Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1860 — Page 3

C. BRECKINRIDGE THE NEXT PRESIDENT. The old fogies and party hacks are exceedingly dis1 ,1 ., ' II l T tressed at me aowniau or me ' jjuiuuureiwi; jn ij , and i'ancv. of course, that all is lost, even honor itself, unless, indeed, clinging to the wretched humbug of " popular sovereignty " is an exhibition of that all-im portant attribute. - And the Republicans, the Lincoln nuti-slaverv or free niaceritcs, in their utter and pro found ignorance of the noble and patriotic instincts of the people, assume, or course, inai-uiey are going 10 win a great victory and to take possession of the Government of all the States, in half of which they do not even pretend to expect a single vote, and where - their candidate, should he venture to make his appearance, would very likely be mobbed by an indig nant people. But instead of the late breakdown of the Democratic party opening the way to an " antislavery victory," it will prove, in all reasonable probability, the most fortunate event that, could have happened, and render Lincoln's election to the Presidency entirely impossible. A few brief sentences are quite sufficient to show the truth and reasonableness of this assertion. The Republican or " anti-slavery " party originated some six years ago. It springs out of Northern ignorance of Southern society, and appeals to the idea or sentiment of freedom, which, applied to white men, is an everlasting and immovable truth, but applied as . they propose, to the negro element of our population, is, of course, a monstrous and revolting lie. It proposes as its mission the ultimate abolition of "slavery" and the equality of races, or, in other words, to change the existing relations of Southern society, and to degrade the white men of this Republic to a level with negroes. Its programme or means for reaching this end, is to seize the central Government and to wield it for excluding Southern citizens from the Federal Territories, and thus penning up the mixed population of the South within existing limits, it is proposed to so debauch and demoralize society that the existing order will disappear, and whites and negroes, as in Jamaica, &c, occupy the same common level. What an atrocious insult, if they could only see it, to the white laboring classes of America! This party, or, the leadors of this party, are essentially British and monarchical, doubtless blindly so, but so in fact; and Seward, and Sumner, and Lincoln, and every man prominently connected with it, will go own to posterity blackened and blasted in all coming time, as traitors to ineir race as wen as to ineir country, as tins vile wretches who would debauch and adulterate the blood of their kind with the sensuous and subordinate negro. The English and European " noble," the Sutherlands and Shaftsburys, accustomed to regard the laboring classes as mere beasta of burthen, cannot see why they should be elevated above negroes, or why the latter are not entitled to the same freedom enjoyed by the former; indeed, regard it as unjust and inhuman to hold the negro subordinate to the white millions. They therefore "abolish slavery," that is, by act of parliament abolished the legal supremacy of the white man, and in all their American possessions degraded white men and negroes to a common level. Inspired with this idea, and deriving all their notions of political and social equality from British sources, the leaders of the great "anti-slavery" partv of the North are now striving to take advantage of the pop ular ignorance ot the condition ot things at the couth to reduce this vile " idea" to practice, and abolish the supremacy of the white man m all the American States. They disavow any intention of interl'erinjr with the domestic affairs of sovereign States, but boldly avow their design to use the central government, if Lincoln should be elected, to exclude south ern citizens from the Territories in order to pen up the mixed population of the south, and torce the British policy of negro equality upon the southern people. We repeat, what an atrocious insult to the white laboring man of America to those of the South equally with those of the North to abolish the "sla very ot the negro, i. e. the supremacy ot the white man, and force them to a level eternally forbidden by God Himself, as well as by natural instinct and right reason! Can any, indeed dare any intelligent man suppose that such a party could live an hour if it was understood by the people r Equality with negroes the free, brave, progressive and generous American millions degraded into affiliation with the sooty African, and American civilization deformed and destroyed by negro freedom ! To the degraded British subject, the enslaved and brutalized masses of the old world, who prostrate themselves at the teet ot "kings" and ''nobles," equality with negroes may not be abhorrent, for the natural instinct is overlaid, and almost lost by the artificial distinctions under which they live ; but to the American, the white man of the New World, to the proud and generous American freeman, equality with negroes, or the proposal of such a thing, is such an atrocious insult to the manhood of the masses, that any party which dares to venture it, should actually be driven out of the country as utterly unworthy to breathe the air of freedom for a single hour. - Nor can we mistake the popular instinct in this matter. If the "anti-slavevy" party were really understood if Sumner, and Beecher,and Giddings, etc., were truly comprehended their principles and designs clearly laid bare to the people, they would even now find it unsafe ; and a time will assuredly come when the city of New York will spurn them as promptly and as loatliingly as New Orleans or Charleston. ' But how is it, then, the people are ignorant of these things, and blindly permit this dangerous party to obtain power in the States, and even to indulge in dreams of getting possession of the federal government, and of wielding that for the accomplishment of its infamous designs? Because the Democratic party stood in the way and concealed its real character from the people. The Democratic party having accomplished its mission of reforming the currency, fell into the hands of mercenary men, and became, to a great extent, an instrument for furthering the interests of: cliques and individuals, and instead ot exposing ttie l traitorous designs of anti-slavervism, it has been steadily wielded to avoid any issue with the and-slaveryists. : To do this a false issue was sot up by the leaders the issue of Territorial sovereignty, and thus while stumpspeaker and " Democratic organs" have argued for two years past in favor of " popular sovereignly," the anti-slaveryites have been busy all this time in deluding and deceiving the northern people on the general subject of " slavery" without the slightest check on their impostures. At last, thank Heaven, the " Democratic party" is thrust out of the way and anti-slaveryism and Democracy now stand face to fivce with each other. This is a government of white men, based on the great fundamental principle of equal rights for all within the federal jurisdiction, and on this foundation it must exist forever, if it exists at all. Mr. Breckinridge stand? before the country as the representative of this vital principle, and demands that it shall be applied alike to all sections and all classes of our people. On the con trary,' Lincolu denies that this is a government of wnue men, ana ins party see K power in oruer to include the negro element within the rank of citizenship. This, stripped of all ambiguity, is the exact question before the country. Can any Democrat, or any man who believes in the self-respect and manhood of the people, doubt the result or question the decision of the people next November ? Certainly not, if they are enlightened, and made to understand the infamous designs of the " anti-slaveiy party." In conclusion, therefore, the wliole subject is resolved into the simple and straightforward duty which every Democrat and every patriot should engage in at once the enlightenment of the popular mind on the subject of slavery." S Gen. Lane having been accused of votin when i a member of the Indiana Legislature, for the Wihnotj Proviso under-instructions, the W'ashington Constituuon says: -- u e are autnonzea oy tren. lane to sav that this statement is utterly false. The question was never discussed ia the Legislature of Indiana when Gen. Lane was a member. It might have been before the Legislature while he was fighting the battles of his country in Mexico, but not while he was in that body. Gen. Lane left lor Mexico in May, 1846, and the question of the Wilmot Proviso was not introduced into Congress till the 12th of August, 1846 ; and, as is well known. Gen. Lane never entered the Legislature of Indiana after he returned from the Mexican wr."j

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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY---ITS DIVISIONS ITS DUTY IN CONNECTICUT. " There is a split in the Democratic party. This fact cannot be denied, and it is better for the party and the country that it should be calmly considered by the Democratic masses. We hear much about 'office-holders.' The cry has been used by the Black Republicans ever since they had a party organization, and it is taken up by the office-seekers who support Judge Douglas. Gentlemen selected for their capacity and their virtues to discharge official duties are entitled to as much respect as other citizens, so long as they behave themselves as good citizens should. At least they ought to be considered as worthy as office-seekers whose virtues have not yet been tried in any public capacity. The office seekers say that the office-holders are -guilty of a political crime in endeavoring to keep the Democratic electors together in the support of a single ticket against the common enemy. It will be well for the people to consider this grave charge and decide for themselves whether it is a political crime to keep the old Democracy together in Connecticut, to say nothing of other States. ' Now, being neither office-holders or office-seekers being under no obligations to government, State or National never having held any office and never intending to hold any having no favors to ask but being, as we have been for many years past, devoted to the welfare of the Democratic party, and being most earnestly opposed to the present sectional and dangerous Black Republican party, our readers will pardon us if we appeal to the Democratic voters themselves, to take this subject into their own hands, and save the Democratic party in Connecticut from disruption. As we have already remarked, there is a split in the National organization. Whether this split shall

last longer than the sixteen short weeks that intervene between this time and the Presidential election, remains to be seen. Of one thing we feel certain. There will be a Democratic National organization, in which the friends of State Rights, the Constitution and the Union, North and South, can act together unitedly. But in the few weeks of this campaign, there will be two Presidential candidates. Each will have his friends and supporters. It is claimed on one hand, that Mr. Douglas is regularly nominated, on the other that his nomination was in violation of tin? usages of the Democratic party, after refusing seats to a larie number of delegates who had a legitimate ; right to participate in the proceedings of the Convention. At the same time Mr. Breckinridge did not get a nomination under the rules and regulations of the Democratic organization, and as President Buchanan suggests, neither having been nominated under the rules of the party, Democrats will not be bound to support either, but will vote for one or the other as their preferences may dictate. Here is a split that all good Democrats must deplore. But still it exists; and it is evident to every impartial observer that Mr. Breckinridge will carry full one-third, if not quite onehalf of the electoral votes of the Union. But in the. present condition ot the party, it is difficult to say where Judge Douglas can get one electoral vote. We had supposed he could carry his own State. But four tickets, it is announced, ill be run there, and we must confess that the present state of the case throws a doubt over the result in Illinois. In Pennsylvania and New Jersey a union ticket would probably be successful, and the people there are moving to effect it. Without a union those States will go for Lincoln, certain. Strange as it may ap pear, under these circumstances, the Douglas leaders, or office-seekers, oppose the union. Wa can account for this only in one way. They desire that the Dem ocratic part' shall be broken up, and that Lincoln shall be elected, on the supposition that his success will speedily bo followed by a disruption of the islack Republican party, with fragments of which they intend to combine, form a new party, and ride into office. This, it has been suggested, is their plan. We can hardly credit it, but still their movements appear to dive much plausibility to the assertion. It any such scheme exists, it must inevitably be broken down completely with the termination of the present Presiden tial canvass. Now, for one moment, let us look at the condition of Connecticut. I he Democracy polled last April 43,920, and fell only 628 votes short of success. Since 1856 they have gained about 10,000 votes, and cut down a majority against them of. over 10,000 to about 500. The same rate of gains would carry us through the contest of next November in triumph. Now shall the 43,920 Democrats, who so nobly stood shoulder to shoulder last April, remain firm and united in the November contest with a prospect of success, or shall they be divided, and go into the contest with no prospect of a triumph? Six names can be selected in Connecticut, of old and reliable Democrats, in whom every Democratic elector has the fullest confidence. The preferences of three of them to be in favor of Breckinridge, and of three for Douglas. The conditions in their nomination may be simple and unobjectionable to any Democrat who cares more for the wel fare of the party than he does for selfish ends. Thus, if elected, the six votes of these electors shall be given where they will most surely defeat Abraham Lincoln. If they can be of any benefit to Senator Douglas he shall have them. If they can elect Breckinridge give them to him. If they can elect neither, but can still aid in defeating Lincoln, let three be given to each. Let every Democratask himself whether, in his own mind, there is anything objectionable in such an arrangement. It is not to form a revolting coalition with opponents ; but a simple proposition to keep the old Democratic family together irt this crisis to concentrate the 44,000 Democratic votes, so that they will tell with effect. Did it wound your sense of political duty to act in harmony last Spring, Democrats of Connecticut ? Will it hurt your feelings to "give a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together," next Fall? United, you may defeat the common foe. Divided, you will yourselves be defeated. This is certain. But successful or defeated, the Democracy of Connecticut, we presume, will not have fulfilled their misgj0n the moment next Fall's election is ended. Wc have Congressmen, a Governor, Legislature, &c, to eeet next Spring. If united this Fall, so shall we present a compact and poweriul front next Spring, and shall secure most gratifying triumphs then. But if divided this Fall, we fear the breach will not be readily healed, and that defeats in the future will fall upon us. For the future welfare of the party, union in defeat the coming Fall, will be of as much importance to us as union in triumph. In either case its influence must be great. It is for the people in the va rious towns to say whether a united Democracy shall go into the coming contest with a prospect of success, or wnciner, amueu, we snan dc piungeu upon inevitable defeat Hartford Conn.) Times. ELECTORAL VOTE Table showing the number of Electoral Votes which eieh State will cast in the Presidential Election of 1860: Alabama 9 California 4 Arkansas 4 Connecticut. ........ . 6 Delaware 3 Illinois. . Florida.., 3 Indiana. . Georgia 10 Iowa. Kentucky ...... Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina. . . South Carolina. . . Tennessee. ...... Texas Virginia 12 Maine . 6 Massachusetts. . . . 8 Michigan 7 Minnesota 9 New Hanishiic . . 10 New Jersey 8 New York 12 Ohio 23 4 Oregon 3 15 Pennsylvania. .. .. ... .27 Rhode Island 4 j Vermont 5 Wisconsin ., 5 120, 183 120 Total Electoral Vote 303 Necessara7 for an election of President 152 tj" Whatever we may think of woman's right to rote and legislate, there can be no disputing her right to bare arm and the prettier the better and more irresistible.

Krom llto Hlinmlngton Kwptibllcun. A SET-OFF TO THE RAIL SPLIT TING!

Gov. Dunning and others send Goo. Wright a BRICK.' Where's Hanks No. 3. A metting of the citizens of Bloomington was call cd on Tuesday evening last, to prepare a letter of introduction of' Prof. E Marquis to Hon. Joseph A. AVright, Minister to the Court of Berlin, Prussia, and to send with him some token uf regard to our distinguished fellow-citizen. Jesse T. Cox was called to the chair, and T. J. Wolfe appointed Sectetary. On motion of Benjamin Wolfe, a committee was appointed to prepare a letter expressive of the sentiments ot the meeting. . ine committee retired, aim "after a short consultation; made the" following Teport, . to-wit: Court House, Bloomington, Ixd., - July 17, I860. ' Hon Joseph A. Wright: Dear Sir: The citizens of Bloomington met this evening at the Court House, to recommend to you their fellow-townsman, Prof. E. Marquis, the bearer, and to make an expression" of the kindly sentiment cherished towards you. In selecting a token to accompany their sentiments they have chosen a Brick, borne trom the yard by your Honor, over forty years ago, and taken from the top of the edifice where wo are this night assembled. This may be seemingly inappropriate, but it teaches a lesson, that in a free country, " Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies." And be assured that your fellow-citizens appreciate you none the less note, that you were once engaged in the humble though honorable walks of life ; but that thev appreciate merit wherever found, and point their children to your career, as an example of what a man in adverse circumstances can accomplish, when possessed of energy and moral worth, and cramped by " no laws but those which are the same to all, and no distinction but that which merit may originate." With our best wishes for your personal welfare, and a sincere desire that you may long remain one of " Nature's noblemen," whom the people delight to honor, we remain your fellow-citizens. BENJ. WOLFE, J. K. MARSH, P. L. I). MITCHELL, ANDREW REEVES, PAKIS C. DUNNING, Com. On motion of Mr. Dunning, it was resolved, that the Secretary should furnish a copy ot the proceedings of this meeting to the editor of the Bloomington J'-pnli'.ican. for publication. On motion, the meeting adjourned. JESSE T. COX, Pres't. T.J. Wolfe, Sec'y. , Bloomington, July 17, 18G0. Messrs. Benj. Wolfe, Jesse T. Cox, and others: Gentlemkn In accepting at your hands the pleasant commission of presenting to his Excellency, Gov. Wright, at the Court of Berlin, a Brick of his own moulding, I beg leave to express to you my gratitude for the distinction you confer upon me, in making me the bearer of this tribute of your regai d to a man who, by dint of industry, honesty of purpose, energy and talent, from the lowly position of a brick-mason, rose to the lofty station of Representative of the American Government, at one of the most consequen tial Courts of Europe. The people of Europe, viewing this handiwork of J our Artisan Governor and Minister, will recognize the workings of this great and free Government. They will learn that the American Republic ignores the claims of wealth, caste and rank, and opens the door to civic eminence and honor to all her sons alike. Governor Wriirht. I doubt not, will gladly receive this memorial of his bayhood, from the companions of his early life, who have since noted his onward ana upward career with joyous pride and admiration. As to me, your humble fellow-citizen, I shall regard this Brick the most valuable part of my cargo to Europethe daguerreotype of my wife excepted. Bidding you all a most cordial farewell, I remain, gentlemen, Yours, very respectfully, EMANUEL MARQUIS. DAN'L S. DICKINSON AND THE ALBANY REGENCY. Mr. Dickinson has settled his long outstanding accounts with the Albany Regency. lie has paid them all off in full, compound interest and all. Little did Dean Richmond, Cagger, Confidence Cassidy & Co. expect to be brought to such a reckoning for their treacherous doings at Syracuse. They foolishly imagined that they had caught, the Sage of Binghampton in their toils, and that they would clip his wings so that he could do no further mischief against their darling schemes of spoils and plunder. But he has turned the tables upon them most effectively. The most telling and terrible exposition of the loathsome rottenness of this Regency that has ever been made was made, by Mr. Dickinson at the Cooper Institute this last Wednesday evening. The provocations were ample and the castigation was administered with a will and with a pungency peculiarly refreshing. He paints the Regency delegation to the life as they betrayed themselves at Charleston and at Baltimore. He says that "the ruling faction had snuffed up the scent of four Hundred millions of spoils, and that for them the administration of Douglas was expected to rain milk and honey, snow powdered sugar, and hail vegetable life pills ;" that, such are the creatures that thrive in the fetid atmosphere of corrupt legislation, " and swell to obese proportions, like vultures upon offal ;" that they are " office brokers who crawl and crime around the footsteps of power, and by false i .i i . , i ' n- i i i i .1 i i t sfHinl trust nnrl pmn imonr t.hnr. t iflv mflv rnor and control caucuses and conventions, at the expense of the people they defraud and betray." Who can dispute the fidelity of this picture ? : Who can doubt the conclusion to which Mr. Dickinson is drawn, to-wit : that henceforward this Albany Regency gang " will be held and treated as political outlaws,and set at defiance;" that "there is no fox so - ""v i crafty but his hide final y goes to the natters ; and i .u- ' . AjVc ,. , e .', . that this treacherous Albany clique henceforth will ' , ! , ... ' , ' , .. , T. i only be dangerous to those who trust it ? It was Uau Uuv lor litem w nicy iiiuiiu11' j unu uiiieii i . , - ' t- , . 4 ,v i ! in the Sarc of Bmshanipton to oiler up as a burnt L . "H ,, 1 . . , . offenno- to squalter sovereignty at Charleston and " J ? Sir i . i j- , i at Baltimore. We may expect to hear some dismal : , ,: , ... J ' . , ... liowhnf from the Albany curiosity shop before many , J j l 3 days are over. JNetP lork Herald. ' j CO ME STATE ELECTIONS TO OFF THEIR SIGNIFICANCE In the next two or three months various State elec :-' i-i tions come off, whose results will bo significant, as in dicating the strength of parties, fragments of parties, or combinations of parties, and their bearing on the j Presidential election in November. On the 2d of August in North Carolina an election for State officers will take place ; and in Arkansas, Texas and Missouri ; elections will beheld on the 6th of the same month j for State officers and members of Congress. In Yer-1 mont and M;iinc similar elections will be held in Sep- j tember; and in Florida, Mississippi, Indiana, Iowa, ! Ohio and Pennsylvania these contests will take place j in October. As premonitory signs of the result of the Presidential struggle, these preliminary battles are I highly important, and will be looked forward to with ' deep -interest No doubt the division of the Democra-j cy which has taken place on the Presidential question will be carried into the Slate contests, and the relative j strength of the Breckinridge and Douglas factions ' will be tested, as well as the strength of Bell and Lin- j coin ; and there will be some indication also of the amount and value of political combinations, should ; any take place. The first skirmish will be fought in ' North Carolina, where the Douglas party boast of ; great strength. The 2d of August, therefore, may j tell bow that is, and afford a clue to the future. If he j has the strength his friends say in the South, his par-j tisans ought to be elected in North Carolina. .V 1'. Herald. '

Prom the Journul of Cominereo. RALLYING REFRAIN FOR BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE. B Y J. E. T U E L. Dedicated to John A. Godfrey, Esq." " ' L y Unfurl your banner once again, Ye men of Equal Rights unshaken 1 Your country calls nor calls in vain, W hile patriot fires your hearts awaken ; Your country calls as to the field Which Lincoln spurned and Lane with sabre Defended for a land which shields Her Equal Rights to Law and Labor If Then with one voice proclaim your choice From Northern hills to Southern valleys,"""' That not in vain for gallant Lane And Breckinridge your COUNTRY rallies ! ,.. ' II. The people call on every side To rouse the sluggish heart to action ! They shout from old Niag'ra's tide To Rocky Mountains Death to Faction ! From Carolina's cotton plains To where New England's corn is gleaming, Their voice ascends in bugle strains For Equal Rights to all proclaiming! Then with that voice proclaim your choice " From Eastern hills to Southern valleys, That not in vain for gallant Lane And Breckinridge the PEOPLE rallies! They who despise all foreign wars, And on Domestic Rights would trample, The Rights which you through blood and scars Wrung from the foe through Lane's example ; Remember! they would spurn you now, While for treason archly pleading Now, as then, would basely bow, While your Country's wounds were bleeding ! Then with one voice proclaim your choice, From the Nation's hills and valleys That not in vain for gallant Lane And Breckinridge the NATION rallies! 1VThe trumpet blast of war pealed out, Your Country's Flag declared in danger, To arms! went forth the Union shout, Drive back the bold insulting stranger! The Patriot names inscribed on high Your Eagle banner's folds displaying, Awake again the battle crv,

The Union's trumpet call obeying ! With trumpet voice unite your choice From Western wilds to Southern valleys, That not in vain for gallant Lane And Breckinridge the UNION rallies! From (he New York bay Book, FLAG OF OUR PARTY. THE Am " Star Spangled Banner." BY a straight-out democrat. O, say can you see, as it floats on the breeze, The emblem we hail of our country's salvation ? On its broad folds inscribed, amidst stars all ablaze, The time-honored motto of a great and free nation, " li Plurilus Unum" aye, true " we are one," And t ue on v tree neome the sun shines inwn : 'Tis the Fiagofour Party ! full high let it wave For Breckinridge and Lane, ever gallant and brave. On the stump may be seen, through the mists of the strife, The foe's saucy leaders their followers harangueing; Each Arnold-like traitor cries " War to the knife," All those who oppose them most foully be-slanging. And they echo their lies from the earth to the skies Such folly and falsehood all good men despise ; But the Flag of our Party 1 still full high shall wave For Breckinridge and Lane, ever gallant and brave. And where is that band, ever glorious and true, When danger besets and high courage is needed To the good ship of State, both commander and crew, Hark ! the watchword is given shall it pass all unheeded ? " Breckinridge and Lane !" let us echo again, Their honor untarnished, their fame free from stain ; Then, the Flag of our Party 1 triumphant shall wave For statesmen and heroes, the good, wise and brave, j O, thus be it ever, true patriots will stand, Between our loved homes and a traitor's ambition ; ! From Breckiundge and Lane may our boasted free land, Receive of their wisdom the fullest fruition. Then, conquer we must, since our cause it is just In Breckinridge and Lane we may well put our trust; And the Flag of our Party ! in victory shall wave " O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." RIDING TWO HORSES. '"While, in the North, where free soil abolitionism must be tickled by professions of devotion to the " great principle" of squatter sovereignty the right of the people of a Territory to decide the question of slavery for themselves, irrespective of the Constitution, the law and the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States in the South the advocates of j the squatter sovereignty candidate are obliged to i change tlio tune, and pretend to be " inexorably com-' mitted to the support of the decision of the Supreme i Court over the institution of slavery in the Tenito-i nes. Tl.rt AftrcM,,.: T?.riiltlti, tla nrtrnn In (Ut Ct.l ui nil: uciciuiin-uiio iukci ui iuut:i(is aiiu uuiuirii.i advocates Mr. Douglas on the ground that he stands'; . ... . c . ibv the decision ot the by the decision of the Supreme Court, and lest there might be any mistake, publishes the head notes of the Died Scott decision as given in Howard's Reports, page 395, to show what the Supreme Court decided, and by what it is pretended that Mr. Douglas stands. We know that the followers of Mr. Douglas at Charleston wanted a platform that would bear one . . .1,.. -v;.l. ,l . .1. ,: : , o.ii m. j r l a the South, but we were not prepared for such flagrant . . ' ., c, T , ' 1 . , f , deception as the St. Louis exponent of Douglas-John-We know that Mr. , , . , ,-,v iiv Douglas has taken different positions to suit different i , ..,b, , f ., a, .. . latitudes on the question of slavery m tho Territories; ' . , , 1 e c.i c i ,-n i that when seeking the favor of the free-soilers of Free- . , , , .r . T,,. . . ,. J port, he maintained at ireeport, Illinois, in 18o8, that , c tj, r V i r i the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, ex- , , ', 1 v r . , ! .. elude slavery before it comes in as a State ;" and "no matter what may be the decision of the Supreme Court on that abstract question, still the right of the people i of the Territories to make a slave Territory or a frefc J Territory is perfect and complete," and that among the j pro-slavery jwpulation of New Orleans, in the same ; year, lie said: "i, in common witn the Democracy ot: Illinois, accept the decision of the Supreme Court of the LTnited States, in the Died Scott case, as an au-; thoritative exposition of the Constitution. Whatever! limitations the Constitution, as expounded by the; courts, inqwses on the authority of a Territorial Legis- f lature, we cheerfully recognize and respect in con-! fonnity with that decision. Slaves are recognized asj property, and placed on an equal footing with other j property. Hence, the owner of slaves the same as j the owner of any other species has a right to remove to a Territory and cany his property with him." i Mr. Douglas can,of course, hold fchicheverof these i conflicting opinions he pleases. He can ride the hobby j of absolute power on the part of a Territorial legisla-1 ture, "no matter what may be the decision of the Su-! preme Court or he can regard the "decision of the ! Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, as an authori- j tative exposition of the Constitution." But he cannot do both at the same time ; nor can his friends succeed ! in making him do both. If any man believes that the people of a Territory can, "by lawful means exclude ! slavery before it comes in as a State," it follows, as a j matter of coarse, that the man who entertains the! opinion does not regard the decision in the Dred Scott j case as "an authoritative exposition of the Constitn-j tion." Light and darkness, right and wrong, are not) more opposite than the two opinions. Washington Constitution. i

THE NEWYORK TRIBUNE BACKS DOWN THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY. The New York Tribune, which some time lately it would have been hard to tell whether it was working for the election of Lincoln or Douglas, and which was more extensively quoted by the Douglas press than any other paper, except the Times, in New York, in its issue of the 18th, takes the back track amazingly. Hear it speak of the Breckinridge party : " In the outset, let us admit that they show a far more imposing front than we had supposed possible at the time of the Baltimore disruption. We then thought that the Douglasites, with their claim of Democratic regularity, would contest and divide the South with them, throwing most of the States over to Bell and - Everelt. ..TIim (lfavelnnmuntji ulrpjulv mailp. rllunol r.hnt.

presumption. We cannot perceive that the regular Democratic organization in a single slave State, except Missouri, is in favor of Douglas. In no other Southern State has a majority of the Democratic journals taken that side, while in most of them the Breckinridge preponderance is overwhelming. .'..'. . ,,(",The adhesion of Fitzpatrick, Clingham and Latham to Breckinridge, leaves Mr. Douglas with but one friend (Pugh) in the Senate, and he has been served with notice to quit on the 4th of March next. If Mr. Douglas should, by any possibility, be chosen President, he will enter upon his larger sphere of duty without one single supporter in the Senate, unless it be the one whom his friends in Oregon expect to choose through a coalition with the Republicans. " Let the result of the present contest be whatever it may, the party which now supports Breckinridge is henceforth the National Democracy, and its platform the creed of that Democracy." The burden of the whole article, occupying a column, says the Capital City Fact, a neutral paper, is to show that Douglas cannot be elected, that Breckinridge and Lane are the regular nominees of the Democratic party, and that Douglas and Johnson are interlopers, is made clear to every reflecting mind. Thus wo go. In every part of the Republic, the same home truths are impressing themselves upon the public mind. The Douglas faction have, by their suicidal conduct, pla.'ed themselves outside of the Democratic organization, and they can never again be received into fellowship without bringing with them proofs of a thorough repentance, and the blotting out of all the heresies now in their political creed. Cleveland Democrat. " HALF-WAY." Senator Douglas, in his speech in front of the Phirnix Bank, last evening, defined his position. He declares that he. stands "half-way between the two extreme parties" of Northern Abolitionism and those Southern politicians who demand as much protection for their property as Northern men have for theirs, in the Territories. There are many thousands of Democrats in New England and the Northern States, who agree with their brethren in the position now taken by the latter, as the only safeguai-d of their social and domestic institutions, if not, indeed, of their own existence as co-equal and sovereign States. It is between these conservative Democrats and the doubledyed Abolitionism of Father Giddings and his political associates, that Senator Douglas says he "stands half-way." It was not long ago that he would have repudiated even a half-way advance towards the Black Republicans. We invite the reader's candid attention to the calm and dispassionate letter of ex-President Pierce, published in this paper. He, too, clearly discerns the drift of things, and speaks of this "half-way" house in words of caution and warning to the Northern Democracy. Hickman, Forney, and others whom we could mention, have already visited the Half-Way House, and are now jogging along near their journey's end. Hartford Times. INDIANA. In October, a Governor and other State officers, Members of Congress, and a State Legislature, are to be elected in Indiana. It is proposed there that all the Democrats unite upon one ticket, without regard to Presidential preferences. Whether or not this desirable object can be attained, we are as yet unable to say. But the very proposition sets the New York Tribune in hysterics. It says "an effort is making to unite on the State ticket, and on members of Congress and the Legislature ;" and adds "it is not safe for our Republican friends to rely too much upon the divisions and consequent weakness of our opponents," and demands school district organizations, and the greatest effort to defeat the Democracy. Nothing alarms the Blacks so much as a prospect of a union among Democrats propositions to keep the Democratic voters compact and united ; and it seems quite clear that those Democrats in Indiana, Pennsylvania, &c, who oppose measures for keeping the Democratic party united, are giving aid and comfort to the common enemy. Hartford (Conn.) Times. FEDERAL OFFICE-HOLDERS. It is the habit of the disinterested followers of Judge Douglas, and particularly of that portion of them who have been disappointed in their applications for office, or have found efforts to retain places they indifferently filled unavailing, to abuse Federal office-holders, and to charge un them all the responsibility for the present division in the Democratic party. In the eyes of the Douglasites, to be a Federal office-holder is to be part and parcel of the Administration ; and every body and every thing connected with the latter they are wont to denounce in the bitterest terms, and to stigmatize as the foulest oll'endei-s. It may serve a double purpose to refer to a fact of which the Douglasites seem to be ignorant first, to show the guillotine, of which they have so much to say, has not been so relentlessly used as they are inclined to think, and, next, that it is not an evidence of total depravity that a man is identified with the Administration. The fact is that the father-in-law of Mr. Douglas, James Madison Cutts, himself, holds the office of Second Comptroller, at a salary of $3,000; while his brother-in-law, J. II. Granger, is Recorder of the Land Office, at a salary of $2,000 a year. Louisville Courier. HARMONIOUS. It will be observed that the Hartford Courant, the Post, and the Evening Press are heartily agreed and laboring together to accomplish a common end that is, to prevent a concentration of the Democratic vote of Connecticut on a union electoral ticket ! The first and last-named papers are Black Republican the other claims to support Douglas. But all agree on this one main point they dread a union of the Der mocracy. This one fact of itself is full of significance to Dem? ocrats. Again : Those Democrats who support Breckin ridge instead of Douglas, are called by the Post "devils," and the President is abused by such presses, some of them calling him "a drivelling old despot" The Black Republican papers talk in the same way. And they are all hard at work to prevent a Democratic union ! Hartford Times. UNION PROSPECTS IN PENNSYLVANIA. The proportion of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Committee for a joint electoral ticket of the Breckinridge and Douglas Democrats in that State, ia favored by fifty-four Democratic papers in the. old Keystone State. Of this number, a large portion are Douglas papers, notwithstanding the valuable advice of such " Democrats" (!) as Forney, Hickman & Co. LTnited on a common electoral ticket the Pennsylvania Democracy would give the Rail-Splitter and Union-Divider a harder thrashing than Fremont received at their hands. The P1 k Republicans and their open and secret acents uow this, hence the commotion which the plan excited in Forney's and Greeley's Tirtuous columns such articles at the Hertford Post copies and endorses.