Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1860 — Page 3

Congressional Mass Meetings OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY, FAVORABLE TO THE ELECTION OF BRECKINRIDGE AND LANE. Hon. JESSE D. BRIGHT, Hon. GRAHAM N. FITCH, Hon. W.'H. ENGLISH, Hon. JAMES MORRISON, Hon. DELANA R. ECKELS, -And the Electors for the District in which

the meeting's are held, will address their fellow citizens at 1 he following limes and nlnnps. rninmenninf? at one o'clock P. M.: - - , o Anderson, Monday, Sept. 17. Wabash, Wednesday, Sept. 19. Fort Wayne, Thursday, Sept. 20. Laporte, Friday, Sept. 21. Lafayette, Saturday, Sept, 22. Greencastle, Monday, Sept. 24. Vincennes, Tuesday, Sept. 25. New Albany, Wednesday, Sept. 26. . Seymour, Thursday, Sept. 27. Napoleon, Friday, Sept. 28. Franklin, Saturday, Sept. 29. Centre ville, 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 Dn. W. F. SIIERROD, Will addros their fellow-citizens on the political topics of the day, at the following times and places, commencing at 1 o'clock P. M., on each day. At Danville, Hendricks Co., on Thursday, Aug. 30. Columbus, Bartholomew Co., on Friday, Aug. 31. Brownstown, Jackson Co., on Saturday, Sept, 1. Paoli, Orange Co., on Monday, Sept. 3. Washington, Daviess Co., on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Mt. Vernon, Posey Co., on Thursday, Sept. 6. Evansvillo, Vanderburg Co., on Friday, Sept. 7. Booneville, Warrick Co., on Saturday, Sept. 8. Public Speaking. HON. 7. 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, JB ountam l,o., on iuium, aFrankfort, 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 Lane are requested to turn out. Igr Thc Cass County National Democratic Club will hold their first meeting At Logansport, On Saturday, Sept. 8, I860, at 1 o'clock, P.M. Hon. John R. Coffroth (candidate for Elector) will address the Club. Cass County! A Nationnal Democratic meeting of the friends of Breckinridge and Lank, will be held at Fletchers Lake.in Cass county, on Wednesday, August 29, 1860, at 1 o'clock, P. M. Senator Fitch, Hon. John R. Coffroth, elector for the 11th Congressional district, and others, will cer tainly be present, and address the meeting, From Orange County. Paoli, August 24, I860. -.Mr. Editor: Wc learn that the Douglas State Central Committee have decapitated Dr. W. F.Sherrnrl na elector for this District, and appointed in his stead Mr. Brown, of New Albany ; but the reasons for this decapitation of the Doctor we are left in total Snnrance of. Certainly not because the Doctor was not a strong enough Democrat, for all who know him know that he is one of the strictest of the sect, and one who never scratches a ticket; yet, for some unknown reasons and purposes, his head is unceremoninnslv taken off. and one appointed by that most wor thy Committee of magnates, whose record is none of the fairest, when tested by their uemocratie ruie.NiMther is the Doctor officially informed of his cxclu sion from the ticket, for had ho have been, some rear.ns would have been given at least would have been expected why his commission, or rather a new com

mission, was issued to another to fill his place. In tlus Democratic country men have a right, and do expect, the reasons and the causes for their dismissal from office. But such seems not to be the case with that worthy Committee. They, in conformity with the rule and usages of that party at Baltimore, take it upon themselves to make and unmake officers, and to fill stations as seems to suit their convenience and purposes. When the delegates, from several States, who had been properly appointed by the constituency whom they represented, would not vote to suit those in the majority, they turned them out and put iu such as would vote for their little giant, although they were so unfortunate as to turn out so many as to be unable to nominate their favorite in compliance with their two-thirds rule. So we think it will be in this instance ; they will turn out so many that they cannot elect a single electoral ticket. Now, this Central Committee, through their Chairman, Mr. N. B. Palmer, say that " a meeting of the Indiana Democratic- Central Committee was called for the 1 71U inst., but for some cause a full atte ndance was not accorded," &c. Yet it seems that the faction who did attend, assumed to have the power to dismiss one ot tho electors for this District, and appoint another in his place, without giving any reason for so doing. What might not a -full meeting do, when a farction assume to strike down electors for no cau&e as ret assigned ? Possibly a full Committee will issue a bull declaring Mr. Brec kinridge no longer a candidate, and order the people not to cast their votes for him. However, we feel certain that no attention would be paid to such edict as that, coming from the pounce it would. I enclose $2 00 for the Old Line Guard, to the following names: Dr. W. F. Sherrod, and W. F. Mavity, Paoli, Ind. Send all the back numbers you have on hand, especially the 6th No and oblige Yours, kc. JOSEPH COX.

From Putnam County, ' Bajnbhidge, Putnam Co., Ind., Aug. 23, '60.7 Mr. Editor: Tlie ball is still rolling in "old Putnam." The " Old Guard " of this county were well entertained -with an able address a few clays since, de

livered by lion. Ed. Herod, ot Boone county, on mo political questions of the day. Mr. H. does not boast of as much modern educational qualifications as many of his opponents; but 'that he is well, posted on the issues now before the people, is not doubted by any who heard him. lie reviewed the political history of Stephen A. Douglas, from the time he delivered his speech on the President's Message, in 1857, down to the commencement oiTtlw present canvass, showing conclusively " that Ids every political movement has been made with an eye single to self-aggrandizerneut, at this peril of the Democratic party and the institu tions of our country ; and that he lias Been leading his followers with gigantic strides into the Black Re publican ranks. This was substantiated by reference to Hickman, Forney, and others, who are now battling in the Republican party against us. Mr. Herod has promised to canvass the State, which will, no doubt, prove advantageous to many Democrats who are being led by Douglas, under the impression that Breckinridge stands on an unconditional pro-slavery platform. Manv Democrats about here, having never read the platforms, but listened to the opinions of designing Douglasites, had formed such notions; but mr. n. convinced them that such is not the case, and the consequence is, they say that the Breckinridge nlatform contains iust what they have been contend ing for; and they are now coming out and declaring themselves in favor of Breckinridge ana L.ANE. In my opinion, if the several platforms were circulated among the people of Indiana, it would tell powerfully in our favor this fall. Let the people read and think for themselves, and our success is sure. Yours, &c, L. T. W. From Laporte County, Laporte, Ind., August 23, 18G0. Mr. Editor: Thinking a few items from the bloody 9th would not be inapppioriate, a short space of time will be devoted to its accomplishment. It is a well settled principle, in theology, that the moment a person departs from a straight or true line, his receptive vessels become inverted, and truth is changed to its opposite, as it strikes tho tablet of his thought. A notable instance of this kind occurred not forty miles from this place, wherein the ponderous editor places Douglas' Freeport speech in juxtaposition with Davis' at Portland, Maine, and does not see any difference in their views, when they are diametrically opposed. The former says the people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude slavery under the Constitution. ' : The latter says they can when they reach the dig nity of community, independent. Now. let any one whoso vision is not obseureci, ex amine the two extracts, and, if he does not see any difference, then it will be expedient to coin some new words or language. It is said, however, that there is none so blind as those that will not see; and does it not clearly appear that those who have mada un their minds to blindly follow an aspiring dema"Ofue, make the rational subservient to the will, with scarcely a reason worthy of the name; but it is tint worth while to lengthen out ; suffice it to say the same blind perversion prevails from the head clear tn the tail. The old line here are in good spirits, and desire no compromise as principle scarcely admit of any. Yours, &c, Y. ll. vv. From Henry County. Knightstown, August 27, I860. Mr. Editor: Feeling that our cause is a just one, I feel like rejoicing over every new accession to our party. I herewith send you the names ot two suuscribers, who, although living here in a district which knows no rule but Black Republican, and surrounded hv a tribe of John Browns in theory, have the boldM tn denounce the false party to which they have been attached, and come out and assert the claims of th two National Patriots Breck. and Lane, l tell you the great spirit of truthfulness is doing its work in this region and when the ballots in October r ennnte.d out. we will find " candidates who preacn the whole anti-slavery gospel" will lose from 1,200 to 2,000 of their former majority ; and we expect to live to see this dark and charred District yet bloom and blossom as the rose. VA Question Asked. , Greenfield, August 26, 1860. Mr. Editor: 1 saw an article in your paper, a few days ago, stating that Cyrus L. Dunham had, while at Charleston, overlooked and revised the present platform upon which Breckinridge is now running, and that he approved it. You will oblige at least a part of the true Democracy of this county, by giving us what you regard to be the true history of this matter. Many of us have regarded Mr. Dunham as one of our ... . i i ..1 T most consistent and able men, notwithstanding me euu. of such leaders as Dick Ryan and Dave Goodwin to hold him and Gov. AYillard ou the outskirts of the Douglas wing of the party. Can it be possible that he there sanctioned and approved that platform, against which he now has so much to say ? We would not willingly believe such inconsistency of any man, much less of one that we had. held in such high esteem. There can be no doubt of the fact that Breck. and Lank are gaining every day in this county. Will the friends of these gentlemen throughout the State make a State ticket, or will they let it go by default? Madison, Ind., August 23, 1860. Mr. Editor: At a meeting of the Breckinridge and Lane Club of this city, held this evening, the following resolution was unanimously adopted : " Uesolced, That the Hon. Jesse D. Bright, from his past course, has the confidence of the Democracy of old Jefferson County, in Indiana, the place where he was reared." Democratic Pole-Eaising. Navarre, Ohio, Aug. 12, i860. Editor National Democrat Dear Sir: Yesterday was a glorious day for the National Democracy of this place. The first pole of the season was raised, the top of which towers one hundred and sixteen feet in the air, from winch floats the banner ot isrecH.innuge ana Lane. - In the evening a large room was crowded to suffocation with the old line Democrats, who were ably entertained by A. McGregor, editor of the Stark County Democrat, who is always on hand with something good, and L. Shaffer, Esq., ot Canton, both delivering as good speec hes as it has been our pleasure to listen to for years. A clique of brindle Republicans were congregated outside the building, bowling for Douglas, adjourning oocasionallv to one of the Douglas seminaries to liquor up. We have become used to that, however. So everything pasd off with nothing to mar onr pleasure, We expect to carry this townnhipfure: Yonrs, tc, Navrrk.

Are You in the Current? The following is an extract from a speech deliered a shoit time ago, by John P. Hale, in the city of Boston. It la well known that Mr. Hale is the leader of the Abolition party in New Hampshire, and that he is an inveterate hater of true Democracy, and the Equality of the States. Read the extract, and ponder: " The Douglas wing of that Democratic party has made great progress, anfl great credit is due to them. He could be just to bis opponents. The Douglas party had made such progress that they have come to the condition of complete and stolid indifference, and do

not care whether slavery is vorou up or uow u. . are doing our work, and when they make their next I step it will not go backwards, and the great mass of! tVa nr.i,,rlno navtv will stand with us. The sympathies of most of the Douglas party are with the Republicans." We very much wish that all the young men of our State, who have heretofore acted with the Democratic party, bnt are now in the Abolition-Douglas camp, could have heard this speech, and could have heard Mr. Hale tell them to their face, that the very next step of the Douglas leaders would be in the Republican ranks, where they would be welcomed as more than brethren of a death-bed repentance. To the original Douglas-Republicans, we have not a word to say ; but those of our young men who are naturally Democrats, we wish to caution against the false teaching of those of our politicians whose only object is to bring about such a state of things as may place them in good State and County offices. Is it not time for you to stop and look about, and see to what party vou are driftins. after being assured, in a political speech, by Hale, that the very next move on the political chess-board is to transfer the Douglas party, body and breeches, into the Black Republican ranks Boone County Pioneer. The Boone County Pioneer, edited by George W. Buckingham, Esq., is doing yeoman service in favor of the cause of the National Democracy. We publish in to-day's paper an able article on " tho compromise," from the Pioneer. The following articles are also taken from that paper igT AVe notice a call for a Douglas Mass Meeting at the Battle Ground, sometime next month, In the list of speakers announced for the occasion wo look in vain for the britmt era axy ot orators anu siaicsmc-u Xairesscd tfej. thousands the same snot in 1856. Then the venerable Cass and the eloquent Dickinson men whose names are written on every page of the history of the Democratic party appealed to the Democracy to stand by the Constitution and the Union. Then, Van Burcn and Clay called upon the people to " keep step to the music of the Union." Where is the gallant band of patriots and statesmen now who stood upon the Battle Ground four years ago? Fighting under the banner of Breckinridge and Lane ! They take no lot or part with Stephen A. Douglas in his sectional war upon the South. 55fWc notice that Hon. William H. English, of this State, is out for .Breckinridge ana .cane, anu m already announced to speak once in each Congressional 'District. The attempt that is now making to "fuse" the Douglas faction with the Know Nothings is disgusting every right-minded Democrat. IgJT Jackson and Harrison townships must be heavily stocked with disunionists, if what the Douglas men say be true; tor out of about three hundred Democratic voters in the two townships, not twenty can be found who do not heartily support the National Democratic candidates, Breckinridge and Lane. "During the past week Col. Herod has been ad dressing the Democracy ol rutnam county, no uambridge and other points. He reports the Democrats down that wav as sound to the core, and enthusiastic for Breckinridge and Lane. There are but few squatter sovereigns in old Putnam. We understand that the Breckinridge men of Sugar Creek township intend having a poie-raising, in the neighborhood of Snavely's school house, before long. Interesting. To see a young sprig, just out of his swaddling clothes, and scarcely dry behind the ears yet, getting up to read James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Franklin Pierce, Daniel S. Dickinson, and old Joe Lane out of the Democratic party, as disunionists. IgTIt must be peculiarly gratifying to the Kentuckians scattered over Boone county, to hear the gallant son of their own noble State the man who, but a few months ago, was crowned with Senatorial hon ors charged with Deing a uisunionisu B UOIgu ....... "6 , - , ,

It must be gratitying, too, to uiosu ui mum """ that the issue in the present contest lies oetween fought under the banner of the great statesman of Breckinridge and Lincoln, then they must be the verAshland, to hear the name of Clay branded with dis-! jest foos w0 do not 01,cn the;r eyes to the truth, with tininn I siIt'm tmnn rtrwv rn 11 T5 n (T in 1111011 t.hf'in.

UlllVlli How is it ? Would old Kentucky suffer a disunionist to represent her in the Senate of the United States, or think vou the blood of the Great Commoner is tainted with disunion ? IjOne of the arguments used by the Douglas men to induce National Democrats to vote their electoral ticket is, that if the State of Indiana can be carried for Douglas, the election will go to the House, or Senate, where Breckinridge or Lane will be sure to be the President. Let no'Breckinridge man be deceived by this gull-trap. The Douglas electors of Indiana, if elected, would never suffer the election of votes for any man that could defeat John C. Breckin-j ride. To ettcct mat ooiect uiey are nu" uaicii.nuS wit! the Black Republicans and Know Nothings wherever they can. gg" Having sold and transferred his faction in Kentucky to the Know Nothings, Douglas is now attempting a similar process in other States. In New York the squatter sovereigns and the Dark Lantern Order have formed a union electoral ticket, and united together for the canvass. Democrats of Boone county, how is it with you t Are you willing to be sold out, body and breeches, to "Sam" to creep among the dog fennel and the gympsum at the bidding of the "Little Dodger" of Illinois? The only difference between the Republicans and the Douglas faction is, that the former want Congress itself to kick the property of the Southern man out of the Territories; while the latter want Congress to authorize a Territorial Legislature to do it. The one wants it done directly the other indirectly. The Douglas men say that the Breckinridge party is a disunion party, because Yancey, who, they gay, has been a disunionist for years, is acting with it Well, if Yancey has been a disunionist for years, and his acting with 'the Breckinridge party makes it a disunion partv, of course the whole Democratic party four vears'ago must have been a disunion party, as Yancey was one of its most active members in Alabama then. f- The Douglas organs, growing desperate, have started a report that Mr. Breckinridge had called a consultation of his friends to decide upon the propriety of withdrawing his name. This report Mr. B. emphatically contradicts. He sever for a moment entertained such an idea. O" The Douglas men and Douglas papers are circulating a report that Chief Justice Taney has declared himself in favor of their pet. This report, it is almost needless to ssy, is wholly false. They can never tie the venerable Chief Justice on to the coat tail of a man who denies the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States, and declares that there is a " higher law" than the Conrtitution.

Joo Lane's Chance for the Presidency, The New York Tribune ia not without apprehension that there will be no election of President, either by the people or the House of Representatives. It is fearful that the Senate will elect " Joe " Lane, as it calls him, Vice President and that, in consequence of the people and the House both failing to make a choice, he will become President. There have been many wprse political prophets than Greeley; and should his forebodings be realized, the country wiP have a man in the Executive Chair who dares to be honest in the worst of times a man worthy to bo nlnaif.fl with the immortal Jackson, for the noble attri-

- - , , ' ,. . hutes of honesty, frankness, and love of country the w)wjc country. He would be, in every respect, a truo National President one who would be just to both the North and the South ; one who would sustain the Constitution to the very letter. Hear what this noble old patriot said in the Senate, on the 19th of Decem ber last, on the vexed question of slavery in the lerritories: " Mr. President, it is not my purpose to discuss this Territorial question. I am tired of it, ; the country is tired of it ; and I hope that the discussion of it will annn nnnar. Vint it 1M sn esspntiftl. Ill 1T1V llld?ment. that iustice and right prevail, that I feel it my duty to give J ? .. i.':i.t .11 !.,. Ciotnu :.. my views in reiaiiuu 10 me uyins ui an tnu kiic m this country in a Territory, while it remains in a Territorial condition. I have heard gentlemen, Senators and others, talk about the value of the Union and their devotion to it. No man loves it more than I do, and no one would make greater sacrifices to maintain and preserve this Union. I would do it at the moment when the country requires it, at the expense of every drop of blood ; but to maintain that Union, the Constitution must be maintained in its spirit in its letter, and in its meaning. The principles of justice and equality must prevail in this country, or there can be no union, eir, as mucn as i iovu im uuiuu, as much as I am devoted to it and no one is more so than myself I would not ask to have this Union maintained by the violation of the Constitution itself. If the Northern States of this Confederacy could not have equal rights with the Southern States in the Territories, and equal justice under all circumstances, would they remain in the Union? If we want to preserve it, let us be just, do right, deal fairly by every portion of this country, and not hold that the Terrilo.v Knlnnoi tr tl,t 'NTm-th. tn free Inhnr. or to the South, to slave labor; for it is not so. It belongs equally to i -it. 11 l,o..rt '....qI In if - nml T wnnld I Hll, tilt UI LlHTlll HOTC HU tuum uiiu .u - submit to no wrong from the South. Being a Northern man I would submit to nothing that infringes the rights of the Northern States in the Territories of this TTm'nn "Nn man wnuld hn more nromrjt to resent a wrong, an insult, or an indignity, or injustice attcmpt- - ; ' -v. . , 4 . !i.sia5at South, than myself; and while I would submit to no wron" from that quarter, I would ask them to submit to none from us. ... "I intend to be just by all; to deal rightly with the whole country, to inow no section but tho Constitution and the Union ; to carry out its provisions and its guarantees, and the rights which are secured by it to the States of this Confederacy. I do not see how any man who loves the Union and the Constitution can discriminate between the sections of the country, and pretend to say that the common Territory of all shall be given exclusively to free labor or to slave labor. The citizens of the States have equal rights in the Territory while it remains in a Territorial condition; and when the people who inhabit it come to form a $tate constitution, then it is their right to prohibit slavery or establish it as they see fit, and they have a right to be admitted into the Union as they shall decide." What has he Done ! Henry S. Lane for about thirty years has been one of the leaders of the Opposition party in Indiana, and what has he done to advance the public interests of the State during that time? He voted against the classification of the public works, by which a debt of $15,000,000 was 6aclUica upon me oiuie. iu uhgress he voted for the Bankrupt law and against its repeal. He threatened the Supreme Court of Indiana with revolution if they dared to pronounce the Maine law unconstitutional. In 1857 he advised the Kcpublican members of the Legislature to defeat the election of Democratic United States Senators by any revolutionary action in their power, declaring it better for the State to be unrepresented a century than to be represented by Democrats. This is a portion of the record of the "great statesman," as the Republicans call him, who is now seeking to administer the affairs of Indiana. Sentinel. After " the election of two Democratic United States Senators," Mr. Douglas voted and spoke in the Senate to turn them out to give place to this same Black Republican, Henry S. Lane, and the " political mule," McCarty. The True Issue. ir ,lU Avtota ! ! Tv5nT rtC ernsihlp. men XI ttliy llUUUl tMOlO mv uuuu w - LUC ClUCUV,i; 1-1 V " puuniij, .m .. Tte eie(,t;on 0f iesie Combs, the Union candidate in Kentucky, is the result ot a coalition 01 tiic uoug las party with the Opposition. Though they had a bolting candidate of their own, yet they deserted him, and cast their votes for Combs, tor the solo purpose of defeating the regular Democratic nominee, because he was a Breckinridge man. Thus the bargain has been struck, and the sale consummated in Kentucky. Imbecile, but vindictive, the Douglas faction have sold out to the Opposition, and we believe that November will witness a complete fusion between the two for the ... -r. .! ' 1. ' VI. C(nA mirrose of defeatinor Breckinridge in his own Sla'e. In Tennessee, too, the Douglasites an are coouettinfr J " A V ... , ? ' C 11' with the Opposition, and we confidently look for a coalition ere the November election J.I1C3U IUSlUUByiU an present campaign. To beat Breckinridge is their object, and if they cannot do it with Douglas, they will with Lincoln. At the North they invite the tampering approaches of Black Republicans, while at the South they boldly fuse with the Bell-Everett party. Why is this ? Because Lincoln is stronger in the North, and a coalition with each in their respective sections, injures the prospects of Breckinridge, and holds out to them the satisfaction of his defeat in November. . . What a contemptible position for a faction claiming to be the Democratic party. Without a hope of success, they are smarting under the consciousness of coming defeat ; they cannot even pander to their revengeful tastes without sneakingly and servilely crawling into the camp of the enemy, and there forming a coalition and plotting treason against the true Democracy of the country. They have heretofore refused all overtures to present a united front against the common enemy, and but a few weeks ago spurned, the offers of fusion in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It is possible they have come to their senses in the former State ; but time has yet to tell of their sincerity. But, the conduct of Douglasites in other localities and States in so readily and willingly forming combinations against Breckinridge, shows that they are prepared to receive the election of Lincoln, in preference to his, or in other words, they would prefer the elevation of a Black Republican to the Presidency, to a sound National Democrat, whose integrity even they dare not impeach, and on whose patriotism they cannot throw a breath of suspicion if they would. It is now manifest that with these Douglasites it is " Douglas or Lincoln." The fact is becoming more apparent every day, and it becomes every good and true Democrat who now supports Douglas, to pause and consider whither he is drifting with the miserable faction which aspires only to " rule or ruin" the DemNo true Democrat can longer remain blind to the fact that Douglas and his faction now remain upon the track only for the purpose of bringing about a " general smash up," and we are glad to behold that many are deserting the ranks of the disorganized and reckless faction which is rushing on to self-destruction with the forlorn and da5tard hope of ruining others with itself. Ltorentrorth (Kfwfia) Di'patch.

The Compromise. We have not a shadow of doubt but that it has been, and is now, the wish of nine-tenths of both wings of the Democracy, not only of Boone county, but of the entire State, that the electoral vote of Indiana should be saved from the hands of the Black. Republicans. It was palpably evident to every man he had only to glance at his own immediate neighborhood to satisfy himself of the fact that unless some compromise was effected, unless some plan was adopted to bring together the two wings of the party and unite them upon one common object, that the vote of our noble State must be delivered over to the hands of the Philistines. ' It was the honest and ardent wish of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane that this great calamity might be averted, and that the vote of Indiana might be cast for that one of the two Baltimore nominees whose election it would secure. Nor was this the wish of the Breckinridge men alone. Hundreds of honest Douglas men throughout the country earnestly desired that the entire Democratic vote of the State might be united upon a common electoral ticket. There was another class, too, and a large and respectable portion of the party, at that, who sincerely hoped that a compromise might be effected, and that is the men who have not yet taken ground for either candidate. On the 31st of July the friends of Breckinridge and Lane held a Convention at Indianapolis, and submitted to the friends of Mr. Douglas a proposition to unite the Democratic vote of Indiana upon one electoral ticket. They proposed, for that purpose, to take either the present Douglas electors, the Breckinridge electors, a part of each, or an entire new set of electors, and concentrate the vote of the party upon them, only requiring that they pledge themselves to this : If, when the electoral college meets, it is found that the vote of Indiana will elect Stephen A. Douglas, give it to him; if it will elect John C. Breckinridge, let him have it in other words, let it be given to the man that will defeat Abraham Lincoln. This proposition was just, fair and honorable. It meted out equal and exact justice to the two candidates. It was made in good faith, in a spirit ot conciliation and compromise, and with an honest desire that, although the wings of the party might not vote together for either Mr. Breckinridge or Mr. Douglas, they might be so united as to present an unbroken front to the common enemy, and save the electoral vote of Indiana from the hands of the Black Republican party. , How has this proposition been met by the friends ot Mr. Douglas? We answer, just as every proposition for compromise has been met. It. has been rejected! It has been met in the same spirit that has pervaded the Douglas faction for the last two years the same spirit that led to the defeat of Hughes, and Ray, and Secrest, in our own State, and scores of gallant, warworn Democrats throughout the North two years ago the same spirit that has riddled and shattered that. proud old party that fought so nobly for the Constitution and the Union in the great battle of 1856. We (the men opposed to Stephen A. Douglas) implored them not to break down the great Democratic party at Charleston and at Baltimore we entreated them not to disrupt it to gratify the mere personal ambition of one man we appealed to them, by all that is great and noble in its history, by the sacred memories and brilliant achievements of the past, to follow the wise example of our fathers, and not attempt to force down the throats of a portion of the Union a man they could not and would not support. Our appeals were treated with derision and scorn, and tho party was shivered to atoms. . And now we have appealed to these men again.; Now, when the great National Democratic party lies wounded and bleeding at every pore struck down in its own household bv its own professed friends we have again appealed to them to come forward and aid in binding up its wounds. Now, when the hand of a Democrat is raided against his fellow-Democrat now, when the great bond of conservatism that held us together has been severed with bitter threats and stormy reproaches we have again implored them to lend a helping hand in gathering together tho scattered fragments of the noble old party we loved so much, and unite them in one solid column against the enemies of the Constitution and tho Union. And again our appeals have been rejected with scorn and disdain. Uniting in New Yo.ik with those who have sworn to proscribe the Catholic and the foreigner marching in Kentucky under the same flag that waved over the terrible scenes of "Bloody Monday" in Louisville linking themselves arm in arm with the followers of Abraham Lincoln in Oregon the friends of Stephen A. Douglas have declared in Indiana that they will not unite with the Democrats who fight under the banner of Breckinridge and Lane! Democrats of Boone county, the line is drawn, and upon one side or the other each of you must stand. All hope of conciliation is at an end. The fncnds of Stephen A. Douglas have declared that he shall be crammed down your throats, be the result what it may. Choose for yourselves where you will stand? If you wish to follow the Squatter Sovereign God in all his tortuous windings, do so. If you believe his " ways are ways of pleasantness and all his paths are peace," follow them. If you wish to join him in his unholy crusade against the people of the South, go your way. If you wish to tread in the slimy paths that lead to the deus of Know-Nothingism, enlist under his bannor. If you wish to wander from the faith of your fathers, to honor the man who has struck down the Democratic party of the Union, turn, on bended knees, towards Chicago, and chant the anthem of the death-bed convert, "There is no God but Squatter Sovereignty, and Stephen A. Douglas is its Prophet." On the other hand if you wish to stand by the Constitution of your country, and faithfully carry out all its compromises if you wish to do equal and exact justice to the people of every portion of the Union if you wish to frown down every attempt to fan the flame of sectional agitatiou if vou wish to reverence and respect the decisions of the supreme judicial tribunal of the land stand firmly bv those patriots and states-men who have sealed with thenblood their devotion to tho Constitution and the Union, JohnC. Breckinridge and Old Joe Lane. Boone County Pioneer. The Stump Candidate. We observe that the correspondent of the New York Times, who is traversing New England with Douglas, in his electioneering tour, confiims the statement made by us yesterday, that Douglas had given up all hopes of receiving any material support from any quarter, and that his only desire now was to defeat and totally disrupt the Democratic party. The Times, which "favors the election of Douglas, says: "That he expresses his opinion with the utmost freedom, and that he has not the slightest expectation of achieving his own election, but he does expect and intend, not only to render the election of Breckinridge impossible, but to utterly crush out the pro-slaierj-faction which has made him its candidate." It will be seen that this demagogue, who by his unholy ambition has overthrown his party in every Northern State, has adopted not only the tactics, but the slang of the Republicans, and now prates a ghblv of the "pro-slavery faction" as Seward or Chase, and havin" taken tho short cut to Abolitionism, is now doing his best to defeat the Democracy of tho Southern States also. . , The New York Times loudly calls upon Mr. Douglas to at once proceed to the South, and pieea the "pro-slavery faction," as it terms the D moeracy, to the wall, and bids him God-speed in his mission. It distinctly states that while Mr. Douglas himself cannot reasonably hope for the vote of any State but Missouri, yet he may throw the border slave States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland and Delaware for Bell. . Having succeeded in rendering the vote ot every uou-flaveho'ding s,ate certain for Lincoln, his effort!, are now to be directed to carrying the slaveholdmg States tor Bell. , So much for the traitor, Stephen Arnold Douglas, who onlv needs the opportunity that Benedict Arnoia had to give his name the same undying infamy. CVy Fact.

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