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they in any way profit by it, we may bo save it will be followed ever after, and the pot house politician and the Presidential candidate will be henceforth conducting the canvass in the same mode and spirit, and will command about equally the public respect When this comes to pass, he will, indeed, be a sanguine patriot who can still look forward with any degree of confidence to the ultimate welfare of the country, or the permanency of its institutions. Baltimore Exchange.

THE OLD LINE GUARD. A. B. CARLTON, ....... EDITOR. THUESDAT, .... . . . . AUGUST 30.

National Democratic Ticket. FOR PRRSIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOSEPH LANE, OF OREGON. ELECTORS FOR THESTATE AT LARGE: ' James Morrison, of Marion. Delana R. Eckels, of Putnam.

Douglas at the South. The squatter candidate for President addressed the people of all parties at a meeting in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday evening last ; and made use of sentitiments somewhat different from those which he is in

the habit of uttering at the North. In the middle of i

his speech a slip of paper, cut from the Norfolk Argus, containing twoquestions, was handed to him, with a request that he would answer the questions. Ho said that he was not in the habit of answering queries propounded to him in the course of an address, but on this occasion, he would comply with the request. First question : If Abraham Lincoln be elocted President of the United States, would the Southern

states be justified in seeding from the Luion r

Going it Strong. The opinion of the best posted Democrats in Louisville is, that Breckinridge will not jet over 25,000 out of the 80,000 Democratic votes in the State. Cincinnati Enquirer. The Douglas organs had bottor ' tell this to the marines,' and whisper it softly in their ears; for old sailors will not be apt to believe it' If it approaches within gun-shot of the truth, how happened the Douglas men in Kentucky to abandon their own candidate for Supreme Court Clerk, and to support Combsj the Know Nothing candidate? The "best posted" Douglas Democrats in Kentucky, who give the above

opinion, lie most outrageously, or otherwise their party have been guilty of the most shameful treachery to

DISTRICT ELECTORS.

1st District 2d " Dr. William F. Sherrod, of Orange. 3d " David Sheeks, of Monroe. 4th " Ethelbert C. Hibben, of Rush. 5th .'".' Samuel Orr, of Delaware. 6th " Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. 7th " James A. Scott, of Putnam. 8th " Col. William M. Jenncrs, of Tippecanoe. 9th " James Bradley, of Laporte. 10th " Robert Breckinridge, jr., of Allen. 11th " John R. Coffroth, of Huntington. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 1st District .I.B.Gardner,

2d 8d 4 th 5th 6 th

7th 8th 9th 10 th 11th

Levi Sparks,

Geo. II. Kvle, Dr. B. F. Mullen, Alex. White, John R. Elder, James M. Tomlinson, Julius Nicolai, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Tlioina Wood, Thomas D. Lemon, G. F. R. Wudlt-igh, Dr. E. B. Thomas,

W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR GOVERNOR, THOMAS A. HENDRICKS, of Shelby. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, DAVID TURPIE, of White. FOB SECRETARY OF STATE, WILLIAM II. SCIILATER, of Wayne. FOR Al'DITOR OF STATE, ' JOSEPH RISTINE, of Fountain. FOR TREASURER OF STATE, NATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vio. FOR ATTORNEY" GENERAL, OSCAR B. HORD, of Decatur. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. : SAMUEL L. RUGG, of Allen. FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, CORNELIUS O'BRIEN, of Dearborn. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, M. C. KERR, of Floyd.

To our Exchanges. We would ask our exchanges in this State to notice the mass Congressional meetings called in this paper, or at least, the one called f r their Congressional District. By doing so, they will confer a favor that will be reciprocated. We want the people to attend these meetings, to hear the true' National Democratic principles vindicated, and we would like them to have full notice of it in each Congressional district.

Prepare the Place. We would again urge the friends of Breckixridge and Lane, in the places where speaking is appointed, to see that places are provided, and all things made ready. Don't put it off to the last moment, but see to it at once. Pass the word round, and let the public know of the meetings. S3 The correspondence between Mr. Breckinridge and those inviting him to speak, will be found in another column.

Editor Still Absent. Judge Carlton has not yet returned to the city. AVhen he does return he will probably pay attention to the ' Card' of the Hon. C. L. Dunham, in Tuesday's Sentinel. (2 Hon. Graiiam N. Fitch passed through our city on Monday evening, on his way to Logansporf. He has been actively engaged in the northern part of the State, in starting the ball rolling. He speaks today in Danville, in Hendricks county, and from there goes to the southern part of the State, to fill his appointments. Indisposed. Gov. Hammond is reported indisposed sick politically and otherwise; so much so that lie has been unable to take any active part in the canvass since the convention of the 31st Other lesser lights are sick, and make a very feeble effort to stem the true Democratic current setting in for Breckinridge and Lane. Unless there is a great change in the treatment of thair disease, they will be sicker men before they get better heart-sick at the great mistake they have made in linking their political destiny to the Kttle squatter, whose principles and cause they never did like, and don't now.

Cooi.kf.ss Towards the Stump Candidate for the Presidency in m South. Senator Douglas having completed his stump speaking in New England, where he was very cordially received by the Black Republicans, experiences a different feeling as he moves South. A special dispatch from Baltimore to the Cincinnati Timet, a paper that always assists the Judge all it can, says : . " Judge Douglas arrived here at 1 o'clock this afternoon. He was met at the depot by a few friends, and conducted to the Gilmore House. There lie interchanged congratulations with his friends and dined. The number of visitors was very limited, and he made no speech. He departed at 4 o'clock this afternoon for Norfolk, where he expects to address the citizens to-morrow. The Judge told me that he de-igned going to Richmond and Petersburgh, V.; thcDce to Raleigh and other towns in North Carolina, and in a fortnight to return to Baltimore and addre the citizens in an elaborate speech. Then he goes North again, preparatory to going home. There was a verjr moderate amount of enthusiasm. A few friend quietly accompanied him to tlie boat.

Second question: If the-, the Southern - States, the man whom they first nominated for "Supreme" ..t.1 I , 0 .1 TT . .1.. J 1

should seceede from the Union Uxn the iuauguration of Abraham Lincoln, before he commits an overt act against their constitutional rights, will you advise or

vindicate resistance by torce, to their secession i , After answering the first in the affirmative, and the latter in the negative, Mr. Douglas said :

"lama law abiding man, a Union loving man, and

Court Clerk, and then basely deserted, in order to

help the Know Nothing actors in the scenes of " bloody Monday" to beat McClarty, the Breckinridge candidate. They are guilty of falsheood and treachery doubtless both and are' therefore well suited to the

cause in which they are engaged. Two factions never

I believe the Union can be maintained by a faithful combine against one party, when they can beat it observance of the constitution but I insist in exacting I at tie olIg separatoiy . and if thcrc Wasanvthing like the fulfillment, in good faith, of every provision of ; , -X , , ' , " , , that constitution, f insist on a line of policy which : truth ln the above Roorback, the coalition between will place all the people of all (he States on an exact ; the Douglas men and the Know Nothings at the late equality, and maintain and protect them in their just election would not have been necessary. Both of

these factions found they could not, single-handed, defeat the Breckinridge men, and hence their fusion. "United, we stand; divided, we fall," was their rallying cry. As it was in Kentucky, so it will be in New York, if not in Indiana and other States two against one ; and if they cannot then succeed, perhaps they are both ready to sprinkle the streets of cities and towns with more blood.

rights."

Mr. Douglas here " stole the thunder" of Breckinridge and Lane. The maintenance of the equal rights of "all the people of all the States," in the South as well as in the Korth, is all that Breckinridge and Lane contend for. They contend for the right of the people of the

South to go to any Territory with their property : property recognized by the constitution as well as j

the people of the North to go thcro with theirs ; and j rr. Qiant ft in at jfa Worki to be protected in its enjoyment during the existence of the Territorial government. A "faithful observ-1 Douglas could not help assailing in his Norfolk speech auce of the constitution," as expounded by the Su- as well as in his tirades at other places, his distinguishpreme Court of the United States, is all that they ask; od rival, Breckinridge. He could not fail misrepand if Mr. Douglas should yield that point when he ad-! resenting him, and stigmatizing him by various hard dresses large crowds of people in the North as he has names. How unmanly and undignified in a candidate done on this occasion in the South, there would be no for the Presidency, or a candidate for any otherolTice, division amongst Democrats at this time. The cliffi-, especially when his rival is not present. Has any one culty is, that he dou't wear the same face here that he : ever heard of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, Polk, does there ; that he holds different language in the ; Buchanan, or any other Democratic aspirant to the North from what he des in the South. A " faith-j first office in the Union, stooping to abuse, on the ful observance of the constitution," by Mr. Douglas ; stump, the candidates in opposition ? Has any and his followers, would restore peace and harmony ! one ever heard of those distinguished men going about in the Democratic party throughout the whole country, j the country and sounding their own praises? It was the want of this " observance "on the part of j Douglas has so often been guilty of calumniating his friends at the Charleston and Baltimore conven-' Bruckinridge has so often misrepresented his tions, that has led to all the heart-burning and conten- principles has so often stigmatized him as the distion which now prevail. A " faithful observance of ' union candidate for the Presidency, that it has bethe constitution," and an acknowledgment of the come necessary for him in the opinion of his friends equal rights of " all the people of all the Stales," would in Kentucky to set himself right before the country, satisfy all the Democrats in the South, as well as all j With, this view, a number of leading Democrats in the fruf? Democrats in the North. I h'is own State have made a call upon him to address Let the people of the South so to the territories! his fellow citizens at White Sulphur, Scott county, on

with their slaves as well as the people of the North: the 5th of September next. He has reluctantly conwith their horses ; remain there undisturbed in their i setited to obey the call which the course of his oppoenjoyment, until the Territories have sufficient popu-f ncnt the Squatter Candidate, has rendered necessary lation to entitle them to admission into the Union as ani 'proper. Self-defence, alone justifies it; and we

States which will be but a few years at best not j doubt not one of the largest gatherings of the people long enough to make a fuss about ; let them enjoy j of Kentucky ever known will be at the place appointthis right, which the Constitution gives them, without to hear him. A number of distinguished Demoany attempt on the part of theTerritoiial Legislatures ; oats from other States among them, it is said, ex(placed in power, perhaps, by a few squatters, sent ' President Pierce will also be there, to hear and su5there through the aid of Massachusetts Emigrant So-! tain the truth, and correct misrepresentation, cieties,) to deprive them of it, and then all the tur-! .'" '!.:''-' '. -'

moil and trouble about slavery ceases. The Territories will soon be filled up with large populations con

stituted mostly of Northern people, will soon become j The Squatter Chief, under pretence of visiting his States, with the acknowledged right to establish or mother, who, it is said, resides somewhere in the westprohibit slavery, as the majority of their people shall , ern part of New York, lately perambulated all the decide, and then all their inhabitants whether from ! New England States, making speeches to anxious inthe North or the South will yield acquiescence in j quirers in all the principal cities and towns, but none . , . i n . ., T ..... ' r .... ...It . ! i. i . . .

tne Fame manner as ine nrsi settlers in Indiana, Am-; oi wnom coum give any tidings ot tier, jot being nois and Ohio did when they first formed their State able to find his ma in the course of his travels in that Government. quarter, he turned round-a-bout, proceeded to the But will Mr. Douglas hold the same language in South, and is now engaged in addressing, it is said, the Northwest, on his return here, as he does in the '. largo crowds of people at Norfolk, Old Point Comfort, South? Will he be as flippant in acknowledging Petersburg, Raleigh, Richmond, and other places. here the rights of "all the people of all the States,'' ; He has visited almost every place except, indeed, the as be was at Norfolk ? Will he, like Breckinridge : one where he would have been sure of finding the and Lane, be ready here to take a broad and states- : loving object of his pursuit. At the last accounts he manlike view of the welfare of the whole country- J was as far off from her as ever. We wonder if his be willing to acknowledge the equality of all the! mother " knows he in out?" Although it is a long lime States ? Or, will he sink again into the demagogue, 1 since he saw her, his coat tail is as near the ground as pander to the views and feelings of Black Republi- ever. cans, curry favor with Abolitionists, coalesce with1 1 " 1 Know Nothings, with the design of drawing votes Republican State Ratification. from all factions at the expense of the harmony and j .'"'' 1 ''..:''- success of the Democratic party ? Will he again un-: " The procession ot the Republicans from all parts of furl in the North the banner of " unfriendly legisla-1 Indiana, with a large sprinkle from other States, passion," attempt to do indirectly what he cannot do e& our office as we were closing our form for this day's directly under the Constitution attempt to invest the ', paper. It was a long one, and no mistake ; but Territorial Legislatures (the creatures of Congress) 'whether men, boys, cattle, or horses stretched out the

with power over slavery, which their creator does not ! most, we did not neglect our other business to notice, possess ? Will he again attempt to fan the embers of ! There were any number of flags earned in the prodiscord in this quarter, on this vexed question ; sow cession by both men and cattle, but we did not observe more seeds of disunion among Democrats, with the one ith a larger number of " stars and stripes " than design to ruin, if he cannot rule the party, prcpara. i sixteen. There were also many drummers and lifers tory to a general coalition of his followers with the ln t,ie linc. wllo, judging from the noise they made Know Nothings, and the odds and ends of all factions performed their whole duty, but we did not see any

throughout the country, at the Presidential election ? ot tne marchers "keep step to the music of the

A Long Hunt After Lis Mother.

For the OIUMne Guard,

A Visit to the Southern States. BY A TRAVELLER. I took a trip way in the South ; To sec, was my desire, Those Southerners who have a mouth, To stand it eating fire, And see the slave ships sailing in, With loads from Guinea's coast ; The toil-driv'n, starving, colored skin ; . Chains, screams, blood, whipping-post. I wanted, too, those men to see, All fired with raging wrath, - Who longed fo from our Union be, Fierce as the man of Gath. And to behold the angry frown, They held for Northern ties, Accounting every one a Brown, And all who came, as spies. And see their hauteur, self-esteem, Their self-will, hatred, guile Against all freemen, whom they deem Low as their slaves, and vile ; And see those men their children sell . For overseers to lash, Where all, as lords, in grandeur dwell Ease, luxury, and cash. And wished to hear, from Widow Doyle, ......Who Kansas filled with strife, Who took up arms and made turmoil, And caused such loss of life ; And hear from the vengeful shriek Meek freemen had to hear, As war, destruction, blood they speak, And shock the States with fear. And on I went, enquiring bold, As faces kind I met, But never could those sights behold, Or near them ever get. But hospitality to cheer, And kindest ways to win, And noble ones, true friends appear, To welcome strangers in. Upon the revolution's page, I read their valiant deeds, And later wars their arms engage, In all their country's needs. E'en Mexico could well relate Still later chivalry, As patriots firm, with statesmen great, They with us still would be. Then hypocritic shriekers, cease ' Your clamor false and wrong ; Tbeir brethren be, in lore and peace, And patriotism strong. Turn homeward turn, oh, turn ! In pure philanthropy, In truth and wisdom there to learn, The rights of all to see. Though slavery in itself is wrong, And fixed on them a curse, Its griefs, its sins, but there belong, Why cruel make it worse ? And though vile tyrants there may be, Here's mercy, too, in place ; Here too the men and laws we see, Opposing all that's base.

Douglas on Unanimous Nomination.s. The Richmond Enquirer states that on the 9th of July, 1852, the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas addressed the Democracy of .Richmond, Virginia, in the African Church. From the speech prepared by himself, published in the Enquirer of July 20th, 1852, we make the subjoined extracts. It will bo remembered that at the Baltimore Whig Convention of 1852, the North demanded the nomination of General Scott, and the South resisted the demand. Commentinguponthe sectional aspect of that nomination, and the deplorable results that would come from it, Mr. Douglas said : " Well, Geu. Scott received the nomination 'ununi?nously,' according to the official proceedings of the Convention. - fLauirhter.l Fellow-citizens, did von

ever hear of a unanimous nomination, which was

made in defiance of the fifty times repeated protest and remonstrances of the delegations from one-half the States of the Union represented in the Conven

tion i Every Southern delegation voted asainst him

more than fifty times, day after day and uight after night, and yet the nomination was unanimous. TGreat

laughter. The nomination of Gen Scott, therefore,

presents to the American people this extraordinary

anomaly. For the first time in the history of our party contests has a sectional nomination ever been

forced upon the two great parties of the country. You may talk of the dangers to the American Union, growing out of partizan strifes and political contests; you may tremble at the scenes throuuh which we all re

cently passed, connected with the slavery agitation;

yet mere was notning m all that so perilous to the .,(.... tt:.. i

safety of the Union as a sectional nomination of a

par

ticular man on a sectional issue; And the delegations

from every Southern State, without exception, resisted the nomination as dangerous to their rights and institutions. A nomination forced upon the South by the Free Soil wing of the Whig party North, is now presented to the American people as a unanimous nomination.

"It matters not whether the North forced the nomi-

ination upon the South, or the South upon the North, the danqer consists iu the fact that a Territorial line

divided men's opinions, that Northern men were one

way and southern men another. But, after the nom

ination is made, we arc told it was a fair compromise, because the South received the platform and the North the candidate, under the direction of men who

defy and 'spit upon' the platform. Thus, we have

Winfield Scott before us for the Presidency. After

mature deliberation, he proceeds to accept the platform, and to write the letter which he had promised Mr. Archer in the private note found in Botts' breeches pocket. Laughter."

Commenting on this, the Enquirer says: "If the reader will substitute 'Stephen A. Douslas'

for 'Winfield Scott,' he will have a iust and comnlete

condemnation of his own nomination, from his own

lips, ibuch a nomination of Gun. Scott, he uro-

nounced would 'convert a cood General into a bad

President,' and we may ask if the result would not be

qually disastrous to a ocnator ?

"It Mr. JJouaUis could ur;re the facts connected with

Gen. Scott's nomination as 'danuerous' to the South.

from the divisions that existed in Baltimore in 1852, what circumstances would palliate the evil from the

same causes in the Democratic party in 1860? 'Out

of thine own mouth do we condemn thee,' Stephen."

The True Doctrine. :

A Negro Better than a Naturalized Citizen. In Massachusetts the Republicans passed a two years amendment act, whereby a Gorman, an Irish

man, or any other naturalized citizen, is deprived of

privileges which are allowed to the negro, so far as the

elective trancnisc is concerned. n nat is done m Massachusetts will be accomplished in any State in

which the Republican ascendancy should be main

tained. The New York Tribune says :

" We regard a property qualification as simply atro

cious, lr it is nguc, it ougnt to De imposed on all alike, not merely on those who have the least property and the worst chances to obtain it. If a negro has no soul, and no political status but that of a thing, his owning a pile of dirt cannot rightfully give him any. In an' light, the present rule is wrong and indefensible. We shall have a chance this fall to vote down this anomaly, and we ousjht to do it. Let us abolish

the property qualification, and give the poor blacks an equal chance at the polls with their richer brethren. They are but a handful anyhow, and cannot do much if they try. AVe shall have a Constitutional Convention in 1866, if not sooner, and then decide whether black men shall vote or not, according to the light vouchsafed to us. Let us kick the property qualification overboard anyhow ; and now is the time."

" We shall see."

Union."

The Pennsylvania Statesman,

We have the first number of a new campaign pa

per, issued at Harnsburg. It supports Breckinridge and Lane. We copy the following from an article in its editorial columns : . If the Democratic State Convention, which met at

Heading the last of J; ebmary, had been charged with

Douglas Sees His Doom. The little Squatter, in his Norfolk speech, said: "Supposing Breckinridge could carry every Southern State though it now seems he is not going to carry a single one by the people still, by dividing the North, he gives every one of those States to Lincoln, thus allowing him to be elected by the popular vote."

The little man has, at last, some inkling of the fate the selection of candidates for the Presidency and

which will inevitably attend him, although he has not ' .Vice Presidency, there is every reason to believe that A. 1 t ,'.L .. v 1 i- ir 1 it would have selected the very ticket since noniinathe honesty to admit that no one but hunself and ted by the Xationa, DemocrJr at Baltimore. No friends are to blame for it. Had he not been govern- one who was present at Reading, and mingled with ed by an unchastencd ambition; had he not been de- the delegates, can fail fo be aware that at least threetermined to force himself forward, to the exclusion of oaT 'iem PreferJed Breckinridge to any other better men for the Presidency; had he not been bent ' 'at or the Piesidcncy. .,. . . ; 1 he preferences of the delegates to Reading were upon riding into power over the just rights of one sec- but the reflex of the sentiments of the Democracy of tion of the confederacy; had he not been disposed to , the State. A vast majority of our voters looked to deny the great principle of State Equality, he would Breckinridge as the leader who would carry us safely . . j. it u- ic through the contest of 1860. not now be in nu present predicament. He, himself, 0 has divided the North, not Breckinridge, by suffer-; ing his friends to run him for the Presidency without j f Major Ben. Reynolds, a distinguished Demoa regular nomination. He, himself, has arrayed the; crat of White county, has come out warmly in favor entire South, as well as a vast portion of the Northern ! of Breckinridge and Lane. The course of such a Democracy against him for these and other reasons, j man, who is a host within himself, will have a great And if he falls to the ground without the vote of a : influence with his numerous friends and neighbors. single State, North or South, it will be just and well ! m merited punishment for his reckless abandonment of: Brf.ckinriogk Victory in Brooklyn, N. Y. principle, and violation of party usage. Had he adhe-j A special election of Alderman of the Seventh Ward, red to p rinciple, and stood back when lie saw be Brooklyn, to fill the vac&ncy caused by the death of could not obtain, fairly and honestly, the required ! John Stansbury, the late representative, was held on vote of tiro-thirdt in favor of his nomination at the j the 14th inst., and resulted in the election of Hugh Charleston Convention; had he given way in faror of, O'Rorke, Breckinrihok Democrat. The following

! some more deserving man, who could have nniied the : ig the vote: "

whole Democratic party tlirousbout the Union, he; 1st Dist.

3" The course of Mr. Breckinridge derives

strength from the following paragraph, taken from the Louisville Courier: ' " Influenced by considerations of honor and patriotism, Mr. Breckinridge yielded to the wishes of the representatives of the Democratic States, and accepted the position of their standard-bearer. If wrong

was done, it was theirs, and not his ; upon them rests the responsibility of his present attitude before the country. His defeat is theirs ; and a war upon them or him, is a war upon the principles of the party, and upon thoie who espouse them. Mr. Breckinridge, those who nominated him, and all whs sustain him,

are interested in the refutation of the calumnies of

Mr. Douglas ; and we have a right to expect, and do

demand, that Air. .Breckinridge himsett, shall, in such manuer, and at such times as to him may seem best,, defend himself and his party from the attacks of one whose position alone entitles him to such no

tice.

would not now be compelled fo coalesce with Bell and

the Koow-Nhing to save him from sinking. AH his efforts, however, will be of no avail; and down he

: must go, like Lncifer, never to rie again!

Hugh O'Rorke (B. D.) 166 D. C. KingUnd (Rep.) 99 A. J. Moore (Doug. D.) 141

U Ivorke over Kmgjand.

2d Disk 234 207 75

TotaL 400 306 184

94

O'Rorke over Moore 216

83 Let it be established, that the people of an inchoate community have the right to decide whether

one species ot property or another shall be recognized aud protected by its laws, and the abolition of propagandism will obtain all the scope it asks or requires, it will matter little whether sultry or tropical skies

bend over a given portion 01 the national domain ; whether the rice, the sugar and cotton culture is best adapted to its soil and climate ; whether slave States adjoin it on every side, an army of hungry Yankees from the sterile hills of New England would at once

be ready to invade it, and constitute a voting majority, before any considerable number of Southern men could dispose of their interests, and complete their preparations for a contemplated migration. Emigrant Aid Societies would pour their emissaries by thou

sands into the new territory, and before the south would be thoroughly aVake to the fact, the black flag of Abolitionism would be found fliitterinz alone her

ooruers, ana ner institutions menaced on every side. St. Louis Bulletin.

(J In all seriousness, can Judge Douglas be longer resarded bv any real, resectable Democrat as a Pres

idential candidate ? Oucht a man be a Presidential

candidate who does not expect to receive a single vote? The question is a grave one, and requires to be answered in all becoming gravity. W hen a candidate and his peculiar break-neck personal friends surrender all hope of getting an electoral vote, and propose regularly to hire out their forces like the Swiss or Hessians to those who will pay well, or to fight those they may hat and wish to destroy in the present case, their former party and their country ought not the honest, real, substantial friends of such a candidate to interpose and insist on his being withdrawn? Let

Judge Douglas true friends withdraw him from the contest. Pmnsilrnninn.

John C. Breckinridge stands on the broad, Democratic platform of non-intervention and popclar sovereignty. The Convention which placed him in nomination re-affirmed the Cincinnati platform containing these doctrines. He supported them in 1857, and ho has never swerved from them since. He is opposed, in the language of the KansasNebraska act, to legislating sla very into any Territory or State or excluding it therefrom, but maintains that the people thereof should be left perfectly free to form and regulate their institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. He accepts this proposition in its fullest sense, coupled with the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which declares that Congress has no power to exclude slave property from the Territories; that the same Constitutional law obligatory upon Congress is also obligatory upon the Legislature of a Territory, which cannot transcend the Constitution, by exerci

sing the power of prohibition interdicted by that instrument; and that the people of a Territory may freely and fully determine their institutions in their own way when they come to form a Constitution, preparatory to admission into the Union as a State. This is true non-intervention, and not the partial nonintervention proposed by Mr. Douglas, who takes the singular and untenable position that a Territorial Legislature has greater power than Congress, and the same Constitutional provision which operates fo prevent Congress from prohibiting slavery in the Territories does not apply to a Territorial Legislature; which, in this particular, has greater powers than its creator. The doctrine is to recognize the uniformity of the operation of the Constitution, so that when Congress is prohibited from doing, a territorial legislature is also unable to do. Common sense, right reason, and inexorable logic infallibly lead to this just conclusion. Mr. Douglas's doctrine of non-intervention is partial it is not intervention by Congress only. He maintains the doctrine of Intervention by the Territorial Legislatures against the rights of property. Nonintervention, to be of any avail in setth'ng the questions agitating the country, must not be partial it must be absolute. Mr. Douglas's non-intervention is a two-edged sword it cuts both ways. Look at the

conclusiou it leads to! If the Territorial Legislatures

can intervene against slave property, and it is constitutional for them so to do, then it follows that Congress can intervene for the prohibition of slavery; because what is not unconstitutional for a territorial legislature is not unconstitutional for Congress and this involves an admission of the Republican doctiino of intervention. It is intervention in the worst and most unreasonable and irresponsible form. Mr. Breckinridge advocates 110 such partial, limping, irrational non-intervention as this; but he accepts the doctrine in its broad significance, as declared in the Kansas-Nebraska act, the Cincinnati platform, and the decision of the Supreme Court non-intervention by Congress and non-intervention by the Territorial Legislatures, the creatures of Congress. Harrisburg Patriot and Union.

Breckinridge and Lane Gaining Ground in the North.

Philadelphia, Penn., Aug. 21, 1860. f Dear Sir I shall endeavor to shadow forth the general views of the North relative to the coming contest in November next. From every indication we now have from the various portions of the Northera States, I am convivced that Breckinridge and Lane are the men to defeat the Republican candidate with. The Douglas cause is growing weaker and weaker every day. Men who were once warm supporters of him, since his nomination are giving way to despondency, and many are now uniting with the

only candidates who can defeat Lincoln, viz: Breckinridge and Lane. So far as John Bell's chance is

concerned, it is not as good as Fillmore's was in 1856.

Bell will receive a eood vote in the cities of the

Northern States; but outside of them lie is scarcely-known.

This State bids fair to go for Breckinridge and

Lane. There is, undoubtedly, a mighty revolution going on in their tavor. I attended the organiwr.km of a Breckinridge and Lane club last evening, and I have never witnessed a larger assemblage of persons

on any occasion, since the nomination ot the respec

tive candidates tor the rresidencv. I he meeting was

addressed bv Gov. Stevens, of Oregon, and others.

The large and commodious hall in which they spoke, was filled to overflowing, and the streets were crowd

ed for a considerable distance around. The audience outsido were also interested by several distinguished speakers.

Great Breckinridge Gathering in New Ok-

LF.AN. The late demonstration in New Orleans, at which Gov. McRae, of Mississippi, Dr. Samuel Cartwright and others, spoke, was attended by ten thousand live Democrats. Tltt're was great enthusiasm, and the demonstration w ncCTrfol in every rwpect.