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Republican Nominations. For President joniv c. fkeiioivtv Or CALIFORNIA. For Vice President WILLIAM L. DAYTON, of New Jersey. ELECTORAL TICKET. Tor the State at Large, SamüEL W. Pahkih, of Fayette. Jobs A. Hesdsicks, of Jefferson. District Electors, lit DIst. J. C. Veach, of Spencer. 3d - 31 4th 5 th 6th J. Y. Allison, of Jefferson. J. D. Rowland, of Franklin, D. Kilgore, of Delaware, H. C. Newcomb, of Maiion, W. G. Coffin, of Parke, W. C. Wilson, of Tippecanoe, D. D. Pratt, of Cass, J. H. Mather, of Elkhart, M. S. Robinson, of Madisou. 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th State Ticket. For G termor, OLIVER P. MORTON, of VVajne. For Lieut. Governor, CONRAD BAKER, of Vanderburg. For Secretary State, JOHN W. DAWSON, of Allen. - , Fr Auditor of State, E.W. H.'ELLIS, ofIanon. Ft Tnarurer of State, WJi R. NOFFSINGES, of Parke, For Attorney General, JAMES H. CRAVENS, of Ripley. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, CHARLES BARNES, of Floyd. For Clerk of Supreme Court, JOHN A. BEAL, of Miami. For Reporter for Supreme Court, JOHN A. STEIN, of Tippecanoe. For Congress SCHUYLER COLFAX. Senator KLINE G. SHRYOCK. Representative Dr. DAGGY, of Starke, Circuit Prosecutor M. L. DE MOTTE. Judge Common Pleas E. EGBERT. C. P. Prosecutor A. ANDERSON, Jr. Plitfcrm of the National Republican Party-. fASSED AT miLADELrHM, JlXE 16, 156. This Convention of Delegate, assembled in pursuance uf a call addressed to the people of ibe U. S. without regard topist political differ ences or divisions, who are opposed to the re peal ot th6 Missouri compromise; to the policy l the present td ministration; to the extension . vf Slavery iutn free Territory . in favor of the admission of Kansas as a Free State; restoring the action of the Federal Government to the !rinciple of Washington and Jefferson, and or the purpose of presenting candidates for the offices of President and Vice President, do, 'I. Resoltd, That the maintenance of the Srinciples promulgated in the Declaration of In ependence and embodied in the Federal Con stitution are essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions, and that the Feder al Constitution, the rights of the States, and the union of the State, shall be preserved. 2. Resolved, That with our Republican fa thers we hold it to be a self-evident truth that 11 men are endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the primary object and ulterior design if oar Federal Government were to secure those rights to all persons within its exclusive juris- diction; that as onr Republican lathers, when they had abolished Slavery in all our National Territory ordaianed that no person shonlJ be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, it becomes our duty to main- i tain mis provision oi tue wonsiiiuuon against an attempts to violate it for the purpose of estab lishing Slavery in the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or exten sion therein. That w deny the authority of Corgress, of a Territorial Legislature, or any iodiridual or association of Individnals, to give legal assistance to Slavery in any Territory cf the United States, while the present Constitu tion shall be maintained. "3. Resohed, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Terri tories of the U. S. for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is boih the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics ot barbarism Po lygamy and Slavery. "4 Resohed, That while the Constitution of the United States was ordained and estab lished by the people in order to 'form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and secure the blessings of liberty and contains ample provisions for the protec tion of life liberty, and property of every citizen, the dearest constitutional rights o( the people of Kansas hare been fraudulently ind violently taken from them; Their Territory has been invaded by an arm ed force; Spurious and pretended Legislative, J udic ial, and Executive officers have been set over them, by whose usurped authority, sustained by the military powerof the Government, ty rannical and unconstitutional laws have been enacted and enforced; The rights of the people to keep and bear arms have been infringed; Test oaths of an extraordinary and entang ling nature have been imposed as a condition of exercising the right of suffrage and holding office; The right of an accused person to a apeedy and public trial by an impartial jury has been denied. The right of the people to be secure in their son, house, papers and effects against un pe sonablc searches & seizures has been vio lated; They have been deprived of lire, liberty and property without due process of law; That the freedom of speech and the press has been abridged; Murders, robberies, and arsons have been instigated and encouraged, and the offenders have been allowed to go unpunished; That all these things have been done with the knowledge, sanction, and procurement of the present Administration, and that for this high crime against the Constitution, the Union, and humanity, we arraign that Administration, the President his advisers.agents, supporters, . apologists and accessories either before or after the facts before the country and before the world; and that it is out fixea purpose to bring the actual perpetrators of these atrocious outrages, and their accomplices, to sure and condign punishment hereafter. "5. Resolved, That Kansas should be imme diately admitted as a State of the Union, with her present Free Constitution, as at once the most effectual way of securing to her citizens the enjoyment of the right and privileges to which they are entitled and of ending the civil strife now raging in her Territory. 6. "Resohed, That the highwayman's plea that "might makes right," embodied in the Ostend Circular, was in tTry respect uu Wor th of American diplomacy, and would bring hame and dishonor cpon any Government of people that gave it their sanction. 7. "Resolvod, That a Railroad to the Pacific Ocean by the most central and practical route is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country, and that the Federal Gov ernment ought to render immediate nd ef ficieat aid in its construction, and as an auxil iary thereto,, the immediate construction of an emigrant route on the line of the railroad. Ö. "Rebed, That appropriations by Con gTttt for the improvement of ri vers and harbors, of a national character, required for the acg commodaiion and security of cur existin- ccsnerce, V authorized by the Constitution, and justified by the obligation of Government to j-rrVset, the liy as and property of its citi- 9. Z::'hed Tint we invite the affiliation tjtJ e"' oration ct tha men cf all parties, how ever t srwg from as in other raspects in sup port i principles herein declared, and be fceri: xx t- spirit of our institutions as well r J CaC -on of our country guarantees rbcrty f conscience and equality of rights jßltimotttl) Smmcr. Thursday MorniD?, Sept. 4, 1856. ("Advertisements to insure inser tion, must be handed in by Tuesday preced ing the day of publication. Stephen A. Douglas Smart little men that is, men who have in their composition none of the true elements of greatness, but an abun dance of cunning, sometimes succeed by a well timed dexterity in placing them, solves in a position ostensibly elevated and famous. The temple of Fame has a good many of these rooks roosting up. on its lofty pinnacles. Among them is Stephen A. Douglas, Like Erostratus, who burned the temple of Ephesus in order that his name might find a place in history,30 the little Illinoisan has se cured a page in the annals of the Ameri can Republic, and bis name and career are destined to be interwoven, as one of the dark threads, in the tissue of our history. Beginning life as an adven turous lawyer one of that class of law yers whose dispositions naturally incline them to undertake desperat? cases, and whu therefore soon become famous in the defense of criminals he acquired a training in the science of trickery which placed him at the head of that class of legal gentry, and endowed him with a talent at artißce, which transferred into the balls of legislation, has established for him the indispensable claim of being the greatest sophist of his age. He has naturally no great intellectual or moral abilities, such is mark some men as in voluutary candidates for honorable sta tions, whom a discriminating people draw reluctantly forth and elevate to merited but unsought honor; but on the springs of his own shrewdness he jumped from obscurity to the stump, and from the stump, like a spider in the dark, he has crawled all the way up the pillar of fame and is now weaving his web at the top. Any one at all familiar with 11 linois politics, for the last ten years, need not be informed that the movements of Douglas during that time have affor ded, perhaps, the most finished and per fect specimen of the demagogue art which modern times can display. Wiry, watchful, intriguing, he hns uniformily outwitted at their own game all dishon est office-seekers who have opposed him; while by virtue of his tact in the use and misuse of language, and his unequal ed skill in special pleading, he has been able to retain many honorable and can did men in bis support. In desperate emergencies', where even many of his misled and corrupted friends showed signs of a waning interest in his success; his tactics have never been at fault, and in the demon Rum, he has found always a sure and faithful ally. It is well known that in 1S52 when he offered himself to the Legislature of Ill inois, for re-election to the U. S. Senate, so wearied had many of his own friends become of his ever piesent 4iservices," that the chances of his election were re garded as very doubtful. Leaving his post at Washington and hurrying to the Illinois cnpitol, he so effectually tapped the branny casks of Springfield, as to make that quiet and moral little city for three days the 6cene of the loosest Bach annalian revelry; and so thoroughly did drunkenness do its work in the Capitol building, that it was afterwards found necessary to remove the carpeting and furniture, and replenish it with new. He was of course elected, but he was elected by the steam power of alcohol. And the, Kansas Nebraska Bill, with all its concomitant evils, may be regarded as the legitimate and appropriate off Spring of a drunken revel. A physical constitution capable of great endurance; a mind sagacious by na ture and wily by education; an unbend ing will; habils of indefatiguble indus try; an unbounded and depraved ambi tion, and an v utter disregard for truth, are elements of character, which, when combined, must . constitute a danger ous man; one whom it is not safe to trust with power. We believe we do no injustice to Mr. Douglas in attributing to him the possession 'of the above traits in about as great perfection as has ever fallen to the lot of any one man. Such is the personage who stands forth in the national legislature as the acknowledged leader and champion of the slave power. The culmination of his career is in per fect keeping with every stage of its pro- gress. Mepnen A. Douglas bas been consistent. He never in his life pro fessed to be a good man, and he has nev er had the reputation, in this respect, of being what he did not profess. Let those who believe in virtue, vho believe in public 'moral?, who believe in freedom, who believe in truth, be as Jbold and con sistent in the defense of what they be Here to be right, as Stephen A. Douglas is in what he knows to be wrong, and the country will soon be relieved from its perils, and its enemies overwhelmed with shame. 03" A leading opposition paper in Pennsylvania is strenuously urging a un ion of the Buchanan & Fillmore parties in that State, as the only possible means of securing the State from Freoont. Wright on Slavery. Gov Wright's late speech in South Bend seems to have gone far in advance of all his former services in behalf of thn South. The burden' of his speech seems to have been on effort to Justify the introduction of Slavery into Kansas, on the ground that the people have the right, in any part of the Union to choose, without question or hinderance what kindof "eerraniVJthey will have, wheth er white or black. ''They of the South," says the Governor of the free State of Indiana, 'have their black servants, and we of the North have our xchile ser vants' and if a Southern gentleman go ing into Kansas prefers to retain his black rather than exchange him for a white, whose business is ill" It is impossible for a man, professing to be a freeman, professing to be an in telligent man, and claiming to be an hon orable man, to fall lower Than this in contemptible servility to the slave pow er, and retain any pretentious to com mon patriotism or common sense. There is only one other possible degree of deg radation, and that is to hold out his limbs to be chained, and then take his place on a Southern rice field under the whip of those who own him now, as ef fectually as any African is owned.. We are ashamed of him as a brother man; we nre ashamed of him as a professed freeman; we are ashamed of him as the Governor of n sovereign free Stale, nine teen twentieths of whose honorable and intelligent citizens are of that class the laboring class whom their own Governor puts on a level with the abject Southern slave, and intimates should be owned and used in like manner. It is the language and spirit of the Southern slave-drivers -is borrowed from them; and is in strict keeping with the senti ment of a late article in the Richmond, Virginia, Enquirer, weich says that sla very is not based on color, but on con dition, and that the South must insist on this defense of their system, namely, that so long as society is composed of vnrious grades, the poor must of necessi ty be the servants of the rich. Gover nor Wright adopts this sentiment and disgraces himself and his ofilce, and in sults his follow citizens, who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows, by putting forth these horrible arguments in a speech advocating the election of James Buchanan. If such are the argu mcnts of a party,, what must we expect their action to be, if retained in favor? answer in November. The Cancer 5prtadin l er Since the slave power, formed its un holy allhnce with the skeleton of the Democratic party at Cincinnati last May, it is amusing, as well as melancholy, to see what a powerful impetus this fancied accession of strength has irapirUd to the arguments of the Southern oligarchy. Their tone of reasoning is entirely chang ed. Instead of confining themselves to the defense of slavery on the ground of constitutional rights, as formerly, and contending to be let alone in the enjoy ment of their "peculiar institution;" they now, encouraged by the treachery of a squad of Northern political gamblers, boldly assert that Slavery is founded on the "right divine," and is paramount to the federal constitution, and is to be in no way coerced or controlled by that pa per document. Theyavow a'higher law'in behnlf of Sla very, and repudiate the constitution as having anything to do with its sustenance or defense. If this view-is insisted on by the South, we opine that the Tree North will be very ready to admit it, and will wiltingly shift the battle on to that ground. Heretofore the North and South both have recognized in the Constitution no warrant for the extension of Slavery, and whenever it has been extended into free territory, it has been done at the special request of the South, as a spe cial favor to the South, by a kind of political comity which has acquired the name of Compromise, It was left to the Cincinnati Convention of Southern slave-holders and Northern office-holders to broach the doctrine for the first time that the national flag carried slave ry with it wherever it goes; but now en couraged by this degree of progress in their tactics, the South is advancing an other bold step, and declares that neither flags nor constitutions are to be regarded as the guarantees of Slavery, but that it exists and shall be extended by virtue of its own inherent excellencies, as an indis pensable element of civilized society. To show that we have correctly slated the case, we copy below a late article from the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, ac knowledged to be the leading Demo cratic paper of the Southern States. As if ashamed of the infamous position thus assumed, the editor confesses; "We know that we utter bold truths;" and to save what little of conscience may pos sibly be left in the breasts of Northern dough faces, he says, "Northern Demo crats need not go thus far. They need not take the lead in this new act of the great drama of villiany, but , only stand by and swear that we are right. But tha Enquirer hud no need to suggest this salvo to a supposed tenderness of the Democratic conscience, for Northern 'servants'1 are ever eager to hold the stirrups when their Southern masters in timate a desire to ride. Consequently we find in the New York Day-Book the leading Democratic poper in N. Y. City, an instantaneous echo to the sentiments of the Richmond Enquirer, which will also be found appended below. We en treat every reader of the Banner, care fully and thoughtfully to peruse these two articles, and then hold up his honest hand before him. and ask himself if that hand shall ever be defiled by casting a vote for the support of such doctrines, and the consummation of such infamy. From the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer. The Trne Issue. The Democrats in the South in the present canvass cannot rely, on the old grounds of defense and excuse for slave ry; for they seek not merely to retain it tchert it is, but to extend it into regions tchcrt it is unknown. Much less can they rely on the mere Constitutional guaranties of slavery; for such reliance is pregnant with the admission that slavery is wrong, and but for the con stitution should be abolished. This con stitutional argument for slavery, stand ing alone, fully justifies the abolitionist. They are clearly right if slavery be mor ally wrong, for'loget rid of it un.ter the constitution, or by amending the consti tution, is confessedly impracticable. In truth, the constitution cannot help slavery, if it ba a violation of the laws of God and morality. In that case the constitution should be changed, or the free States should secede, rather than continue to guaranty what tbey consider immoral and profane. The constitution caunot help slavery for another reason. That institution extending through fif teen States, and interramified with the interests, the feelings, and the very ex istence of many millions of mon. is much stronger than the constitution. It would be far easier to change or vio late the constitution, than to abolish slavery.- Besides slavery is older than the constitution existed before it, and independently of it. Wederive no right to our slaves from it, and weaken our cause by seeming to rely on it. Nor will it avail us aught to show thai the negro is most happy and best situa ted in the condition of slavery. If we stop there, we weaken oar cause by the very argument intended to advance it; for we propose to introduce into new territory human beings whom we assert Ic be unfit for liberty, self government, and equal association with other men. We must go a step further. We must show that African slavery is a religious, nat ural, and probably, in the general, a nec essary institution of society. This is the only line of argument that will ena ble southern democrats to maintain the doctrines of stale equality and slavery extension. For if Slavery be not a legitimate, useful, moral, en I expedient institution, we caunot without reproof of conscience and blush of shame, seek to extend itf or assert our equality with those States hav ing no such institution. Northrn Democrats need not go thus far. They do not seek to extend slavery, but only agree to its extension as a mat ter of right on our part. They may pre fer their own social system to ours. It is best that they should. Our friends are conservatives at home and conserva tives of the Union conservatives of re ligion, of marriage, cf property, of State institutions, and of federal institutions. But whilst the) may prefer their own so cial system, they will have to admit in this canvass that ours is also rightful and legitimate, and sanctioned alike by the opinions and usages of mankind, and by the authority and express injunctions of Scripture. They cannot consistently maintain that slavery is immoral, inex pedient nnd profane, and yet continue to submit to its extension. We know that we utter bold truths. But the time has now arrived when their utterance can be no longer postponed. The true issue should stand out so boldly and clearly that none may mistake it. From the N. Y. Day-Book. .r,Ve hld negro 'slavery' to be right, right per sc, right in Itself, in the nature and necessity of things; that while there are defects or imperfections of detail, as in everything else, and in all human in stitutions, there are, perhaps, no more evils connected with Southern society than that at the North; that negroes are negroes, and not white men; and, there fore, the peculiar domestic institution of the South is no slavery at all; but, on the contrary, the natural relation of the ra ces, and the moral condition of society, whenever or wheiever whites and negroea are in juxtaposition. And we further hold that slavery extension, so called, or the free, full, and unembarrassed move ment of tha Southern population, or its perfect, freedom' of expansion of emi grationof development southward and tropicward, is absolutely essential to the peace, progress and safety of American civilization, and indeed, to the very ex istence of the American Republic. And in our frequent articles on this particular phase of the mighty question now upon us, and before the people for their action, we have said that the Northern Democ racy, when the question should be pre sented to them, would be in favor of the free . extension of Southern population, or at the dupes of imposture would term it, the extension of 'slavery.' " "I live in New York, next door to Col. I-'remont. I know him well. He In variably attends church . Sundays at Bishop Hughes church in the forenoon, and atPuseyite church in the afternoon. Two Sundays ago, he and Bishop Hughes were coming home frum church aim in arm, and they were so drunk that they reeled against my door-yard fence and knocked down three lengths. So says some anonymous calumniator, ig a Democratic pamphlet circulating in the east. The writer shows too much of a peculiar talent to be allowed to remain in obscurity. He should at once be sought out and inaugurated as chief tend er of the great lie leach at Indianapolis, The Abmv Bill Passed. Dy the ope ration of some influence executive whee dling, physical exhaustion," secret treach ery, or the motive power of yellow gold; the House of Representatives has failed to meet the high expectations of the peo ple, who with throbbing but apprehen sive hearts were watching in admiration the firm 6tand of their Representatives in withholding military supplies for the enforcement of Kansas tyranny and the arming of Missouri ruffians to rob and murder the honest farmers of that Terri tory because they prefer their own labor to the labor of slaves. The bill has passed with the proviso cutoff. And now once more we shall hear the shout of tri umph from the hoarse, blasphemous throat of slavery, echoed by all its minions from Maine to Texas. . But it is a tri umph only as proviug the unreliable character of the House as now constitu ted, in any action of sufficient impor tance to warrant the application, on the part of the slave power, of &11 those corrupting influences which it always has at command. ' This struggle on the Ar my bill was by no means a final and conclusive one. It was only one of the side skirmishes which precede the great battle, and will prove useful by showing the friends of freedom just how far they can depend upon the present louse of Representatives, and the indispensable necessity of sending up there a reinforce ment of men men, who like a large ma jority of the noble hearted Republicans already there, are made of stuff that can stand fire, and are proof against both bul lets and bullion. And this, we have no doubt, will be one of the sure results. The defeat of tho Army Bill Proviso is another good lhru3t by the slave power into the sensitive sides of the Free North which will bo sure to rouse the anti slavery spirit to a more vigorous and efficient action. No thanks for the de feat, but thanks for the leasoti it teaches! 03 The Old Lino pa prs irr defence of the stubborn course of the Senate on the Army bill, chargo the Republican party with inconsistency in withholding supplies from the Army in Kinsa., while a few months ago the Republicans were complaining of the President for not sending troops there to quiet the country. Now, say they, that he has done it, aud since the U. S.' forces have disbanded all the combatants, the ''abolitionists' are for crippling the Army. All true, gentlo men, except the most important point, and that is that the United States forces in Kansas have done nothing but foment and increase the difficulties by disbend ing oslt free State Ttnrand arming Border Ruffians with U S. muskets l help them do it. And in three weeks af ter Col. Sumner used the Government troops to disband a squad of Missourians, he ua$ removed from his post and a Southern, Slave Holding officer was put in his place, "There seems to be a common under standing," says the Columbia South Car olinian, "that the coming election is to be the great sectional issue between (he North nnd the South. We trust that the South will be united, and be in condi tion, if the North is successful, to take immediate action for a separate confed eracy." Dear Democrats, which do you say is the sectional, secession party? Ctj5" The news from Kansas has yet a very warlike aspect. There seems to be but little doubt that larger forces of men on both sides are mustering for conflict, than hv yet met'on those unhappy plains.- The ruffian spi tit is'waxing moe and more outrageous as it gathers encour agement from the firm support it receives from Washington; and the Free State men, driven to desparation by th unceasing abuse they have suffered, seem determined to settle the question of their personal rights by the only re sort left them powder and ball. Go to tue Ecpnblican Dlcetiuss! We call the attention ot our readers to notices in to-day's pper, of Republi can meetings to bo held at Gray's School House on Saturday next, and at Poplar Grove on Saturday, the 13th. Turn out freemen! and train preparatory, to the November battle-field. CQ"" The State Sentinel says: 'The fact has leaked out that Fremont pays Bennett, for the support of the New York Herald $140,000. ; Such prices will soon drain the Mariposa gentleman's purse." Yes: and -it leaked out through that great lie leach, the Indiana State Senti nel, John Adams was at one time called upon to contribute to foreign missions, when he. abruptly answered: 'I have to give for that purpose, but there are here iu the vicinity six ministers, not one of whom will preach in the other's pulpit. Now, 'I will contribute as" much and more than any one else to civilize those six clergymen.' The Boston Transcript, a neutral jour nal, has the following: ' ' At least seVenty per cent of all the voters unaer tnirty years oi age, in New England, are for Fremont. In the col leges, in the free States the proportion is lareer: and in the law. madiral and di. w ' f v 14 v va " vinity schools, the same feeling prevails m tug cvurgca. ' For the Banner. The Exploring Eiftditicn. An expedition has been raised To explore the Constitution, , The equal rights of Nor.h nd South, To make full restitution, A band of Freemen met one day Where Fremen met ol" yore; And from his loved Pacific home, Galled Fremont to explore. . , . Then "Freedom" he the ra lying cty, Around the Fremont banneis; Unfurl the flag and let it wave. From Washington to Kansas. From Maine to California, Prom east to western ocean, With Fremont's name the welkin rings Our hearts beat with emotion, The gallant captain of our band Will ne'er turn back for dangers; But safely through each darksome pass, Will lead his hardy "rangers." Till free soil's wrenched from "rtijfiart," horde, Freemen shall rule the nation; Freedom of steech shall be restored, 4 And free investigation. For the Banner. A Democratic Slavery Fizzle in Bourbon. By previous appointment and publica tion, on the23dult. C. II. Reeves, A. G. Osbome, Esq., and olher persons from the town of Plymouth, came to Bourbon, with big display and flags waiving, to have a pole raising, aud to make Bu chanan speeches, but to their sad niorti fication, they met no Democrats except four or five, who had hauled up a large pole, which lay in the street. They could not get any to help raise their pole, nor to hear them speak. After Charley had viewed the prospects he burst forth with indignation, and said that the responsibility of the failure rested on the Democrats of Bourbon, up on which a new begotten Democratic son, from the whig ranks cooly remark ed, that he would cot bo a tool for the Democrats; if he voted for Buchanan, he would vote for him because he used tobe a Whig, while tho Republicans that crow ded the village stood off and laughed in their sleeves, and raid we are sorry lor you boys. After the blow was fairly out, Reeve, Osborne &- Co., started back to riymouth, with flag rolled up, looking as though they had taken a foretafte oC the dregs prepared fur them, to be taken on the 4th of November, 1856. A LOOKER ON. The German Tolc. - The German population of the United States is about 4,000.000. and the Great West is set down as haff German. The political power and influence of such an element must certainly exert a conlroling influence on whichever side it goes. The Democracy have heretofore had this in fluence in their favor, but now there seems to be a change. As a Gorman paper re. marks recent events have opened th eyes of the German, aftd have shown the real character of the party which they have hitherto aWed tokeep ia power by their votes." The New York Staats Democrat, a leading German paper says: "Great political activity prevail among the ürmati citizens of the Western States, were they ore raaking preparation for the Tresrdentral campaign. The misdeeds of the Border Rufiwns, s-up ported by the slaveholding oligarchy, together with the attacks on Freedom of Speech and of the Press, and the deep rooted con viction thai a continuance of Southern domination must imperil the liberty of the Northern States, have . occasioned a complete revolution of political sentiment in the German potation of the Webt, which gives promise o.'a total rout of the Democratic party in certaiV States. The few hunkvr presses among them, P311 subsisting on contributions and parti on government patronage, find it out of their power any longer to stem the mighty cur rent of popular sentiment. The Germans feel too deeply the inportance of the ques tion involved in the coming struggle,which, as Mr. Galloway of Ohio, a few days since, truly said, it is not whether the a!ave shall, be set nt libertjrhut whether we ourselves shall be free., . Read This. The editor of the New York Day Book says that the South does not want to can ry its negroes so Kansas. Hear hims The South, then, does not want to migrate to Kansas does n t want to carry its negroes to Kansas, to Nebraska, nor to any portion of the great West, lying north of the. 36ih parallel." . Now read what the great organ of the negro breeders says on the same subject: "Again we call on the South to assert her equal right to thy fair fields of Kansas. We claim no exclusive right; we only ask equal participation. We would not exclude men without slaves, but insist that men with slaves shall be allowed to enter it, and settle it, as freely as men with mules and cattle, Northern merch andise or Northern manufactures. Our cause is just, and honor and interested security alike call on us to spare no la bar, no peril, no expense, in order to make Kansas a slave State. Kansas, ho!" Richmond Enquirer. . Each of these papers is devoted to the interests of Mr. Buchanan, and each ad dresses a different class of argumen ts to a different class of readers. The South ern sheet is in earnest; but the Northern one purposely lies in order to deceive its readers, : . . mmsB ' a aWa The Nigger Party. ; ... , The Black-Liners assert that onr party is the "Nigger party. Let us see. The Border Ruffian Legislature of Kansas, among other infamous acta, passed .the following la wsl e . ' 1st. If any person shall kidnap and car ry away any black child, being a slave, he SHALL SUFFER DEATH.7 ' ' ; ; " , : 2d. If any person shall kidnap and car-: ry away any, free white child, he shall be imprisoned not less than six months. . Now, friends, these are among the laws wntcn tne oiu une party says snail oe enforced. enforced: - v , . : , . ' the following is one of Mr. Qtiß propositions, in his minority Kansas re port; 2d That the Territorial Legislature was a legally constituted body, and had power to pass valid laws, and their enact ments ire therefore valid. '''his proposition of Mr. Olivet haa been s5taiued by the united voice of tha old line pftJr. The old liners say death for kiduappins bleck child, being a slave, and for kidnnpping a "fres white child, imprisonment nly six months. So they consider the nigge child to be of greater worth, place the nigger child on a higher level, and - entirely above the white child. Now if this don't show who tha nigger worshipers are and which the nigger parly is, we know nothing about it. Stephen A. Douglas in 1849, Tha early character to be impressed on the early society of Kansas, ia a profoundly important and interesting consideration. For nearly half a century this pregnant centre was consecrated in perpetuity by a toltmn act of legislation to freedom, an act which, as Mr. Douglas said in his Springfield speech of 1849, "received the i sanction of all parties in every section of the Union. 4 It had its origin, as he continues in the hearts of all patriotic men who desired to preserve nnd perpetu ate the blessings ol our glorious Union au origin akin to that of the Constitu tion of tha United States, conceived ia the same spirit of fraternal affection and calculated to remove forevever the only danger which seemed to threaten at seme distant day to sever the social bond ui Union. All the evidences of public opinion at that day seemed to indicator that this compromise had become can nonized in the hearts of the American people, as t sacred thing which no ruth less hand would be ever reckless enough to disturb.' But in 1654 that 1 ruthless hand" war raised. Although it wes not demanded by any exigency of Stale, uncalled for by ev single voice among the people, it was recklessly raised by Mr. Douglas him self, in the lowest spirit of lemagoguery. "Fremont is a Catholic," shouts- the Fillmore men. "Fremont is a Know Nothing, scream the Buchanans. "Fremont is an Abolitionist," say the Soulhern Ebo shins. Fremont is a Slaveholder," replied' the Black Democracy of the North. "And he played on a harp of a thou sand strings.' The Nashville Banner publishes the following extract of a letter from Gen Jackson to Major William B. Lewis, an old and revered friend off the departed chieftain: Hermitage, Frbruary 28. 1845. Yuur observations with regard to Mrv Buchanan are correct, He showed a wanf f moral courage in the affair of the in trigue of Adams and Clay, did not do me justice in the expose there made, and f am sure about that time he did believe there was a perfect understanding be tween Adams And Clay about the Presi dency and the secretary of State. This; lam sure of. But whether-he viewed' that there was any corruption in the case or not I know not: but one thing I do' know, that he wished meto combat therm with their own weapons; that was. to let" my friends say, if I was elected I would' make Mr. Clay Secretary of State. This to me appeared deep corruption, and I re pelled it with that honest indignation a I thought to deserved. ANDREW JACKSON, San ford Harrison, Esq., a prominenf member of the Democratic party of New York, has issued an-address to his fellovr Derocrat?y iii which he etates- that he has jiwt return from- a tour of tho central coantPesy anxl finds-that the lead ers of the Democracy have all gone over to Fremont, and that there ie no hope of carrying the State for Buchanan. In this; condition of arTairs- he urges bis friend tO vote for Fillmore, and thus ;ave th State torn ?'enjont. . The following resolution was adopted on Monday by a Republican meeting of 10,000, held at Richmond, Ind. Resolved, That we fully endorse andt sustain the course of the Republican members of Congress in their contest" with the Senate in regard to the appro priation bill at the close. of Jhe session of Congress, and we say to our Repre-, sentative, Hon. D. Holloway "stand firm to the last." "Millions for defence not one cent' to sustain tjtsnny. Nctn bncrttacmcnts Administrator 8 Sale. NOTICE is hereby given that I will offer at private sale, on the third day of Oc tober, 1S56, on the premises, the following lo, owned by Aarou Myers deceased, subject to the widow's right thereto, described and bounded as follows: Commencing sixty six feet east of the south east corner of lot No. 12 in Martin's addition to the town of Bour bon, in Marshall Co., Ind , running thence north eighty-eight feet, thence east one hun dred and twenty-eix feet, thence scuta eighty eight feet, thence west one hundred and twenty-six feet to the place of. beginning, with a comfortable dwelling house thereon Also, at thesame time and place, I will offer to sell the following lot, bounded as follows: Com mencing two hundred and four feet due east of the south east oorner of lot no. 12, in Mar tin's addition to said town, running thence north eighty-eight feet, thence west lüö feet to the place of beginning, TERMS. One fourth cash in hand, i to be paid in thiee months, i in six months, ana 4 in nine months, the purchaser giving his note with free hold security; andinterent front date, waiving valuatiaa and eppraosraeot laws. Ant if not sold on said day I will continue to off.r said lots at private aale at the dwelling house of James O. Parks in said town of Bourbon until sold- : . DAVID BO YER, Adm'r. Sept. 4, 1856 , ' 23 New BlatifiS. Deeds, Mortgages and Quit Claims of an approved shortform, and at a very short price, are for aale at Ibis office. Also Blank Notes neatly orintedandforsala at the same place. , at the' dhi saponE, T UMBER, SQUARE TIÄPEP.DÜCB I i .mA. n vinks. for which will l gn in exCDiDge goods at the very lowest prkej. . v