Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 17, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1860 — Page 3

Congressional Mass Meetings or THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY, FAVORABLE TO THE ELECTION OF BKECKIUKIDGE AND LANE.

'HON. Hon. Hon. T T JESSE D. BRIGHT, GRAHAM N. FITCH, W. II. ENGLISH, Hon. JAMES MORRISON, DELANA R. ECKELS, Hon. -And the Electors for. the District in which the meetings are held, will address their fellow citizens at the following times and places, commencing at one o'clock P. M.: Anderson, Monday, Sept. 17. Wabash, Wednesday, Sept. 19. Fort Wayne, Thursday, Sept. 20. Laporte, Friday, Sept. 21. Lafayette, Saturday, Sept. 22. Greencaslle, Monday, Sept. 24. Yincennes, Tuesday, Sept. 25. New Albany, Wednesday, Sept. 26. Seymour, Thursday, Sept. 27. Napoleon, Friday, Sept. 28. Franklin, Saturday, Sept. 29. Centreville, Monday, Oct. 1. Connersville, Tuesday, Oct. 2. Brookville, Wednesday, Oct. 3. Distinguished speakers from other States have been invited, and it is confidently expected will attend, of which due notice will be given hereafter. Public Speaking, Hon. GRAHAM N. FITCH, and Di:. W. F. SIIERROD, j "Will address their fellow-citizens on the political; toi)ics of the day, at the following times and places, .iaiiib u ,iTTTir ii commencing ai i uciwn l., " cau y At Danville, Hendricks Co., on Thursday, Aug. 80. Columbus, Bartholomew Co., on Friday, Aug. 31. Brownstown, Jackson Co., on Saturday, Sept. 1. Paoli, Orange Co., on Monday, Sept, 3. Washington, Daviesj Co., on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Mt. Vernon, Posey Co., on Thursday, Sept. fi. Evansville, Vanderburg Co., on Friday, Sept. 7. Booneville, Warrick Co., on Saturday, Sept. 8. Public Speaking. HON. J. R. COFFROTH, and DR. B. F. MULLEN. Will address their fellow-citizens on the political topics of the day, at the following times and places : Covington, Fountain Co., on Thursday, Aug: 30. Frankfort, Clinton Co , on Friday, Aug. 31. Delphi, Carroll Co., on Saturday, Sept. 1. Peru, Miami Co., on Monday, Sept. 3. Kokomo, Howard Co., on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Tipton, Tipton Co., on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Commencing at 1 o'clock on each day. The friends of Breckinridge and Lake are requested to turn out. (ST The Cass County National Democratic Club will hold their first meeting At Logansport, On Saturday, Sept. 8, 18G0,at 1 o'clock, P. M. Hon. John R. Cotfroth (candidate for Elector) will address the Club. Cass County! A Nationnal Democratic meeting of the friends of ( BitECKiNiUDGB and Lane, will be held at Fletcher's : Lake, in Cass county, on Wednesday; August 29, 18C0, ; at 1 o'clock, P. M. ;: Senator Fitch, Don. John R. Coffroth, elector for the 11th Congressional district, and others, will cer- j tainly be present, and address the meeting. From Daviess County. Washington, August 20, 1860. Mr. Editor : We have fallen upon evil times, and whither arc we tending? Heretofore we have seen i the Democratic party fighting as one man, for princi

ples; we have seen it achieve victory after victory ; we ; are forming with the bitter and uncompromising enehave witnessed the triumph of its principles, and -J of the Democratic party they will lose more not until this campaign have we seen principles sacrift- ll0cst German and Irish votes by their afliliat ion with ced to oratifu the vaultina ambition of one man. But thc Know-Nothings,' than is contained in the whole

such is the case, and the Democrats of this State are called upon to vote for a man whose acknowledged friends have heretofore acted again and again with the Republicans in preference to regular Democratic nom- . . ... tt n . . rt . inecs. A man who, in the united mates senate, lor ; the last three years, has acted and voted with the Re-' publicans in preference to the Democrats upon allim-, portant questions. In voting for Mr. Douglas, will we ' voto for a man who is now the representative of Dem- j ocratic principles ? I say not Let us examine and see what is and what has been the principles of the Democratic party in regard to thc subject of slavery, which appears entirely to engross the public mind at present. In 1856, the Democratic Convention assembled at Cincinnati, and Mr. Douglas was a candidate before that Convention for the office of President, and received a very large vote. That Convention adopted a platform which met the slavery issue fairly and squarely, and all Democrats at that time heartily en(tnrat.rl tin. rirttwitttua Mit 4r,t.li 1,1 tmt TlnfirnMii aA , ' ,. '.. . . there was not a dissenting voice in regard to it, until Stephen Arnold Douglas gave it a forced interpretation, which is not wan-anted by the language of the resolution. The resolution reads as follows: uesowea, mat we recognize thc right ot the peopie of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the lejra lv and purely express0 . r e - ' f"! , .1 mi .. i' : : ... ' . 1 .... -1 . 1 1 ed will of a majority of actual residents ; and whenev er the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a V uilMlluuun, Willi or wuimiui uuhiuphu wau-iv, Bnu be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States." How far Mr. Douglas, or any other individual, can interpret that resolution as adopting the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, we have never, as yet, been able to understand. And we put the question to any candid man, and a.k him, how can Mr. Douglas and his supporters draw their news from the above resolution? , But without any sufficient reaxm, they tell us that it: a does, and tliat we must bow in humble submission to j their dictation. We have always nnderstood it to be ! a principle of the Democratic party, that the States of '. this Union are equal, and that all the citizens were i entitled to the same rights and rivileges, without any distinction whatever. This being the case, where do Mr. Douglas and his followers find, in any Democratic platform, their doctrine tliat the citizens of this country have not an equal right to enjoy alike the common

property of the country, it matters not in what sec

tion they may reside ? lie says that ho finds it in the Cincinnati Flatform he fays that it is inherent in the people of the Ter ritories, in support of which lie plagiarizes Lincoln's speeches to yet up an article for Harper's Magazine. And when the Supreme Court decided that the Terri tories are the common property of all the citizens of. the United States, and all have a right to settle in them with their property the Southern man with his slaves, as well as the Northern man with his horse does Mr. Douglas acciuiesce in that decision ? Let us see hear what he says: "It matters not," says he, " 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, the people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it, as tliey please." Here Mr. Douglas appears to be very willing to abide by the decisiop, of the Supretne Court! If it is the doctrine of the Democratic party to disregard the decisions of the. Supreme Court, then Mr. Douglas is right, but we have yet to learn that such is the principle of the Democratic party. Yet we are called upon to vote for this man, who says that lie will not abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court. Again, we are called upon to vote for Mn Douglas on account of his and his followers' fidelity to Democratic principles. Hickman, Haskin, Adrain and Forney are good Democrats The Douglas members of the Indiana Legislature, in 1858, who voted for McCarty and Henry S. Lane for United States Senators, are good Democrats ! The Douglas men who voted for Combs, (cm American,) in Kentucky, and defeated the regular Democratic nominee, are all good Democrats ! God save us from all such Democrats ! Have we not in our own State, have we not in our sister States, have we not iu the Congress of the United States, had examples sufficient to satisfy every Democrat that the acknowledged supporters of Ste phen Arnold Douglas would prefer the election of a Republican to a Democrat who forsooth refuses to toss high his ready cap in air at the mention of his name? fo . ' such a candidate for President? We think not; we know they are not. We have noble standard-bearers, Breckinridge and Lank, and around them the "Old Guards" of the nation will rally, and our opponents may rest assured that the "Old Guard" of Indiana will remain true. The supporters of Stephen Arnold Douglas have deceived us once, and we intend that they shall not do it again. OLD LINER. From Floyd County, New Alisanv, Aug. 22, 1860. Mr. Editor: What we might have expected, afier witnessing the action of the Douglasites in various other States, has come to-pass in our own State. Be it so. If they are willing to assume the responsibility of protracting the split in the ranks of the Democracy, and thereby elevate to the first office known to the land a Black Republican President, let the odium and disgrace of such action rest with the party that geeks to accomplish such an end. If they would rather see consummated in I860 that which we unitedly fought so hard to prevent in 1856 tlie election of a sectional Black Republican President, over a man whose every political action shows a purity and spotlessness that is seldom beheld by mortal vision then I say let them alone; they are joined to their " idol," and the only course left for us to pursue is to assume among the parties of the Union that separate position that a genuine feeling of independence would force us to adopt. I am well satisfied that if the rank and file of the Douglas party were correctly informed of where they were tending, and how their leaders propose to dispose of them, they would rise in the majesty of their strength, and consign these rule or ruin spirits to a political condition that would effectually estop them from further injury to our noble old party. They need light just such light as is contained in your valuable campaign paper. 1 verity believe that if a copy of the Old Line Guard could be placed in the hands j of every Democrat in Indiana, that she would roll up i a majority for the incomparable Breckinridge, and the uncorrupted and incorruptible Lane, that has never been equalled at any time within our history as i a State. '' The " Patriotic-National-Union-Democracy," whom .Know - Nothing Leslie Combs styles as "brethren," will reap no advantages from the disgraceful coalition they Bell and Everett party of the North. Is there any one who pretends to know anything of that spirit that is in man, that actuates him to be a man, and not a menial, to do the bidding of a superior, but what knows iil ttmf lvlmli. fr,rp!rTTi nrnla t inn will 1 .r. ...b.. j..,.. v Ilive to cut looso as tbcv wouU from 8 Putrid colTse f'm a party of leaders that will sell themselves, and tie with an audacity that would shame the devil, atmVl 10 uem el over 0011 J ' so,u' 'eecnes ana doom, the German and Irish voters to the tender mercies of that party that has beat, bruised, and forced them from the polls thereby depriving them of their equality as citizens of a. Government whose Constitution guarantees to all an equal participation in its blessings ? And what are we, the Breckinridge Democracy of the State, to do in the premises ? Are we, after tendering to the Douglasites just and equitable propositions in thc States of New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania, Virginia, and Indiana, for the adjustment of i differences and they, in some instances spitting upon ' our reasonable offers, and in others resorting to the miserable subterfuge of " no authority to act in the . . , . , ! premises tonteniplateu in our proposals are we, in the full glare of all this, to assist in our coming State j election to place in power men that will use that pow i i r tit rrnsli lis ? I. for one. feel that as we have done . ou , b reconc5iiat;on. and --- i they have done all in theirs to prevent it that it is , 1. I10t ony a privilege, but a duty, to mark out our own ' 1 - course and steer clear of squatterism, and all the dire consequences it will bring upon the heads of its blind ft,Iowers. B. From Wabash County. La Gro, August 22, 1860. Mr. Editor: -Enclosed find SI 00 for thc Old Line Guard. On Saturday, 18th inst., Henry S. Fitch, Esq., of Chicago, and John R. CtifTroth, spoke in this place, to large and attentive audience. Mr. Fitch's speech was the best thing of the year. He shows Judge Donglas up in his true light. Coffroth also made an able speech. After the meeting several (who were Douglas men.) expressed their full determination to vote the Democratic ticket this fall to renounce all connection with the Rump wing of the Black Republican party. I will send you more subscribers ia a few days. Resic"tfully, E. B. THOMAS.

For the 01t Mno Guard. Possum takes Coon's place as a Party Emblem. a visit to possum ridge, Lincoln's birthplace. I took the road from Coon creek bridge, That led me up to Possum Ridge, , To just survey the classic ' spot' Where Lincoln his existence got. There thorns and thistles growing high, And briers and brambles to espy, And nurly cedars, clumpy oaks, And buzzards, owls, and worst of folks; .. Persimmon trcs, and possums fat, A growing emblem happy sat, And darkies all for Lincoln sang, In noisy strains and gleesome clang. ' To Lincoln, O ! what hallowed ground, To him and to such scenes around ; 'Midst flintsuind bowlders ready there, The monuments his name to bear. And when he fails to win the race, 'Twill be a consecrated place, Where broken-hearted bards can sing In mournful lays the place will bring, As owls moan sad, no possums grin To feel their party's woe begin While darkies, grieving for their chief, Will howl his requiem and their grief. His friends no more Salt river seek, But here their agonies will shriek, And thither they will have to hie,

From their defeat their tears to dry, I can no longer bear the sight, Or in such going down delight; Farewell, old Coon, thy worn out fame Now falls to Possum but in shame. For craft and spoils the Coon was made, The Possum is in lower grade; Our noble Rooster loud will crow, ! Since but the Possum is his foe. Traveler. From Posey County. Mt. Vernon, August 19, 1860. Mr. Editor: Thinking that a word from the Pocket might be of some interest to your readers, and believing that old Posey possesses some of the Old Guard who have rallied around Democratic principles and done battle for the party since its organization, and who are still ready to battle for our common country, against whatever foes may arise, be they Republicans, Douglasites, or what not. In consideration ot the above, permit, me to lay a few facts before your readers in regard to our prospects, and the effect of Judge Eckels' speeches in our county. On the 16th, Judge Eckels met the Old Guard at Springfield, iu this county, and spoke to them for two hours and a half, and so convincing were his arguments, that the crowd, consisting of four or five hundred, would have listened two hours longer to the Judge. His simple, plain and convincing manner, sent home Democratic truths to every one who heard him. The Judge is the first and only Breckinridge Democrat who has spoken in this county since the campaign opened. On the 17th the Judge made a speech at the Court House in the town of Mt. Vernon, crowded to overflowing with eager and willing listeners. He spoke two hours, and I have yet to hear the man complain who heard him. He exhibited in so forcible and log ical a manner, the ways and means now being used to elect the Little Squatter, that every honest man who heard him was convinced of the truth he was speaking, and many who, before the Judge paid us a visit, were wavering, come out and openly declare for Kentucky's gallant son, and Joe Lane, "the Marion of the Mexican War." We can carry old Posey by a large majority for Breck. and Lane, and will do it. We want some more speeches by such men as Judge Eckels, and we can beat the combined opposition of Republicans and Squatters by at least 500 votes. The Squatters are doing all in their power to apostate the Old Guard, by destroying our notices of speaking, and basely misrepresenting the position of Mr. Breckinridge by publishing documents and se cretly circulating them among the honest yeomanry of the county, getting up garbled extracts of platforms and passing them off as the " Simon pure Douglas Souatter Platform," when in fact there is not a sentence of the real Baltimore Squatter Platform about it, but a basely gotten up "Peter Funk" dodge for votes. But the Old Guard know them of old, and are on the watch. The "Old Line Guard" & doing its office work down here, and wherever found or read, has its influence and friends. Enclosed, find $1, for which please send to my address the " Old Line Guard" for the campaign. D. Breckinridge and Lane. Mr. Editor: A few days ago, it was announced in the pleasant little village of Lagro, that Hou. Graham N. Fitch and Hon. John S. Coffroth would address the National Democracy at that place on Saturday last. The announcement was made, not after the usual fashion big and gaudy as a circus bill, and full of claptrap as a patent medicine advertisement but in a small, irenteel notice that evidently meant business. ! Notwithstanding hundreds of old line Democrats remained away uj)oa learning tliat Senator Fitch could not be present, the crowd was large and enthusiastic, comprising the most sterling and substantial Democrats of the county. After a fine dinner from mine jolly old host, E. Keller, the speakers proceeded to the place of meeting, where Henry S. Fitch, of Chicago, who had come in lieu of his father, addressed the meeting in a short speech, which was most favorably received. He was followed by thc favorite son of the 11th Congressional District, lion. John S. Coffroth. It was a masterly effort, having the genuine ring of thc olden time. His description of the frauds and trickery of the Rump Convention at Baltimore, of which, as a delegate from j this State he could form a correct judgment, was one of thc most scathing pieces of sarcasm to which Ij ever listened. His refutation of the pretended regularity of Douglas' nomination was irresistible in its! humor and argument. The Democracy of Northern Indiana have a right to be proud of their able and de fiant young champion, John S. Coffroth. The meeting adjourned, delighted, confident, and full of earnest work. You can1 set down the Democratic vote of Wabash for Bbeckinridge and Lank. Under thc lead of Senators Fitch, and others of the "Old Line Guard," Northern Indiana is rallying to the National Standard gloriously. An Etr Withesh.

' Glorious News from Cass County.

A meeting of the National Democrats of Adams township, in this county, was held on Saturday last .which, although called simply as a township meeting' without any parade or noise, was, as such, in num ber and spirit, superior to anything we have wit nessed in this county since '56. It was a gathering together of the real " Old Line Guard," the veterans of our party in all their invincibility and -earnest devotion to true principles. The meeting composed almost the entire Democratic vote of the township nearly every man of whom Mas firm for " Breckinridge and Lane," The crowd listened with rapt attention to a. speech of two hours ia length, ...from Hon. G. N. Fitch, whom they frequently interrupted with applause, which clearly showed their heart were in the cause. The withering sarcasm and unanswerable logic of the Senator's speech evidently fell upon eager and sympathetic ears ; and when he closed, the crowd rallied around him with that same hearty, oldfashioned enthusiasm with which they had so often, during the past twenty years, followed his lead against the enemies of the Democracy. Some idea of the power of the Dr.'s address may be had from the fact that as soon as he closed, a motion was made to form a Breckinridge and Lank Club to which near fifty names, substantial, solid farmers were signed in a few minutes. It is the intention of the National Democrats to organize each township in this county in the same' way. Before the ides of November, more than half of the Democracy of Cass will be with Breckinridge and Lane. Breckinridge and Lane in Chicago. On Saturday evening last, the friends of Breckinridge and Lane, held a meeting at Metropolitan Hall, in Chicago, for the purpose or organizing a " Hickory Club." We learn that the large hall was well filled, and that much enthusiasm prevailed. F. II. Cotting, tjs., officiated as temporary chairman. Ihe meeting was ably addressed by Thompson Campbell, Esq,, one of the electors of the State at large, and Hon. II. S. Fitch. The club was organized, by the election of the following officers, viz. : President V. A. Turpi 11. Vice Presidents F. Granger Adams, Col. J. H. Eaton, T. II. Beebe, Guy H. Cutting. liec. Secretary Fred. Dickinson. Cor. 'Secretary Stephen T. Ilosnier. treasurer Horace E. Norton. Executive Committee Samuel Ashton, Owen McCarthy, Geo. Grosvenor, C. C. Marsh, Robert Ilea. A committee, consisting of Hon. II. S. Fitch, C. N. Pine, and J. J. O'Sullivan was appointed to report to an adjourned meeting a constitution and by-laws for the government of the club. A condensed report of Mr. Campbell's speech, is published in another column of our paper. An effort was made by a pack of Douglas rowdies to disturb and break up the meeting; but thanks to the timely interference of the city police the disreputable effort was entirely foiled. This is the third or fourth effort of the Douglasites to crush out the free dom of speech, freedom of opinion and freedom of action. A pretty procedure truly for those who not untrequently claim to be Jelrersoman Democrats. 1 he great apostle of Democracy held that " error in opinion might be tolerated so long as truth is left free to combat it;" but Douglas Democrats are unwilling to accede to the Jefl'ersonian axiom, cither because our opinions are not erroneous, or because they do not possess the weapons of truth to combat with. How much more honorable would it be for themjto challenge us to join discussion of the merits of our respectice positions, and, if they can, by fair argument and the. utterance of truths, overcome us. No, no, they will not resort to this. There is not enough of the Jefl'ersonian leaven about them or their principles to risk a passage at arms of this kind. The policy inaugurated by the squatter chief himself, of crushing out and subduing must be resorted to. We are greatly mistaken if a law-abiding and order-loving people will not place such a veto upon thc system of rowdyism initiated by the Douglasites, as will secure for men of all parties, not only freedom of speech but freedom of action. Rotten tottering, indeed, must be the cause that requires resort to mob violence rather than fair argument for support.- . Slate Democrat. Joe Lane. A set of puppi s are barking at this tried veteran and representative of American nobility. Learning that he has risen from the ranks of the great people, by indomitable energy and faithful performance of duty, and without the aid of colleges, they take it for granted that they can persuade the people that he is illiterate. Though self-made and self-taught, nothing is lurther from the truth than this assumption. Gen. Lane, from his earliest manhood, has filled places of trust This he could never have done had he been illiterate. His despatches while Major General in the army, and Governor of Oregon, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, are written in a terse and elegant style. His mind being of that noble cast, so patriotic, so honest, so faithful, so ytid of affectation, so eminently wise and just, his ideas all partake of that character, and hence he always expresses himself elo quently and to the point, without verbiage and circum locution. Witness his .speeches in the ftenate, in which, in a few sentences, he forcibly conveys ideas that other men would require a four hours' oration to develop. Every one can understand Old Joe there is no dispute about his meaning. The same objections now urged against Gen. Joe Lane were urged against Andrew Jackson ; but if such men cannot write, thev have proved able to make their mark. Would we could say the. same of their petty nialigners. It is from having made their mark on the age in which thev have lived that Wasliington, Franklin, Jackson, and a troop of other selftaught men have been placed in our temple of fame. We have all seen whilst at school that the bookworms are not those whom thc bovs look to as leaders, but to those whose qualities of heart and head point them out as worthy types of humanity. So amongst men. Aar n Burr sets forth this idea very forcibly. Parton says that Burr observed of Jackson : "Jacksoni possesses all the attributes ot a Irresiuunt fit to rule such a people. He is a man of an iron will a will of pure, well wrought iron ; no base cast metal." Is he a scholar, some one asked. "It is not necessary for a President of the United States to be a scholar. Auj drew Jackson does not rule by books. He is a man of sound sense, and rules by will." So we say of Lane, whom to know is to love ardently and without change. Exchange. The Campaign. The Presidential campaign, as it progresses, becomes daily more favorable to Breckinridge and Lane. In the South the Democratic masses are overwhelmingly and enthusiastically for our candidates. The adherents of Douglas constitute only a small fraction of the Democratic party, in any Southern State, and, as their separate action can only aid the life-long en emies of Democracy, the probability is that most of i them will, before Isovamber, resume their position in the Democratic ranks. But be this as it may, we are confident in the belief that Breckinridge and Lane will carry every slave State, for southern men generally are beginning to see that they are thc only can didates that maintain the cause of the South ngainst her enemies, and are rallying to their support, regardless of former distinctions and prejudices. We have abundant evidence tliat in Kentucky, and throughout the South, thousands of men who have always heretofore voted against the Democracy, will cast their votes for Breckinridge and Lane. At the North, our prospects are also cheering. A powerful reaction in favor of Breckinridge and Lane is everywhere in progress among the Democratic masses. They are fWt awakening to the consciousness that the available strength, the true principles and ,' vital spirit of Democraey are with the party that sup-j ports these true Democrats that it h, in fact, the true ; and legitimate leinocratic party that will stand when

the Douglas organization shall have ceased to be remembered, like the Van Buren defection of 1848. And hence great numbers of them are nowfalline into line. In Pennsylvania, such is the strength of Breckinridge, that, notwithstanding the opposition of such bitter Douglasites as Forney and the Washington committee, theDemocracy have quietly resolved to support the original electoral ticket, composed of twenty Breckinridge electors, five besides pledged to vote for him if their votes will elect him, and only two Douglas bolters, whose places will be filled with Union men. In Connecticut the entire Democratic press is for. Breckinridge and Lane ; and in all the New England States the Democracy are rallying to the only true Democratic candidates. In the ISorth-west, the National Democracy are, also, organizing for the battle of , the Constitution. In New York, the National Democ

racy, led by that, immaculate patriot and unswerving Democrat, Dickinson, are unfurling the standard of Breckinridge and Lane to the breeze, with good prospects of giving them the vote of the Empire State. The " sober second thought" of the Democracy is everywhere telling with powerful effect in favor of the National nominees. The recuperative vitality of the Democratic party is fast healing the wounds inflicted upon it by the hands of traitors. Maysville (Ay.) hjrpress. "Checked Through for 1860!" The richest feature yet developed in the campaign is that of the "rump " candidate among the New England Abolitionists ! It will be remembered that during the memorable Leeompton contest of 1858, Air. Douglas was considered rather a "shaky" Democrat, and that he was in close connection with the Black Republicans that he informed Senator Wilson that he was "all right" that he sought out the notorious Covode and asked him to go to Senator Trumbull and induce him to persuade the Republicans of Illinois to consent to his return to the Senate that he ( Douglas) might remain in Washington to fight the Administration that he was a young man, and could wait for his chance ; and that he might be expected to be fighting their (the Republicans) battles iii I860 that he had " checked all his baggage and taken a through ticket.'" "and with his baggage safe he would stand upon the borders of Democracy until he could gather around him his few followers, when he would leave the Democratic shore, cross the river, cut down the bridges, and sink those behind him 1 " Has he not landed where we might have anticipated from his declarations, and is he not now "the loudest bagpipe of the squeaking train" of down-east Abolitionists' Are National Democrats so plenty down there that the duck-legged chief can stamp upon the ground and thousands come up from the " vasty deep " or slide down from the splintered mountain peaks ? If so, it must be a new era in the history of that corner of the Union. Parading through hopelessly Abolitionizcd States, with throat-splitting huzzas shaking the allaround him, is no very good omen. And who arc the Boswells of this modern Johnson ? Forney & Co., men who never for an hour enjoyed the confidence of the National Democracy, and who are now the pets of the Black Republicans, and the recipients of much of their ill-gotten pelf. From the doctrines of Tiue Democracy to the seditious treachery of such men as Forney, is an infinitely longer stretch than from their doctrines to those of Phillips and Garrison. New England politicians are not sympathizing so extensively with Douglas for nothing. The election news from that quarter never brought much glad tidings to the Democracy, and why is he down there ? He must hava "checked his baggage through," for the well-known and gallant men who have stood there under a galling fire in every campaign, who have kept the old Hag of Democracy floating, and faced the enemy m their stronghold fearlessly in every conflict, are not with Mr. Douglas. They have not forgotten that it is but a few months since the "white coat" of Greeley graced his private parlor, aud the wily-Seward graced with his presence the hopeful band that day after day and night after night these fellow-patriots held sweet counsel together, lor the safety and prosperity of the Democratic party 1 Now, when such things as these appear in the life of our eminent men, it well becomes Democrats to pause and ask -themselves where they are drifting. " Unfriendly legislation," says this great modern oracle, and Seward and Greeley shout, and the Republicans at once pronounce him one of the greatest men of all time, lie goes down South and says "Judicial construction," and expects the South to make a fool of herself, but Charleston don't stand the "thimble rigging." The " Giant" whistles his pack to Baltimore, writes a letter declining the honor of a nomination, to be made public after his friends disrupt the Convention, and ho receives the nomination at the hands of Stales whoee electoral votes are always for the Opposition. True to his ' electors he starts on a pilgrimage to Vermont via Connecticut and Massachusetts, and receives ovations all the way. It is wonderful how popular he is among the Abolitionists! They are all believers in "unfriendly legislation," and his great popularity in States which have no sympathy with national doctrines or national men, should open the eyes of his self-styled regular Democratic followers. But if a man declares for Breckinridge they say he is leaving the party. We have seen many of this class ; they are always left; they never leave a party, it leaves them; they are very wise men, and know when a man leaves the doctrines. Thirty-six U. S. Senators have left the party ; the President and Cabinet have left the party; all our living ex-Presidents have left the party ; the author of the Cincinnati platform has left the party; the fathers of our party, the few who yet remain, men whose fair fame no breath of suspicion has ever stained, have left the party; and the majority of the Democratic voters in the United States nave left the party 1 Who, where, what is the party ? It is Stephen A. Douglas and Hcrschel V. Johnson; one draws popular sovereignty very mild, the other denounces it ! Why, or how comes about this sudden change ? A crowd of red-nosed political gamblers, street corner, brainless politicians, men of dilapidated fortunes, waiting, Macawber like, for something to turn up, who have always stranded every enterprise I hey have ever attempted to control and wrecked their friends, have suddenly become the lights of the age ; and men who are already a part, and a noble part of our history-, all the fixed stars in our political sky which have shown down upon our political success, and lighted our path to victory, have suddenly become eclipsed, and you can hear half-fledged, bantling lawyers, irrepressible boys, and anxious " Enquirers," wonder that the world known genius and intelligent patriotism of our really great men should make such a blunder. Better go and tell them that they are mistaken, and that yon know Douglas, his doctrine and tendencies, better than they do. Call Forney and resurrect the bones now whitening on the dreary dead sea shores of Abolitionism, who wandered off and starved on the husks of opular sovereignty and judicial constructions, till they fell politically dead, and arc now, to-day, a stench in the nostrils of true Democrats, and have them tell . these men. Fornev " checked through," the partv left him, he says! Talk about reading us out! It is sheer nonsense ; we know you want company. North Carolina went for Douglas with a rush, did she not ? Wonder if you still count her safe ? What of Arkansas, Texas, and Alabama ? " Hark from the tomb," all sing gentlemen, and when you get through with that good old tune, come up near enough to real, genuine IA-mocracy to be heard by its followers, and begin to read Breckinridge men out. Keep np good courage, for Douglas is making a splendid fight down East, aud if he is popular there, the " Reserve " is safe, and she controls Ohio! Three cheers for thc nationality of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New v Hampshire and Vermont, which recognizes in S. A. Douglas, a type of itself. The Union is safe if New England is satisfied, and that Democntcv is genuine which her people endorse. Eaton (O.) Lmocrat. Lincoln's Cabinet. We hear it rumored in political arc les here, says the Washington Star, as coming from reliable Republican sources, that the following is to be the roaiosirioii of Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet, in case of his election : Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State. H. Winter Davis, Attorney. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury. Cassius M. Cbv, Secretary of the Interior. Benjamin F. Wade, Secretary of the Treasury. John Hickman, Secretary of War. .Schuyler Colfax, Post Master General .V. J'. Ilervld.