Decatur Eagle, Volume 2, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1858 — Page 2

THE EAGLE H. L. PHILLIPS ) - _ _ _ > EIHTOBS A PKOPRIETOns W. G. SPENCER,) DEC ATUR, INDIANA. FKIUAY MORNING, AUG. SO, IMS. hEMOt IHTIfSTVfE TICKET, SLTIU r*KT or STATE DANIEL McCLURE, of Morgan. avd:tos of state, JOHN W. DODD, of Grant. 'BEASITIK OF STATE. NATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. SVFSRiNTLXPENT OF PUBttC INSTTI'CTtOS, SAMUEL L. RUGG, of Allen. ATTORNEY OEXrr.AL. Joseph e. McDonald, of Montgomery, FOR "rpREMr JUDGES, SAMUEL E. PERKINS, of Marion. ANDREW DAVISON, of Decatur. JAMES M. HANNA, of Vigo. JAMES L. WORDEN, - of Whitley. DISTRICT TICKET. FOR CONGRESS. JOHN II COFFROTH. FOR STATE SKnXtOR. DAVID STUDABAKER. .IUDGB 10th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT. Wm. W. CARSON. PROSECUTING attorney. J. H. SCHELL. C OUNT7 TICKET. REPRESENTATIVE, JONATHAN KELLEY, Sen. TREASURER, DAVID SHOWERS. RECORDER, W J. ADELSPERGER, SHERIFF. GEORGE FRANK COMMISSIONER. J R. MILLER SUUVITOR. E w. REED CORONER, LEVI EWING George A. Dent. This individual is the Republican nominee for the State Senate in this district, as a politician he is well known to the Democracy of this county as their most violent opponent, ever being willing to espouse any political creed and unite with any party that would do battle against the cause of Democracy. He bitterly denounced the Kansas Nebraska bill, nnd the principle of Popular Sovereignty as advocated by the Democratic party in 1356 Opposition to the Democracy has ever been his creed. He never was known to vote for a Democratic nominee, even down to Supervisor, then to be consistent with iiis funner political action, he ‘ will not dare to ask a D mocrat to sustain him for the Senate. We believe there will not one be found in this County, so recreant to the principles of his party as to sustain hitn. There is no Republican in the district that the D-mocrats would do more to defeat than their pretent nominee,. Mr. Studab.-ikers majority in this county will be 400, mark that ! McClure, the Democratic candidate and William Peelle, the Republican candidate for the office of Secretary of State, visited our place and addressed the citizens, on Friday last: quite a number were present considering the shortness of the notice. Mr. McClure, defined bis position J clearly, and defended the principles of the party ably. He showed that the Kan- i cns troubles, which l ad furnished the entire capital for the Republican party for the last four years, are now at an end, they were finally settled under the Eng Hill compromise bill by the people of the Territory themselves, notwithstanding this settlement, the Republican speakers still cry “Bleeding Kansas.” He showed that the principles of Popular sovereignty as advocated by Mr. Douglas and recommended by Mr. Bu-1 chnnan, in his Annual Message as a future rule was a cot reel one, and lavs at the very foundation of our free institutions that be sympithized with the Hon. 8. A. Douglas in his great fight against Black Republicanism in Illinois, and were he there he would enter the canvass, and do all in his power to reseat the great champion of Popular Sovereignty tn the Senate of the United States. His remarks gave entire satisfaction to the Democrats present. Mr. Peelle, during Lis rematks said that he steod squarely upon the Philadelphia platfrom, was in favor of Congressional intervention upon the subject of slas ery, and uas hostile to the doctrine ad - 1 vacated bv the Democratic part". that

to regulate their own institutions in their own way, was opposed to any more Slave States being added to the Union, and were he in Congres he would vote against the admission of a slave State, notwithstanding the people desired it, and said if he were in Illinois he would sustain Mr Lincoln. His speech throughout was characteristic for its Abolitionism, and sympathy for the Black man. The Republican leaders in this County who are endeavoring to get upon the platform of Popular sovereignty did not relish the position assumed by Mr. Peelle. The following is an extract from A. Lincoln’s speech before the Republican Convention in Illinois June 16th 1858 which defines his position upon the subject of slavery. “A house divided against itself cannot stand I BELIEVE THIS UNION CANNOT ENDURE PERMANENTLY HALF FREE AND HALF SLAVE. I do not expect the Union will be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, I do expect it to cease to be devided.— IT WILL BE ALL ONE THING OR ALL THE OTHER.” —. Why is it, when such men as Green of Missouri and Stephens of Georgia the leaders and defenders of the Lecompton Constitution in the Senate and House, can forget all past differences of opinion entertained by Democrats upon the Kansas policy, can take Mr. Douglas by the hand and recognize him as the great Champion of Democracy, enter the canvass in Illinois, and voluntarily assist in the overthrow of Black Republicanism That Small politicians in our country, I still cling to their idol—Lecompton, abuse ' and vilify Douglas and those Democrats I who opposed that instrument and advo- ■ ; cated its submission to the people? Why I can they not acquiesce in the settlement of the question? \\ hy keep up this conI tinued strife, over the dead carcass of Le- i compton? Is it not intended and calcu- ! lated to injure the Democrat party in the' approaching election? All good Democrats will cease this eternal warfare. —— £3TTliose very fast young ladies of our place, who within the past week ; were again seen perambulating the streets with company, at the unusual hour of mid- ( night, would, if not wholly lost to shame feel extreemly mortified upon learning that their conduct, to use the mildest j term possible, was highly reprehensible, and was observed by more than one. A hint will doubtless be sufficient, if not, we shall point them out mure definitely that their parents(whom we respect) and others may know and appreciate their real standing in society. For the Eagle. COMMUNICATED. Buffalo, Aug. 16th A D 1858. Eds Eaglb:—Sirs: if anything that I may communicate through the medium of you paper will be of any benefit to the cause ot Democracy, I stand ready at anv i and all times, to labor for the good of our common country. To see the Union preserved and our free institutions perpetuated, for the good of succeeding generation, is my highest ambition. In your editorial remarks upon my last communijcation your desire to know the name of j the speaker who said, “Our country was becoming a reproach and a byword for ; neatly ail the nation of the world” It was Mr. E R Wilson of Bluffton who was himself a democrat (professedly so at least) until recently, whose political ( change at the time caused so much gossip, in and around, Bluffton, as you no doubt recollect. I think likely Mr. Wilson is looking for office ai the hands of ■ his Republican friends and to show hjs true devotion to the cause, he argues the principle of Republicanism in that wav, which by the hy, is the only way that 1 hate heard it argued for several years In his remarks at the convention he dealt superficially, and humorously, and that 1 he could have spoken tn any other wav, I have yet to learn. You say that I was informed coriectly, in regard to what Mr. Ross did say at the convention of the 12th of June Mr. Ross admits himself that ; he said, his motto was “I am down on slavery.” Then the motto of Mr. Ross is, 1 am down on slavery everywhere. I will here give it as my opinion, that the good people ot this county do not desire the services of any man with such a motto, to represent them in their State Legislature. Before the election in next October, I will give you at least one more reason why we do not want Mr. Ross to represent us in the State Legislature I will communicate to you anything of note that may transpire in this vicinity that would b’ inten ding to your readers, Yours. LB.IRERI OST.

At their old Game. The Republicans are at their old game, again— villifying and traducing Judge Douglas. Since he has met them face to face exposing their sectional notions, he has became target at which every old Republican blunderbuss is aimed. They impugn his motives, malign his character, and many ever go so far as to question his moral courage. Why this change of front on the part of his Republican enemies? Do they pretend to say that he has changed in regard to the issues which have been before the country since November last? Not at all. But then he has relinquished his opposition to the Administration.— Yet at the same time, these pious, conscientious Republicans will tell you that the war between Douglas and the Administration is waxing warmer, and becoming more bitter—that the administration is flooding Illinois with government patronage to defeat the gallant Senator. If the Administration nnd its friends are doing this, as the Republicans allege, they are using very improper and corrupt means to aid the Republicans, at which they would never feign to complain, were it not for its effect in attempting to keep up a division in the Democratic party. They are honest, of course! No one would do violence to his imagination, by harboring the idea for a moment, that the Republicans are not perfectly unsophisticated and innocence in the matter!— That party which has all the moral grandeur that politics can support could do nothing that was not perfectly fair and honorable. To substantiate our assumption, we have but to refer to our friend Phillips of the Kokomo Tribune, who has of late been reading moral lectures to the boys and girls of that place. No one will cast a suspicion upon his moral honesty. He is delighted at the idea of defeating Douglas by the stupendous expenditures and extravagances of the Administration in Illinois, if we are to believe him. He is the man who wanted to prove our inconsistency by showing that we were at variance with Mr. Douglas.—Where is he now? But we have one word to say, so far as professed Democrats are opposing the re-election of Judge Douglas, in a square fight against Republicanism, with whom we cannot believe the Administration sympathise. We doubt any man's Demorraev who would prefer the election of Mr. Lincoln to that of Mr. Douglas—who will abuse the Democracy of Illinois and speak so of words to Republicans. It will be hard to make the country believe that such a man has any Democracy, or patriotism either. - Anderson Democrat Standard. The Record—Where is Pettit! We give below a sample of Black Republican consistency, as evidenced bv the action of the party in 1856 in Indiana 1 We place side by side a resolutiod passed by the national republican convention which nominated Fremont in 1556, and one passed by the Republicans of this I State at their 4th of March State con- ! vention. They present very good texts | for our Republican friends to preach ser- ! mons on consistency! We hope our' friends will read them carefully: From National Plat Fron State Platform I form of 1856. i o/’lßsß. ; And we deny the| That the people of! ' | authority of Coti-a Territory, when; • gress of a Territorial they shall come to , I Legislature; or of form a constitution any individual or as-preparatory to their! | so'iation of individ-addmission into the! ' uals, to give legal Union as a State,! ■' existence to Slavery have the right to! . in any Territory of adopt such a consti-1 <■ the United States, tution, being Repub- _ while the present lican in form, as may I Constitution shall be be acceptable to! mantained. and that t ino-Siate ought to be ! > 'received into the , 1U nion before the con ! . ' slimtion therefore has been fully and ; fairly submitted to > the people for their .! idoption or rejection j and received the approval us the majority of its legal voters. Now, if we are not very much mislataken, the people of ibis district will compel Mr. Pettit to define his position in relation to resolutions of his partv which are so palpably inconsistent with each other as the above. We wou'd call the ; editor of the Kokomo Tribune to his aid, but ,e is so wufolly out us sorts, occasionped by our remarks of last week in relation to him, that he will not be responsible tor what he says for the next six ' weeks. Pettit and his friends must stand t fire or show the white flag.— Anderson . Standard. Tke Lawrence Herald of Freedom, of ' last week says: 'lf the vote on Tuesday I next shall equal 16.000—a1l of which We . opine, from the character cf the judges ot the election, will be legal—then it must be conceded that our population will equal 96,000; for, taking intocon°id- . eration the large number who will re--1 m .in aw ty from the polls, the number of families, Ac., it is safe to estimate six in- , habitants to each voter.’ '■ Every county in Kansas has gone I against the English proposition. The majority against it will reach over 12 000. I.'i-ik -ut brig*-' ■-tie of J i rr-.-*l tng.

I ’ The Contest in Illinois. The following sensible article is from ' a recent number of the Grand Ra- ! pids, (Mich.) Enquirer, the first nnd a! ' most only Lecompton paper in that State: We regret to notice that certain Detn- ! oerntie journals are disposed to nurse the ! division in the Democartic ranks in the I Stale of Illinois. We cannot appreciate , ! the reason for such a course, and cannot j sympathize with the suicidal and destrue-! live policy. The question of Lecompion and anti-Lecompton Isa dead question, but there are other livequestions vital to the Democracy and the Union now made j an issue in lhe State of Illinois. Upon these issues the next Presidential contest is to be fought. Politicians may talk as much as they please about tariff and rev-1 enue, but the real issue must be upon State’ Rights, State sovereignty. These are the issues now in Illinois. Mr. Douglas is fi.nhino lhe battle of the Democracy in fighting upon these issues, and bis triumph will be a triumph of Democratic; principles, and the first gun of victory for 1860 will be the re-election of Stephen A. Douglas to lhe Senate. Mr. Douglas might have gone to the people of Illinois upon the Kansas question alone, but he has done more than this. Boldly and d-i'diantly he has challenged the oppositian to contest upon, the entire Democratic platform. He has tampered to no abolition prejudice, as he might have done; ! he has not with soft words enough to win the votes of the opposition; but with a boldness that challenges admiration, he has gone into the fight asking no odds or concessions from the common enemy. ■ln Chicago, the obolition den of the Northwest, he proclaimed that this is a White man’s government! For one, we want to see this question finally settled. Our sympathies, in such a contest, upon such a principle, are with Douglas for- ■ ever. Should he be beaten, then Negro: Equality will have gained a triumph.— No true Democrat can halt in his path of duty when this is an issue. Every division, every encouragement to divide or distract, is so much work in the cause of negro equality. The Washington Union and the New York Journal of Commerce may engage in such a work, but; we will not. Another issue by Mr Douglas is the , sovereignty of the States over their own local and domestic affairs. Never was this principle, dear to all patriots, so for- | cibly illustrated as in the late speech by Mr. Douglas. Here, again, Mr. Douglas is fighting the battles of the Democracy, and the verdict of the people of Illinois in favor of the equality of lhe States will be the death knell of sectionalism in the North-west. The triumph of the I principle in Illinois will inspire every! ! Democrat with new life, and lhe battle oi 1 '6O will be half won. There is not a Re- ! publican leader but haa hi« aye upon this ! contest in Illinois. As it goes, so goes 1 the Republican party. Seward, to-day, ! is calculating I;is chances from the result . of this contest. If Douglas is beaten, i then Seward is up; but if Douglas is vic- ! torioua, then Seward is down. If Illi-I nois is Democratic, then the Presidential : I game is simplified; but if Illinois is Repub- j ! lican, then where are we? This contest! ! is not f-jr Douglas so much as it is fur the | Democratic Party 1 The issue is iuouk-o ! i tous, involving not Illinois alone, but the I Union. It will determine the question whether the North is abolitionized or not i I and whether the Democratic party of the ' ■ North is again to rally, and win back State after State, Any who cannot seethe national importance ot this contest, and its importance to every Northern ! Democrat, is no politician. He is buried amid the dry bones of Lecompton and An- ■ ti-Lecomplon, and prefers to pander to a ■ little Kansas squabble of no benefit to any one; rather than engage in a grand Na- ! tional Campaign upon the vital principles ! of Democracy. The Louisville Democrat on the ‘Union.’ The Louisville Democrat of July 25. edited by that old war-horee in politics, Col, Harney, contains some severe comment on the course of the Washington Union. It says: •The Union does not represent the sentiment of the Democracy of this region, in this war it is making on the Democracy of Illinois, and it is met with remonstrance from the Democraiic press of the South pretty generally; but the position us the Union is taken as the voice of the Admimsiration. Certainly this is a mistake. Sane men could advise so suicidal a policy . 'll itypalse that Douglas has made anv war on tne Democracy; and to set up "a puerile pretence that he has, when he is defending, with all his great abilly, the very doctrines of the party, in the stronghold of the enemies, in a life and death : struggle, is too absurd nnd contemptible to receive a serious answer. Il theediior .: of the Union and his school had to stand and defend Democracy where Douulas does, they would be without force or consideration, and it would surprise no one to see them run away, or go over to the ' enemy. They can sit' down at home, and display great valor on paper. Let them go to Illinois with their little one-horse issue, and undertake to fight Abolitionism, amj they would be blown away like chaff before lhe wind.’ f! w The Baltimore Clipper says the President of the United States wrote with big own hand the first of the late violent editorial articles of the Washington Union against Mr Douglas and required it* pub lication in tht Union without tbs charge of a woiff. ’

Cuba. i This magnificent island, the key to the' Gulf of Mexico—formed of the washings I from our cooutry, and of right belonging! to us—is in a fairway, it seems, of coming into our possession, without much delay. England, which nation has si ways been opposed to its acquisition by 'the United States, has now. according to 'an Article in the Loudon Times, no serious objections to the contemplated measure. Spain is too weak to hold it much longer, and we apprehend that litfle ob- j jection will be made by other countries whenever our government evinces a determination to acquire the Island The great objection in our midst, to the measure has been, that Cuba is such a stronghold of Slavery. It would seem that it could not become more so under our contrc I. On the contrary, the condi'ion of slaves would be ameliorated by the change At any rate, infamous slave trade wbic . there finds its best market would receive s blow from which it woul I not soon recover, if our government should acquire the island. In this respect, humanity has every thing to gain bv the contemplated transfer. ’if the change be made the raising of sugar will be done almost entirely in Cuba. This is but a precarious business in Our southern States, and the sugar rumens there would be willing to exchange the busines for a more certain and renu- • merative one—some business that does not require governmental protection. — This transfer of sugur raising business from Louisiana and other States would leave more ground to be devoted to lhe > cultivation of cotton, rice, and other I Southern staples. Tins would tend to : cheapen not only sugar, by placing the business altogther in our own lands, but cotton likewise, by furnishing more of this important article to the world. Whether Cuba can be acquired soon j bv peaceful means we doubt; but that it | will be gained by some means within ten years, we are confident. It is necessary to the development of our country —necessary to guard her commerce—necessary to supply the world with cheap ‘sweetning'—and. we must add, necessarry to I offset the admission of Oregon, Minneso- ; ta, Kansas, Nebraska, and other contemI plated free States. Therefore, the annexation must take dace, sooner or later It is one phase of manifest destiny, and ! there is no brobability of defeating the project.— Jndianapolis Citizen. Judge Douglas nt Home. Judge Douglas, says the Baltimore American, in his movements through Illinois, is everywhere received with public honors. His passage from Chicago to I Springfield was a perfect ovation. At ieverv station on the road enthusiastic ! crowds fleked to greet him, and in a thousand ways the most gratifying evidence was given that the hearts of the ! people were with him. His progress was ■ like that of a triumphant hero returning ! crowned with success and glory from some great war'ike expedition. At Bloomington five thousand people assembled to greet him on the arrival of train j and an audience of ten thousand is rej ported to have been present at bis speech I there on the night of the 16th. Great ! preparations wt re made to receive him at i Springfield on 17th, ami the country for miles around was in a state us excitement ! and emotion. w. ... Dare'l hey Den j It! That Pettit voted to increase the pay 'of the officers of the army, and never once said a word ; n behalf of the poor soldiers. Citizens—this is truth. Examine foi yarn - selves the Journal of Congress.* and you will see that we do not misrepresent him. The poor soldier, who bears all the burden of the service, inly gets $8 per month, and the aristocratic offij cers get large salaries, His sympathies | are truly with the aristocrats, and against | the poor man. Laboring men! Look to your interests! P. S.—Since the above was in type, it occurred to us that Pettit imagined the soldiers would receive an extia compensation in “Garden Seeds and Picture Books.” •See Con. Globe of 1856-7—pp. 477. —Huutlngton Democrat The Danite*. The Georgia Constitutionalist savs: ‘They are a minority—a fraction, we should rather say—arrayed against the great body of the Illinois Jemocracy, and jeoparding its success by making a test of party orthodoxy upon a question which has spent itself, and which the majority are willing to consider as an extinct issue. Under these circumstances, persis- , tence in their opposition to Judge Douglas, and to the regular nominnees of the Democratic party, whatever may have beet! its propriety and its necessity in its inception, will show a fractious, dis'organ- . izmg and vindictive spirit and fasten upon the m tl !e responsibility for all the consequenees which may follow a division of the party.’ Dare They Deny It. vVe charge that Pettit, verbally and in writing, pledged himsslf that it elected a second time, he would not again be a candidate—and that, false to his pledges, he made use of his official position to I again force himself upon the people.— W e challenge them to deny it. This ;s why we call the Republican candidate ‘ Little Johnny, the greedy— We thought no harm making “brief men- ! won, as the Herald and Howard County j Tribune seem anxinu, t 0 know — Huntington Dem ncrat.

The Democratic Party a ConMit n tj ra . Patty. ‘ 1 Thete is no more st useless charge t|.» n ! that the Democratic puny is a pro-kl BVt .. ry party. At the adoption of the Constj. tut on, negro slavery existed in the thi s . teen Slates which formed the Confi-der. aP y —a species of properly which is rec. ognized by that instrument. We now number thirty two independent aoverer. eigntiea, seventeen of which have fr e() constitutions. The Democratic party, st Jefferson’s suggestion, gave the gr eat i North-westei n territory—an Empire of itself —to freedom. Ohio, Indiana' H’i 0 . ois. Michigan and Wisconsin were insug. urated as States into the Union, with free constitutions, by tiie Democraiic party. A* democratic free States, lowa, Wiscon, sin, California and Minnesota were ad. milled into the confederacy. Oregon, too, is seeking admission with free constitution, adapted by the Democratic party of that Territory. With these facts starting them in the face, the opposition have the effiontery to charge lhe National Democratic party with being a proslavery party 1 What free State has ever come into the Union under the guidance of Republican or opposition parly? Aof one. The Democratic party plants itself upon the Constitution, which guarrntees to the citizens us each State of the Confederacy the right to adopt and control . its domestic policy. The people of Indiana, of California, of Oregon, declared that in their several States ‘there shall be neither Slavery, nor involuntary serj vitude, otherwise than tor the punishment of crime’—but in Missouri, in Kentucky ! and other States they adopted negro ser- ‘ vitude, and with them rests the responsiI bilily. Under the Federal Constitution i the people of these States had the right ■to fix their own institutions, and this ex- ! ercise of popular sovereignty is a princij pie fur which the National Democratic ' party have ever contended The equal ! rights of lhe States is the basis upon which the Constituton was formed, ani to that obligation the Democratic party j adhere. This guarantee of equal sovereignty confers upon each new .-tates the ! same rights when admitted into lhe Unlion as those which are possessed by the confederated States, and it follows, therefor, that each State has the reserved and i sovereign right of determining its domestic policy—of tolerating or o-f prohibiting negro servitu ie as each may elect — , Hence, it can most clearly be seen that the Democratic party is neither a proslavery or an anti-slavery party, but the Constitutional party —faithfully adher- . ing to the obligations of the Constitution, and carrying out the theory and principles upon which it is based.—<S. Senti- ! nel. The Democratic State Ticket. Great effort is made by the Republican . > papers to create the impression that tiie . Democratic State ticket >s a Bright ticket, , i hoping thereby to induce Democrats who are opposed to Mr Brijhx to vote : against the State ticket. This is a luw ; piece ot detnagogism and unfairness that will tail to have the effect designed Tiie people know the State (ieket is neither a , Bhight nor an Anti Bright ticket. It is . not a ticket devoted to the interest of any j man; and i s election will c nunit the p irty to the interest of no particular in iiviuual, but leave it entirely tree to act in reference to all the iead'ng men of tiie pally as their merits mis rend' r just Tte S ate ticket is a Democrat.c ticket, selected because the individuals composing it had shown themselve; E*.e.r.,' ! faithful public servants, wbrtbv of the J places they are nominated to till. Thev neither ask to be buoyed up bv the pop j ularity, nor expect to be weighed down by tiie unpopularity, of anv man outside of the ticket. The ticket is wiling to stand before the people and the Democracy of the State upon its own merits, and will appreciate the aid of al! Demo- , crat.s and honest men in the State. The Democracy of the State do not nominate their candidates with an eye to the personal aggrandizement of any individual, butsiniply with a view to promote the public welfare. — N Sentinel. Douglas in Illinois.—A correspondent of the Toledo Times, who has been traveling through Illinois, in a letter to that journal says: ‘From all that I could learn, the general opinion in Illinois seems to be that he will carry the Stale. This opinion is increasing, and many of his enemies who have witnessed his reception by the peo- ' pie of Illinois, amounting, in every in- . stance, to a perfect ovation, do not hesitate to express their fears, that he is too much the idol of his party to be overI thrown. Kentucky, in the palmiest days of the illustrious Clay-Massachusetts, when her darling Webster was at the zenith of his fame and popularity, never gave as substantial, overwhelming demonstrations of affection for them as Illinois is just now affording the ‘Little Giant.’ He j is nearly as much surprised as every one else at bis popularity. lam told by some, who have been present, that the gatherings mure resemble those of 184 J, that any that has occurred since. The Senator has posted notices for speeches throughout the State, which will occupy every day of his time to the 24th of Au- ' gUSt ’ - Would not Endorse Them.-The black Republican Convention of Onio rejected a resolution apptoving the conduct of their Representatives in Congress. They repudiate that vote for the M in'gomery bill. The editor of the Jozrnal ought to reprors brethren