Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1858 — Page 2

THE E AGLE H L PHILLIPS.) ~ _ I Esirozs a raonsncM. W. O. SPENCER.) DECATUR, INDIANA. FftlOAY MORMIMG, JAM. 15, 1655. DEMOCBATIC STATE TICKET. or STaTB. DAXIEL McCLVRE. of Morgan. ATorroa cy btatx. JOHN W. DODD. of GrtsL tixas; sra or sraTZ. NATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM. of Vigo. KTDIINTIXOtNT OF FT BIT C 1-*BI UX'T JCJ , SAMUEL L. EUGG. .r ATTOtxrr MOnSMjosefh e McDonald, of Montgomery, Ten rcneitt rrncz*. SAMUEL E PERKINS, of Marion. ANDREW DAVISON, of Decatur. JAMES M HANNA, of Vigo. JAMES L. WORDEN, of Whitley. THE STATE TICKET. We this week place at our mast head the Democratic State ticket, nominated by the Convention held at Indianapolis, on the Bth inst ; and its with no little pleasure we find the name of our late fellow townsman, Hon S. L. Rvgg, among the nominees. We present an invincible front to our enemies in the union and harmony which now prevails; and the Republicans have been most shamefully disappointed in their endeavors to engender and encourage dissention and disunion in oni ranks. There may be differences in the party upon questions of policy, but when we have a foe tocontend with, all such differences are forgotten in the one common desire to defend and maintain our principles and organisation.

Horrible Murder. We learn from a reliable source that Mr. Moses Murphy, late of Newville, Wells county, Indiana, was murdered on Friday the 8th inst., and his body found on Sunday following about two and a half miles south of that place. It appears, says our informant, that he had started out for the purpose of engaging a team to do some hauling, and was on his road home when he was waylaid and murdered; he was struck on the forehead with a club, and his jugular vein was also cut. The body was found in a tree top within sight of two farm houses, ———<>——— County dominations. As the nominations for County officers will take place at a primary election on the first Monday of April next, it is high -: ly important that the voters should be well informed as to the several candidates who desire to act as their servants. Therefore it would be advantageous to those desiring office to announce their names irn-; mediately; and we would modestly hint, m the times are hard, and the printers ever hard up for the all needful, that now is the proper time. We would also state that our term* for announcing the names of candidates are, one dollar for subscribers, and two dollar* and fifty cent* for non subscribers. State Sentinel. * We would refer our reader* to the Prospectus of thi* valuable Democratic paper in another column. Under the management of the present enterprising proprietors, as the central organ of the State, it is worthy of the hearty and general support of the Democracy of Indiana. For term* and particulars, see prospectaa. ndenver to wear a cheerful countenance if it be possible. Did people generally know how many smiling facet and happy thoughts they might cause by aswming an air of cheerfulness, their faces would be one perpetual sunbeam. No man has a right to go about with a stern countenance and rigid physiognomy, frightening even the very children that he meet*, and it is a duty he owe* to the community to keep good natured. Melancholy Accident —The wife of Mr. Jesse Wright, late of Barton county, Mo., but now of Kansas, was taken with a fit one day last week, in the absence of her husband, and fell in the fir«> and was burned to death. Mew Hampshire on KuMw. Concord, N. H , Jan. s.—The Democratic Statecommiitee of New Hampshire proclaim by resolution their opposi’ion to 1 w Leen-r.p- eorsttwtion.

STATE CONVENTION. The Democratic State Convention, met at Indianapolis on Friday, Bth inst. The Convention wag well attended, and with the exception of three, every county in ( the State was represented. I’3 proceed- . ings were fairly and honor ibly conducted; ■ and the greatest toleration of sentiment 1 prevailed. Alter full and animated dis- < cusaions on the resolutions presented by , the committee, they were unanimously i adonud. Tne Convention, also, passed t a resolution re-affirming the principle of ■ "Popular Sovereignty The comma- | lions were unanimously confirmed; and , tne Democracy ol Indiana can now enter , the coming contest of 185 S with the as- i sarance of a more glorious victory than , ■ has ever before perched upon her banners. , We give below the resolutions entire as | passed by the Convention: , I. Resolved, That the Constitution of ( the United Slates, and every part thereof, ( together with the laws of Congress in aid | of its wise and patriotic provisions, com- t mands and receives our cordial devotion <

and support. 2. Resolved, That we recognize in the early doctrines of the Republ'c and absolute and entire equality among the States of this Union, and among the citizens of the several States, as respects all the rights privileges which make American citizenship valuable, and to these doctrines we now anew pledge ourselves and the faith of our party. 3. Resolved, That for Indiana we assert the right to maintain and control her domestic institutions in her own war, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and what we claim for ourselves we concede to others. 4 Resolved, That the right of the people of any State in this L’nion to mould their laws and institutions to suit them-

selves, and not others, being an unque*tioned right, it follows that the manner in which they perform this high duty to themselves is not a proper subject for the dictation of any sister State or of all the States of the Confederacy in Congress assembled, save only that the Constitution and the laws of the United States shall not he violated. 5. Resolved, That we endorse and reaffirm the Platform laid down by the National Democratic Convention of 1856. as embodying the spirit and the letter of the law of our political gravitation, which constitutes the Union as it is; holds each Slate in its own particular sphere, and reduces the theory of self-government to a practical reality. 6 Resolved. That we alio endorse and re-affirm that platform laid down by the Indiana Democratic State Convention ot the Bth of January, 1856; and we hail the rich memories of past victories achieved upon its principles as bright omens to cheer us in the campaign of 1858. 7. Resolved, That in the late decision of the Supreme Court of the United States known as the Dred Scott decision, we rec-

ognixe a legal exposition of the doctrines ; ot the Constitution of the United States > and of the State of Indians, and we hereby denounce and hold up to the universal execration and scorn of all loyal Ameri- , can citizen* the loathsome doctrine of ‘negro equality’ now sustained and endorsed by the so-called Republican party of Indiana, as a natural and inevitable , con-equence of their opposition to the de- , cision of the Supreme Court above named. b Resolved, That the unanimous action of the Democratic members of the l«st Indiana Legislature in the election of Senator* in Congress is by the Democi atic party of Indiana cordially approved, fully endorsed, and firmly sustained; and that Jesse D. Bright and Graham N. Fitch, the Senators elect are worthy the high position in which they were unanimously placed by their party. 9 Resolved, That we arraign the Black Republican party of Indiana before the people for sustaining the members of that I party in the last Legislature of this State in the commission of the following enormous outrages upon public and private rights: I. Creating a revolution in the first step toward* the organization of the Senate and violating the constitution and the law by attempting to supplant the legal presi- ■ ■ ding officer ot that body with one of their own number. 2 Refusing in open defiance of the constitution and in flagrant violation of their, oaths to meet in joint convention and be present at the canvass of rote* for Governor and .Lieutenant Governor when ; counted by the Speaker of the House of Representative*. 31. Meeting without* quorum and without a presiding officer, and expelling the Senator from Clark county, thereby making a mockery of the Constitution, breaking their oaths as Senalor*. and in nil their councils calling to their aid the evil spirit of anarchy which has in everv age involved nations in bloodshed and overthrow. 4th. Voting more than one hundred times by a strict party vote against appropriating money to defray the expense* of the Benevolent Institutions of the State, thereby closing the doors of charily and sending the Deaf, the Dumb, the Blind, and the Insane abroad in the world without that protection which humanity dictate* and Indiana gives to them. sth. Voting more than one hundred i times by a strict party vote against a Revenue Bill and an Assessment Bill, therebv attempting to prostrate the Slate Government, to bring her into dishonor »• home and abroad by failing ‘n pay the

interest on the State dept, as provided for and made obligatory by the Constitution. and inflicting other and most grievous injustice upon her citizens. 6;h. Refusing to join and assist in the election of Senators in Congress, thereby setting at naught the will of the majority of the voters of Indiana, as expressed at the ballot-box, October 14th, 1856, 7th. Attempting, as far as in their power lay, to legalize gross palpable, and wicked frauds upon the elective franchise; recognising and receiving from the Countries of Rush. Fountain, and Marion persons as Senators conclusively proven in legal investigations to have been elected bv illegal, hired, and perjured voters; stifling the voice of inquiry into their pre urn led and usurped right to their seats as Senators, in the face of legally instituted contests in each instance. Thus alone enabling the party to which the said spurious and illegally elected Senators belonged. to inflict their spirit of misru'e upon the State; and finally sending forth to the world a forgery upon the Journals of the Senate by which to cover up their high-handed villainy, and avert from themselves if possible the just indignation of all honest men.

For the foregoing and other crimes against the Constitution, the laws, public virtue, the popular will and good government, we ask the trial of the so-called Republican party before a jury of the people of Indiana in lha coming canvass, and for judgment against them at the polls in October. 1858. 10. Resolved, That James Buchanan was the first choice of the Democracy of Indiana for the Chief Magistracy of this Republic at the Nominating Convention in June, 1856, aad of the people of the State at the ballot box in the ensuing November, and nothing which he has done since his elevation to the high posi-

tion which he occupies has abated or diminished our confidence in hi* ability, integrity, patriotism and statemanlike qualities, and we cordially approve and endorse his administration. 11. Resolved. That we endorse and approve the administration of our State government as conducted by Ashbel P. Willard, the hero of the fierce fought fight of 1856. 12 Resolved, That harmony being essential to the strength and support of the Democratic partv, we take for our motto‘The union of the Democratic party for the sake of the Union of the Stales.’ 13. Resolved. That we are still in favor of the great doctrine of the Kansas-Ne-braska bill; and that by a practical application of that doctrine the people of a State o r of a Territory are vested with the right of ratifying or rejecting at the ballot box any Constitution that may be formed for their government; and that hereafter no Territory should be admitted into the Union as a State without a fair expression of the will of the people being first had upon the Constitution accompanying the application for admission. Negro-Worshipping Consistency. The Black Republican leaders are cu-

rious specimens of natural history. These political camelious never remain the same , thing long enough to have their portrait fully taken. Last year they were devout 5 negro-worshippers; halers of ‘squatter f sovereignty,’ and shriekers for the supre- i, macy of Congress. Now negroes are for- a gotten, and they are shrieking against the ( interposition ot Congress. List year the j Mi-souri Compromise was the goddess o; , their idolatry, and the principle of popu- s lar sovereignty, which consigned't to an eternal grave, was their ?pvcial horror Q and abomination. Now the Missouri fc Compromise is thoroughly ignored, and a the tomb of lhe prophet has lallen into i £ contempt, while popular sovereignty be- . comes the sudden and sole idol of their in- c constant worship. But yesterday three thousand Puritan , clergymen were appealing to Congress to , 'forbid slavery in Kansas, and praying j with frantic zeal for the swift destraction ; of that monster, Stephen A. Douglas, and , his atrocious proposition to refer that question to the decision of those whom it ( concerned. Now these three thousand ( ; saints are chanting the praises of this , •same monstrous iniquity, and are exces- ( -ively anxious to adopt the author of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, as well as all of its ( ;‘swinding pretences of that outrageous i I fraud.’ We adopt, out of compliment, the pious definition given to that act by its new and reverend god-fathers. They i will now joyfully accept them both, with f all their unrepented »ins upon their heads ' and will even admit that benighted heathen, ‘freetrade and State-rights Walker,’ to the table of grace, if he is docile and will work well in Republican harness. We only encounter one trifling perplex--1 ity in this extensive change of creed in the congregation o( the higher law; but , they — being used to such things—may see no difficulty in it. We would like to know whether these consistent negroworshippers were really sincere in their I intense, exclusive, and super-heated, rifle and bible devotion to anti-slavery princi--1 pies, or are they slightly insincere in their present abandonment of their cherished f creed? Were the three thousand clergy- . men only quizzing Congress when they 1 displayed such a holy and unappeasable . indignation at its wicked proclivities for - popular sovereignly, or are they only • ; dealing in pious fictions now, when they profess to be the ardent supporters of that 1 denounced principle? We do not accuse a any one of hypocricy, far from it; but if I. this is nothing but a change of outside e colors, a mere moulting of the old feathers r it i* at lea»t a curious phenomena in nae tural history. — Stales

Congressional News. Washington, Jan. 5. Sexatz M r . Fessenden, of Maine, introduced a bill providing for the payment of the French spoliation claims and moved its reference to a select committee of seven. After some debate the motion was agreed to. Crittenden. Collarner. Davis and King were appointed a committee. Mr. Slidell introduced a bill amendatory to the Coinage Act, relative to half dollars and small silver coins. Mr. Brown is s'ill too sick to resume . his speech on Kansas affairs. Auer some other business of no public importance, the Senate adjourned. Hovsx —The House went into a committee of the whole on the S’ate of the Union and look up the President’s message. J. Glancv Jones, of Pennsylvania, submitted a serious of resolutions referring the various branches of the message to approriate standing committees. He ex pressed a hope that they should be adopted forthwith, as the message had been before the country nearly a month. Mr. Becock believed Paulding had acted illegally, while he preferred to hear from the Executive in response to the resolution for information he wanted about the neutrality laws enquired into. He mantained unlimited power to use the army and navy on the ocean, when those of other nations can be legitimately employed Mr. Grow was pleased to see such feeling manifested on the other side of the House against the Executive for encroachment on the rights of our citizens He asked that the rule applied to the sea be applied to the land for the army. During the las’, two years, it has been employed in Kansas, —perpetrating outrage an injustice on rights guaranteed every freemen.

Maynard trusted this question would be discussed on its intrinsic merits. — Seperaled from Kansas, Utah and all others, he took it for granted that Paulding and Chatard though they had plenary power and ample instructions for the course lhev deemed proper to pursue. If they were acting under instructions of that character, they should not be reproached for obeying them. After further debate, the committee rose, and House adjourned. Washington, Jan 7. Senate—J H. Hammond, Senator from South Carolina in the place of Mr. Butler, deceased, took his seat in lhe Senate. Mr. Seward of New York, presented a petition from the citizens of Canandaigua, N. Y., praying for the adoption of some practicable measure, in which the people of the north may co- rperate with the peo pie of the South in the extinguishment of Slavery, bv making a fair and honorable compensation to the slave owners for lhe full value of their slaves.

The petition was ordered to lie on the table. On motio* of Mr. King, a resolution 1 was adopted requesting the President to furnish, if not incompatible with the public interests, copies of the correspondence and dispatches of our ministers st the Courts of England, France, and other Powers, on the subject of damages toetnigran’ s arising from contracting with irresponsible parlies for their inland passage. On motion of Mr. Guinn, the committee on Foreign Relations were instructed to enquire into the expediency of making an appropriation by law for the compensation of a Minister Plenipotentiary to lhe Emperor of Japan and for other United Stales officers in Japan. A message was received from the President in response tn call for information relative to recent events in Central America, in which he says Commodore Paulding committee a great error, in arresting Gen. Walker. He thinks it is quite evident that Commodore Paulding was actuated by patriotic motives, and was desirous of promoting the interests and vindicating the honor of the country.

The Government of Nicragua sustained no injury by his act, but was rather benefited, and it alone would have the right to complain. And it is quite certain it will never exercise that right. A warm and long debate ensued, in which Joolitlle, of Wisconsin, and I’earce of Maryland, sustained tbe views of tbe President. Davis, of Miss., Crittenden, of Ky., Brown, of Mis*, Pugh of Ohio, Toombs, of Ga , and Douglas, of 111., argued ih opposition. The message was referred to the Committee on Foreign relations The Senate then went into executive session. House —The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending lhe sale of Fort Snelling consist* of Burnett, Morris, of Illinois, Morrill. Faulkner and Pettit.

To morrow being the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, it was agreed that when the House adjourns to day it be till Monday. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the President’* annual Message. Mr. Thayer rnan’.ained that if we wish we can Americanize Central America, but have no desire to do *o at lhe expense of the national honor by violating treaty stipulation*, cr the law* <>f tbe United State*.

The only way of effecting this object was bv peaceable emigration. Mr. Wasburn. of Maine, denounced the Lecompton Constitution, and said the Administration never intended that the people of Kansas should decide the slavery question for themselves. Adjourned. Admission ol Kansas. Mr. PUGH asked, and by unanimous consent obtained, leave to introduced a bill (S. No. 37) to provide for the admission of Kansas into the Union; which was read twice by its title, and ordered to be printed. . , , c Mr. PUGH. With the indulgence of the Senate 1 wish to give a briefexplana- ' tion of the bill. Mr. DOUGLAS I suggest that it ought to be referred to the Committee on Territories. Mr. PUGH I have no objection to its reference, but 1 wished to have a printed copy of the bill, with the view that probably other Senators might suggest amendments before sending it to the committee; but I have no objection to its being Fefered to the Committee on Territories at ooce. I was about to state, as it would delay i the Senate some time to read the bill, and as it is an act of some importance to myself, the substance of this bill which I offer as a compromise for the settlement of the present difficulties in Kansas. Tne bill provides for the admission of Kansas into the Union as State, under die constitution adopted at Lecompton, November 7, 1857, with the boundaries defined in the pacification bill of the last Congress, and upon two fundamental conditions. The first condition is that the seventh article of the constitution, relative to slavery, shall be submitted to a seperate and direct vote, ‘Yes,’ or ‘No ’ of the qualified electors, on the 7th of April, 1858, at which time the State officers, the Legislature, and the Congressmen shall be chosen. The returns of this election to be made to the Governor of the Territory instead of the president of the convention, and the election conducted in obedience to the laws in force on the 7th of November.

The second fundamental condition is that the constitution shall not be so construed as to limit or impair the right of the people, through their Legislature, at any time, to call a convention for the purpose of altering, amending, or abolishing their form of government, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. The President is required to admit the State by proclamation as soon as the election of April 7th shall have transpired. The ordinance of the Lecompton convention, relative to the grants of public lands, is rejected, and, in its stead, the usual articles of compact are offered to lhe first Legislature of Kansas, for acceptance or rejection, as in the case of other new Slates. I shall not ask the attention of the Senate to any further exposition of the bill at this time; but I hope that after tbe Senator from Mississippi has spoken on the subject, I nifty be allowed to explain some what mo-e fully the reasons on which 1 base these various provisions. The VICE PRESIDENT. The bill will be reiered to the Committee on Territories.

Editorial Injustice Tile New York Post has repeatedly , published the following sentence as an extract from lhe President’s instructions to 1 Gov. W alker: ‘I repeat, then, as my clear conviction that unless the convention submit the con stitution to the vote of all the actual settlers ot Kansas, and the election be fairly and jnstly conducted, the constitution will be and ought to be rejected by Con ■ gress!" Upon this alleged extract from the instructions, the Post has charged the President with ‘official disingenuousness,’ because in his message he use* the following language: ‘I merely said that when a constitution i shall be submitted to lhe people of the Territory, they must be protected in lhe I exercise of their right of voting for or against that instrument, and the fair expression of the popular will must not be I interrupted by fraud or violence.’ A similar charge upon the same basis I has been made in thi New York Tribune, and has been repeated in other republican journal*. We took occasion some days ago to call lhe attention of these journals to the injustice which they had thus done ’the President by attributing to him language which he had never used, but which had only been employed by Gov. Walker and we took it fol gianted that they would correct their error without delay. We 1 have not observed the correction, however, either in the Post or elsewhere, and we again call the attention to the subject in the hope that it will still be made. No respectable journal can desire to persist in a gross error, it ha* built up a false charge of ‘disingenuousness’ against lhe Chief Magistrate of the United States.— Union.

MAN KILLED.—Recently in Claysville Clay county, Mo., in an altercasion [sic] between George Geisenger and John Myers, brothers-in-law, the former stuck the later with a piece of a fence rail. Mr. Myers died of the wound. G. escaped, and is now at large. ———<>——— A Movement has been made in Guilford county, North Carolina, for the erection of a monument to the memory of Gen. Nathaniel Green.

HySince an early period in the sas controversy, says the N. Y. of Commerce, the Free State men had obsolute majority of the electors i n Territory. This they have always ekin' ed, and their opponents have generally conceded it. It follows that they bar/'* all times had the power to control th' subject. They had entire power t o el ’ a majority of the delegates to the Com';! tututtunal Convention; and to give sh ' and character to that instrument. ] E( j ing this, and providing for the exclmj™ of slavery from Kansas, they would htv had the active co-operation of «|, ir * number of Democrats in the Territor who were opposed to slavery, »nd wishej for its exclusion. This opportunity not merely neglected, (for it was nerfec’. ly understood, and its importance correctly appreciated throughout the country I but it was shamefully and purposely rejecied, with the view and object of fasten, mg upon Kansas a slavfty Constiturion. For this establishment of slavery Kansas, we hold, and the country will hold, lite Free State men of the Territory responsible; and not them alone, but phmariiy and chiefly, the leading political I managers in the Slates, under whose nd. vice and direction the misguided peoplr of Kansas acted. It was determined an measure of partisan policy, that slavery must be fixed upon that Territory; snd since a fair expression of the people, according to the intent and meaning of the Organic Act, would not accomplish it, the result must be attained by other mwi, less honest, it is true, but still sufficiently so tor the approval of the managers of i great political party, which sought toearry its sectional doctries n X only into the councils yf the nation, but into the ez«u. rive chair. Not only did the Free State majority in Kansas conspire to place the power of i making a Constitution in the hands of proslavery men. but after that instrument wu .completed by the Convention and the | slavery clause, which had been the only question in dispute, submitted to the people for their approval or rejection, th* same determination to make Kansas i slave State characterized their action, and they again refused co establish a Fr« State Constitution, although confessedly able to do so.

It is seldom that demagogues are able to accomplish their purpose*, when the people ot State or Territory are relied upon to carry their plans into effect The peculiar circumstances attending the queition, have, however, enabled designing men to exercise an influence upon a body of electors, beyond any previous example. A large proportion of the settler* u Kansas emigrated from the East, under the ausuices of the very men who have sought to turn the excitement in the Ter ritory to political account. They well there with sentiments similar to those ti’.ertained by the crusaders ot Hncientt/aie* regarding their mission as against il<«holders, rather than against the Bystemof slavery, and prepared to do any act, ho»ever imprudent, which «hould *eemtoi>* demanded by those engaged in the wsr, not against slavery, but against the principle of popular sovereignty, and the tntional, conservative sentiment of the co’ l ' try. They have carried their fan»tic;»n to the bitter end. Os course we do not mean to say M the Abolitionist* and Republicans den* Kansas to be pemanenlly a State. But, for political fctfect, tbej wished to have it adopt * Constitution. This is proved by > shaping their action and inactionsio»| to produce that result. In thi> rrsptj they have gained their point. is uot yet written. j

Republicans in Report -In th*hop of a split in the D'mocratic p srl J on n Kansas question, the Republicans *q rubbing their hands in glee, and add, the ears ot Democrats too, »- er they think combativenes»is wan - n sJ get up a fight. All for nix, S en ' lhe Democrats are not going to accJ date you with a difference l° n g- W all ag’ree on the principles of tllf P J ka bill. They all Intend to principles* full and fair wpphca-.on j admission of Kansas as s ‘ s * te ' J may differ about details, J • J easily be settled by a vote- |l the President included, t a ■ of said Kansas Constitution wt* ■ milted to the people- 0 n * * no disagreement. — Cleveland*- ■ New York Legi»l»‘« e ‘ ■ Albany. (N- Y.) ture assembled to-day. 1 ■ ganized by the choice of r f P ‘■ J cers. The house of assemb y 1 once for speaker without acw | King’s message has not been ~ J lhe Express rays that herewo ■ enactment of a law compel mg ■ to keep in coin twenty-five pej ■ indebtedness exclusive of n ” ,eS '. recommends a tax on ratlro*°. - lows the roads to increase ger fares. He says the ■ canals will he short, and reL , direct tax of half-a-mili rears as a resource. He ■ actment of registry laws, an ■ poses slavery in Kansas- I _. rhiiSf’B Destructive Fire a’ . Chicago, Jan. i broke out in Clark street. ■ cy and Jackson Atre< ‘ t!! ' , noo ' TV lertv to the amount of •o'-• an insurance of 830.00'J 3 Thb weather is quit* *’ r!D | »n* for th* s*Mr> v |