Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 January 1858 — Page 2

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I.AI'AYETTU ARGUS.

We asked tho Argus in our last paper to explain to us how in one week it could endorse an article of ours upholding Mr. Douglas in his noble stand in favor of popular rights in Kansas, and next week employ its columns in defaming him. The question was respectfully asked, but seems to have had a bad effect on the editor's temper. In his reply he pitches into Senator Wallace, whom he supposed the editor of the 1'icvicw, and suggests the propriety of the Senator allowing the readers of our paper to see what the Argus really says on the Kansas question. We beg to assure our contemporary that, from regard for him, we withheld the article which called out our interrogatory the Democrats of old Montgomery would not stand such a blast from such a source against

such a Democrat as Mr. Douglas certainly none of them would ever subscribe for the Argus. Our folks arc decidedly western, hailing for the most part from Kentucky and Butler county, Ohio they have ways of thinking rather outre in the judgment of a fledgling New Yorker among other things they think a gentleman must have at loast lived long enough to have "got dry behind the cars" before he begins practising politics, and talking about reading people out of the party. Our folks, we arc satisfied, arc not so fully posted as the Argus would like to have them they are not acquainted with the editor, and if they should be a little indifferent about whatlie does say about the-Kansas imbroglio, he must cxcusc them nevertheless, when we discover anything in favor of popular rights in Kansas manfully asserted in the

Arg us— anything worthy the space it will necessarily occupy—we will copy it, and, by way of introduction, tell them who wrote it. This we say on our own authority—Senator Wallace and our eotomporary may "regulate their own affairs as they think best."

In conclusion, we are glad to discover symptoms of returning faith in the Argus. He now says "we arc far from entertaining the least unkind feeling toward Senator Douglas." This will be soothing to Senator Douglas. When that gentleman is President, he will doubtless remember the magnanimity of Mayor Williams— doubtless he will give him a lucrative and salubrious Consulship to the Lobos islands.

If the Argus insists on our taking back anything we have said or now say, it must become a little more respectful in its own tone. There are neither profit, honors nor nominations in old Montgomery for the man who deliberately turns his back upon the great Democratic principle of popular sovereignty. Show your hand, Mr. Williams defend the right, defend the people and the people's man, and we will say something kindly of you.

THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRE!!. This paper heretofore has always been considered by the Democracy of Montgomery county, and the State generally, as a Eound and reliable exponent of the Democratic creed, and as such has received a very liberal and cordial support. But what is the position f)f that paper now Instead of maintaining the principles of the Kansas and Nebraska Act as understood by the party and endorsed by the Cincinnati Convention in their national platform, it has repudiated the vital principle of that bill and denicB that the people of the territory have any right to bo consulted upon the adoption or rejection of the Constitution framed by the iniquitous Lceomption Convention, in fact, discarding the right of popular sovereignty. Not content with this base desertion of a cardinal principle of the Democratic party, it keeps in its employ at Washington, a contemptible puppy, under the garb of a letter writer,or correspondent, who amuses himself by filling the columns of the Enquirer with scurrillous abuse of Democratic Senators who have seen proper to take a position along side of Judge Douglas in vindication of the true intejnt and meaning of the Kansas Act, and the pledges of the party. In its issue of last Saturday, it makes an attack upon the political position of the Hon. Robert J. Walker, late Governor of Kansas, charging him with falsehood and ambitious designs. It is needless to say thoBC charges are not only groundless, but destitute of truth. Indeed tho course of the Enquirer at the present time is of the most disorganizing character, and we trust that this Democracy of this county, and State generally, will give it as it deserves, theeold shoulder, for has ceased toad* roc&te sound Democratic dootrine

KANSAS AFFAIRS.

The result of the election in Kansas on the Lecompton Constitution, held on the 21st of December, has been received.— TheConstitution was adopted, of course, xcilh slavery. This result docs not in the least surprise us, as the manner of submitting said Constitution could hardly have resulted otherwise. The instrument was presented to the people in this way "For the Constitution with slavery—for the Constitution without slavery." Tlitis depriving the people entirely of voting against the Constitution in any manner.— Every voter, in order to vote even on the slavery clause, was compelled first to endorse every other provision in the Constitution, no matter how odious these might be to him. The consequence was that every voter who disapproved of the Constitution was disfranchised and hence, as might have been expected, the free-State men refused to vote. There were also some precincts in the Territory, where no poll books were opened, and of course no one in those precincts had an opportunity to vote at all. no matter what his sentiments might I.e.

The extra session of the Territorial Legislature, called by acting-governor Stanton, passed a law submitting the Constitution to a fair vote of the people, on the first Monday in January in three forms, namely—for the Constitution with slaver}-, for the Constitution without slavery and against the Constitution. This Legislature and its action has been recognized as legal and binding by the government at Washington, and, of course, the vote on the Constitution at the time and in the manner prescribed will have to be rcspccted. The Constitution will unquestionably be voted down, at that election, as it is acknowledged on all hands that a very large majority of the people there arc violently opposed to it. The next step will be the calling of a new convention and the formation of another Constitution, to be afterwards submitted to the people of Kansas lor their final ratification or rejection.

A NL'ISANCE.—A military company, styled the "Montgomery Guards," under the command of Capt. Wallace, have a room rented in Commercial Block, which they use as an armory and drill rcoin.— The military enthusiasm of these sons of Mars out Hcrods llcrod. From early dawiMintil the late crowing of the cock at midnight, a constant beating of drums is heard, disturbing and annoying the whole neighborhood. Every hand in our office, down to his little sa'anic majesty, the devil, belongs to this indefatigable corps •if rustic veterans, and between tho constant boating of drums and their exercise in tho manual tactics as laid down by Gen. Scot we find it a matter of extreme difficulty in issuing our paper regularly.— We sincerely hope that the War Department will draft these chaps into the regular service and send them to Utah, where they would prove a more grievous annoyance to the Saints than the army of frogs did to the Egyptians.

THE CRRIZKNS HANK OF COS PORT— 1NFAMOUS SW1NDI.U. It will be recollected that in our last issue we stated that the Bank of Gosport had suspended payment, and, as it has, and will be the case, that tho holders of the notes of said Bank will be called upon by the agents and other parties interested in the swindle, to undergo a shaving operation, wo would state that we have reliable information that the rascals owning the Bank arc individually liable for the entire circulation, and they will be bound ultimately to redeem the notes, we would there fore advise the farmers who have received said money for pork not to bo shaved by a a set of sharpers.

There is a very considerable amount of these notes in circulation in this county, and we intend to watch the course the par tics may pursue who have put it in circulation.

KB" The Democratic Convention onlast Saturday was a fine affair. We noticed in attendance a great many Black Republicans who had becu drawn hither by a report that the Democracy on that day was to split. Instead of witnessing a split they were subjected to a regular old fashioned skinning. Joseph E. McDonald, Capt. Manson, Col. Wilson and Lew Wallace paid their compliments to the nigger party in a way that will not soon be forgotten. The resolutions passed, condemned the action of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention and insisted on a maintainance of the principles set forth in the Cincinnati Platform.

.SENATOR NI-T II.

We regret exceedingly to sec the position this gentleman has taken in regard to the Lecompton Constitution. It may curry favor with southern fire-eaters and northern disorganizes at Washington, but it will most assuredly blight his political prospects at home. His ill-timed and feeble attack upon Senator Douglas has gained for him no credit here, and when we revert to his former political course in days gone by, we must confess that his attempt to read Judge Douglas out of the party for hi? manful defense of its cardinal principle, was to say the least, farcical in character as it was stupid and silly in design. We would gently remind the newly elected Senator, that his present position is not as secure as might be desired, and that an Indiana Legislature might possibly sit in judgment upon his claims. The Democracy of Indiana.will never endorse a man who denies the right of self government,

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SENATOR WALLACE'S SPEECH. The speech delivered by Senator Wallace on last Saturday before the Demo* cratic County Convention, .was unquestionably the ablest effort that-has yet marked the course of this sterling champion of Democracy. He showed conclusively that any other course' than that taken by Judge Douglas against that infamous fraud, known as the Lecompton Constitution, would cot only be subversive of the cardinal principles of the Dcmocraitc party, but would be a disgrace and a stigma upon our republican institutions. He produced the Lecompton Constitution itself, reading therefrom the clause relating to the slavery question, and pointed out the artfulness with which it had been drafted to entail slavery upon the Territory and defeat the will of the majority. -iHe also read the Know-Nothing clause, where a residence of twenty years in the United States is required to qualify any person for the office of Governor, &c. He also called attention to the provision in relation to banking, where a giant monopoly and swindle is attempted to be fastened upon the people of Kansas without their consent. lie proved r.v the instrument itself, that it was no better than its worst enemies had represented it—that it was full of evils, injustice and wrong—corrupt as itsframers. The speech was well received and did crreat credit to the head and heart of the talented Senator.

The Cincinnati Enquirer charges

Governor Walker of Kansas, with false hood in quoting certain things as the in structions of the President in regard to the Governor's duty &c. Now the truth is, the falsehood is on the part of the En quirer and it is done for the purpose of injuring the Governor. Governor Walker expressly states that tho extract in question was taken from his own inaugural address to the people of Kansas, and not from the President's instructions to him yet those instructions held out precisely the same idea. Besides, the Governor's inaugural was sent to the President and was warmly approved by him. The Enf/uircr is becoming famous for traducing eminent Democrats. Beware of its slanders.

Democratic Meeting,

Tlic DoinoiTucy of Montgomery county met at tlic Cf iJi House on last Siiturdiiy nfrenioon at 1 oVlcclc P. M.. for the jnirpusuuf ii]ipoiiiti:ig tlelcL'situs to the State CVi'.venliim to lie hoklcn sit Inolis on the ciirhth of Jiimisiry. On motion Cnpt. M. I). :nson was appointed President, urn! lias-H. Howcn nd IX ('. Stover Secretaries.— The nioctiiiff being called to ord»:r, on motion of .Jus. I'. MrPi-lsald the President appointed the ftillowinjr gentlemen committee on Uosohitions: lew W:,llaee. A.J. .Snyder. Keuben Fink. Jinbt. MoMakcn. L. 0. Stover, .jas. Harney. 15. W Elide. Alex. IlarpCr. Martin Sidner, Elijah Hall.

Iiobt. Iiei.1 Mr. Allen, George \V. Miteheltrce. On motion the following gentleman from tint several townships were appointed as Delegates ti attend the State Convent'on:

I'll ion —Lev Wallace. Major Elston, Uiclisird Canine. M. 1). Manson. Geo. Wilson, Sam. C. Wilson and Solon on Ball.

Ripley— 11. \V. McMaken, Samuel Watson, Kink and Elijah Clark.

Wnyiio—Geo. Bratton, Abraham Ileatli and •Tames Bull. Coul Crrek—Ji'siah Hutchinson, Joel lli.ven, Samuel Smith and K. 1'. Bennett.

Miu!i»on— liiram Hughes, Janu-a Wilson and Henry Keeney. Frnnlilill—Jesse MeCollister, Abraham Kashine and Alex. Harper.

Sugar rrrek—John Corlmrn, Silas Peterson ami John Peterson.

Wiihnit—Tlios. Wilson, Thos. E. Harris and William Jlisner. rinrli"--Caleb II. H. Anderson, D. D. Nicholson and ]). C- Stover.

Scott—Swan Brookshire, P. A. Shannou and Daniel Cox.

Rrovrii Joseph Allen, James Lipsi-omb and Stephen Allen.

During the abscencc of the Committee, tho Convention was ad Iresss 1 by speeches from .foscph K. McDonald, Samuel Wilson i.nd Capt. M:.n.-on, in wMeli the Black Bepublienns were most thoroughly skinned. The following resolutions were reported by the committee, and which were unanimously adop'o-5 previous to which, however, the Convention wa* addressed by the chairman of the Committee Lew Wulhieo, in a powerfu 1 and argumentative speech:

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RKSOI.VED That tin: people ofeneh Territory should be left free to form and regulate all their domestic institutions in tii-virown way. suhjeet only to t!,'. Constitution of tho United State.-: that we adhere to and maintain the principles of the Democratic party as set 'forth in the Kansas Nebraska bill, and in the' Cincinnati Platform: and that A lair UIMUIOI est practic-il applies'ion of this principle imperatively require 1 that, the Lecompton Convention should have snb:nittjd their constitution and the whole of it to the people of Kansas for their approval or r.-ja.-tio n.

I'.Esoi.vEn— That we have unabated coufiden in the integrity, wisdom and patriotism, of the national adr\nistration. and wo confidently hope and believe that tli3 foregoing principles of the Democratic pir'y will be fairly and faithfully up plied in the adon^si on of Kansas into the Union.

RKFOI.VMJ—That we most positively and unequivocally condemn and oppose all Httempts to control by fcrce and violence the ri-rhtof free suffrage of citizen-'at the polls, cither in the States or Territories of this Union. Tlu will of the- People properly expressed is the highest law, but if that expression be stifled or defeated there is an eud of civil government, and a failure of the power of the people to protect tlio.n.

HFSOLVLI—That now, as ever, wc are opposed to all banks of issue, national, state or private, and are in favor of the early passage of a law by our Legislature that will require the funds of the State to be exchiMvcly and securely kepi in some place of deposit to be provided fur the purpose, and on no account to be used for any other than the purposes of the State.

RESOLVED—Tlsr.t we rojoice -with sll National Democrats f.hroughout tho Union in the late decisive victories which, tfco Domocmey have achieved over Black Republicanism, foreshadowing, us they do, the ultimate extinction of a fanaticism, that lias more than once threatened and endangered the perpttuity of the Union.

RESOLVEB—That nil Democrats who may be in attendance from this county at the State Convention to be held at Indianapolis on the Sth day of January next, be regarded.by the Convention as DelegaUs.

RWOLVEO—That' wo'are" still in favor of the principles, aet forth jn the Cincinnati Platform ui is the K*n»M Nobr*«k« i.et.

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Democratic SuteJOmTention

meets nixt wcek Triday. There is deep interest felt throughout the State in it, not only in relation to the candidates but the policy it will mark oat in State mattera^ "The Convention will be laxge," arid undoubtedly harmoninus. It should be true to. principle at all hazards.'

Wercopy the/above from the Logansport Democratic Pharosesw***** The State Gonvention has, unquestionably, a delicate duty to perform. If, however,, it prove true to the principles of the party—-true to the doctrines laid down in the Cincinnati Platform, the Kansas-Ne-braska bill, and proclaimed by the Democratic press from one end of the Union to the other—it will not only be harmonious, but \vill strike a chord in the popular heart which will insure a victory, such .as seldom, if ever, perched upon our banners in the history of the State:'» Thnt principle—the right of the people to a full, fair and honest vote on the atfoption of their organic laws—is as "ancient as free government," and any attempt to abandon or stifle it, will result, disastrously to the party.. Those few Democratic papers in the State which have lamely attempted to ignore it, have, wc firmly believe, done so against their better judgments. Hence a recurrence to first principles, so far from displeasing them, will cause them to fight the more manfully for the right. Let the State Convention reassert the time-honored principles of the Democracy, as understood by the great mass nf the "party, and all will be well. Our motto, and the old motto of the party, is "Pmxcin.Es, NOT MEN."

{©"Correspondents from Kansas state that Gen. Denver, the new Secretary of State for Kansas, and now acting Governor, appointed in the ]lace of Mr. Stanton (removed), say that he (Denver) endorses all the ofiicial act.? of both Governor "Walker and Secretary Stanton, even to the convening of the extra Session of the Legislature by the latter, and for which act Stanton was removed. Another head will be brought to the block. Why not? Denver has endorsed the act for which Stanton fell, and should he not share the same fate? Kansas is the grave of politicians!

We arc pleased to»see that the

New Albany Ledger is right on the Kansas question. The Lcdser is generally 0. K..- •.

M-TTTEK FROM GOV. WALKER. At a dinner given by the sons of New England in New York last week, among other letters read was the following from lion. Uobcrt J. Walker:

WASHINGTON CITV, Dec. 19.

J)i:u: Fin Circumstances beyond my control compel nie to be absent from the Anniversary Dinner of the New England Society, to which you have so kindly invited me.

This is a time when we are all summoned to recur to first principles, so gloriously associated with the early as well as the Revolutionary history of New England.— It may be truly said that the Mayflower, which bore the Pilgrims to the shores of New England, was freighted with the liberties of the world. On board that immortal vessel was framed the social compact basing all human government on the consent of the governed, and carrying it into execution by the choice of their rulers by their own vote. As your fathers landed on your rock-bound shores, there dawned the first faint glimmering of the great principle of self-government, which rose upon enfranchised humanity, in all its meridian splendor, on the 4th of July, 1776. That great principle of self-government is about being subjected to a fearful, and, perhaps, a final test, in an unhappy Western Territory. If this principle can he subverted there, and such act ratified by Congress, the Pilgrim Fathers will have lauded in vain on the shores of New England in vain shall its great truths have been promulgated in the Declaration of American Independence, and the blood of the lie volution will have been wasted on a soil where military and despotic power would soon resume their sway, as under our suicide the freedom of our country and the world forever sank with its last "bubbling cry," into that great deep where it should remain until "the seas give up their dead, and m.an shall answer for his crimes, at the dread judgment-seat, of his Creafor

As a Pcnnsylvanian, I have no claim by birth or ancestry o:i New England, and presume that for this kind invnauun to your anniversary dinner I am indebted to my wife, who is a descendant of the illustrious Boston printer boy Benjamin Franklin, in whose principles and virtues I have endeavored to rear my children.

In closing this letter, permit me to transmit for the occasion the following sentimen t:

Self-Government—Whenever it shall be endangered here, let every son of New Englaud, wherever residing, rise as one man to the rescue.

Most respectfully, your obedient serv't, ROBERT J. WALKER. E. D. MORGAN, Esq., Chairman, &c.

The State Sentinel publishes edi-

torilly the following proposition: "Senator Douglas is certainly entitled to entertain this opinion, if he pleases and the President, and the Administration, and the great mass of the Democracy have an equal right to maintain the opposite opinion." rf/"

As a principle the proposition may be correct, but as a reference to the position of "the great mass of the Democracy," it is untrue. The "great mass of the Democracy" agree with Senator Douglas.

Those who oppose Douglas have an abstract right to do so—but they have no right to plaster their heads all over with Lecompton constitutions, and assume that very body else is plastered the same way. They are as much in error as the traveler who in the night thrust his head through the glass door of the taveren-cupboard and declared that the night was dark and smelt of cheese.^—Democratic Pharos.

A bill is before the Legislature of

Kentucky against runaway matches. All the penal provisions are levelled at the male partner in afi'-'elopeineo*.'

The Democracyof th6 State afln diaaft, in their County Contentions, Speaking out against fh£

Lecompton Fraud.

It gives lis great pleasure to state that the noble stand taken by the Democracy of Montgomery County, pn last Satrfrdaf is fully"sustained and responded to by a large majority of the Counties which have held their Conventions since the meeting of Congress. The idea that the Democracy of Indiana can be induced, under any consideration, to giv* up the great principle of Popular Sovereignty-—the vital principle of free- government—is preposterOUS.

Below we, give, resolutions adopted by several County meetings, which we find in our exchanges, received within the last two or three days.

In the proceedings of the Laporte County Convention wc notice that Col. Walker (who was some time since conncctcd with the State Sentinel, and was nominated for Lieut. Governor by the last State Convention, but declined) made a speech indorsing fully and unequivocally the position of Senator Douglas, which elicited hearty and prolonged applause from those present.

La Porte. County Resolution: Resolved, That the great fundamental principle of Self-Government, as vindicated by the Kansas-Nebraska act, as endorsed by the Cincinnati Convention, as approved by the President's Inaugural Ad-dress,-and defined by Senator Douglas, is as sacred to the Democracy as necessary to civil liberty and that, now as heretofore, we are opposed, at once, to interference by Congress in the domestic affairs of the people of any State or Territory, and to a departure from the principle that the people of a Territory, like the people of a State, possess the inalienable right, under all circumstances, "to form their own institutions in their own way, subject only *o the Constitution of the United States."

Floyd County Resolution:

Resolved, That the Democratic party having accepted the principle of popular sovereignty enunciated in the Kansas-Ne-braska bill, giving to the people of each Territory the right of determining the character of their own domestic and local institutions, as a fair and equitable adjustment of all differences of opinion in relation to such questions, wc confidently look to a Democratic Congress and Democratic administration to carry out in good faith the principle therein laid down and that in our opinion the power vested in Congress by the constitution of admitting new States into the Union should only be exercised when Congress is satisfied that the constitutions under which such new States ask to be admitted are satisfactory to and approved by a majority of the people who are to live under and be governed by them.

Washington County Resolutions: Resolved, That we approve of his letter nf instructions to Gov. Walker, on Kansas affairs, and sec no good reason why the full letter and spirit thereof should not be strictly followed.

Resolved, That we condemn as being anti-Democratic and despotic the attempts of a few men, composing the l.ccomptori Convention, to make a constitution for the people of Kansas and not allowing (hem the privilege of voting for its adoption or rejection, and that unless a full and fair vote is had upon the same, we hope that Congress will reject the so-called constitution of Kansas.

Foimtain County Resolutions: Resolved, That with Mr. Buchanan we agree, that Kansas has occupied too much of public attention and that Kansas sho'd be admitted as a State at the earliest practicable moment, consistent with the principles of the Kansas Nebraska bill and as an abstract question, we believe the people have the right and ought to be allowed to vote for the ratification or rejection of the Constitution which is to regulate their future political and social condition.

Resolved, That the Democracy of Fountain county, have an abiding faith in the Democracy and integrity of the lion. S. A. Douglas, 1J. S. Senator in Congress, as a great statesman and patriot.

Warrick County Rrtolutions: Resolved, That, as friends and supporters of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, we are in favor of tho submission of every part, of the Constitution of a new State, to the approval or rejection of the people thereof.

Resolved, That Senator Douglas, in his dcfeuce of the National Democratic Platform and its principles, has our wishes for his present and future success.

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Howard County Resolution: Resolved, That we reiterate a« the doctrine of the Democratic party the principles contained in the Kansas-Ncbraslia act guaranteeing to the citizens of a Territory, the regulating of their domestic institutions in their own way, and that wc look upon the course of the late Constitutional Convention of Kansas as violating the sacred provisions or that act in refusing to submit the whole Constitution for the action of the people of Kansas. 3 Wells County Resolution:

Resolved, That wc view with pleasure the position that Senator Douglas has taken in regard to the Ivansas-Lecompton Convention,'and that he now adopts and re-af-firms the principles advocated by him since the introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska bilL

Vanrlerburg County Resolution: Resolved, That in accordance with the spirit and life of the Nebraska bill, we hold it to be the unquestionable right of the people of Kansas to decide all of their domestic institutions as they please and that the course of the Lecompton convention in refusing to submit the whole constitution to the will of tlic people is contrary to the true meaning of popular sovereignty as vindicated and set forth by the Democratic party in 1856.

ISTBrighara Young, has increased his harem of seventy-five white wives, by adding to it fifteen young and lovely Indian squaws.

SAVED BY A ROOSTEE..—In Crmbridge, Mass., A. G. Patten was put on trial for stealing a hen, but the evidence showed that the fool was a rooster, and the aocuMd *u discharged.

THE KANSAS QUESTION. There ve certain symptom*, in certain qnartera^bearing upon the question of the admission of Kansas into the Union tinder the Lecompton Oonstitution^whioh we very muclTregret to see, and which bode anything but good to the Democratic party.—=• We refer to the tone of those journals Which make themselves the ^pecial'ctiiimpions of, the. Lccompton. Convention- and its disgraceful swindle. JUnder the impudent atid nnwarrantable pretext of "sustaining the administration"' and of fighting th 'dugh an "administration measure,'' they denounce as "malcontents" and "traitors to the Democratic party," all who do noVcomc unfalteringly tip to the line of policy Which they have chalked out. The folly of such course must be apparent to eVery one who knows anything of public sentiment on the Kansas.'.question, as it is iiow presenfed ttf the American people.

Let these gentlemen who are- so ready to flourish the knout over the heads of those who stand up for a

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and literal ad­

herence to the great doctrine of popular sovereignty, consult the rank and file of the party, before they push matters to extremes. In an adventure of that character, it will be best to count the cost, before commencing operations. Wc do not think the position of the Washington Union and its echoes, on this subject, is sufficiently backed up by the massej, the bone and sinew of the Democratic party, to warrant them in putting on tho air which they assume towards "brethren of the same house-hold" whose consciences arc not sufficiently clastic to enable them to swallow all their wild vagaries and monstrous heresies, at a gulp. If the spirit which seems to animate these assumed "leaders" in the Democratic ranks, is to be generally imitated, then we may as well begin to look out for "breakers." If reason, truth, justice, and honorable regard for principle are to be met only by brow beating, denunciation and abuse, the result is too obvious to be mistaken. If the care and safe-keeping of the Democratic party is to be consigned wholly to such hands, wc much fear that more will be lost than gained. One contingency, and one only, can intervene to prevent the trouble which blind and infatuated politicians arc 'hatching.' If, at the election to be held in Kansas, on the 21st inst., the Constitution, in one or the other of tho forms in which it is presented by the Convention, shall receivc such a vote as to show, beyond is accepted by majority of residents of the Territory,

doubt, that it the bona fide will Kansas be admitted into the Union, and the whole difficulty will have a peaceful solution. But if the vote is not such as to indicate that it is the voice of the majority clearly and fairly expressed, the whole responsibility will be thrown upon Congress of deciding whether the Democratic doctrinc of popular sovereignty shall hereafter be regarded as a practical, substantial, living principle, or an ingeniously contrived clap-trap the real purpose and object of which is to enable oilv politicians to gammon the people.—Shclbyville Volunteer.

A prune ON I.V IN'DI.V. A Writer in the London Times gives a terrible account of the oxecution of eighteen mutineers at Ahmedabad, October 2G

Ten of them mounted to their places on the drop: a firing party of twelve moved up to within twenty yards of the place where I stood, facing outyards, as the guns did, but behind them, further back into the square. The men who were to be shot were placcd in front, not more than twelve paces from the muzzles of the muskets.— They knelt down their eyes bandaged and their bands tied. Meanwhile five had been marched to the five fatal guns. They were bound by the arms to the wheels, but their legs were free, and the end man— the only one I could entirely see from my place on the flank—leaned his back against the muzzle.

I fixed my eyes intently on the man, not fifty yards away, and in a moment the signal was given. There was a roar, a bank of white smoke, and a jet and shower of black fragments, sharp and clear, which leaped and bounded in the air this and a fearful sound from the spectators, as if the reality so far exceeded all previous fancy, that it was intolerable then a dead stillness.

I wallkcd to tho scattered and smoking floor before the guns. came first to an arm, torn off above the elbow, the fisl clenched, the bone protrudingsevcral inches, bare: then the ground sown with red, grisly fragments then a black-haired head and tlieotlierarm still held together. This was the man I had watched. Close by him lay the lower half of the body of the next torn quite in two, and long coils of entrails twined on the ground. Then a long cloth in which one had been dressed, rolled open like a floor-cloth, and on fire. One man lay in a complete and shattered heap, all but the arms the legs were straddled wide apart, and the smashed body on the middle of tliem the spine exposed the the head lay close by, too.

The last body was that of a native officer, who was the arch-fiend of the mutiny. He was a short man, with a cruel face. Iiis head had been cut clean off his face halfturned, and calm—the eyes shut. I saw no expression of pain on any of them.— What had been his body lay on its face, the legs as usual not shattered, but all the flesh tjrn like cloth from a sharp angle in the hollow of the back, off and off, till it emerged in one mangled heap. I turned to the three who had been shot. One had been struck in the heart, and only bowed slowly over on his face. The others had been pistoled afterward through the head. All, I think, however, had been badly hit, as all were prostrate when Iran forward to the guns.

And only now—this was so much more terrible—did I look up to the ten white figures slowly swinging and revolving oyer this scene of blood. I hope they died quickly, but the ropes were very short.

The "wiring in and wiring out"

course of the State Sentinel on "Lecompton" attracts attention. The Crawford.sville Review asks why the changc in the State Sentinel? Why has it been on every side in the past year—Wright and anti-Wright—anti-Bright and Bright—antiBank and Bank? The trouble is, that the State organ plays the tunc the "power behind the throne" dictates—whatever that power may be for the time being. The Democracy of Indiana want principles honestly advocated—not toadying to men. —.Democratic Pharos.

a sorraMH Trew pr S4i ^r"r" PAIBS. The' present disjMtmtboat S«ssiiif! one o£ the moiti unproitable and anMped for thtt evcr occurred in tbitfcountorjjF

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is not pretended 'that the" South is "to gain anything by the acceptance of the Lecomp ton,constitution on -the .-contrary,-jktM*-qfertain to 16se friends! jhfltentfs* and «dn»

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it by Insisting on it Eyensucce^in^Uie^ measure'is imnpos^leT^Thej icntimtnt~ in the free States isSiiia^iinous", fof the ex* ceptions are so few as to be insignificant^— The Democrats every where.. stood in tho longest and bitterest contest upon the doctrine of popular sovereignty. They pledged themselves to literal fnlifillihcnt of their promise, in every way that wor.ds could be employed. This was the very bulwark of their strength Before the people. Had it been charged that a constitution would be made by. a conyettkm* and not fairly and fully submitted tO the popular vote, they would have dented it indignantly and repudiated it otherwise, they would not have carried a single State. It is simply impossible that they can recede now. They must forfeit the confidence of the masses to do so and sacrifice their" principles. When they promised that thov people of Kansas should frame their owninstitutions, they meant the people, not ft convention, assuming to represent them.'— They were so understood everywhere. It is no wonder, then, that they now resist what is proposed to be done. They cant not, as consistent men, do otherwise. "It is idle to try to atnuse the public with the idea that any party in the free States will support the'administration of Kansas withthis Lecompton constitution. A few Senators and members of Congress may vote for it but they will be without support at home.

Had a constitution for Kansas been fairly submitted to the people, and ratified pj t»-slavery or anti-slavery, not a word of opposition from the Northern Democracy would have been heard but they are pledged to its submission.

The position of Douglas ought to open the eyes of all parties on this subject. He is neither mistaken nor frightened. Ho knows perfectly well what he is doing. IIo ". cannot go before his people on any other ground. lie would stultify himself to do so. There is but one voice from his State, and that dictates the courso he is taking. lie would be false to his antecedents andpromises, aud false to his Stato, if he occupied any other ground. And why should the South occupy any other position? Did not the democracy of the South talk as earnestly about the right of the pcoploof'. Kansas to frame their own institutions aj the north? Was not this doctrine everywhere preached, and what is the South to loose by it? What do wc expect to gain by forcing a constitution upon the people, who challenge it as an act of usurpation: who oppose it, to all appearance, by a large majority.

It is idle to tell us that Congress is bound by the act of Territorial authorities, and thus undertake to shift the responsibility of an acknowlcbged wrong upon theLecompton Convention. Congress never authorized such a convention to be called,and it is with that body to grant the prayer or not. Wo should therefore like to know why any difficulty is made on this subject. Why not pursue the usual sife and constitution.il courso? Pass an act enabling Kansas to call a convention that will be a legal body, and require the Constitution to be submitted to the people, as was done in other cases. This will be according to promise, literally and faithfully. No one can then say that wc have denied to tho people of Kansas the right of self-govern- "T mcnt. No one can pretend that wc violate the rights of States or persons by this bcourse.

Wc know that some of our cotemporaries very honestly and sinccrcly advocate the admission of Kansas at once but wo ask, why? It must lead to an angry and protracted agitation and if wc insist upon it, we shall have very few friends in the free States. If we succeed, we shall alienate friends and gain nothing if we fail, which is about certain, it will be still worse.

The Democratic party is the only organization left that is national why insist upon an issue that will scctionalize it—an issue of no possible use. Wc apprehend that some of the advocates of this Lecoinpton business are quite consistent in pursuing their purpose. They think that a dissolution of the Union is but a question of time: and they would hasten the event by making sectional parties. When that is accomplished, the happy time they look for will be at hand. Let this issue be insistcd on, and those who resist it read out of the party, and the work is done. We depreciate the result as the last of calamilies. AVe believe it far easier to keep this

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Union in order than to make a tolerable one of any of its part:-: it will not require Iialfa3 much forbearance and moderation. Wc can forsec all the evils in the Union wc have to apprehend we don't know what is to come out of it. Better bear the ills wo have, than to fly to those we know not of are opposed to sectional issues about trifles, when no principle i3 at stake, and nothing is to be gained or nothing lost and thus weaken for nothing the ties that already exist. So much we should say if hc question were one of indifference.— But in our judgement, the most of the South are wrong on this subject. A people have a right to vote upon their organio law before they are compelled to live under it. In this instance they are denied that right. A count is called for, and it i9 sheer despotism to refuse it. This right they have, without anjr promises orpledges but in this case the promise was made in addition to the natural obligation. It was ostentatiously made, and repeated by millions of tongues. After all that has .. been said for the last three years, nothing will do but the most fair and literal fulfillment of the pledge that the people of Kan sas shall frame their own institutions to i" suit themselves. It will not do to dodge it by any technicalities, excuses, or sub* teriuges.—Louisville Democrat. *4/

The Tribune's Washington correspondent says: aw "Intelligence has been received from Utah, subsequent to November 6, which states that the Mormons had destroyed Fort Bridges and burnt all the buildings on the approach of Colonel Johnson." .fy "If the Lecompton Constitution had come here without slavery, Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, was to have moved for its ref* c*. erence back to the people. iov.a al

THE LEVIATHAN----'NO further progreM has been"made in laniching the is the report by the Arago.