, nor would his friends allow
his name to be used, but steadily and per
emptorily objected to having him nominated.
Had the Southern men remained in Conven
tion at Charleston and Mr. Breekinridge al
lowed his name to be used we believe he could
have been nominated. He would have re
ceived 20 votes of the • Pennsylvania delega
tion, two and a half votes more than any other
man could have received. At least three
delegates beside ourself, who steadily voted
for Mr. -Douglas, were inclined to vote for
Mr. Breckinridge when an opportunity oc
curred. Our personal preference was for
Mr. Breckinridge, and had the Southern del
egates not been led into the commission of a
great blunder and outrage, by such unan
nointed scoundrels as Yancy and Slidell, Mr.
B. might have been fairly and honorably
nominated. Before the assembling of the
Charleston Convention, in a conversation with
Mr. Breckinridge himself, he said to us that
he did not seek the nomination, nor would he
allow his name to be used as long as his
friend Mr. Guthrie was a candidate. After
the Charleston Convention, and a short time
previous to the Baltimore Convention, in a
private conversation we bad with Mr. B. on
the same subject, he again said he would
never consent to be a candidate in opposition
to Mr. Guthrie. And what does Mr. Breck
inridge say in his letter of acceptance...-.
Hear him :
"I have not sought or desired to be placed
before the country for the office of President.
When my name was presented to the Con
vention at Charleston, it was withdrawn by a
friend- in obedience to my expressed wishes.
My views had not changed when the Conven
tion re-assembled at Baltimore, and when I
heard of the difference which had occurred
there my indisposition to be connected prom
inently with the canvass was confirmed, and
expressed to my friends!'
Our personal friendship and liking for Mr.
B. would have caused us to vote for him,
knowing at the same time that the district we
represented preferred Mr. Dougles, and when
Mr. B.'s name could not be used with his con
sent or desire, we could not do otherwise than
vote fur Mr. Douglas, whom we knew to be
the decided choice of the Democracy of three
of the counties composing the 18th Congres
sional District.
No one saw more clearly the difficulties we
had to overcome in making a nomination at
both Charleston and Baltimore than we did
—no one more regretted the unfortunate di
vision in our ranks, and no one did more in
a quiet, unassuming way to bring about har
monious action. Much as we preferred Mr.
Breckinridge to Mr. Douglas, we could not,
understanding Mr. B.'s feelings, and acting
under his own advice, vote for him in conven
tion, and now regarding, as we do, the nomi
nation of Mr. Douglas as regular according
to Democratic usages, and Democratic rules,
we feel bound by all the rules of the Demo
cratic organization to support him as the reg
ular nominee of the party."
===s
Position of the Democratic Party in 1856
---Upon Non-Intervention and Popular
Sovereignty.
EXTRACT FROit TEE KANSAS-NEBRASKA. ACT.
" The Constitution and laws of the United
States, which are not locally inapplicable,
shall have the same force within the said Ter
ritory of Kansas and elsewhere within the
United States, except the eighth section of
the act preparatory to the admission of Mis
souri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820,
which being inconsistent with the principle of
non intervention by Congress with slavery in
the States and Territories, as recognized by
the legislation of 1850, commonly called the
Compromise Measures, is hereby declared in
operative and void ; it being the true and -in
tent meaning of this act not to legislate slavery
into any Territory or State, nor to exclude
therefrom, but TO LEAVE THE PEOPLE
THEREOF PERFECTLY FREE TO FORM
AND REGULATE THEIR DOMESTIC IN
STITUTIONS IN THEIR OWN WAY,
SUBJECT ONLY TO THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES : .Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to
revive or put in force any law or regulation
which may have existed prior to the act of
6th March, 1820, EITHER PROTECTING,
ESTABLISHING, PROHIBITING OR
ABOLISHING SLAVERY!'
EXTRACT FROM THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM
"1. Resolved, That," claiming fellowship
with and desiring the co-operation of all who
regard the preservation of the Union, under
the Constitution, as the paramount issue, and
repudiate all sectional parties and platforms
concerning domestic slavery, which seek to
embroil the States and incite to treason and
armed resistance to law in the Territories,
and whose avowed purposes, if consummated,
must end in civil war and disunion ; the Amer
ican Democracy recognize and adopt the prin
ciple contained in the organic laws establish
ing the. Territories of Kansas and Nebraska
as embodying the only sound and safe solu
tion of the slavery question,' upon which the
great national idea of the people of this whole
country can repose in its determined conser
vatism of the Un ion --NON-INTERVENTION
BY CONGRESS WITH SLAVERY IN
STATE AND TERRITORY AND IN THE
DISTRICT OF COLUINIBIA
"2. That this was the basis of the compro
mise of 180, confirmed by both the Demo
cratic and Whig parties in National Conven
tions, ratified by the people in the election of
1852, and rightly applied to the organization
of Territories in 1854."
EXTRACT FROM MR. BUCHANAN'S LETTER OF AC
CEPTANCE, DATED JUNE 16, 1856.
" The recent legislation of Congress respect
ing domestic slavery, derived as it has been
from the original and pure fountain of politi
cal power, the will of the majority, promises
ere long to allay the dangerous excitement.
This legislation is founded upon principles as
ancient as free government itself; and, in ac
cordance with them, 1 148 simply declared tillAt
THE PEOPLE OF A TERRITURILIKE
THOSE OF A STATE SHALL PECIPM
FOR THEMSELVES WHETHER SLA
VERY SHALL OR SHALL NOT EXIST
WITHIN THEIR LIMITS. The Kansas
Nebraska act does no more than give the
force of law to this elmentary principle of
self-government. This principle will suyoly
not be controverted by any individual of ahiy
party professing devotion to popular govern
ment. Besides, how vain and illusory wotilct
any other principle prove, in practice, in regards
to the Territories 1 This is apparent from the:
fact, admitted by all, that after a Territorq
shall have entered the Union and become a'
State, no Constitutional power would then
exist which could prevent it from either abol
ishing or establishing slavery, as the case
may be according to its sovereign will and.
pleasure."
EXTRACT FROM 'MAJOR BRECRINRIDGE'S SPEECH'
AT LEXINGTON, AFTER HIS NOMINATION TO
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
"Upon the distracting question of domestic ,
slavery their position is clear. The whole
power of the Democratic organization is•
pledged to the following propositions :
THAT CONGRESS SHALL NOT INTER
VENE UPON THIS SUBJECT IN TAR
STATES, IN THE TERRITORIES, OR
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ;
PIIAT THE PEOPLE OF EACH TERRI
TORY SHALL DETERMINE THE QUES
TION FOR THEMSELVES, and be admitted
into the Union upon a footing of perfect equal
ity with the original States, without discrim
ination on account of the allowance or prohi
bition of slavery."
EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL.
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF
THE 'UNITED STATES IN 1856.
" Finally, in 1850, after a period of great
agitation throughout the country, the leading
patriots and wise men of both parties, such
as Clay, Webster, Cass and others, decided
upon leaving this question where it always
ought to have been left, and where the true
spirit of our institutions places it—lN THE
HANDS ANT) UNDER THE CONTROL OF
THE PEOPLE OF THE TERRITOBIES
THEMSELVES, restrained only by the Con
stitution.
" The whole nation rejoiced in this wise
adjustment, and all parties claimed it as a fi
nality as to this principle of Territorial or-.
ganization. For once the question of slavery
in the Territories was settled upon the prin
ciples of our Revolutionary fathers, who de
manded a voice and a vote in regulting their ;
own institutions ; the same great fundamen,
tal principles of human government which un
derlie and uphold our whole republican sys-.
tem—principles suited to all Territories and,
to all times, and as broad and enduring as
eternal truth. This form of adjustment was
denominated NON-INTERVENTION BY'
CONGRESS—SELF GOVERNMENT BY
THE PEOPLE OF THE TERRITORIES."
Can We Honorably Accept a Compro--
Can any true Democrat vote for John C.
Breckinridge, or agree to any arrangement
which by any possibility would place him in,
the Presidential chair ? Die is the nominee,
of a set of men, who, elected as delegates to,
a Democratic National Convention, refuse to,
be governed by the fairly expressed will of a
majority of that Convention upon the subject
of the platform of the party who vote upon,
the question and use all means to defeat it,.
but finding that a large majority of the dele
gates hold different views, and are resolved
to adhere to well established principles, this.
traitorous minority secede from the regularly"
constituted body, take formal leave of it, and,
refuse in any way to be bound by its action.
They organize a separate meeting, adopt a
distinct and entirely antagonistic platform.
attempt to give themselves a new and differ
ent name, and finally nominate candidates in
opposition to the candidates of the regular
convention. They nominate their candidates
in what they term a National convention, but
in which the States of Maine, New Hamp
shire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey.
Delaware, South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Il
linois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and lowa, were
not represented by a single delegate or indi
vidual. Thirteen States not represented in
any way, and yet they call it " National,
Of all the votes polled in making their nomi
nations, there were only eighteen (and these
all irregular) from what are called the North
ern States' and yet they call it " National."
We are accustomed to urge that because
the Republican party advocates principles
which find numerical strength in the North
ern States alone, and because their conven
tions are only attended by Northern dele
gates, therefore they are a sectional party.—
Does not this argument apply as strongly to
the Breckinridge faction ? The Republicans
assert that Congress possesses the power and
ought to prevent the people of the Territories
from having such institutions as they want.
The Breckinridge party says that Congress
possesses the power and ought to force them
to have such institutions as they do not - want.
The one finds favor in the North 3 the other,
entirely in the South, if, therefore, one is
sectional, is not the other also?
And yet the true Democracy of the North
is cooly asked by the hireling editors of a
wretchedly corrupt Administration to forget
its own integrity and join in an unholy coali•
Lion which by possibility might result in the
election of John C. Breckinridge. We are
asked to impliedly agree that Stephen A.
Douglas is not our regularly nominated can
didate, when the records and the figures
prove conclusively that he was nominated in
accordance with all the usages of the Demo
cratic party. We are asked to involve our
honor as Democrats and as men by an im
plied endorsement of their sectional platform.
But it will not do, Riessrs. paid pOstmaster
editors, coal agency editors, and government
contractor editors. Your impudence is only
equalled by your ignorance, if you ever sup=
posed- that the intelligent voters of the coun
try could not see through your schemes, and
judge your Democracy by the price paid for
the treason. The Democratic party has never
yet tarnished the glory of its victories by a
fusion with any of its enemies. That system
has been left entirely to those among whom
John C. Breckinridge now stands, i. e. the
enemies to the Democratic party, Raving
imbibed with them a hatred to Democratic
principles and organization, it is nat singular
that he and his supporters should adopt their
tactics and their system of operations in en ,
deavoring to defeat the regularly nominated
Democratic candidates, Stephen A. Douglas
and Herschel V. Johnson .---Norristown(Mont,.
gomery C 0.,) .National Democrat.
NEW JERSEY.—The New Jersey Democra, 7
cy have put up a regular straight-out Doug
las electoral ticket. The Breckinridgors have
abandoned the regular party and have fused
with the Know Nothings on a fu9ion electol
ral tickets
raise.