Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1860 — Page 1

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THE OLD LINE GUARD. IS PUHi,IHHKD Till - W BISKXi Y, A T I N IH A N A IM) L I S ,1 1 I I A N A II V I.MM.U & H.1UKNESS. .00, until uller the presidential Electlou. Iii advance, in all cases. Advertisements inserted at the usual rales. SPEECH OF HON. DANIEL S. DICKINSON, OF NEW YORK, At the Serenade given to Mm at the Kirkwood llouso Washington City, Wednesday night, 1st inst. Gov. Stevens. Fellow-Citizens of the City of Washington, this is a most important occasion ; an importaiiterisis in the history . of our country. At this time I have a most agreeable duty to perform. On the 18th of July we heard the sound of the trumpet from the citv of New York ; that sound reached the remotest limits "of this broad Coulederacy a sound so pure, so clear, reaching to the skies, extending in every direction, that it aroused the heart of every citizen of our land. But this voice which came to you through the press on the telegraph, you have here tonight That voice has been heard in this city belore, in your congressional halls. It has been a voice always standing on tlio immutable and invincible right, it has been a voice which in every political crisis in our country's history has stood by the equal rights of the sovereign States of the Union! Without detaining I ou any longer from the great treat tiiat is belore you, nmv intmifu '.p. to vou that veteran, that clear-headed Democrat, that iron-souled, that warm-hearted patriot, Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York. Three cheers were given for Gov. Stevens and three more for Mr. Dickinson-, when the latter gentleman spoke as follows: ... , , Mr. Dickinson, It is always gratifying and pleasant, my fellow-citizens, to be thus greeted and thus remembered personally thus to be remembered tor services to the country, or thus to be remembered for the service to the great Democratic party of the nation to be thus greeted with soul-stirring music to be thus introduced in the language of complimentary eloquence by so distinguished a gentleman as him who addressed you, to such a numerous and respectable auditory as the present. The only return I can make you, my fellow-citizens the only return I can make to the committee and its organ, is the tribute of a grateful heart; and that is freely tendered. The lines of the American people, my frienas, in manv respects, have been cast in pleasant places. 'Heaven's warm and golden sunshine bathes all Gods children within the vast area of this Republic, the tree of liberty, planted by the fathers of the Revolution, though but a slender shoot, watered by the tears of its daughters and nurtured by the blood of its sons, has now, under the loitering care of the Democrats party of the nation, grown to be a great and mighty tree. Its roots have sunk deep into the lertile earth ; it. vast, trunk stretches away to the very heavens, and its mighty branches reach to the polar regions upon the North, down to where they are tanned by the the South from the St. John's to the Pacific. It invites not only the children of America, but the children of liberty everywhere, the downtrodden and oppressed of all the nations of the earth, to come and sit down under the shadow of its proteethrannlips anil subsist uoon its fruits. And this ..nnnipv. with such institutions as the sun never shone upon before its fertile soil, its grand mountains, its pleasant vales, its heaving oceans, its winding rivers and its murmuring streamlets every interest nmtpptoil. everv branch of industry rewarded, and the ereat and sacred principle of equality crowning the moral ueauiy oi me Vv...v Ri .miflst nil this nrosneritv. amidst all these ben efits, amidst all these mighty blessings that are vouchsafed to us, one canker gnaws at the root of our do mestic peace. One subject alone, nice a wnu auu levered dream, sweeps over our land, and causes con.(.,i;nn nnvn a.nxiitv. and deeo solicitude for our political safety. It is not, my fellow-citizens, merely that one of those great periodical struggles approach for the election of a Chief Magistrate; for amidst all the blessings that we enjoy, and amidst all the stirring conflictions of the times, (and they are many,) we have an Administration that guides the ship of State in a manner that gives confidence to the American people that it will be brought over a prosperous ocean to a harbor of safety and peace. (Applause.) It is not, mv fellow-citizens, that political parties are in the field; tor they have been in the field before. It is is not that political weapons are burnished tor this contest and the knights are entering the lists; for they have been there before. The great Democratic party of the country, with its principles of progress, is in" the field; and it has been in the field before. The rich fruits of which our country has boasted are the results of its rule and its benign policy. lis opponent, too, has been in the field before. The old hig -av lias nnmrlit. left of it but its memories. I will nnt discuss the"i)artv ordinarily called the American! party, because I do not regard it as a considerable element in the great and stirring controversy of the times. The Republican party, the present antagonist of the Democracy, stands before the country confessedly a sectional party; while the Democratic party is a party catholic in its character, constitutional in its principles, and stretching, not only through this land, but wherever Christianity, freedom, or civilization have traveled. . The Republican party upon its own record is a sectional part v; for it comes into the field ignoring fifteen States "in this Union and their institutions, and manfully manfully I say, because it does it openly and boldly places its candidates both within the Northern or free States, so called, and enters into the conflict with sectionalism upon its banner. Cheers. And here it stands, with all its errors, with all its wron" doings, with all its mighty elements of mischief, and throws olf its concealment, and stands before the American people to-day in its sin, as our first parents stood in their innocence, naked but not ashamed! Renewed applause. It is joined to its idols; let it alone. The Democratic party to-day, armed with the panoplv of the Constitution, with the sympathy of the masses the American people, could literally drive it from the face of the earth. It has in all great struggles conquered it before, and in the struggle that is now approaching, ana is even now a our doors, can conquer it airain. Cheers. The Republican party has not an element oi" success. It has not the confi dence of the American paople. It has appealed to sectionalism and passion and prejudice; and although it is frauaht as we have seen, with elements of evil, there are other elements of evil at our doors to-day that threaten us far more than the Republican party. - Cheers. The disguises of the Republican party are stripped off: it stands to-dav before the American people undisguised in its purpose, and, therefore, it is robbed of nine-tenths of its power to harm. But what is it that threatens the integrity of the Union. the integrity of the Constitution, the integrity of the eaual rights of the masses? It is the division of the great Demoeratic party; and that is the absorbing duration of the dav and of the times, and to which we must practically address ourselves. The Democratic party in in the field with Breckinridge and Lane f irreat applause names that are no strangers to the country, that are no strangers to the Democrat ic tartv, no stransrers in the field of public councils. no strangers on the field of bat-le, no strangers to services in the ranks of the Democracy. They are names that are written high upon our eountry's his

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INDIANAPOLIS, tory in every department of life, whether as intrepid soldiers when our country is imperiled and battling j up3ii a foreign soil, in the records of Congress, and j of their respective states, and in the service of the i Democratic cause wherever the great doctrines of, liberty and equality are preached. They are well known; they are inscribed on tho Democratic banner, and the Democracy are going to fight this battle of the Constitution under the names of these great and worthy and honored leaders. But the chief impediment to Democratic progress is division under the pretence of another nomination called the Democratic nominationa nomination based upon the idea of Sherwood Forest: "For why? because the good' old rule SulRceth them, the simple plan, That they should get who have the power And they should keep who can." Cheers. That party is in the field with its candidates. I have nought to say of these candidates personally, for these areqiie3tions that reach lower, rise higher, and spread out in extent clear beyond personal considerations wliptlii-r worthy or unworthy. They go be yond mere man or men, and have nothing to do with them as such. Questions of organization, movements of bodies, principles, that underlie and form the foun dation of all these matters, are lit suojeeis ior uiscursion, and I will treat of them and lay persons out of the question. Nor do 1 dwell upon the technicalities of regularity of convention or delegates, or this, that, 1 the other : I start with this bold, broad, and de and fiant proposition that tho party the division opposed to us is as sec tional to-day as the .Republican party, and ten times more mischievous. Applause. You need not tell me that it is not sectional because it has a small support here and there in the Southern portion of the Confederacy. It was conceived in sectionalism, brought, forth in sectionalism, and it has all the mischievous elements of sectionalism around it and about it, whether you view it up and down, round about or diagonally. "Good ! " "What was it that disrupted the Charleston Convention? An effort to force upon a portion of tho States a candidate whom 1 . . in ... : :n..ii,. i;.. they would not accept. t nai wus u woi membered the Baltimore Convention ? It was pre cisely the same issue ; and then we find both conventions unequal to the task of nominating a Democratic candidate for the Presidency, in this time of extraordinary interest and extraordinary peril, because a . . , i j. .1 . r, it,., ,,- nominal majority held ttie ruie oi me unvcinum ... its hands, and was determined to force a candidate upon it who was unacceptable to a portion of the States even to a majority of the States of the Union ; I insist that it is essentially sectional, and it has all the mischief's of a sectional candidate, under whatever name it may be called or pretended. I care nothing neither for 'its particular platform, real or pretended, original or amended. It is an organization formed and supported by a portion of the States against another portion, when numerous considerations, at this time of all other times, suggested that no such sectional issue should be pressed upon the National Convention or the country. I admit that a great many of the eleYv,n,.fa ontpr into this that have entered into other stru'"les ; I admit that it has in it many of the ele ments of ordinary struggles, and that many who participate in it do not believe it is intended for a sec- ! tional movement ; but it has one element in it that, it it has been discovered, has not been as fully exposed as it deserves to be, and which is the great and controlling element in this opposition to the Democratic party. And it is this : laying aside all other elements, worthy or unworthy, that enter into this campaign upon the part of this organization, it clearly has tinsit has a secret motive power that propels on this terrible train of evils that threatens the Democratic party and the country, Has not every observing aiid reflecting man been surprised that a section of the Democratic party should have spent nearly two weeks at Charleston in the effort to press upon the Convention a candidate for the Presidency that was unacceptable to those States that must give Democratic votes ? Has not every reflecting and observing man been surprised that when they came to Baltimore, aftes returning to their constituencies, all this effort should have been renewed with re-doubled power and virulence ? There are those who have belonged to the Democratic party who would rather reign in hell than serve in Heaven. They have seen four hundred millions of spoils, and they have hungered and thirsted for them like famished wolves. Many of them are lacking principle, wanting power and wanting bread; and ilipv have rlete rmined. if possible, to take possession of the treasury of the country; and how are they to do that? They are unwilling to serve under a Seward, a Hale, a Sumner, and a Giddings. They did not believe that with that platform and that sectional idea a party can succeed; but they have conceived, or renewed, rather, the idea of a great Northern party to be controlled by what they call Democratic influences, and they are reviving the efforts of 1848 to raise up a great Northern party that shall absorb the Republican party, that shall place themselves at the head of it, and that shall be able to control the destiny of thin nation bv controlling the electoral votes of the free States a party that can be controlled by themselves, and that can ride rough-shod, if need be, over Southern States and over the Constitution alike. Let the Southern States bestir themselves. Let them sec the meaning of this effort. Let them see the hidden springs that have propelled all this destructive machinery. Let no one lay the flattering unction to his soul that this is a mere effort at the election of an individual. They will see that they cannot elect the individual that they have named ; they will see that he cannot probably get a single electoral voie ; uui they are laying the foundations of the sectional party that is to be controlled by themselves and hat is to absorb the Republican pat ty and rule the Democratic party of the North ; and when it shall be under their control they will rule the destinies of the nation, and partake of this mighty spoil, i ms spon nas wiuu them to this atrocious act ; and, hungering and thirst ing as they are lacking principles ai they tlo it is not. surnris"iiir that thev have made an effort. The j ancels fell from Heaven with less temptation. Now, so Ion" as the South arc true to themselves in this matter, they need have no fear ; they will hnd nouie j hearts, noble spirits, and strong amis in the North, and the free States, that will stand by the Constitu-! tion as long as they will stand by themselves. AP"! plause. This good ship ot Mate will never De surromWed until the South mutiny until they shall forsake it themselves ; but when, if ever, this Governk , . ,. :r .,. l,u mirrlitv fibrie' mem gue .mu "r"-. ... , shall be dissolved when, if ever and od grant t hat . it may never be, for "procut, Okprocul, .P"V""t- I God grant that it may never be ; but if it shall be , may the soutnern ouues not sec, n piu.au ...... ; ble'edinrr may they not see, as in the case of the j noble bird, their own feather ii r-n the fatal dart That winged the shaft that quivered in its heart! " j May no States at the South, may no organization at the South, may no individuals at the South, who have the good of the country and the integrity of the Constitution at heart, aid on this movement, supposing that it means nothing but the election of individuals. I raise my warning voice to-night, and tell you that I have no more doubt that it means the organization of; a great Northern sectional party than I have of any I other problem that has been solved in the last ten years in Our political history. What does it mean if it does not mean that? I ask every man of you I a-k ev-! ery individual within the hearing of my voice I ask every individual who may read these remarks, if they ; should appear in print what means this desperate and l.liiu t ii lii i , u 1 1; , i - not intended to lay broad and deep the foundations of aad effort, urged on by fonie unknown cause, u n is a great Northern sectional party, to rule the destinies nf thin rnnntrv ? I know full well that it means that; and I intend to battle strains it with the last effort of my life, Cheers When I raised my vok-e in this sectional issue in 1847, in yonder capilol, I enlisted for the war. I knew then the terrible controversy cf opinion that waji to go forward in this country : and if

UNION, AND THE EQUALITY OF THE STATES!

INDIANA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, I860.

I had believed that I could ever havo been tempted to retrace my steps, like the desperate adventurer Cortez, I would have burned the shipping behind me, eo that I should have had no retreat. In the language that was ascribed to John Adams, I taw clear y through this dav's business; and survive or perish, through success "or defeat, life or death, I intend for ono to invoke my friends to stand up to the integrity of the Constitution and of the whole Union of no particular section of the Union, but go lor the integrity of the whole, and preserve this great legacy that has been handed down to us by ourfathers. Ofwhat avail are all the struggles of parties of what avail are all the spoils of office of what avail are all the rich products of the Treasury, if we throw away such a priceless inheritance as has been given to us ? And of what avail is the boasted Democratic party, if it degenerates into mere sectionalism if it ignores, either in theory or practice, the land and memory of the Washington, tho Sumpters, the Marions of the Revolution if it ignores and forgets the Jeffersons, the Jacksons, the Madisons and Monroes in the councils of the nation? AVe may as well be a sectional Republican party as a sectional Democrafc party, if we forget our nationality and degenerate into sectionalism. The Democratic party will be of no avail when it surrenders up its great principles. It has maintained its hold upon the affections and confidence of the masses through all the fluctuations of time by llio. integrity of its principles, by the catholicity of its creed, ml vice of the Father of his Country, to frown upon all by its benign doctrines oi equumy, uy il enurm 1J jviimiu oHuiiu. - Whenever it departs from that, when it undertakes to follow ambitious leaders, when it degenerates into efforts to kindle Bectioual jealousy or disturbance, j fllnnna ami nersnnal organizations, and undertakes to force objectionable candidates upon a portion of our country' because it holds the power, that moment it is no longer worthy of the name of Democracy. The name of Democracy then, instead of rallying the mighty masses of the country, and instead of stirring upgenerous hearts and interests, causing them to thrill with joy, will be a byword, a reproach, a hissing and a shame" It is significant as a name, and honorable because the principles, and associations, and memories that cluster around it are generous, noble, and suggestive of the great emancipation of the masses of the earth from tyrannous corporations and privilnm.il classes : but whenever it fails to assert its dignity and its power, and to look upon the whole country, j and degenerates into sections and cliques, it will only j be remembered to be despised, and will be ten times . more mischievous than the Republican party, which j we war against. I know tins will be a great smiggie. T bnw tlie efforts that willbemade to crush tlio;e who interpose in behalf of principle in this crisis; but I say to them, sro on I Here is a great battle of principle to i. ft.,,l,V Tlio eiinliinn natrintand the summer sol- , 7 1 m shrink fi om the crisis in a time like this he who stands up now will deserve the respect and receive the love and thanks of every man and woman Enthusiastic applause. Who is Eesponsible? preferences subordinate to their desire to preserve in- j 1 . . , 'II. .1... l.,m., lliia Vtv. i tact, unoroKen, anu lnvmcime, me i-uimuu i ginia Democracy. Others ot them declare against an consultations, compromises, or adjustments, for securing this eud, and avow themselves bent and determined on a separate and adverse organization, as to the friends of Breckinridge. They refuse to meet in any Democratic council Irom which these are not excluded; and hence, repudiating the general Democratic State Convention, called at Charlottesville, they are looking only at the Douglas Democratic Convention, called by themselves at Staunton. In this course they have the advice of the Douglas Executive Committee in Washington; and we are sorry to add, what is however now notorious, they are carrying out the avowed wishes of Mr. Douglas him self. ... .... - This course has already greatly injured Mr. Houg-i las in Virginia. A very intellectual gpuuvu"."' j almri tinifi mm. was a warm Douirlas man, said to us but the other day: " I think Douglas been very badly treated; but I think ho is acting very badly now. I can't act with his friends in the course which has been marked out for them." That this uncompromising, rule-or-ruin course has been determined upon by the politicians in Mr. Douglas' interest, is a fact that the people ought to know. The Democrats of Virginia, whether Breckinridge men or Douglas, arc grieving over the disruption of their party, which was the work of the politicians. They are anxious to heal the difficulty, or at least not to let the division extend to themselves. - This has been evidenced by the many voices for union, which have come up alike from Breckinridge and Douglas tli'niiip rals. But some ot the politicians tell us tins shall not be : and it will not be denied that the strength of the Opposition comes from the friends ot .Mr. Uoug-, las. The Washington States, Mr. Douglas' central organ, only yesterday combined wild calculations with obstinate purposes, in the following paragraph : 'n Fi-smv in Viroima. We are reliably informer! that, there will be no fusion electoral ticket in Virginia with the Yancey bolters. The masses of the

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Democracy are opposed to it, and the tenth .Legion , cag0) tnat tic above words were used; and as manywill poll ten times the number of Democratic votes j Ofrour readers may not be aware from whence the for Domdas and Johnson that the Breckinridge ticket! ;jca wag derived, and in resjioiise to numerous friends

will receive. The emphatic language, too, of the Miles Taylor Committee will not be torgotten. Let the Democrats of Virginia note well where the: ,. J l. ll.n J.dl.nlo! difficulty- is raised acainst unity, where the obstinate determination to divide comes from. These men give reasons, but they are not a justification, their own friends and themselves being the ' ., r ,i Ti .1 witnesses. V hat savs tne i,yncnourg nepumwim whose editor was one of Mr. Douglas' friends in the .National convention r ' We cannot see, for the life of us, what the friends of Jude Dou'das expect to accomplish by running a separate ticket in Virginia. Their pretensions to preserving the nationality of the Democratic party is a totally insufficient excuse for such thing a dangerous step on their part There is no such thing as a National Democracy now. The tarty has been bro - , ' 1 l 11 . 1.1 .... : kpn up wantonly ana wiciteuiy uruh.cn ui., iu u... opinion and the question now is, whether we shall : I ouf gtate ' izations and our State uccess or wantonly sacrifice all in a fruitless effort to! nVa party already hopelessly divided, at least for the present. It is idle to run juage uougias in me c.,i. nmino ran ai-pomolish no jrood. and will do immense harm. It cannot give Judge Douglas a single electoral vote, while it may, and most probably will, give several to Bell and Everett Can any eood Democrat desire such a result as this? We hope . i . r .. .1 . l.,i not, and, therefore, appeal to the friends of Douglas1 to abandon at once all idea ot a separate orgauizauon, and to unite in the support ot a common ticket, pledged to the best interests of the Democratic party. Even- consideration of State pride and party interest, imperatively require this course of every Democrat, and those who persist in a different course will regret it to the longest day they live That is plain, pointed, sensible language, from one who would prefer to support Douglas over Ureckin - ridffe. it the wav was open to do so. But we are told that Mr. Douglas' nomination was a national one, and that it is necessary to support him to kppn nn a national organization- Let Judce Doujrr I . - fr . . . , las himself pass judgment in the matter; not on his own ease, indeed, but on a similar case, u e as me people to read what follows, and then say whether Mr. TVu,Mi ICS itlo tmlv nf nnt - unrl if truly.

then whether he aud his managing friends are not reentatives. in a letter declining to be a candidate for condemned in the portion they hold now; and if thus) the Legislature of Soutli Carolina, declares for Bretkcondemned, whether thev are not eery guilty in thej inridge and Lane- He speaksof Judge Douglas as course of ruin to the partv and disaster to the conn- "justly obnoxious to the South."

try on which they seem (to obstinately bent. We quote from the Richmond Enquirer: On the 9th of July, 1852, the Hon. Stephen ADouglas addressed the' Democracy of Richmond, Va., in tl"e African Church. Fiom the speech prepared by himself, published in the Enquirer of. July 20th, 1852, we make the subjoined extracts. It will be remembered that at tho Baltimore Whig Convention of 1852, the North demanded the nomination of fien. Scott, and the South resisted the demand. Commenting upon the sectional aspect of that nomination, and the deplorable results that would come from it, Mr. Douglas said : " Well, Gen. Scott received the nomination 'unanimously,' according to the official proceedings of the Convention. Laughter. Fellow-citizens, did you ever hear of a unanimous nomination, which was made in defiance of tho fifty-times-repeated protest and remonstrances of the delegates from one-half of the States of the Union represented in the Convention f Every Southern delegation voted against him more than "fifty times, day after day and night after night, and yet the ' nomination ' was unanimous. Great laughter. The nomination of General Scott, therefore, presents to the American people this extraordinary anomaly. For the first time in the history of our partv contests has a sectional nomination ever been forced upon either of the two great parties! You may talk of the dangers to the American Union, growing out of partisan strife and political contests; vou mav tremble at the scenes through which we all

recently passed, connected with the slavery agitation; yt mcie naa uui ;afijty of t))e jn0l pj - esJdenev, where yet tnere was nothing in all that, so perilous to the Inion as a sectional nomination tor ttie the North demanded the noiiiina t!on of a particular man on a sectional issue. And the delegation from every Southern State, without exception r resisted the nomination as dangerous to their rights and institutions. A nomination forced upon the South by the Free Soil wing of the Whig party North, is now presented to the American people as a unanimous nomination. " It matters not whether the North forced the nomination upon the South, or the South upon the North, the danger consists in the fact that a Territorial line divided men's opinions, that Northern men- were one way and Southern men another. But after the nomination is made, we are told that it was a fair comproI mise, because the South received the platform, and the jjort, obtained the candidate, under the direction of men w10 ,lefv"and "spit upon" the platform. Thus w0 iav(! "Winfield Scott before us for the Presidency, Aft(,,. mature deliberation, he proceeds to accept tho patf0rm, and to write the letter wincn ne nau piuin;se(j r Archer in the private note that was tound in Botts' breeches-pocket." (Laughter.) If tin. reader will substitute " Stephen A. Douglai" for " Winfield Scott," he will have a just and complete conueiiniauuii iui mo un huiiiiiiuuwu, .. lips. Such a nomination of General Scott, he pronounced would " convert a good General into a bad President," and we may ask if the result would not be equally disastrous to a Senator? If Mr. Douglas could urge the facts connected with Gen. Scott's nomination as "dangerous" to the South, in 1852, the ut dria (Va.) Sentinel. Douglasites. We cannot understand Ue point or sense in lugging in the name of Mr. Yancey in their discussions. Mr. Yancey is not before the people for any office. He was a delegate from Alabama at Charleston and Baltimore, and deported himself like a true and genuine Southern patriot. The speeches he made on those two occasions were, by his friends and enemies, regarded as the most 'finished speeches that, have been made by any statesman of the age. The idea of representingMr.Yanceyasadisuniouist,identifying him with the Breckinridge and Lane party, and thereby makitiL' it a disunionist party, is superlatively ridiculous, ,11111 l III IV Hiitruvi and is only intended by the Douglas wiseacres to scare , , ' ii i ..i -i.i xt... :i' ,t.,. , , tn aml children. Now, if they Would, for an instant, refer to. the fact that ex-Gov nf Missouri, was a Bentonite emancipa tionist, who figured most extensively in the cause of Douglas at Charleston and Haltmiore, ana jur. uauidenof Georgia, another Douglas fanatic, who made a speech to the Convention at Charleston and Baltimore, is in favor of the re-opening of the African slave trade, and that Ilerschel V. Johnson, their candidate for Vice President, has always been known in Georgia and elsewhere, as the most rabid nullifier and secessionist in the land so much so, as to be known by the sobriquet of Herschel VESUVIUS Johnson, (belching fire.) If they would remember these things, they would be struck with the ridiculousness of their argument. These men are now Mr. Douglas' supporters, and if their logic be correct, then Mr. Douglas stands, proved, to be an emancipationist, an Afri can slave trade man, a nullifier, and an abolitionist. pe0Jjle,g pfesSf ernan(lo, (Miss.) " Actscon Eaten up by his own Dogs," It will be remembered by thoe who read the great . , ..... i ,- j ;. snl.,c.u nf Senator Toombs ot Georgia, delivered in tic ,semlte f00n after the sacrifice of Seward at Chiwho are not familiar with the fabulous tales of the old en time, we are led to give the story as it was taught to us in by-gone days: Actseon, the hero of the story, was the son of Aris- . , . ., , Al tl. !!., ' ta?us; ms motnei's name was auiuiw, uh; iianyui, ui Cadmus, who is the reputed author of the alphabet, or rather the improver, as he borrowed the art from rhr Plirenecians. while on his travels in Asia, The son Acta?on, was a "mighty hunter," and usually emj novt.d ,;,, time in tramping over mountains and valipys jn ureece, tonowen oy a pacit oi uugs. vine upon a time, in one of his expeditions through the country, in traversing the borders of the sacred and romantic fount of Graphia, in Boetia, on Mt. Citha;ra, near the battle-field of Phatie, he unfortunately j chanced to discover the goddess Diana and her nymphs who were luxurating in the delights of bathing in the 1 beautiful fountain. Diana, (who is not celebrated for 1 ,C amiotltlilv Oil fA fTO(l at. Hi 1 Tl IT , Bu unusimi ijuanui; seen by a mortal, netermineu 10 oe revengeu o.i u.c indiscreet or unlucky youth; and casting upon him a few drops of water he was immediately transformed into a stag. The dogs instantly gave chase to the supposea siag, ami uc own n-u a pir, . ' tv. He was devoured : he was " slaughtered in the j house ot his tnenas;'- lie met ms rnu uirungu mc means of those he had cherished in his bosoui, who had lonsr fed from his hands. In the case ot Seward, it is admirably applicable. He is practically dead. and through the ingratitude of those from whom he j aeservea neuer imugs. The Presidential Eace. Take off Your Sritun. In view of the fact, that Mr. Douglas cannot possibly receive even one rWtnral yote. we hoie that the more honest portion , of miS2,,ided friends of the Douglas faction will j :n3;rt UIWn his withdrawal from the campaign. Let Douglas be withdrawn, ana nave a sounu, iiauoncu manelected in the person of the gallant Breckinridge. Draw off your quarter-horse, gentlomeu, and don't encumber the track with scrubs, Capital City Fact. nox. James L. Obr tor Breckinridge axd Lae. The late Speaker of the U. S. House of Rep-

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A Jumble of Words-The Wickliffe EeslutionThe Intention of it was to Deceive. Wo have never read, says an exchange, a moreper feet jumble of nonsense than is contained in the Wickliffe resolution, which is the last of the Douglas platform adopted at Baltimore. Here it is : Resolved, That it is in accordance with the true interpretation of the Cincinnati platform, that during the existence of the Territorial Government, the measure of restriction, whatever it may be, imposed by the Federal Constitution on the power of the Territorial Legislature over the subject of the domestic relations, as the same has been, or shall hereafter be finally determined by the Supreme Court of the United States, should be respected by all good citizens, and enforced with promptness and fidelity by every branch of the General Government. Now this jumble of words, put together with a pretence of meaning somethiug, but in reality nothing, should subject its author, and those who adopted it, to the contempt and loathing of every fair and upright man. . .. , ,, What is it? It requires careful reading to tell whether there is an idea at all conveyed in it. It will be found, however, that the sum and substance of it is simply to declare " that whatever restriction the Supreme Court has or may decide that the Constitution imposes on the power of a Territorial Legislature, should be respected and enforced by all the departments of the Government." Mr. Douglas sav s, in his letter of acceptance of the nomination : " Upon a careful examination of the platfoun of principles adopted at Charleston, and reaffirmed at Baltimore, with an additional resolution, which is in perfect harmony with the others, I find it to be a faithful embodiment of the principles of the Democratic party, as the same were proclaimed and understood by all parties in the Presidential contests of 1848, 1852 and 1856." To understand the language of Mr. Douglas' letter of acceptance, it is necessary to refer to the language used in his speech at Freeport, August 27, 1858. Here it is : "It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question, whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, as the people, have the (WW means to introduce it or exclude it as they please."Such was Douglas's language before the Cincinnati platform was changed by the Wickliffe resolution, and in his letter of acceptance, he says the Wickliffe resolution is in "perfect harmony with the pthers." So that he stands exactly where he did onthe 27th day of August, 1858, declaring that it mattered not how the Supreme Court decided the question, the people still will have the lawful means to exclude slaver-. From the day of the declaration of this doctrine at Freeport, down to this time, he has been defending his doctrine of popular sovereignty, which, according to his language at Freeport, means Jhat the people have a power higher than the Constitution, or the decisions of the Supreme Court. This is full up to Seward's higher law doctrine, and goes beyond Lincoln, who sustained a fugitive slave law because he was sworn to support the Constitution. But Mr. Douglas tells the people of a Territory that it matters not what the Supreme Court may decide, for the people have the lawful means to exclude slavery from the Territory, which simply means that the will of the people is to override the supreme law of the land and the Constitution interpreted by the Supreme Court. X. 0. Courier. Out Ticket A National One. Breckinridge and Lane will have electoral tickets in every State in the Union. We are in possession of facts which we think will sustain us in this position. If this be true ; or even if we have tickets in less than half of the Northern States, is this not sufficient to convince any reasonable man that our party has not disunion for its object ? : Yet, the cry of "disunion" is raised against us. Let us inquire into this charge. Are our principles sectional ? Certainly not. Our platfbi-m places all the States of the Union upon perfect equality. Under its principles, every citizen, of every State, can go into the Territories, (which belong equally to the States,) and be secured in the enjoyment of his property, of whatever description he may choose to carry with him. If the Territorial Legislature refuses to protect him, we claim that the Government in any or all its departments must secure him in that right. This is a struggle for equality and justice, and how can it be for disunion ? It is to preserve the Union, upon the basis of the Constitution. Tusl egee (Ala.) Democrat. A New Objection to Mr. Breckinridge. Mr. Breekinridgo is charged by tho conspirators with having opposed Mr. Cass' election in 1848. The charge is false and has been refuted. He is charged with having voted for air Emancipationist for tho Kentucky Convention in 1849. The reverse was the case. He is charged with having favored Know Notlungism in 1855. It is false. He denounced the whole thing. . - He is charged withbeinga disunionist. Thecharge is made by those who are plotting the overthrow of the government. It is false. He is now charged with being a poor man I It is said he never owned a slave ! that he is not now a slave-owner! that he is compelled to employ wnue servant girls ! that he necessarily employs white laborers on his farm ! This may all be true. Mr. Breckinridge is not, we believe, a wealthy man. Is that a valid objection, freemen of Kentucky 7Iauiville Courier. No Disunion. Humphrey Marshall addressed a Breckinridge meeting at Covington, Ky., on the evening of the 2d inst. He entered into a general discussion of the platform and the candidates of the four parties. In the course of his remarks he said" We are asked if Lincoln succeeds do you propose disunion ? I would answer emphatically no ! It is a remedy for no evil under heaven. It would be political suicide, and Kentucky would be the very last State to give up the Union. The Breckinridge party don't mean it, and we do not believe the man himself (Breckinridge) ever entertained a disunion sentiment. There was no such calculation ahead when he was nominated. But the. party did aud does intend to fight for its rights inside of the Union." Cheers. Garrison's Opinion. Win. Lloyd Garrison, the truculent old Chief of the Abolition party proper, who denounces the Union and the Constitution as "a league with hell anrl a covenant w ith death," is an admirer of Abe Lincoln, of Springfield, 111. He lw purchased a life-size lithographic likeness of the rail-splitter, and after expressing his bchet in Lincoln's election, adds, that " certainly he is not handsome, but want of beauty in the face is less imiKirtant than want of beauty in the character. Mr. Lincoln looks very unlike our ideal of a slaveCHtchcr. Garrison, it seems, thinks Uncle Abe is "beautiful in his character." W The Nashville Union and American says : " If Mr. Dou das should be elected President, he would not havea single solitary political friend in the Senate. Pugh, of Ohio, is the only supporter be bas now, and Chase takes his seat on the 4th of March next If he should be elected President, he will have Senaor Kennedy, of Maryland, to aid bis administration. Mr. Crittenden's term expires on the 4th of March- All lonelv and drear."