Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 August 1860 — Page 2

THE OLD LINE GUARD.

A. B. C4RLTON, ....... EDITOR. THURSDAY, ......... AUGUST 16. National Democratic Ticket. FOK PRESIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOSEPH LANE, - of ortKnox. : - ; ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: James Morrison, of Marion. Delana R. Eckels, of Putnam. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 1st District Richard A. Clements, of Daviess. 2d " Dr. William F. Slierrod, of Orange. 3d " David Sheeks, of Monroe. 4th " Ethelbcrt C. Hibben, of Rush. 5th " ' Samuel Orr, of Delaware. 6th " Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. 7th " James A. Seott, of Putnam. Sth " : Col. William M. Jenners, of Tippecanoe. 9th " James Bradley, of Laporte. 10th " Robert, Breckinridge, jr., of Allen. 1 1th " John R. CoiTroth, of Huntington. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 1st District J.B.Gardner, 2d Levi Sparks,. 3d , 4th 5 Ih Cth Geo. II. Kvlo, Dr. B. F.Mullen, Alex.. White, . John R. Elder, , James M. Tomlinson, Julius Nieolai, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Thoma-s Wood, TJiomas D. Lemon, G. F.'R. Wadlcigh, Dr. E. B. Thomas, W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman. 7th 8 th 9th 10th 11th DEMOCRATIC STATE TICXET KOK GOVERNOR, THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, of Shelby. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, DAVID TURPIE, of White. ; FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, : WILLIAM H. SCH LATER, of Wayne. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, JOSEPH RIST1NE, of Fountain. FOR TREASURER OF STATE, NATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, OSCAR B. HORU, of Decatur. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUIiLIC INSTRUCTION. SANHJEL L. RUGG, of Allen. FOR CLERK OK SUPREME COURT, CORNELIUS O'BRIEN, of .Dearborn. .; FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, M. C. KERR, of I iovd. Democratic State Central Committee, The eomiiiittee of five, appointed by the National Democratic State Central Committee to correspond with the Douglas committee in relation to the compromise proposed at the Mass State Convention, are notified to meet on Thursday morning, August 1C, at 9 o'clock, at the Old Line Guard office. A punctual attendance is requested. Notice. There will be a meeting of the Democracy of Warren Township, at the Town house, on Saturday, the 25th inst., at 2 oelock, P. M. All are invited. Come and let us reason together. Organization is necessary; and good speaking may be expected from some of our candidates. IIknhy Brady. Chairman of the Warren Club. How Douglas Thunder is Manufactured. The Sentinel of Tuesday says there are no Breckinridge newspapers published in Illinois. It so happens that Ave are exchanging with several Illinois Bkecklnhidge papers, among others the Illinois Slate Democrat, published at Springfield, the organ of the Illinois National Democracy, a paper edited with great ability and having a large circulation. The Lawrence Democrat, (Bedford, Indiana.) says there are no Breckinridge men in Laurence county, ".when it is well known that Bkkckinicidge and Lane have a majority over Douglas in that county; and when the editor knew that they had just held a Breckinridge and Lane County mass meeting and pole raising. So our readers see how the squatter newspapers are endeavoring to deceive the people. CiTln his speech at. Independence, Mo., Senator Green contended 1. That Douglas had not been regularly nominated : 2. That if he was, he was unsound as a Democrat, and unfriendly to the South. Mr. Green added: Douglas only received 181 votes, when 202 were necessary; and when it wis moved by Gen. Clark to make it unanimous, lie had been crcdi" bly informed that there were some twenty members who did not vote! and as there were 212 delegates in. the Convention at the time, the twenty refusing to vote defeated the legality of the nomination. We find a call on Gov. Andrew Johnson, A. O. P. Nicholson, and Isham G. Harris, to address the people, published in the Nashville Union and American, signed by about seven hundred Breckinridge and Lane men. SIT "God grant the success of Breckinridge and Lane ! No squatter sovereignty ! I ain over 83 vcarg of age voted first for Thomas JelTerson, and have east the Democratic ticket at every election since," is the letter of a hale old Vermont subscriberto the Boston Statesman. 3T The Volunteer is a large and spirited Democratic paper, just started in New York by C. E. L. Stuart He flies the flagof Breckinridge and Lane, and has letters from twenty counties reporting the Old Shells nearly all going that way. CiTHon. Graham N. Fitch is now making an active canvass in Northern Indiana for Breckinridge and Lane. Senator Bright and others will also soon be in the field. " The " Evening Dispatch" is the name of an able and spirited Breckinhidge and Lane daily paper, published at Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, by WD. White, C. A Preseott, and C. R. Stuart. Read the communication of oar Bedford correspondent.

Union Electoral Ticket. We have already mentioned the fact that the Crawfordsville Review, Franklin Herald, and Paoli Eagle,, have spoken out in favor of a Compromise Electoral' Ticket. We now add to the list the Columbus (Ind.) 'New, an able and efficient Democratic newspaper, edited by W.C. Statelar. Here is what he says in his last number r It is a matter of no little annoyance to us, to be accosted daily, by all classes of politicians, asking our reasons for not hoisting the name of Douglas or Breckinridge as the candidate of the Democratic party for President. In answer to these interrogatories, we re

ply that we do not consider that either of those gentlemen received the nomination, under the rule adopted bv a majority of the delegates to the Charleston Convention; 'and" bear in mind that Mr. Douglas had a majority in that Convention; and, also, that the delegation from Indiana were instructed for Mr. Douglas. That Convention failed to make a nomination, under the rules they themselves made; and Mr. Douglas' friends havinr a maioritv, and being under the in structions of a majority, adopted the two-thirds rule, ami failed to nomiilate;'henee we cannot see how either Mr. Douglas or Mr. Breckinridge can be called the proper nominee. We have also withheld the name of either, in the hope that there would be a compromise made, and that we would have but one Electoral ticket, which would insure the success of the Democratic party and the defeat ot Negro-Equality Abe beyond a doubt. To this end we aim. But 'should there be no Compromise, we are for Breckinridge and Lane, for we think they would, if elected, cany out Democratic principles, as we understand them, nearer than Douglas and Johnson. - . The News has spoken the convictions of ninety-nine hundredths of the honest masses of the Democratic party of Indiana, who, like Mr. Stateler, will come out for Breckinridge and Lane, if the olive branch is rejected. We learn that the Douglas State Central Committee are to meet at Indianapolis to-day (Thursday, the IGth) to take action upon our proposition. Changing its Tune, The shameless mendacity, the Billingsgate vitupera tion, with which the friends of Breckinridge and Lane have been abused by the squatter editors and stumpers of this State, is almost without a parallel. And what is our crime ? We choose, in the exercise of our rights as freemen, to vote for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane, in preference to any other of the candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, ' This is the head and front of our offending." The Evansville Enquirer has contributed its full share in the abuse of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane. In our case, the exercise of private judgment, and independent action, is an unpardonable sin, in the oninion of the sciuatter papers. To show the l i - . . I beautiful consistency of the Enquirer, we subjoin an t extract from a late article in that paper, in which it is j encouraging the Bell and Everett men to get up an ! electoral ticket no doubt with a view of helping the j chances of Douglas. We may remark, however, that I in this we think the Douglas men are mistaken. Of .1... .lonAii .-,-.(. .(I "Flltmnri -nhnnr. nne luc uii;ii , iivj luiiu ......, half, or probably three-fourths, have gone over to Lincoln, and the remainder, in ease there should be no Bell and Everett ticket, would divide in such a way as not to alf'ect the result in Indiana. But here is the extract from the Enquirer: " Under the Constitution, every onp, from the highest to the humblest, "has a voice in the Government," and in uttering that voice by his vote, he is bound by his duty as a citizen, to follow the dictates of his individual judgment and conscience, unswayed and unawed by the influence and opinions of others around him. It is only when voting in accordance with his opinions that he is truly a free man true Democrat, ami a good and loyal citizen." United States Senator McCarty on Dr. r Pitch. Our readers will remember that two or three years ago, the Republicans and anti-Lecompton Democrats in the Legislature foiined a coalition and went through the ridiculous farce of electing two United States Senators Henry S. Lane, the present Republican candidate for Governor, and one McCarty, an anti-Lecompton Democrat to oust Bright and Fitch from their seats; and those two gentlemen had the hardihood to co to Washington and claim their seats, in the face of the following 'resolution, which had passed the United States Senate, without a division, on the 12th of January, 1857; ..- "Resolved, That Graham N. Fitch and Jesse D. Bright, Senators returned and admitted from the State of Indiana, are entitled to the seats which they now hold in the Senate, as such Senators aforesaid the former until the 4th of March, 1861, and the latter until the 4th of March, 18C3, according to the tenor of their respective credentials." Since that time, McCarty has kept pretty quiet, but smarting under the appropriate name of "the political mule," which Fitch applied to him on the 31st ult., he has turned up at Morristown, Shelby county, where he made a speech the other day, and tried very hard to be witty. He says Bright and Fitch are "hawking' at the eagle towering in the Empyrean," (said MeCarty being the aforesaid bird.) His attempt at wit and sarcasm justifies the epithet of "political mule," for he could neither neigh like a horse, nor bray like an ass, but gave only an unearthly sound, half way between the two. What better name for such a hybrid a cross between a Black Republican and an autiLecouipton Democrat thau "political mide." Look out for the Locomotive when the Bell Rings! There is no doubt that Breckinridge and Lane are the real choice of a large majority of the Democrats of Indiana. Just now a good many arc tied up, or seemingly for Douglas, because they, or their friends are candidate on the State, Congressional, or County tickets. But just tr lit till the October election w over, and you will hear the Old Democratic Calliope comin" round the bend and making the hills and valleys resound with Breckinridge and Lane music. We hope our friends will not judge too harshly of the seemingsummersaults of certain leading Democrats of Indiana, who have surprised and grieved their friends by going over and uniting with the anti-Lecompton Douglas worshipped. We are satisfied they are only doing so from notions of policy; so we say ju't wait until after the October election and you may look out for something to turn up. New York Breckinridge Convention. This Convention completed its laljors on Wednesdav, nominating a ticket which James T. Brady, of New York city, (the grent lawyer.) heads as the candidate for Governor. While the tone of the Convention, both in its speeches and resolutions, was decidedly opposed to making any terms for a re-organization of the party on any basis that shall include what is called the Albany Regency, the State Central Committee was tmpowf red to confer with the Douglas and Bell Committor on an electoral ticket.

The Bell and Everett State Convention. About noon, yeesterday, we dropped in at the Bell and Everett Convention, at the Metropolitan Theatre. We found Alexander II. Davidson, E?q., of Indianapolis in the Chair. A motion was made for the appointment of a number of Vice Presidents, who took seats on the stage. We recognized none of them except John D. Thomasson, Esq., of Lawrence. A motion was made to adjourn until 1 J o'clock, P. M., to give the delegations from the several Congressional districts time to consult upon the choice of Electors. James II. McConnell, Esq., of Wayne, pending the motion to adjourn, moved for a call of the counties, for a report of the delegates. His motjon did not meet with much favor, and was not put, probably from' the fact that it would be found that three-fourths, of the Counties were not represented. The motion to ad

journ till l1 o'clock, P.M. prevailed. We counted the crowd as well as we could, and made out 150, including the New Albany Cornet. Band. We learned that a considerable number of persons present were from Louisville. Indeed, the hotel registers show quite a number of arrivals from that city. In a few words we can give our readers a pretty correct notion of the Convention. It was sober, dignified, calm, gentlemanly and respectable in every thing but numbers. In this last respect it was a great failure: " Theirs was that loveliness in death That parts not quite with parting breath, But beauty with that fearful bloom That hue which hauuts it to the tomb," &c. Cass County. . On last Saturday the Breckinridge and Lane men had one of the largest political gatherings at Logansport, that was ever held in Cass county. Hon. Graham N. Fitch addressed the meeting. The Douglas worshippers threatened that he should not be allowed to speak. But seeing such a large crowd of stalwart Breckinridge Democrats, " who know their rights, and knowing dare maintain them" they concluded that discretion was the better part of valor, and accordingly they abandoned their infamous purpose of mob violence. Dr. Fitch is a most able and eloquent speaker. He is making a vigorous canvass north of the National Road. We learn he will soon visit Southern Indiana. House of Representatives. The complexion of the present House which has to elect a President and Vice President if the people do not is not a matter of speculation, but a fixed fact. We know precisely how the States stand, and here is their order: Democratic States. Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, Arkansas, ; Illinois, South Carolina, California, Loui.-utna, Texas, Delaware, Mississippi, Virginia 14. . Florida, Missouri. llepuhlican States. Michigan, ' Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, ; New Hampshire, Rhode Island, : New Jersey, Vermont, New York, Wisconsin ID. Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Southern Opposition Tennessee 1. Divided. Kentucky, Maryland, N'th Carolina 3. Each State counts one vote in the House, and 17 constitute a majority of the 33. Hon, R. W. Thompson. As a good deal of interest is felt in certain quarters as to the position of Hon. R. W, Thompson, we copy from the Wabash Express an extract of that 'paper's account of his recent speech in Terre Haute, which, the Erpvess says, was the. greatest speech of Mr. Thompson's life, and delivered loan immense audience :'. .--':''-.. He was severe upon both wings of the Democrat ic party, giving it as his settled opinion that Stephen A. Douglas would get jusi one oi&ie less m iouu man did Mr. Fillmore in 1850. lie spoke eloquently of John Bell, and in glowing terms of Abraham Lincoln. He said Mr. Lincoln was an honest and an able man that ho knew him well, having 'served in Congress with him in 1847. He said that everything now favored the election of Mr. Lincoln by the people, and he did not desire to see the election thrown into the House. He reviewed the present political condition of the House of Representatives, and showed that if Mr. Lincoln was not elected by the popular vote, the House would never elect, and the Senate would select a President-from' the candidates for the Vice Presidency, and he would probably be Joe Lane. He asked the people whether they would prefer selecting their own President, or let the Senate of the United States do it for them. He said that he had no fears of a dissolution of this Union that was the demagogue ,. , . . , IT. .t.. ..I-...-.. . i' cry to triL'litcn linnu men. uti sam me election oi Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency would not dissolve the Union ; it would still be preserved, but the cry of disunion would be raised in every Presidential contest for years to come. "Mr. Thompson s lid he was a Union man, that as a member of the Baltimore Convention which nominated Mr. Bell, he had determined to vote for him, but he was not in the market to be bought or sold he was not to be transferred at the will or wish of scheming politicians he did not wish to buy any person nor did he wish to be sold. If the Bell men of Kentucky or any other State desired to make combinations with the Douglas or Breckinridge wing, he should wash his hands of it, for between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Lincoln, he preferred the latter. He had no combinations to make with Democrats; he had fought them during his whole political life, and ha intended to continue lighting them. Mr. Thompson said that he regarded Mr. Lincoln as the representative of the conservative element in the Republican party. That he was a consistent, conservative man, and if elected President would, he hail no doubt, do equal and exact justice to every section of the country" 3ST We copy the following from the Jonesboro' Weekly Gazette, (Union county, Illinois.) a pajier eleven years old, (a good deid older than the Democracy of the editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel,) in order that the squatter organs, bought up with the money of Stephen A. Douglas, may no longer deceive the people in regard to the Breckinridge party in the North. We notice elsewhere the statement of the Sentinel, that there are no Breckinridge papers in Illinois. Breckinridge and Lane Banner. On last Saturday evening, at five o'clock, the ceremony of raising a Breckinridge and Lane flag in old Democratic Union, took place in our town, accompanied with great enthusiasm and a strong determination on the part of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane never to let its ample folds be trailed in the dust of defeat. The ladies of our town (God bless them!) had prepared with their lair hands one of the finest specimens of America's proud emblems for the glorious occasion ; and the b'hoys, the men of the true, unterrified stripe, had prepared one of the strongest and most gracetul young hickories that could be found in our forests, about eighty feet in length, as the mast to which our flag was to be nailed. As we happen to have no outer walls upon which to hang out our banner, a hole was dug in the center of the public square, and this tall s crimen of the forest, this hickory jxde. in its-elf one of the proudest cui-

bleins of Democracy, was raised and firmly planted. The banner was raised to the highest point, amid the

music of our patriatic band; and as the breeze of heaven came floating from the South and displayed its ample folds, and the name of "Breckinridge and Lane " were seen inscribed upon it, the gray-haired veteran of the true Jacksonian Democracy, Cudworth Harrison, who is upwards of 70 years of ago, and has voted for every Democratic candidate from Madison up to James Buchanan, proposed three cheers, for Breck. and Lane, which were given with such hearty good will that the very hills seemed to catch the inspiration and gave back a cheerful response. It was a glorious day, a glorious occasion ; and as we gaze upon thu stars and stripes from our window, and know that the destiny of our Nation, the peace ! and permanency of our institutions, the enjoyment of i mil Ii,r,a ntiil liffwiiliia tliO CUflll'ltV nf Wnilieil Slid i children, all depend upon the success of the gallant -laud trusty leaders whom we have chosen as. our stanj dard-bcarers in the present political eantest, we canI not but invoke Heaven's blessing upon our efforts, and I hope that the stars and stripes may long float over the i defeat of all opposition, and wave triumphantly over i the success of Breckinridge and Lane. And for this, ; Union county is willing and determined now, as ever, j to do battle, and will in the end show her sincerity to ! old Democratic) principles, and her anxiety for the j good of the country, by sustaining her well-earned reputation of being always ready to uphold the ConI stitution of our glorious Union and the equality of the States. The Feeling in Louisiana. It is impossible, at this stage of the canvass, for any sane man to contest the fact that Breckinridge and Lane will carry Louisiana by an overwhelming majority. Although we have as yet refrained from making-any public demonstration in New Orleans, our friends are actively at work, and important and valuable accessions are being daily made to our ranks. The work of organization is progressing very satisfactorily in every Representative District, and it is a subject of satisfaction to see our best and most influential citizens taking the lead in the movement. In i the Third District the local clubs will be permanently organized this coining week, as also in the Second. In the First and Fourth our Democratic friends are arousing themselves from their torpor, and promise us a good account of their stewardship before long. Add to this, the formation, last night, ofthe Young Men's Democratic Association, destined to be the leading organization ot the campaign, and our friends abroad may have an idea of what the Democracy of New Orleans is now doing. i In our country parishes greater zeal and activity : arc manifested. Throughout the State the Breckinridge and Lane enthusiasm is in the ascendant. From : the Attakapas prairies to the hill-tops of the Northj west, the repudiation ot JJougias and Ben by tlic j masses of the people is unmistakably extending. It is a Democracy which does not halt or falter. Its march is onward to the very portals of victory. We com- : mend, as an indication of the 'popular sentiment in ! the country, the graphic letter from St. Mary's of our correspondent "L." Is is written by a gentleman too , well posted upon the politics of that section of the country to be mistaken in his predictions. Our accounts from almost every parish daily furnish us with j convincing proofs of these statements. We hope, j therefore, to hear in future nothing more said in refj erenco to Louisiana being doubtful. Were every State as fully prepared for the issue as ours is and inj tends to be, the election of Breckinridge and Lane ! would be as certain as the defeat of Douglas is inI t-vitable. Let our friends in New Orleans be of good cheer. The Democracy of this city owes it, to her own character anil to her members, to see that the whole brunt of the battle should not fall upon our country friends. Let us show our opponents that we can and we will carry the city. We -know that the work is one of great magnitude, but with courage, perseverance and I proper organization, the work will become comparatively easy. Let us all, then, go to work and try whether our individual efforts combined may not produce the desired result. N. O. Courier. For thu Old linc Giuinl. Willard, Dunham, McDonald and Hammond. The course now being pursued by these gentlemen j is, to some of their warmest and best mends, strange I and unaccountable. And it is with much more sorrow t that they have witnessed their departure from sound national Democratic principles and the desertion of .'their-, true, friends, than anger. Those gentlemen j could not, at the time and sitting of the Charleston ; and Baltimore Conventions; and before, find language i too strong to condemn Mr. Douglas and his acts for the , past three years. But on the first click of the telegraphic wires, announcing Mr. Douglas' nomination at i Baltimore, they were in hot haste to identify themselves, and to carry over the Democratic party of In- : diana with them, to the Douglas cause. Having previousiy made up their minds to take the Douglas ! chute, they did not wait to get full proceedings from Baltimore, but were anxious to have Democrats commit themselves before tile truth, was fully known, i Many did commit themselves, who are now sorry for ! it. The question is often asked what were the mo I tives that induced Willard and the other gentlemen ; named to pursue such a course. The reason usually ; given is, that they knew the original Douglas men (the bolters ofl858) would not support any man butDouglas. It is rule or ruin with them. But that the men now composing the Breckinridge party of the State ; they knew to be good, sound and true Democrats, and : they thought, could be persuaded or whipped in, and ! made to vote for Douglas. In this, the Governor ; and others will find themselves mistaken. The j Breckinridge Democrats are men of principle, and i cannot Be led off from the true Democratic faith, or be i whipped or bullied into the Douglas ranks. They are generally strong Administration men, and approve j Mr. Buchanan's course. They remember that they ! spent their breath, their time, and their money, in i 1856, and after one of the hardest fought political batties ever contested in this country, they succeeded iu i electing Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency, and thaton the delivery of his first message, even before it was ! put in print, Stephen A. Douglas commenced a war j on his Administration, and from that day to this he i had kept it up with relentless fury. He and his ' friends joining in with the Republicans, have stricken ; down, not only in this State, but all others, every man ' that was friendly to the Administration, whenever in ; their power. Mr. Douglas lias now appealed to the i people to approve and sustain him in his unnatural I and unholy war on Democratic men and measures, and a vote given for him is a vote of condemnation of Mr. Buchanan and his Administration ; and not only them, but the Democratic members of the Senate and House of Representatives. Let the instance bu jiointed out where Mr. Douglas has sustained any of the measures of the Administration, or the instance pointed out where ho has failed, through his ; friends, (called anti-Lecompton men,) where it was possible, to defeat every Democratic candidate for Congress who was friendly to the Administration. The Breckinridge men no longer nor have they for the past three years considered Mr. Douglas a Democrat. They look upon him as a traitor, anil are determined to treat him as such. They know hiin to be the man that has brought on all the trouble that now exists in the Democratic camp. If Douglas were dead, the Democratic party to-day would be a unit throughout the land. Solid and compact, they would be able to trample under foot and crush out all enemies to the Constitution, the Union, and the equality of the States. iii:i:cKiNunGE democrat.

Rush County Politics. Mr. Editor: The canvass with us has commenced in absolute and sound earnest. The tried and true, the unwavering and steadfast, the veteran Democracy of " Old Rush" will stand fast to their colors, and behold with indifference, if not with composure, the stampede ot' the vascillating, time-serving tricksters who avail themselves of a dark hour in our history to steal away from the Democratic camp. The Old Guard are ready for action, and indeed it is action they prefer to the half-way measures adopted on the 31st nit. There is no affiliation of principle or of sentiment between the National Democracy and that of the squatter sovereignty, "higher-law" code of the Douglas wing of the Black. Republican party, and in-

stead of paltering with any proffer whatever of the " Olive Branch," we should have treated the Douglas faction as we treat their natural allies, the Black Republicans. If we stnd upon the true Democratic ground, they do not, and the connection, limited though it be, and forced upon us by circumstances over which wo had no control though it was, cannot but injure a glorious cause, which otherwise, and in justice, truth and sound policy, should and would have remained uncontaminated and unsullied by even an appearance of pandering for any purpose to that from which' nothing but wrong, evil, and injury must spring. There is no evading the fact nor is it to be disguised that the "squatter sovereignty" heresies of Judge Douglas are in fact and in truth as antagonistic and repugnant to the principles of the Democratic party, as are the "higher-law" doctrines of Judge Douglas' personal and, 'perhaps political friend, Wm. II. Seward. The connection therefore is one that should have been severed at once. Amputation is the most sovereign remedy on earth for gangrene. But this is foreign to the object of my writing. Some days since, in conjunction with Hon. Finley Bigger, who at the time was here on a visit, to his old home, I made a series of appointments for speaking throughout the various townships of this county. After our posters advertising these appointments had been printed and most of them sent into the county, a small, self-constituted political caial, anxious to sell the Democrat')' of Old Rush like sheep in the shambles to the purposes of the Black Republican party, issued to my friend Bigger the following pronunciamento, lo-wit : TO HON. FINLEY BIGGER. -.Sir: The course you have taken and propose taking in the present canvass in this county, is damaging the organization of the Democratic party of Rush county, and as members of the party we respectfully and earnestly request that you desist from so doing, and ask you to co-operate with the party. John S. Campbell, M. Scanlin, Geo. Hibhen, Jno. Matlock, J. Cali.aghan, J. T. McMlLLEN, A. Kennedy, W. A. C'ULLEN, A. Posey, W. C. McReynolds, S. M. Atherton, It. POVNDSTONE, Robt. Prick, Wm. Cassady, W.C.Ames, AV. A. Matlock. .From this the "curiosity man" will have the record evidence of those who, in the enlightened and liberal judgment of this clique, compose the "Democratic party" to which they patronizingly allude, and hereafter it may be known of all men who it is that compose the only Democracy of this county. By way of parenthesis, I will observe that Mr. Buzan, one of the signers to this impudent and intolerant manifesto, was deceived and deluded into the act of lending his signature to he selfish and corrupt purpose intended. However, we filled our appointments boldly and fearlessly, and the sound Democracy of the county received us with an enthusiasm I have never known equalled in Rush county. The Democracy came to hear us, and after hearing, endorsed us to the full measure of approbation. Yesterday Mr. Bigger condescended to reply to the important demand of the little cabal as follows: . LETTER FROM MR. BIGGER. Ruishville, August 11, 18(10. Gentlemen : Your note, without date, was handed to me the 7th inst., on the eve of my departure to fill some appointments to address the Democrats of this J&unty iu the several townships. I am at a loss to conceive in what manner the cOnrse I have taken, or proposed taking, could damage the organization of the Democratic party of Rush county. ; .. Had you indicated, by specific allegation, in what particular my course had been or was likely to be damaging to the organization of the party, I might have responded to the allegations thus specific, special matter of avoidance or defense. As your charge is of a general and indefinite nature, I am left to find out by my own ingenuity, to some extent, the nature of my olfense. Waiving, for the present, the question of your right to indicate the course it would be proper f or me to pursue in the present political crisis, and also passing with a smile of quiet composure, the assumption that you, gentlemen, constitute the Democratic party of Rush county, I will proceed to notice the implied want of fealty to the Democratic organization insinuated, in general terms, through your letter, with special and particular allegations, reasons and facts. First, allow me to present for . your consideration a few general propositions: The Democratic party is representative of a great Democratic idea, which found expression over three quarters of a century since in the Declaration of American Independence, and which was afterwards embodied in the Constitution of the United States. The Democratic platforms passed by our National Conventions are merely exponential, defining the true construction of that instrument, its limit and extent, and indicating the policy best calculated, under its provisions, to give happiness and prosperity to the whole people and these again are authoritative expositions of the Constitution, and the Democratic policy, to every true Democrat. To teach, therefore, in accordance with principles thus defined, is to build up and strengthen the party. To teach adversely, is to corrupt, and, per consequence, demoralize and disrupt it. If, therefore, my teachings harmonize with the Democratic doctrine, as expounded in our National platforms, I cannot thus, as you assume, "disorganize," but must strengthen and unite its. elements. The converse of this proposition is true, and applies, as I shall attempt to show, to those who advocate the doctrine of " tqwdter sovereignty." For the purjwsc of determining, therefore, the point at issue thus raised as to who are the disorganizers upon mere joints of doctrine, let us consider a few facts. In 1850, the doctrine of non-intervention with the question of domestic slavery in the Territories by Congress or the Territorial Legislatures, was first inaugurated, and is thus distinctly affirmed in the preambled what is usually called the " Compromise Measures," which reads thus : "The true principle which ought to regulate government for each newly-acquired doma n. i. ' rrjratn