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Tiie procession now returned, in the same order, amid cheers, rockets ratinon and music. Several dwellings on the west side of the Chenango were brilliantly illuminated. Thus ended this brilliant and successful demonstration of respect to Hon; D. S. Dickinson, who has fearlessly stood, where others have fallen, in defence of the Constitution and the Union. It was stimulated not only by the respect and esteem generally and cordially entertained for him as a man and a citizen, but was "prompted on the part of his political friends by a due appreciation of his bold and eloquent speech recently delivered at the Cooper Institute, as the glorious and crowning act of his political lite, and the successful vindication of Democratic principles. " God give us men ! A time like this demands, Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands ; Men whom the lust of office does not kill - Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinion and a will ; Men who nave known men who will not lie ; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking. Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog,

In public duty and m private thinking. THE OLD LINE GUARD. A. B. OAKIro,. ....... IOditor. SATURDAY, ... ... AUGUST .4 National Democratic Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOSEPH LANE, . OF OREGON. ELECTORS FOR TIIE STATE AT LARGE: James Morrison, of Marion. Delana R. Eckels, of Put n un. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 1st District Richard A. Clements, of Daviess. 2d " Dr. William F. Sherrod, of Orange. 3d " David Sheeks. of Monroe. 4th " Ethelbert C. Hibben, of Rush. 5th " Samuel Orr, of Delaware. 6th " Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. 7th " James A. Scott, of Putnam. 8th " Col. William M. Jenners, of Tippecanoe. 9th " James Bradley, of Laporte. 10th ". . Robert . Breckinridge, jr., of Allen. 11th " John 11. Cotl'roth, of Huntington, STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 1st District J. B. Gardner, 2d Levi Npa-ks, Geo. II. Kvle, Dr. B. F.Mullen, Alex. White, . John II. Elder, James M. Tomlinson, Julius Nicolai, James Johnson, James 51. Oliver, Thoma" Wood, Thomas D. Lemon, G. F. II. Wadleigh, Dr. E. B. Thomas, W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman. 3d 4th 5th Gth 7th 8th 9 th 10th 11th DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKETFOR GOVERNOR. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, of Shelby. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, V DAVID TUUPIE, of White. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, WILLIAM II. SC11 LATER, of Wayne. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, JOSEPH RIST1NE, of Fountain. . FOR TREASURER OF STATE, NATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, OSCAIl B. HORD, of Decatur. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. " SAMUEL L. RUGG, of Allen. FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, CORNELIUS O'BRIEN, 'of Dearborn. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, M. C. KERR, of Floyd. JUDGE ECKELS' APPOINTMENTS. Judge Delana R. Eckels, candidate for Elector ; for the Slate at large, for Breckinridge and Lane, will address the people at the following times and places :: ' Terre Haute. ...... .Friday .... ..August 10. . Ciili.de ...Saturday.... "11. Vincennes.. . . . . Monday...... " 13. Princeton... ....Tucsdav " 14. EvamnMe. .Wednesday. . " 15. Springfield .....Friday,..' . , " 16. Our friends are requested to fix the time of speaking to suit the mode of public travel. SisT Wc employed a special Reporter from Cincinnati, to report the Speeches at the Democratic Mass Convention on la-it Tuesday. We expected to lay them before our readers to-day, but on account of the ill health of the Reporter, lie has been able to furnish us with only the manuscript of Senator Fitch's speech. He promises, however, to furnish Senator Bright's speech in time for our next number. We bespeak for these speeches the careful and candid perusal of all our readers. No speeches have ever been delivered in Indiana, that were received with more interest and enthusiasm. Full of sound sense, eloquence, and withering, but just sarcasm, they were responded to most cordially by the true Democracy of Indiana. The Sentinel has a good deal to say about the Breckinridge and Lane men, being influenced by personal hostility. We would like to know what paper shows more personal hostility to the chosen men of the Democratic party than the Sentinel! IT No wonder that the Sentinel so warmly espouses the cause of the little free soil squatter. He has only gone back to his first love, the free-soil, abolition party of 1848. A few days ago the Sentinel published a long article, showing the propriety and necessity of " eorr litions to defeat the Republicans." It is willing to unite with Know Nothings, Abolitionists, or any body else; but when it is proposed to remote the broken fragments of the gloiious old Democratic party, the whilom free-soU Editor treats the proposition with contempt. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We solicit our friends in all part of the State tofaott - us occasionally with communications short, but to the point so that the public may be informed of thestrength aud spirit of the Breckinridge movement in this State.

"THE BRECKINRIDGE STATE ' PLA T FOR M T II E O L I V E BRANCH." Under the above caption the State Sentinel has a long and windy diatribe in relation to one of the resolutions passed at the Breckinridge and Lane State Convention, I. e., the resolution for a compromise upon a joint electoral ticket, &c. As the Sentinel has garbled the resolution, we publish it again in full:... Resolved, That whilst we disapprove of the platform of principles on which Mr. Douglas is now a a candidate, we still regard it as less objectionable than that on which Mr. Lincoln is placed ; therefore, Unsolved, ..That the Democratic Central Committee this day appointed, be authorized and requested to confer with the Central Committee appointed on the 11th day of January last, with the view to the organizing and running of one and a joint electoral ticket, on the following basis, to-wit:

If the persons that may be jointly agreed npon for electors shall be elected, tney snail cast me voie oi this State for that one of the two candidates lor Presdentand Vice President Breckinridge and Lank, or Douglas and Johnson whom it shall be found, after the election, is certain to receive the highest number of electoral votes from other States. That said committee be authorized, in thejr discretion, to agree upon the adoption of an entirely new electoral ticket, or the running of either of the present electoral tickets, or of a ticket composed of parts of the present tickets, as may be thought most expedient. The electors who may be then agreed upon to pledge themselves in writing to cast the vote of the State, (if elected.) in accordance with this resolution. In offering the above proposition, the Sentinel affects to find an inconsistency with principle, and, 4a order to make out a case, that wonderfully consistent journal emasculatas and garbles the fiist of the above resolutions, which assigns the reasons which actuate us in making the proposition. The Sentinel quotes only that part of the resolution in which " we disapprove of the platform of principles on which Mr. Douglas is now a candidate," omitting the remainder of the same sentence, in which we declare that " we still regard it as less objectionable than that on which Mr. Lincoln is placed." In holding out the above proposition as an olivebranch, we were actuated by a sincere desire to defeat Lincoln. AVc know that it is impossible for Douglas to carry Indiana, and it is probable that if he continues to be a candidate, Mr. Breckinridge cannot carry the State, In a word, the Breckinridge men won't, vote for Douglas, and the Douglas men won't vote for Breckinridge. If the leaders, however, will agree, the honest masses of both wings will readily consent to the proposed compromise, which will effect the prime object of all conservative men ; the defeat of Lincoln in Indiana. In offering the compromise in our convention, our men felt that it was humiliating, not on account of any inconsistency or surrender of principle, but because we had been notified in advance by Miles Taylor, chairman of the Douglas National Executive Committee, that all propositions for a compromise, from the friends of Breckinridge, would be 'indignantly spurned by the Douglas men, and such has been the common talk among the Douglas politicians. This " rule or ruin " spirit, however, does not pervade the masses of either wing of the Democratic party. They sincerely desire the defeat of the Black Republicans, and they have intelligence enough to know that it can only be done by compromise. It was in deference to the loyal and .patriotic feeling of the masses of the Democratic party, that we consented to present the olive-branch of peace to the Douglas men, at the risk of having our proposition treated with contempt. Propositions for compromise upon similar bases have been made by the Breckinridge men of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, and have met with the approbation of ex-President Pierce and other distinguished Democrats. It may be of service to the Stntinel to learn that all the Democratic nominees on the State ticket arc in favor of this compromise. Such is our information. If we are wrong, we would bo obliged if the Sentinel would correct us, and wc respectfully request our worthy cotemporary to enlighten us on this point. The tone and temper of the Sentinel article is to be regretted, as being apparently intended to forestall the action and influence the opinions and feelings of the Douglas State Central Committee. We have no doubt that many of these are conservative men, who really desire success, and who might yet be able to preserve the Democratic party if they would but consult the wishes of the honest masses in the country, rather than be influenced by the horde of professional office-seekers that infest our cities who are gambling ' politicians, having staked their whole political fortunes on the success of one man, and who expect the Administration of Douglas to " rain milk and honey, snow powdered sugar, and hail Moffat's Vegetable J

Life Pills." by any other nickname. Such epithets cannot change Men of this class would rather sec Lincoln elected : f'act3 nor deceive the people. We have enunciated than Breckinridge, or any one else except Douglas. S our fealty to the Constitution, the Union, and the Speaking of the Breckinridge Platform adopted j Equality of the States. We have declared in favor of at. the State Convention, the Sentinel, in the same ar-j true popular sovereignty, as opposed to the miserable tide, says: "The principles it enunciates are those ! .heresy of squatter sovereignty. We have declared entertained by the fire-eaters, the disunionists of the j this doctrine in accordance with the decision of the South." In this, the Sentinel is egregbusly mistaken. I Supreme judicial tribunal of the Union. We abide But allowing him to put his own version on our reso-j bv We take no appeal from the decision to a town lutions, what has he got to say about the platfotm of, meeting, nor to the squatters of a Territory, to be de-slave-code Johnson ? In the opinion of the Sentinel, ! by expertness in the use of Sharpe's rifles and we have offered to " barter away our principles." skill in horse-stealing. How can the Sentinel object to our platform when We oppose squatter sovereignty, whether attempted he was willing to take Mr. Fitzpatrick for the Vice ' to be put in force by John Brown & Co., in Kansas, or Presidency an avowed advocate of the Senatorial; at Harper's Ferry. Resolutions, the substance of which was afterwards The platform we have laid down is approved by the embodied in the Breckinridge Platform? I indomitable Democracy of New York, headed by the

How much consistency is there in voting for Her-! bage ot liinglmmton the true and tried old Demoschel V. Johnson, who is the author of the following cratic war-horse, Daniel S. Dickinson, resolutions, which neither the Sentinel, Cincinnati En- Onr principles are approved by the Democracy of quirer, nor any other squatter sovereignty sheet hasi every reliable Democratic State in the Union, heretofore dared to publish. We have published j Nobody can be in doubt as to our platform, says them once before, but we wish to " keep them before j the Sentinel. This is a candid concession, the people." Ho "bout your platform ? Here it is : Resolved. That we reaffirm the Cincinnati platform, Resolved, That it is in accordance with the Cincinwith the following additional propositions : nati Platform, that during the existence of Territorial . . ti ..i i t--.,i c,,,. 1 ., jrovernments the measures of restriction, whatever it 1st. l hat the citizens of the Lnited Mates have an , , , r , .., '. . , . ,. , ,., .,, , j- i- i 1 may be, imposed l)v the federal Constitution on the cuual ri'dit to settle, with heir prone rtu of any kind, in ,.J ,r " i t i . l v.. . Ti at u , 'r a cf. j 1 power ot the Territorial Legislature, over the subiect the organized lerntoues of the Lnited states, and . Pr. , . ... . ' . , J, . cj .1 j e u c .. i - of the domestic relations, as the same has been or shall that under the decision of the Supreme Court of the,, . t- - s.i it . f a ci . . : ,v n ,i cif -l : i, hereafter be decided by the Supreme Court of the LnUed Lnited States in the case of Dred ocott, which we . . . . 3 , . f M . , ', , . i r.i r- Stales, should be respected by all cood citizens, and recognize as the correct exposition of the Constitution 1 ' t . . ' ici r, . i i . .,'5 .. , , . . . ,, enforced with promptness and fidelity by every branch id this particular, slave property stands upon the same . ' , r 1 , J . r . ii ,i . j ii ,' of the Oeneral (jovernment. footing as all other descriptions of property, and that , ' neitht-r Uie General Government, NOR ANY TERRI- We know a free soil Squatter Sovereignty editor, TORIAL GOVERNMENT, can destroy or impair I bo de0-wt that tUch a resolution as the alove is in the right to slave property in the common Term ones , . . f fi & . Steffi, any more than the nsht to any other description of ,

properly; that property of all kinds, slaves as well as ! any other species of property, in all the Territories, stand upon the same equal and broad constitutional; , . s . . ,., 1 . . , e : j basis, and subject to like principles of recognition ana protection in the LEGISLATIVE, Judicial and Executire Departments of Government -: 2d. Thai we will support any man who may be j nominated by the Baltimore Convention for the Pre.--) idency, who hold the principles set forth in the fore-j going proposition, and who will pve them his endorse-, ment, aud that we will uot hold ourselves bound to i support any manf who may be the nominee, who en-i

tertains principles inconsistent with those set forth in the above propositions, or who denies that slave properly in the Territories does not stand on an equal tooling, and on the same constitutional basis of other species of property. In view of the fact that a large majority of the delegates from Georgia felt it to be their duty to withdraw from the late Democratic convention at Charleston, thereby depriving this State of her vote therein, according to the decision of said convention, Resolved, That this convention will appoint twenty delegates four from the State at large, and two from each congressional district to represent the Democratic party of Georgia in the adjourned convention at Baltimore, on the 18th inst., and that said delegates bo and they are hereby instructed to present the fore

going propositions, and ask their adoption by the Na tional Dei cmoeratic Convention. -HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,TIIOS. P. SAFFORD, II. K. McKAY, II. COLVARD. THE TWO-THIRDS RULE" REGULAR NOMINATION!" For twenty-eight years the two-thirds rule lias been the luw of Democratic national conventions. It i the agreement, the compact between sovereign. States to regulate Democratic national conventions. That rule has never been repealed, and stands in full force, and has never been violated except by the friends of Douglas at Baltimore. AVhy was the two-thirds rule established, instead of the majority rule ? This is a question which many of our readers do not understand, and we propose a brief explanation. We may remark, however, that it is enough that it is the compact that the two-thirds rule is "nominated in the bond ;" but we propose to go further, and to show that it is not only the compact, but that it is just and equitable. Up to 1832, nominations for President were made by the Democratic members oi Congress, which system (whatever objections might have been urged in some respects.) was admirably just and proper in one respect, that the nominee teas certain to he a found Democrat, and perfectly acceptable to those Democratic Stutes that had the burden of the election to carry. In departing from the Congressional system of nominations in 1832, and adopting the national convention system, the question arose : What rule are wc to adopt to prevent the non-Democratic Suites fiom con-oliincr the nomination against the wishes of the certain Democratic States? When, in after years, as possibly may happen, large numbers of the Democratic party are seduced from their fidelity to the Constitution, and the equal rights of all the States: and shall form either open or secret alliances with the enemy, either for personal local popularity or public plunder, how are we to guard against the danger of thus having the Democratic party chained to the triumphal car of the enemy ? This was the question which the Democratic party gravely and solemnly deliberated upon and discussed before consenting to the convention system. The difficulty was solved by the adoption of the twothirds rule, which became the law the constitution (so to speak) of Democratic national conventions. Under this rule it was believed (and correctly too) that there was but little danger of the non-Democratic States forcing a nomination upon the Democratic States against their will. At the conventions at Charleston and Baltimore there were 303 votes, requiring 202 to make a nomination. Douglas received only 181 J, a largo number of these being bogus, and no more representing the will of their constituents than the Texas delegates to the Chicago Republican Convention. Nearly all the votes for Douglas were from the nonDemocratic States. What nonsense, then, to talk about Douglas being the " regular nominee 1" Is he a " regular nominee" who was forced upon an unwilling party by fraud and corruption, and in direct oppoiition to the rule the law the constitution of the Democratic party ? Regular, indeed! Regular means according to rule (from, the Latin, regula, a rule) how then can that be said to be regular which is in open, dishonest and corrupt violation of not only the two-thirds rule, but every rule of honor, decency and integrity ? T II E BRECKINRIDGE STATE PLATFORM. This is a curious document when considered in all its parts. The principles it enunciates are those entertained by the fire-eaters, the disunionists of the South. It (iocs the whole figure. Nobodti can be in any doubt on tltat score Sentinel. In the last sentence of the above the Sentinel pays us an unwilling compliment. It is true that " nobody can be in doubt" as to the meaning of our platform. You may call it a disunion or fire-eating platform, or gent for that. -yr;) ,,e Sentinel say that "nobody can be in any . . . e , i,r "o doubt as to the mcaningiof the Douglas platform c t not perfectly Janus-faced one face looking north the other south as ambiguous as the ancient oracles? It gives the Douglas men m roving commission, to pach Squatter Sovereignty in the north and Slavery (ert;on ; ,e MHth xhe Squatters and B. R' r . ! question has Lot been decided by the Supreme Court, nd the Douglas men in the sooth ar it ia

been decided and is in opposition to Squatter Sovereignty.

The Douglas men in their platform pledge them selves to believe and adopt whatever shall " hereafter be decided , by the Supreme Court of the United Stalest" ....,:' Well, suppose the Supremo Court should decide again, as they have already decided, " that neither Congress nor a Territorial legislature can abolish slavery in a Territory," suppose they make this decision in such explicit terms, as to allow no pretext of obiter dictum for the ''Little Dodjrer" to get around it. Eve ry man of brains in the United States knows how the Supreme Court will decide the question. What will then become ofjour Squatter Sovereignty ? The Douglas men will then have to stand square on the Breckinridge Platform, or go with the Black Republicans, which is most probable. " THE IIALF-WAYilOUSE." Douglasism is the half-way house to Black Republi canism. Numerous instances could be given in proof of this fact. Douglas himself was almost persuaded to be a Republican in 1858. Greeley evidently thought he had him ; but the ambition of the Little Squatter required him to hold aloof so as to set up a party in opposition to Lincoln, and to get back into the Senate. Hickman, of Pennsylvania, has been " half-way," and has now landed in the Republican party. Forney is going rapidly to the same party. He is something more than a tadpole, yet not quite a frog. Ho will soon shed his tail and come out a full Republican frog. , Wherever, we hear of converts from the "Democratic" party to the Republicans, we find the convert to have been a " Douglas Democrat," and the change consists only in a change of name. The truth is that the Douglas men of the North sympathize in toto in feelings and sentiments with the Republicans. They differ more as to which shall be the chief of the Northern Free-Soil party, than in regard to principles. They both spring from the same offwina gentium, the same northern vandalic horde, and differ mainly as to which chieftain, Douglas or Lincoln, shall lead the onslaught against the South, and as to which army shall enjoy the four hundred millions of public plunder. We are led to make these observations, on learning that the Wabash Plain Dealer, the only Douglas paper in Wabash county, Ind., and the most able one in the Eleventh District, has announced its determination to quit the fortunes of Douglas and to go for Mr. Lincoln. We learn, also, that Charles Coulon, a German of Indianapolis, announced his intention of quit ting Douglas and going for Lincoln. Mr. Coulon was one of the. Douglas Marshals on the 18th, and is a man of influence among his countrymen. He resolved to go for Lincoln on the day of the Breckinridge mass meeting, assigning as a reason that Douglas could not be elected, and his next choice was Lincolnwho is, indeed, the " next choice " of nine-tenths of the Douglas party in the North. THE CHAMPIONSHIP. Since the Douglas State convention a spirited contest has been going on between the " original Douglas men " and those of the secondary formation as to the championship of the belt. The principal contestants seem to be Dick Ryan and C. L. Dunham. The latter won the belt by his pugilistic encounter with Col. Allen May at the 1 1th of January convention. Being one of the secondary formation, or to use the elegant phrase of one of the " original Douglas men," his having been a " death-bed repentance" having defended Buchanan, Lecompton el cetera, and abused the Little Giant like a pick-pocket, the " originals " are unwilling that he should come in at the end of the fight and claim all the honor, and especially the emoluments "thereunto appertaining." How the controversy is to be deteniiined is a matter of speculation. We suggest, however, that a compromise had better be effected, and that two belts exactly alike should be presented to each of the champions. If such compromise cannot be effected, our voice is then decidedly for Ryan. He made the Douglas party in Indiana. " To him the lyre and laurels should be given, With all the trophies of triumphal song ; He won them well and may he wear them long ! " LAWRENCE COUNTY DEM OCRATIC MASS MEETING. " Lord, how tliis world is given lo mittalci I FLSTArr. We are afraid the New Albany Ledger has been seized with the Cincinnatiensis Enquirerphobia. Oiie of its editors came out to Bedford to report the Breckinridge and Lane meeting. We have not seen his article, but we learn that it is full of very gross and inexcusable mistakes. Among other things he says that A. B. Carlton moved " that the Breckinridge and Lane men refuse to go into convention with the regular organization," and that about twenty rotes were given in the affirmative 1 and none in the negative. As we remarked, we have not seen his arcs . ' tide, and only give the substance of what we under, stand he says. If the editor traveled 140 miles in search of an item to give to his readei-s as truth, he w-as very unfortunate in his expedition. We can excuse him, however, for we suppose he got most of his information from the Douglas bolters of Bedford. The truth is, that A. B. Carlton did not move that the Breckinridge and Lane men would refuse to go into convention with the regular organization. But inasmuch as the Douglas convention had not been called by the Regular Democratic Central Committee, appointed by the delegate convention of Lawrence county in January, I860, but had been called by a bogus committee of bolters, his motion was " that the Breckinridge apd Lane Democrats would not go into the Douglas convention, in the Court-House,'' which motion was carried unanimously by the vote of several hundred Breckinridge and Lane men ! The Sentinel and the New Albany Ledger, the leading Douglas papers in Indiana, have come out against a compromise of the difficulties in the Democratic party. The general belief is that it will be rejected by the Douglas State Central Committee. The little Giant has given them the cue. He desires to wreak his vengeance on the Democratic party, because we would not take him as our nomniee. He wished to bestride the Democratic party like a huge Colossus, and all the great and true men of tho Democratic party " must creep about his legs to find themselve dishonorable graves." But his legs are too sboet and his coattail too near the ground. 3TThe only effect the Douglas State Ratification Meeting, of the 18th ult., has had, so far as we can learn, has been to induce one of the Douglas marshals, Chas. Coulon, and a great many other Germans, to quit Douglas and go to Lincoln, a being the stronger of the two free-wil chieftains.

LETTER FROM JUDGE PETTITLafayette, Indiana, August 2, 18,60. Mr. Curlton: I find in the State Sentinel of tho 1st inst., the following paragraph : "There is no complaint of my course, and the question is, shall I be beaten to gratify the imperious dictation of one man? Shall the whole State lower to hiin whose chief qualification for place is low cunniny and treachery, and a hatred of every thing that is greater and nobler than himself ! " The editor pretends that this is an extract from a letter of mine. I pronounce it a fabrication, and declare that any letter purporting to be from me with this passage in it, is a forgery. I admit that at one time in 1853-4, there was a coolness existing between Mr. Bright and myself. I thought he had not treated me properly, but never did I, by letter or by word, traduce or abuse him. . We talked together face to face, and I am happy to say that long since every trace of unkind feeling towards him has been eradicated from my heart, and that I entertain for him, as I have no doubt he does for me, a warm and cordial friendship. I was honestly and earnestly for his election to the Senate, and it would give me great pleasure to see him still further advanced. The editor intimates that he will shortly produce something that Mr. Bright has either said or written, of an unkind nature, about me. If he be in possession of any such; and it will give him any pleasure to publish it, I would not deprive him of that pleasure. JOHN PETTI T.

DOUGLAS NEVER DECEIVED NOR CHEATED ANY MAN. If there is any one characteristic in the life of a public man that merits the approbation of both friend and foes it is an open, frank, undisguised course one divested of the tricking and cunning so usual in politicians. It makes us proud of Stephen A. Douglas, and prouder still to hear his old friends and neighbors, who have stood by his side from early manhood to the present time, bearing evidence of such traits of character. Sentinel. The above is the coolest thing we have met with for many a day. " Douglas never deceived nor cheated any man"! "He is divested of the tricking and cunning so usual among politicians." A Daniel come to judgment; lo 1 a Daniel. The rara avis the white blackbird has at length been discovered by the astute editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel I He has found " the pure redeeming angel, sent to free This erring world from every bond and stain, And bring its primal glories back again !" Let us hear what " his old friend," " who has stood by his side," the whilom "anti-Leconipton Democrat," John Hickman, of Pennsylvania, has to say of the immaculate Stephen Arnold Douglas : Viewing him as one of the most unsafe and treacherous of leaders, you will pardon me certain statements which it now seems necessary should be made, and the correctness of which, I presume, will not be impugned. The prided-fiither of " untrammeled popular sovereignty" turned his back upon his violated child, and closed his cars as in death, to complaints of outrage almost without a paiallel in the civilization of the century. If there has been a more determined foe to the growth of freedom in Kansas, or to the principles of the Kansas-Nebraska bill than Stephen A. Douglas, he has been able to keep himself very much under cover. : I have said all I de. i.'e to say of the representatives of the two Democracies. There is a preference between them. The one is outspoken and evident ; the other is concealed and tricky. Of the two I much prefer Mr. Breckinridge, and yet I cannot imagine the circumstances under which I could be induced to support him. He asserts the Supreme Court has decided that slavery is an existing constitutional institution in all our Territories, and that it is the duty of the Government to sustain it where it thus legally exists. Mr, Douglas contends the courts have not yet so decided, but if they shall do so, it will then become the duty of all good citizens to respect the decision, and of every branch of the Federal Government to enforce it with promptness and fidelity. This is his platform. If our Federal Court has not already given a decision in accordance with the notions of Mr. Breckinridge, no one doubts it will do so as soon as the question shall be brought distinctly before it. So, at best, the onlypoint of disagreement between these rival candidates is that of time only. Here is what Hickman said in his speech at West Chester: I have said that I would rather vote for Breckinridge than for Stephen A. Douglas, for he is infinitely the better man. I have never found him true to his own principles, and I have said so at all times. I have said so to his intimate friends, to his private secretary. I have known him for years to be a political mountebank, a scheming trickster, who recognizes the interests of but one person in the United States, and that one is Stephen A. Douglas himself. lg"The Sentinel has an article headed "Douglas never deceived nor cheated any man ! " It says, in another article, that " we would just as soon call a woman virtuous who barters her favors, as a party honest which proposes a compromise, a sale of its principles." Apropos: we once knew a sustaining witness to the impeached character of a nymph du pave, tes:iiy that she was of good character for veracity, for she never promised to meet him but she kept her appointment. That's the extent of Douglas' good character; he never promised to meet Greeley, Forney, Hickman, Broderick, or anybody else, to break up and ruin the Democratic party, but he kept his appointment. FACE THE MUSIC. Those Douglas men who are so confident of that gentleman's strength, will no doubt be glad to have the opportunity to accept the following propositions, which we are authorized by a responsible party to make: $100 that not one State can be named that will go for Douglas. $100 that two States cannot be named for him. $100 that three States cannot be named for him. $100 that four States cannot be named for him. 5?100 that five Slates cannot be named for him. $100 that one State can be named that Breckinridge will cany. 3M00 that two States can be named for him. $100 that three States can be named for him. $100 that four States can be named for him. $100 that five Slates can be named for him. $100 that six States can be named for him. $100 that seven States can be named for him. S10O that eight States can be named for him. $100 that nine States can be named for him. $100 that ten States can be named for him. $100 that eleven States can be named for him. $100 that twelve States can be named for him. $100 that fifteen States can be named for him. $100 that seventeen States can be named for him. All to be taken together. $100 that Breckinridge will receive a greater number of votes in Kentucky than Douglas. $100 that Bell will receive a greater number of Totes in Kentucky than Douglas. $100 that Breckinridge and Bell will each receive greater number of votes in Kentucky than Douglas. All these bets to be taken together. Now, Douglas braggers, you have an opportunity to show your confidence, if you have any. If the above sums do not suit, they will be increased or reduced to accommodate applicants. Ixmisrille Courier. C" We will publish a full and correct report of Senator Bright's speech in our next number, from which it will appear that he in grossly misrepresented bv the Sentinel.