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OL. MILLKR, - - - - - EDITOR.
WHIT1 CLOUD, KAJTSAS:
Tfciniay : : Btpterter XI, 18.
Mti'i'neketWkoOTnTkefflselTes
TOM PHMIDK5T,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
OF ILLINOII.
FOB TICK FKUIDKHT,
HANNIBAL nAMLIN,
OF MAINE.
MEPTJlLICAJf COTJUTT TICKET
For the Council,
NATHAN PRICE.
For Representatives,
B. M. WILLIAMS.
E. J. JENKINS,
W1L H. WILSON.
For County Commissioners,
JACOB T. PIERCE,
A. LARZELERE,
A. LOWE.
For Sheriff,
GEORGE S. HOUGH.
For Assessor,
GEORGE D. BENNETT.
KA.6SI RAGS! I RACSttt
We will take any auantity of clean cotton or
linen rags, at 1 cent per pound, In payment for
nbseriptlon, advertising and job work. 8ave
your rags, and get something for then, instead
f coating them away. No other kind will be
taken than such as are named above.
Republican Contention and Ticket.
The Republican County Convention,
which met at Troy, on Saturday last, was
well Attended, enthusiastic, and harmoni
ous. That true and tried Free State
man, Benjamin Harding, of Wathena,
presided ; and Edward Russell, Esq., of
Elwood, a Free State man from princi
ple, (being by birth an Alabamian.) was
Secretary. The ticket was nominated
which will be fonnd at the head of this
column.
Nathan Price, of Geary City, the can
didate for Council, is a working Repub
lican. He is of Quaker descent, and is a
native of Chester County, Pennsylvania,
in John Hickman's District. Of course
he is a " good egg," and will do to bet
on. He is well posted in politics, and
knows how to speak bis mind.
R. M. Williams, of White Clond, is
a candidate for Representative. Every
body in this end of the Connty knows
Rns. IIo was hero daring the dark days
of Kansas, and knows what the Free
State people of Kansas had to endnre,
whan such men as Blakely, Whitehead,
Benight fc Co. held ivrir. For farther
particulars, see vote, in November.
E. J. Jenkins, of the staunch Republi
can Township of Burr Oak, is also a
candidate for Representative. He is a
good and a popular man.-
Jacob T. Pierce, of Iowa Point, for
Commissioner, we spoke of last week.
A better selection could not have been
made. He is an old settler, and an nn
wavering Free State man.
A. Larzelelero, of Wathena, for Com
tntssioner, is another old Free State
stand-by. He causes tho Pro-Slavery
Democracy more trouble than any other
ten men in the Connty. He is np to all
their rascally practices, and is always on
hand to expose them. In fact, he nsed
to be a Democrat himself, and knows all
the tricks and quirks of the institution.
Ho was one of the old Board of Super
visors, that brought suits against leading
Democrats for the recovery of stolen
school money, which suits were dismiss
ed by the present Board. Mr. Lareelere
will be elected, and then look ont for an
overhauling of the acts of tho present
hontit and faithful Board.
A. Lowe, of Doniphan, for Commis
sioner, has stood by his faith in a com
munity where he has had bnt little com
pany or encouragement. Yet the party
is growing, and will give an account of
itself which will be gratifying to those
who have remained faithful in its dark
hours.
George S. Hough, of Elmood, is the
candidate for Sheriff. Major Hough is
one of the beet and most popular men in
the County, and is sure to be elected.
Wm. H. Wilson, of Marion Township,
the third candidate for Representative,
and George D. Bennett, of Wolf River,
for Assessor, are unknown to us ; but,
judging by the balance of the ticket, we
are confident that they are good and true
men.
Upon the whole, a better ticket has
never, been brought out ; and the candi
dates are well distributed over the Coun
ty. We have but two observations to
make, in conclusion :
1. If the ticket is to be elected, every
Republican in the Connty must keep in
tniad the election day, and go to the
polk. It will not do for them to stay at
home, and calculate that there are enough
to do the work without them. If they
do not turn out, they will have no right
to complain at being imposed npon and
robbed by Pro-Slavery officials.
2. There must be no tradine and sell-
tag or candidates, for local interests.
That game has been played just often
enough, and another transaction of the
bind will smash the Republican party
flatter than the Democracy now are. i
The Democratic Farce.
The Democratic Convention, on the
15th, from all accounts, was decidedly
rich. Whiskey, swindling and skull
duggery were the order of of tho day ;
and the "harmonions" and "unterrified"
poured into Troy, at an early hour, in
search of whiskev or office. The three
principal candidates for Sheriff had each
a hotel and a whiskey shop chartered,
where delegates favorable to their nomi
nation had a "free blow." The entire
crowd appeared to be delegates, and were
in favor of all three of the candidates ;
for most of them drank and stuffed at
11 the hotels and whiskev shops, "with-
out money and without price."
The omnipresent, the ubiquitous Stair-
wait, was made permanent President of
the Convention. He arose, hnge, pon
derous, and pregnant with dignity, ke,
not, it appears, to return thanks for
the honor conferred, but to congratulate
the Convention upon having secured his
valuable services for the post. He re
marked, that the Democrats of his Town
ship "almost always invariably" appoin
ted him Chairman of their meetings ;
that if there was anything on earth be
loved, it was the Democratic party ; that
he laid his Democracy beside his re
ligion. v
Presently balloting for candidates com
menced. Among others, the President
was nominated for Conncil. Up arose
said ponderous personage, calling upon
the temporary Chairman to take his place
while his friends nominated him for the
Council. Ho did not want tho office;
did not want to go below, this Winter ;
could not servo, if elected ; God knew
he had as much as he eould attend to at
home ; bnt he was willing to make any
sacrifice in the world for Democracy, and
it seemed as if his friends would force
the office npon him.
The temporary Chairman took his
seat, and Stairwart adjourned to a neigh
boring saloon, to lay some more Democ
racy beside his religion, while his friends
were nominating him. Returning, he
found that his friends had kindly conclu
ded not to force the office upon him
The next business was nominating
Representatives. Stairwart again pro
posed. Again ho called upon the tern
pbrary Chairman to take his place, while
his friends ballotted for him. He couldn't
serve, if nominated, and wouldn't have
the office ; bnt his friends would 'force it
upon him, and he was willing to make
any sacrifice for Democracy.
Stairwalt adjourned, to lay another
tnmbler fall of Democracy beside his re
ligion. Came back ; his friends, exhibi
ting extraordinary regard for his feelings,
had not forced the office npon him.
Dnring too balloting, several more
votes were fonnd deposited than there
were delegates. Beobe, Secretary of the
Territory, had lent the snrlesof his coun
tenance upon the occasion, and went fly
ing about "like a pea in a hot skillet,"
swearing there was a Black Republican
in tho Convention. Vote taken again,
and more illegal votes found than before.
Again Beebe cried oat against some
Black Republican who had smuggled him-
self into the Convention.
In counting out the votes for Repre
sentatives, it appeared that H. C. Lett,
of Lafayette, had six majority over Be
night. Bnt Lett was not one of the elect,
for whom tho thing had been cat and
dried ; and the tellers counted him ont,
giving Benight the nomination. This
created a breeze, when some one, seeing
that Benight was a stout, well-built man,
and Lett a small, light-built one, pro
posed that the two wrestle for the office.
"Agreed," says Benight, at the same
time approaching Lett and tackling him.
The next moment, Benight was survey
ing the ceiling of the Court room, with
his toes turned upward. The Conven
tion split the difference, and gave Be
night the nomination.
When it came to Commissioners, Stair-
wait was proposed. Once more he call
ed upon the temporary Chairman to take
bis place, while his friends nominated
him. He didn't want the office, and
wonldn t have it ; bnt bis friends would
force it npon him, and be would do any
thing for the party.
Oat went the President, to lay still an
other dose of Democracy beside his re
ligion. Returned ; fonnd his friends had
not forced the office upon him.
When Sheriff was before the Conven
tion, the uproar was tremendous. The
President, overflowing with the Democ
racy he had laid beside his religion, could
not endure it, but yelled out : "Gentle
men and Democrats ! We must have or
der. If yon don't coat to order, I'll
jump out of this window 1" That was
was a good joke ; for he could not have
jumped out of a hole double the sixe of
the window. Both the "gentlemen" and
the "Democrats" saw this, and therefore
did not keep order.
About this time, a small individual,
with a stove pipe hat and a military ti
tle, his eyes sticking out far enough to
knock them off with a club withoat
touching his nose, stepped up to the bar.
seized hold of the railing, and called out:
Mr. (hie) President : I (hie) want to
nominate a (hie) man for "Representa
tive." "The Representatives arenomi-
nated.1
called out tho President "Is
Col.-
-a delegate to this- Conven
3
tion?" asked several persons. "No, (hie)
I am not," replied tbe man with a mil
itary title and stove-pipe hat, "bnt (hie)
I want to nominate a (hie) man."
This individual was again seen, about
the close of the Convention endeavoring
to have a resolution adopted, declaring
that Conventions were humbugs, and that
henceforth the Democratic party of Don
iphan County repudiate them.
The foregoing are a few specimens of the
orderly and harmonious Democratic Con
ventions. Perhaps Democrats are not
nsed to orderlv Conventions, which will
account for their bolting and repudiating
the nominations of this one..
Trasslatios. The great North-West
abounds in breech-clout Democracy
that is to aay, half-breeds aad full-blood
ed natives who are all Squatter Sover
eigns, and can be relied upon to give any
required Democratic majority. But they
have been sadly neglected, by the Demo
cratic press. Douglas has traveled jbe
country over, rehearsing his "great prin
ciple" harangue, yet not a paper in his
interest has deigned to dish it up in a
style suited to the understand ing" of the
breech-clout Democracy. Out of pure
benevolence toward this large and respec
table portion of the Douglas party in the
North-West, the said breech-clout De
mocracy, we have, with unparalleled en
terprise and perseverance, succeeded in
translating the substance of his speeches
into what might properly be termed
breech-clout English, which will no doubt
be thankfully received, well understood
and properly appreciated by said Squat
ter Sovereigns :
"Ugh! Big Squatter, me heap! Me
great man; drink heap whiskey; talk loud.
Great big country mc lore It all my country;
mc save it, and hang everybody. Me lore all
de peoples mc great Squatter. Breckinridge
no good fight me, big Squatter. He talk
some not heap, like me. Breckinridge bad
man wolf. Me good man. Mc whip Breck
inridge. Lincoln no good fight me bad man
no Squatter. Lincoln coward squaw no
talk no drink whiskey. Me drink heap whis
key make me feel great big. Me hare good
mother. Mother bare great son big Squatter.
Mc go sec mother. Lincoln coward no dare
go see mother no got mother no dare go see
mother's and father's grave. Me whip Lincoln.
Me hang Breckinridge and Lincoln, like John
Brown. Den me be great Chief. Me protect
all de peoples. Lincoln no do it; Breckinridge
no do it. Lincoln no good; Breckinridge no
good; niggers no good. Clams good; whiskey
good; me heap good. Me no care for your
votes no want your votes. You vote for me
me let yon make you great men. Let you
do what please, if please me. Vote for me me
be great Chief. Me say wbst please, all over
dis great country, Lincoln no dare talk ; Breck
inridge no dare talk much; me talk heap, loud.
Whiskey good big Squatter, me! Whoop!"
War in the Camp Fun Ahead.
There is bolting among the Democracy
of this Connty. There are some who
are not willing to have Ruffians and plnn
derere forced upon them. Handbills
are out, calling a Convention to meet at
Troy, on Saturday next, to nominate a
new ticket. The call smacks of Dong
luum,ud w think we recognize Col.
Ege's ear-marks in it. Wc can guess
the resnlt of the Convention. Ruffians
of the Blakely and Whitehoad order.
with their bailies, will be on. hand, take
possession of the Convention, and pre
vent any nominations, or break up the
meeting in a row, as they did the meeting
called, a short time ago, to denounce the
corruptions of the County Board. Then
we shall witness an open warfare in the
camp, and a rich time generally. We
say go it. Honest men enjoy the quarrel
among the rogues. We had intended
publishing a copy of the call, bnt the
only bill sent to this place has mysteri
ously disappeared.
tW We know the Doniphan County
Democracy are in favor af bnying and
selling black men, women and children ;
bnt do they think they can bny the votes
of white men with whiskey? How many
votes does Charley Blakely suppose be
can buy with the forty dollars be sent op
here to be invested in whiskey? He
could no doubt have put the money to a
more honest use ; for all the voters who
could be induced to sell themselves for
whiskey, already belong to his "run of
shad" or, to speak more classically, bis
"breed of pups."
Godey's Lady's Book, for Octo
ber, is before us. It contains a beauti
ful steel plate, entitled "Our Own Cor
respondent," an engraving entitled "Tor
key Shooting," Fashion Plate, a piece
of Music, Patterns, Cottage Design, and
a vast amount of valuable reading. Now
is the time to commence getting up Clubs
for the new year. We furnish the Book
to our subscribers for 82 a year, which is
one dollar less than you can get it for by
sending direct to the publisher.
Filibuster Walker has at length
been arrested in his piratical career in
Central America. He has been defeated
and taken prisoner by the British forces.
His men have been sent to the United
States, on their parol of honor never to
eagage in such business again : bnt Wal
ker and one of hie officers are to be shot.
which is a consummation devoutly to be
wished for.
aWDooglas has at last found his moth
er! This gratifying event ocenred on
the 15th inst Aad where, reader, do
yon think he fonnd her ? Why, at the
same old place where she has lived these
many years past Strobes had changed
his position so often, that he thought tbe
old lady had changed hers, too 1
H. M. Robinson, of Hiawatha,
will accept our thanks for a Lincoln aad
Hamlin Medal. He has a large number
nF MIlHala fita 1 .AT -.11 t Ti
w. uiwi iui oaic, ui mi iue presidential
'candidates.
Harmoxt or the Habmojuocs. Not
withstanding the efforts of the various
wings of the Democracy to act in harmo
ny in this County, there is as much dis
affection among them as there is among
their brethren in the States. The dissat-
isfactioa is very great, aad appears to be
growing. The sonthera part of the Coun
ty demanded the candidate for Sheriff,
but was fooled oat of it Oil Banian
hangers-on were nominated by fraud over
men of better character. The candidates
are not well apportioned 'throughout the
County. Iowa Township has one third
of the ticket three of the most important
office: Blakely's nomination for Sheriff
was sldeiatk-blow to the ticket Here,
in his own Township, the bolting is tre
mendous. Free State1 Democrats' will
not support him, aad many Pro-Slavery
meawill not swallowbim. He has been
carrying things with a high hand, domi
neering alike over Free State and Pro
Slavery men. 'He .has denounced and
abused them for exercising their right to
think and vpte as .they pleased, contrary
to bis dictation. A; man whom we know
to have voted a Pro-Slavery and Demo
cratic ticket, froav the. earliest days of
Kansas to the present time, swore in onr
hearing, this week, that Blakely could
never have his vote, and would get none
in his neighborhood. He said Blakely
must not think to buy men's votes for
whiskev, who know him so well. He
liked a horn as well as anybody, bnt not
well enough to sell his vote to Blakely
for whiskey.
Blakely will kill the wbolo ticket Do
the other candidates indorse him? If
they do, respectable Democrats will re
pndiate them ; if they do not, tho Border
Ruffian wing will strangle them. They
are in the predicament of the drunken
man who was hugging a post, one bitter
cold night, and soliloquizing: "If
hold on here, I'll freeze to death : and if
I let go, I'll fall and break my neck so
I'm a goner, any way I can fix it 1"
To finish the matter up,- a call has
been issued for a Convention to nominate
a new ticket It may adopt some of the
present candidates ; but matters have ar
rived at such a stage that even this will
not save them. They are doomed, under
any circumstances.
A Great Squirt Squirtetii. A com
munication appears in the last Holt Coun
ty News, addressed to onrself, and signed
" Bing. Trigg, alias Brick Toppe." It
appears that, after the lapse of nearly a
month, dnring which time he " kept get
ting madder and madder becanse wo
gave, an account of his attempt at assas
sination, he conld stand it no longer, but
had to let out ox butt. We must say it
is the softest and silliest mess we have
met in a long time. We can assure him
he need have no fears that we intend to
assassinate him in the dark. If the game
were worth the effort we should still ba
prevented from undertaking such a thing.
by a strong repugnance to imitating
"Bing. Trigge, alias Brick Toppe." nis
allusion to some person in Forest City,
may have a point to it ; if so, probably
be can explain it. If he refcas to the
person indicated by the initials and de
scription he gives, and whom we have
been told be means, we have only to say
that we never had any difficulty whatever
with that person ; and we donbt exceed
ingly whether that gentleman will fancy
having his name gratuitously bandied in
a senseless and scurrilous newspaper
communication, by " Bing. Trigg, alias
Brick Toppe." After reading the imbe
cile staff, we cannot express our opinion
of "Bing. Trigg, alias Brick Toppe,"
better than by quoting the language we
once heard a blasphemous old codger
use, when speaking of a set with whom
he was at the outs. Said he: "The whole
shoot of them are d d fools, except
Mike; and he's a G d d d fool!"
" Bing Trigg, alias Brick Toppe," we
regard in the character of " Mike."
)W Our citiaens were entertained, on
last Friday evening, with a Concert and
"Original Poems," by the "Granite
Bard." They were gloriously bored.
Some of the boys had him persuaded to
remain and give another entertainment,
on Saturday evening, promising him great
things, but bad same rich practical jokes
cut and dried. However, a benevolent
minded citizengave him a hint of what
was in store, and he vamosed. But some
person or persons had stolen the skiff in
which he had come down the river, and
he was compelled to obtain another con
veyance.
Independent Cavmdate fob Sheriff.
Sam. E. Hardy (of Palermo, we be
lieve,) is out with hand-bills, aanouacbg
himself an Independent Union candi
date for Sheriff; Perhaps Blakely can
boy hia off with that f 500 which be
says ha has to spend in the' campaign, if
necessary. He will lad that it will re
quire more than 500, invested in whis
key aad otherwise, to carry him through.
f -W The Elwood Free Press gives tbe
lie to the story that H received 91509
for publishing tbe Delinquent Land List
of this County. The Troy Dispatch as
serts that it derived its information in the
matter from the publisher of tbe Free
Press himself.
OT The Fort Scott Democrat apolo
gizes for not issuing a paper the previ
ous week, aad remarks that its "sabscri
ben lose nothing by it" No donbt tbe
subscribers will agree with it on that
'point.
A Party axd its Candidate. The
Bell-EveretU of the Third Congressional
District of Ohio, have nominated Wm.
Gunckel, of Germantown, for Congress.
The Democracy were active in "egging
on" this thing. They hope to draw votes
from Craighead by this quirk ; bnt they
will be fooled mightily. We nsed to
ran with that machine, aad know all
about it. The ticket will attract only a
few fogy votes, which otherwise would
have been given to Yaltaadigharo. A
majority of the Bell-ringers 'there are old
fossils who have sat about the corners on
goods boxes, talking fogyism, nntil their
nether parts are calloused the thickness
of a side of Spanish sole-leather. If they
were to sit on a pegging-awl, and ran it
in op to the handle, it would produce no
sensation whatever, and would bring no
more "sap than" could be drawn from
wagon, tire. They wear the old-fashioned
breeches, with broad, falling Saps,
and openings beside the pockets, to reach
in and draw their shirt-tails down, of hot
days. In writing letters, they invariably
commence with. "I take my pen in
hand," " hoping these few lines," etc.
and close with, ' No more at present
Yonrs till death." They grease their
shoes every Sunday morning with fish
oil, tie them with leather strings, and
wear stocks and standing collars. When
a hole appears in their meal or grain
sack, they stop it with a corn-cob ; and
they carry bandana handkerchiefs in the
crowns of their hats. They sow garden
truck by signs of the moon, and think
any man an impostor who pretends to
know more than his great-grandfather
did before him. We Aow them well
used to run with that party. Most of
the young men of the party, and many
of the old ones, have joined the " Wide
Awake" standard of Old Abe, leaving
these old fossils sitting on goods boxes at
the street corners, astonished and horri
fied at the progress and dangers of Repub
licanism, declaring that their grandmo
thers never dreamed of anything like it.
and seeking relief for their dark forebod
ings in the soothing influences of a fist
full of Scotch snuff. That ticket will
make a tremendous run !
a -
1 Debate at Rulo. Morton and Daily,
candidates for Delegate to Congress in
Nebraska, bad an appointment to speak
in Rulo, on Thursday last The popula
tion of Rnlo consists in a great part of
Canadian French and Half-breeds, and
we believe there is not a Republican real
ding there. Morton opened tho debate; his
speech was made up entirely of slang, vul
garity, clownish anecdotes, and monkey
shines. When Daily arose, the drunken
crowd would not permit him to speak.
They hooted, yelled, and interrupted him
in every way, so that his effort to speak
was futile. After the speaking, a drunk
en Frenchman, called "Big Pete," took
Morton np and carried him about on his
shoulder.
Morton was requested to speak again
in the evening, and some persons desired
to have the ladies present ; bnt a majori
ty objected to this part of the arrange
ment, as they wanted to bear some of his
obscene anecdotes. He did speak but the
ladies were not there, and the crowd was
gratified. After this, a gang of the row
dies attempted to break up a Concert
which was being given in another part of
town.
The above is a specimen of Morton's
triumphs over Daily.
Won't Wm. One of the Democratic
candidates visited this place, last week,
and remarked that he hoped we wonld
keep on abusing their ticket that it
wonld then certainly be elected. This
thing has been several times insinuated
to ns. Gentlemen, if you think in this
way to ridicule ns from doing onr duty.
you are fooling your time away. We
have enough homely trnths to present
against your ticket, without resorting to
abnse. If yoa call that abnse, you will
get enongh to satisfy yon ; and if, accor
ding to yonr logic, you are not elected,
(to stay at home,) it will not be our
fault Some of the candidates are our
personal friends, and we neither desire
nor intend to abuse them ; but they are
candidates for office, and their political
position and associations must be expo
sed. Therefore, gentlemen, if yon think
we are doing yon so much good, we shall
have no objection whatever to your giv
ing the Chief a wide circulation through
out tbe County.
Bell and Everett Poue Raising.
The Bell men have determined to organ
ize in this Connty. Tbe ball was set in
motion by tbe Bell men of this place.
They are preparing to erect a magnificent
ash pole here, on Saturday, tbe 29th inst,
and to have a good time generally. A
splendid Banner aad Streamer have been
gotten np, for the occasion. Speakers
are expected to address the people, and h
is designed to bare everything go off in
the best manner possible. An invitation
is extended to everybody to be present
At a Bell sad Douglas fusion
meeting recently, in New York, a large
list of officers was reported, and Gen.
Scott was announced aa a participant
Scott has come oat in a card, saying that
he never anthorixed each aa announce
ment of hia name, aad that he is taking
ao part in polities. A large aamber of
the reported ofieers also aaaonaee.
through the papers, that they are for Lin
coln aad Hamlin, aad never authorised
the use of their names by the fasioaists.
Is DouglasJaTHiunionist t
We claim that he is, if there is any
meaning to his own words as mueb, or
more, of aDisunionut than Breckinridge.
While denouncing Breckinridge and his
supporters as Disngioni&ts, he in the same
speech avowed that be was himself one.
In proof of this, we need only tO quote
his own words
Here is apoUion of his Norfolk speech.
see how careful he is to sav that he w
opposed to disunion npoa the mere inau
guration of a Republican President'" be
fore he commits some overt act against
theJJonstitutional rights of tbe South
He lays great stress upon the overt act :
Mr. Douglas I answer emphatically.
that it is the dnty of the President of the
United States, and all others in authori
ty under him. to enforce the laws of the
United States as passed bv Congress, and
as the courts expound them, (cheers.! and
I, as in dnty bound by oath of fidelity
to tbe Constitution, would do all in' my
power to aid the Government of the Uni
ted States in maintaining the supremacy
of the laws against all resistance to them.
Good. In other 'words, I think the
President of the United States; whoever
be may be, should treat all attempts to
break np tho Union by resistance to its
laws, as old Hickory treated the null!
fiers in 1832. f Applause.!
The laws must be enforced, but at the
same time be it remembered that it is the
duty of every cithen of every State, and
every public functionary, to preserve,
maintain and vindicate the rights of ev
ery citizen ami every State in the Union.
I hold that the Constitution has a reme
dy lor every grievance that may arise
within the limits of the Union. I am
very 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 such as wonld
call for resistance from any qnarter.
acknowledge the inherent and inalienable
right to revolution when a grievance bo-
comes too burdensome to be borne.
acknowledge the right of every man to
rebel and change the form of government
under which he lives, whenever it proves
destructive to the end for which it was
established, that it is a. right however.
never to be resorted to until the opera-
lions oi me uovernment become more
grievous than the consequences of revo
lution, and, 'therefore, I say that the mere
inauguration of a President of,the United
States, whose political opinions were, in
my judgment, hostile to the Constitution
and our rights, is not such a grievance as
wonld justify revolution or secession.
U beers.
Hence I say, whoever may be elected
President of the United States, he must
be sustained in all his just Constitution
al prerogatives and powers. If he trans
ends them, we will pnnish him with all
the ngor of the law, a you punished
lohn Drown when he violated your laws.
A storm of applause. I for one will
sustain with all my energy, the Presi
dent, whoever he may be, in the exercise
of all the powers conferred upon him by
the Constitution, bnt I wonld take just
as much pleasure in hanging him when
he transcends those powers, as I feel pleas
nre in knowing that yon hanged John
Brown when he was guilty of murder
and treason against the State of Virgin
la.
ia renewal ot storm. j
I am a law abiding man. a Union lov
ing mnn, and I believe the Union can be
maintained by a faithful observance of
tbe Constitution, bnt I insist in exacting
m lainumeni in goon laitn oi every pro
vision of the Constitution. I insist no
on a line of policy which will nlace all
the people of all the States in an exact
equality, and maintain and protect them
in their just rights, and which will also
compel obedience to the Constitution and
the constituted authorities of the coun
try. Now, let ns see what he would consider
an overt act against the Constitutional
rights of tho South. Here is the Wick
liffe Resolution, adopted by the Conven
tion which nominated Douglas :
Besolved, That it is in accordance
with the Cincinnati Platform, that dnring
the existence of Territorial Governments
the measure of restriction, whatever it
may be, imposed by the Federal Consti
tution, on the power of the Territorial
Legislature over the subject of tbe domes
tie relations, as the same has been or shall
hereafter be finally DETERMINED BY
THE SUPREME COURT of the Uni-
ted States, should be respected by all
good citizens, and ENFORCED with
promptness and fidelity by EVERT
BRANCH of the General Government.
In his letter of acceptance, Douglas
says of that Resolution :
"Upon a careful examination of the
platform of principles adopted at Charles
ton, and re affirmed at Baltimore, with
an additional resolution, which is in PER
FECT HARMONY with the others. I
find it to be a faithfol embodiment of the
time honored principles of the Demo
cratic party, which were proclaimed and
understood by all parties in the Presi
dential contests of 1848, 1852 and 1858."
Now, see what tbe Dred Scott decision
establishes :
"THE MBABURB OF RESTRICTION-"
'"Every citizen has' a right to take with
him into the territory aay article of prop
erty which the constitution of the United
States recognizes as property."
"Tbe constitution of tbe United States
recognizes slaves as property, and pledg
es the Federal Government to protect it"
fyllabus of the Bred Scott decision.
"Tbe only power conferred fon Oon-
grass) is the power coupled with tbe doty
ui guaruwg ana protecting toe owner in
bis right Taney's amnion. R
40Z. t-
Ib his speech at, New Orleans, Decem
ber 6th, 1858, immediately after his elec
tion to the 8eaate, Douglas said with
regard to tne Constitutional rights of
slavery :
"The democracy of Illinois, in the
first place. aceepU the decision of the Su
preme Court of tfa TinlA fltatna t. Am
ease of Dred 8eott. as aa an authoritative
vnionretatxonof the constitution. In ae
eordaace with that decision, we hold Ami
staveemre property, aad hence en an
cywtuHw wmu other Hnds of property,
mnd the owner of a slave hot the some
right to mote into a territory, axd carry
.f.UA M-A....J.. ., ..
And in his speech in theUnited R
Senate, February, 1860, he said :
"We" (Senator Brown, of Mfci-in
pi. and Sen.tor DougU. of ,.
"agree that, under tbe decision of t'
Supreme Court of the United K.,..
.laves property, standing on.nn.j
footing with all other property : j.l '
consequently the owner of a tit re l,M t
same right to emigrate to a territory ln"i
carry his slave propertr with him j ln,
owner of any other species of proMttr
has to move there and carry hit pr0Drt
with him." Again : "ThuVfl
the Senator from Mtstittippi md myjf
agree, that .slave property in the Terri.
tones stands on an equal footing w;t(
erery species of property."
There is tbe evidence, which may fo
summed np in few words. In his Nor
folk speech, he acknowledges the right
of a portion of tho people to rebel
against the Union, if the Government
fails to protect their rights, or to enfor
the Constitution and laws, or interpnttd
the Supreme Court. The- Supreme Court
rma decided;' in: the -Dred. Scott cae, tht
Slaveholders have a right, under the Con
stitution, to carry'their slaves into tbs
Territories, and the Government is plejg.
ed to protect it. that it fo the doty 0r
Congress to pass laws for thAt purpose ;
and that the people of a Territory, through
their Legislature, have no right to pro
hibit it. The Wickliflo Resolntioo.
Douglas' letter of acccptsnce. and hii
New Orleans and Senate speeches. esp.
cially indorse that Decision, as being the
Supreme law of the lnd. The summing
np of the whole wonld he simply thin:
The Constitution carries Slavery into the
Territories, ami the people have no right
to prohibit it It.is the Constitntional
duty of Congress to enact a Territorial
Slave Code, for the protection of SUve
ty in the Territories, and the dnty of the
President to enforce that code. If Con
gress fails to enact snch a law, or the
President to execute it, the Slave States
have a perfect right to dissolve the Un
ion. We have given the evidence, and we
defy any person to make any other inter
pretation of it. Douglas has gone down
South and. told the fire-esters that if Con
gress does not pass laws to force Slarery
upon new Territories, and the Fresiileat
does not carry them ont, they lmif.a
perfect right to dissolve the Union 1
m
Bell Men, Read. If the pell men
once understood that the leaders of tha
party are engaged in an attempt to sell
them like slaves in a Southern market.
nine tenths of them would not remain in
the'party" a day longer. They are entreat
ed to nnite with all conservative' men (a
defeat sectionalism ; and in some States
they areakse-1 to vote for an electoral tick
et composed partly of Bell nien, under tbe
pleathat they will thus secure at least a few
votes for their candidates where other
wise they wonld get none. Bnt the bar
gain is made, whereby every one of the
so called Bell electors, if .ncee.fnl, are
to vote for Douglas. In New York this
game is being played beavily. The lead
ing spirits are James and Erastns Brook".
of the New York Express. Their real
object is to sell out the party to Dooglis
in toto. James Brooks recently made a
pilgrimage to Augusta to get the Bell
men of Slaine into a similar arrangement;
bnt in bis speech, he accidentally betraj-
ed his real design. The resnlt was, he
disgusted the party, and they wonld have
nothing to do with htm. Here is an ex
tract from his speech. Bead it, Bell men,
and then decide whether you will "aban
don your principles and vote for Dong
las :"
-'Gentlemen, the Union is in a condi
tion of extreme' peril, which must eicits
in every patriotic breast feelings of the
gravest solicitude and alarm. A power
ful sectional party, it ii feared, is shoot
seizing the reins of Government a result
which sooner or later, would be succeeded
by disaster and dismemberment. $o"
gentlemen, what can, what orrght to be
done in this grave crisis ? Nothis lest'
in my judgment than the.unioD and com
bination of all the trnly patriotic rats
one compact organization can successful
ly resist and overthrow this sectional par
ty. Can it not be done, and oar glorious
Union be preserved? We hare done
it in the State of New York, and joa
surely are not less patriotic and self -rificing
than we. Abandon then, your
principles, Americans, Conservatives,
Whigs, for this once, and vote for Ste
phen A. Donglas."
It" When the telegraph was optd
Ttm.ntrill! Nebraska. complioentJ
were passed between that place and St
Joseph. The proprietors of the SL Jo
seph Gazette sent a message something
after this reffnred style: "Weather
hot as h II. Mercnry np to 1W.
and Doagla stock rising rapid;
ly." How natural it is for Doogl
friends to aesoeiate his name with the bo
place shove mentioaed. WeUke.t'
the above dispatch, readered into pW
K..K.1. -nnld read thus: "Westow
as h 11, aad Douglas stock rising-I'"
h II."
ty What is the Deawcrstic aatimata
of white veters? Charley BlakdfkaoJ
he is unpopular, bat boU thst be '
bay np the disaiected Democrats JJJJ
whiskey, erea if he has to spead f5W
Are Democrat, to be bought and sold for
whiskey? While Blakeiy -"o
. -.i. AiAm lav back a
chuckle over the prospect-basieg "
hop- npoa BldteJy's whisk
VoW you bow kaow what Doc
office seekers think of you ! .
MM prng lena film, 0 (j
of any other property , to go OtnT't
wry his properly." 3 ""
