Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1860 — Page 2
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THE OLD LINE GUARD .
A. B. CARLTON, . 'WILLIAM CUIXEV,
EDITOKS.
THUESDAY, ....... SEPTEMBEE 6,
National Democratic Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, """""JOSEPHLANE,"OF OREGON. ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: Jarues Morrison, of Marion. Delana R. Eckels, of Putnam. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 1st District Dr. G. G. Barton, of Daviess county. 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. Si'ott, of Putnam. 8th " Col. William M. Jenners, of Tippecanoe. 9th " James Bradley, of Laporte. 10th " Robert Breckinridge, jr., of Allen. 11th " John R. Coffroth, of Huntington. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
1st District J. B. Gardner,
2d
3d 4th 5th 6 th
7th . 8th 9 th 10th 11th
Levi Sparks,
Geo. II. Kvle, Dr. B. F.Mullen, Alex. White. John R. Elder, James M. Tonilinson, Julius Nicolai, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Thomas Wo d, Thomas D. Lemon, G. F. R. Wadleigh, Dr. E. B. Thomas, W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman.
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR GOVERNOR, THOMAS A, HENDRICKS, of Shelby. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, DAVID TUR1UE, of White: : FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, WILLIAM II. SCI1LATER, of Wayne. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, JOSEPH RISTINE, of Fountain. FOR TREASURER OF STATE, NATHANIEL F. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. 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.
Public Speaking. HON. JESSE D. BRIGHT Will address his fellow-citizens at the following times and places, at 1 P. M. i Patriot, Switzerland county, Monday, Sept. 10. Vevay, Switzerland county, Tuesday, Sept. 11., Vernon, Jennings county, Wednesday, Sept. 12. Charleston, Clark county, Thursday, Sept. 13. Madison, Jefferson county, Saturday, Sept. 15.
CHANGE OF TIME.
In order to avoid conflicting with a mass meeting at Middletown, on the same day, by the Opposition, it ha? been thought advisable by the State Central Committee to change the day of the Democratic Mass Meeting at Anderson, from Monday, the 17th, to Tuesday, the 18th, at the same hour. Our friends will please notice this change. :
To the Public. ; I have associated with me in the Editorial department of the Old Line Guard, William Culle y, Esq., an able and experienced writer, well known to the Democracy of Indiana as the Senior Editor of the Democratic Platform in 1856. With his valuable assistance, we hope to increase the interest of the paper, as well as to enhance the good opinion of the Old Line Guard, so generously expressed by its numerous readers and corresjiondents. A. B. CARLTON. N. E. Palmer's Address. The appeal of N. B. Palmer, Esq., as the organ of the Douglas party in this State, published in the Sentinel of the 4th inst., is the coolest insult to the friends of Breckinridge and Lan e that has yet been offered in this canvass. We ask our readers to refer to the proceedings of the Mis Convention of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane, in this city, on the 31st July, when the compromise was olTered with the view of avoiding the divisions so much deplored by Mr. Palmer in his card. The friends of Breckinridge
and Lane proposed a peace-offering that was just, fair and equitable. How was it met ? With a defiant toss of the head, an air of indifference, and the go-by given to it on the ground that the Douglas Central Committee "had no authority to act in the premises !" A little time, however, has developed the fact, that the Breckinridge and Lane party of Indiana are truly formidable, and are absolutely needed to aid in the election of the State ticket, so that the October election shall be heralded all over the country as the Missouri election was attempted to be "A Great Douglas Victory !" Verily, Mr. Palmer and his advisers must presume largely upon the gullibility of the friends of Breckinridge aud Lane in this State ! We shall have much more to say on this subject in the future.
Eegular Nominations The Usages of th e . ' ' Democratic Party,
An old Democrat of Indiana, who has always adhered to the system and usages of the Democratic party who has always voted for the regularly-nominated candidates of the party requests us to give, in a short compass, the final ballotings of the Baltimore Convention for President. Although wo have, several
times, published the two last ballotings at Baltimore, we, in order to gratify our friend, and to impress them
upon the minds of our readers, proceed to do so again The following are the ballotings, after the final division of the Convention into two bodies after a large number of the delegates had left their seats, in consequence of their dissatisfaction w ith the course of the majority, in shutting out a number of regular dele" gates, unfriendly to Mr. Douglas, aud admitting oth"
ers favorable to his nomination, who had not been appointed according to the usages of the party, in lheir places: first ballot.
Douglas Breckinridge Guthrie ..... Seymour. , ...
Wise
Douglas . ... Breckinridge. .
Dickinson. Boeock. . . ,
...173 i .:. 5 .. . 9 ,.. I ... i
second ballot.
cratio party a faithful support to the men nominated aud elected according to its systems has always been yielded by every true Democrat We owe all our
success in the State and Union to such adherence. It is the ark of our safety it is our sheet-anchor; and if we permit it to slide from its moorings, our ark wil bo wrecked, and its crew lost forever. Better that Douglas should be cut adrift better that ten thousand traitors should sink than that the Democratic partv
of the Union should, with its noble principles, be
stranded. Truth and candor compels us to say that there is now no regular Democratic candidates for President and Vice President in the field none nominated according to the usages of the party. Every Democrat is at liberty to vote for whom he pleases." We prefer Breckinridge and Lane, who have always been true Democrats always found faithful, in the darkest as well as brightest days of the country and we shall give them our votes sure. Stephen in Search of his Mother.
Whole vote cast 190 A
.181A
Guthrie . Whole vote cast.
H .194$
A German Douglas Elector Backing Out. Mr. Oswald Ottendorfer, one of the candidates on the Douglas and Know-Nothing ticket for Elector in New York, lias written to the Douglas Central Committee of that State, lhat he cannot co-operate with the Bell men on the ticket. We believe Mr. Ottendorfe is one of the editors of the German organ in New York ; and if so, he will naturally influence the German element in that quarter.
W The Daily Stale StntinH has refused to publish our coram ueication in answer to Mr. Dunham's card; an act of discourtesy which needs no comment among hitrh-minded and honorable men.
Here we will explain, for the benefit of our friend, and other plain men in the party, thmeaning of the half votes given above. The Convention consisted of double the number of the Electoral colleges COG and, consequently, each delegate was only entitled to a half vote. It required two-thirds of the w hole number of the Electoral vote of the Union 303 to nominate a candidate for President, and two-thirds
consisted of 202. Mr. Douglas, it will be seen, received on the last ballot, 181$ votes 20$ votes less than two-thirds; and, consequently, did not receive a suflicient number to give him a regular nomination. This two-thirds vote has always been required to
nominate at Democratic National Conventions since 1844. At that time it was found indispensably necessary. It was found that Martin Van Buren (who afterwards turned traitor to the Democratic party, and accepted a nomination from the Free-Soilcrs for the Presidency) had managed to obtain a majority of the Democratic Convention, by securing most of the delegates from New England and other Whig States. If a bare majority had been allowed to nominate, Van Buren, who was then looked upon with suspicion) would have been the nominee instead of that tried and true Democrat, James K. Polk. But a majority of the delegates from the reliable Democratic States which had always given Democratic votes adopted a rule, requiring a vote of two-thirds of the Convention to make a nomination. This two-third rule foiled the schemes of Van Buren defeated the combination
of the delegates from the Whig States and led to
the nomination of Mr. Polk by the delegates mostly from the Democratic States. Such was the instrumentality of the two-thirds rule in 1814, in preventing the Presidency from falling into the possession of a notorious Wilmot Proviso mau in preventing the Whig States from getting the upper hand of the Democtraic States, in the Democratic National Convention that it has been faithfully adhered to ever since. It was adhered to in 1848, when Gen. Cass was nominated ; it was adhered to in 1852, when
Gen. Pierce was nominated; it was adhered to in 1856, when Mr. Buchanan was nominated; and it was adhered to in I860, when no man was regularly nominatedwhen the delegates separated into two bodies.
and each one made a nomination by a majority of its members; when Mr. Douglas was put up as a candidate by the delegates mostly from Repxdilican States, and Mr. Breckinridge by delegates nearly all from Democratic States neither the one nor the other receiving a vote of two-thirds. Such are the facts and fgures, which no man, having an v regard lor truth, will contradict.
And here wo will say to our friend, and to all other true Democrats desirous of maintaining the usages of the Democratic party, to which we owe all our suc
cess as a party, that in our judgment, an adherence to the two-thirds rule was just as much called for in the Convention of 1860, as it was in 1844. It was found in the late Convention at Charleston, we repeat, that nearly all the delegates from Republican States were in favor of the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas; and nearly all the delegates from reliable Democratic States were opposed to his nomination preferring, as they did, Mr. Breckinridge, or some other true
Democrat.. It was found that there had been as much planning and scheming on the part of the Douglas, delegates from New England and other States which voted for Mr. Fremont in 1856, as was manifested by
the friends of Mr. Van Buren in the Convention of 1844. It was found at the late Charleston Convention that most of the delegates from the reliable Democratic States looked upon Mr. Douglas with as much suspi
cion as those from the same States did upon Mr. Van
Buren in 1844. And was there not, in all probability, as much reason ? Without going back to 1849, when Mr. Douglas voted for the Wilmol Proviso without looking at his course ever since, and noticing his baching and filing on all occasions whenever slavery was
Le order of the day without alluding to his frequent dodges, and particularly to his mysterious absence -at the time when the vote on the fugitive slave law, and other compromise measures, was taken it is enouWi,
for tllM ri!t.U'Tlt. tf T. I tn hia friAn.t ... I'
r. r, I lnt health and spiriis.
their seats in that body, in order to make room for the Republican bogus candidates, Henry S. Lane and .1c-
Carty. His conduct on that occasion was enough to
forfeit the confidence of the Democracy of the whole country to say nothing of his separating himself from all the other Democratic Senators, (except Mr.
Pugh.) and making a bitter and unscrupulous attack
upon the Administration, on account of a mere differ
ence of opinion with Mr. Buchanan on the Lecompton
(Kansas) Constitution; to say nothing of his billing and cooing, on that occasion, with Seward, Hale and other Republicans in the Senate, and with Horace
Greeley and other notorious enemies of the Demo
cratic party out of the Senate. His conduct on that occasion, to deprive the State of Indiana of her rep
resentation in the Senate, or otherw ise to make room for two Republicans, and thus to strengthen the power
of the Opposition in that body, was enough, of itself,
to damn him in the estimation of every man who has
a drop of Democratic blood in his veins. His con
duct on that occasion, (when he was well aware that Messrs. Bright and Fitch were the true representatives of the Democracy of Iudiana regularly nominated in caucus, according to Democratic usage, and elected afterwards, on joint ballot ot the Legislature, by a decisive majority of both Houses,) stamped him as a traitor to the Democratic party, and entitled the name of S,pk?n A. Douglas to a place on the scroll of political infamy alongside of that of Martin Van Buren. A fanhfid adherence to the usages of the LVino-
When Mungo Park, the great Eastern traveler, fell into the hands of certain natives, and was questioned as to the object of his journey, he informed them that he was in search of his mother, and that the needle of a pocket-compass he carried, always pointed towards her, because of the affection between them. The unsophisticated natives confided in this tale and aided him on in his journey. When our Stephen left the
Capital, he avowed the same worthy object of searching for his mother, who was said to be in a town in Western New York, boasting of a long Indian name. Stephen's compass seems not to have been furnished by the same good genius that supplied Mungo Park. It seems to have been constructed at Baltimore, by a company, at the head of which was one Tod, (Scotch, for a fox with a long, shaggy tail.) whose work partakes of the wily and crooked propensities of that animal. The needle of this compass points in every possible direction, but when followed, poor Stephen does not find his mother. The needle pointed first to Philadelphia, then New York, all around in Connecticut, to Boston and divers places in Massachusetts ; to
Albany, Saratoga, Burlington and divers places in Vermont and New Hampshire ; and down the coast of Maine, back to Boston, and to a clam-bake in Rhode Island; to Baltimore, Norfolk, Pittsburgh and
Richmond ; to North Carolina and other Southern
and Western Slates, but no where does he find his
mother. This Baltimore compass is a mystery to the
scientific world, and has led to the suspicion that it pointed, not to his mother, but to places where Pil
grims, it was thought, could fiud " squatter sovereignty " and " higher law " votes for the Presidency, if a
" Giant's" strength should be applied to the work of
conversion. It was wicked, on the part of Tod & Co. to furnish such a crotchety instrument for one almost dying to see his aged mother, which has kept him through the heat of the summer, wandering all over
Eighth Census of Indiana,
On inquiry at the United States Marshal's office
we learn tiiat the census returns from more than half
of this State will be forwarded to Washington City du
ring the present week, and that the rest are expected
to speedily follow. From the returns received, and the Marshal
estimates, the population of Indiana may be set down
at from one and a quarter to one and a half mil
lion probably nearer the latter than the former fig
ures..' We have been kindly furnished with a table, show
ing the comparative population, now and in 1850, in something over one-third of the counties. This table
may not be precisely correct in all respects, but is sub
stantially so. It will bo seen from it that the largest
increase in numbers is in Marion county, but the Larg
est pro rata increase is in Tipton and Benton. Rush
and Vermillion are the only counties where the re
turns show a decrease in the last decade. Fayette and Parke have done but little better. The increase
in the whole of these counties, however, is a fraction
over 37 per cent., and in the whole State will proba
bly reach 40 per cent, which speaks very well for the
growth and prosperity of Indiana:
counties. Bartholomew. Benton. . . . . . Brown Clay........ Daviess. Dearborn. . . . DcKalb..... Delaware Fayette Fulton ...... . Grant. .... . . Hamilton . . . , Howard .... Hendricks. . . . Huntingdon . . Jasper. ..... Jay. ... Jefferson Knox ....... Lawrence. . . . Marion Parke........
1860. ....18,050 . . . . 2,815 .... 6,515 12,310 ....13,211 ,...23,888 ....13,483 ... 16,000 10,860 . . . .10,000 . ...16,120 ... 17,328 . . .12,393 ....17,004 . .14,704 ... 4,305 . . . 12,485 ....25,336 ....17,640 ...13,725 ...40,000
..15,300
the United States, and prevented his telling her his fears for her grand son squatter sovereignty who
seems fast sinking to his grave.
Lawrence County Politics. The National Democracy of Lawrence County have called a Mass Convention of the friends of Breckinridge and Lane, to meet at Bedford next Saturday, the 8th iust., for the purpose of nominating candidates for Representatives and all the County offices. Several distinguished speakers have been invited. Judge
Eckels has informed us that he will certainly be present. The call for the Convention was made by the regular Democratic Central Committee of Lawrence County, and is signed by John P. Foster, as Chairman, and James C. Carllon, as Secretary. This is the only Democratic Central Committee in Lawrence County who have any right to call a Convention. They were appointed by the Lawrence County Delegate Convention, which met last winter in Bedford. A few weeks ago a Douglas Convention was held in that county, on the call of a bogus Central Committee
or no Committee at all, (for no names were signed to
the call.) . . . The persons who got up the call for that Convention,
are not regarded as Democrats in that county on account
of their bolting for two or three years past; besides they have been, ex-cathedra, read out of the Democratic party by the County Delegate Convention. Such being the case the National Democracy of Lawrence County have determined to bring out candidates who were not bolters in 1858. If the Douglas men of Lawrence County had shown a disposition to make a fair division of the offices, and had brought out men who were not bolt
ers in 1858, a union might have been effected. But they insisted on nominating three men for Clerk, Treasurer and Sheriff, who were notorious bolters in 1858. '"..-'" The Breckinridge men would not submit to have
a lot of quasi Black Republicans crammed down their throats, and they therefore at a public meeting of about two hundred sound Democrats unanimously resolved to have nothing to do with the bogus meeting of the Douglasites. The Breckinridge flag in Lawrence County will be kept up, and our candidates will run the race through with every prospect of success.
Riplcv 19,531
Rush 16,201 Scott. ...... ..... 7,488 St. Joseph... 18,808 Tipton 8,000 Tippecanoe..... ..,.26,056 Union . . 7,200 Vermillion , 8,424 Wabash. . ... . , . ... . ..17,620 Warren . . . ..10,074 Wayne 28,194 White. 8,501 Whitley . .. 10,750
Total. . . 519,6G8
1850. 12,832 1,144 4,846 8,134 10,354 20,165 8,257 10,976 10,140 5,864 11,092 12,086 6,667 14,077 7.850 3,424 7,051 23,931 11,086 12,210 24,289 15,049 14,822 16,445 5,889 10,955 3,534 19,269 0,881 8,001 12,109 7,423 25,900 4,760 5,190
383,962
Douglas Laboring for the Election of Lincoln.
Newton county taken off of Jasper since 1850.
The Anti-" Slavery " Outrages, and the Anti-" Slavery" Press.
It is a significant circumstance, says the Day Boole,
that none of the Black Republican papers devote ed
itorial comments to the horrible outrages of the auti-
slaveryites in Texas. They are as silent as the grave
about these results of their years of agitation and de
nunciation. If a band of "border ruffians" had penetrated the peaceful abodes of the people of Iowa or
Wisconsin, and perpetrated any one of the outrages we hear so much about in Texas, what a howl would
have emanated from the entire Lincoln' press of the
North ! How the changes would have been rung on
each phase of the news I What appeals would have been made to the passions and prejudices of the
Northern people I But, alas! it is only the men.
women and children of a Southern State that are to
suffer assassination by the torch, the knife and poison,
Almost side by side with the telegraphic account of
ho recent murders and burnings in Texas, in the Tri-
bum of day, is an article on Hugh Forbes, in which
the miscreant John Brown is spoken of as "the brave
old man." When a murderer is lauded by the prin
cipal Republican organ in the country, in the face of
the continued misdeeds of his disciples, we are fully
inclined to credit the truth of the following paragraph, which appears in the Charleston Courier:
We have reason to believe that the late disturb
ances in Texas have been excited and encouraged, and perhaps originated by incendiary itinerants, and
correspondents of the New York Tribune, who write
to that pernicious sheet irom dinerent places in the
South, in the character of residents. The main object of these missionaries of mischief, is to excite the nreiu-
dices and fears of the non-slaveholding whites, but of
course tney are not above instigating, seducing and
We have frequently made the charge that Douglas is a Black Republican at heart, and that he andhis followers, finding that ho has no chance tor the Presidency, are laboring for the success of Lincoln. Their refusal to accept any proposition uniting the broken ranks of the Democratic party, is pi-oof enough ; but wo have cumulative evidence in the startling revelation lately made by Burlingame, which we subjoin. Donelas and his friends are seeking the overthrow of the Democratic party. Why should any conservative Democrat, who pre
fers Breckinridge and Lane, be seduced by the idle talk of "voting for Douglas to defeat LincohrirT
Indiana?" It is impossible for IW,,!.. n
State! Let us, then, roll up as large a vote as nom
ine tor liRECKiNitiDGE and Lane, and give a crushing rebuke to Douglas, so that we will never hear of
him again, as a mischief-maker aud traitor in theDemocratic party. We are the only party that will be
recognized in the next National Democratic Convention. Let us roll up such a vote for Breckinridge
and Lane as will give hope and comfort to our Southern brethren, and show them how many truo friends
they may rely upon in the North in favor of the
' Union, the Constitution, and the Equality of the
States." If, as Douglas boasts, "he has got Joe
Lane's head in a basket," let us take his head offtoo.
and roll it into the gutter. -
There is not a Breckinridge man in Indiana,
who is not the object of the most bitter and relentless
proscription by the Squatterites. What are we to do?
Shall we tamely submit to this ? Shall we, like a
base spaniel, lick the hand that smites us ? Or " shall we bend low, and in a bondman's key, with 'bated breath and whispering' humbleness, say this: Kind sir, you spit on me on Wednesday night ; you kicked mo such a day ; another time you called me dog, and for these courtesies," we'll vote for you, and all your squatter crew!
deceiving negroes.
SaT Hon. Jesse D. Bright was in this city yesterday and the day before. He left for Jefferson vi'.Ie yesterday. In to-day's paper will be found a number of his appointment for speaking. Mr. Bright is in excel-
I lent health and spiriis. Jle is immediately going into
I the canvass, and will be in the field until the November election. For thirty years he. has been identified with the public history of the country, and understands Douglas and Douglasism thoroughly. Like all the other Democratic United States Senators, (except Pugh,) he regards Douglas as more a Republican than a Democrat, and we may expect that he will show up the Little Squatter in a masterly manner.
As a popular orator, Mr. Bright has few equals, and we call npon our friends everywhere to attend his appointments, and hear his able exposition of Black Republicanism and Squatter Republicanism. 3TThe State election in Vermont, -which took place on last Tuesday, shows a largely increased Republican majority. Though we regret the ascendancy
of the Republican party in the North, we must chronicle facts as they are. Mr. Douglas' stumping in New England will 1 ave no other effect than to strengthen
the Republican party. Indeed, we have no doubt
but that is its object. .
Can't go the Little Squatter Don't Like
the Tolling of the Bell. Three of the Douglas electors in Alabama, Messrs. Balling Hall, A. O. Clitherall and Clemens have renounced the squatter
sovereignty cause, and declared for Breckinridge
and Lane. The Favctteville Californian savs that
D. N. McKay, one of the sub-electors on the Bell
ticket in that district, declares his intention to support Bkeckixriduf.
Douglas in North Carolina, The Little Sucker's private secretary, who writes as the penny-a-liner correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, under the signature of "Cleveland," makes as
much ado about his master's reception in North Caro
lina as he did in the Yankee States, which give no Democratic votes in their electoral colleges. "Thousands," he says,"turned out to welcome him to Raleigh, N. C, and great was the enthusiasm which prevailed."
Prodigious ! Now, hear the story of the leading journal of the old North State. It is brief and desti
tute of rant and tustian: The Raleigh Daily Press, of the 80th ult., says : "Judge Douglas arrived in this city yesterday, by the three o'clock train from Weldon. There were quite, a number of our citizens at the Depot some attracted by curiojity, and others with a desire to honor the man. Henry W. Miller, Esq., in a few appropriate remarks, welcomed him to the old North State. Mr. Douglas replied in a few words, thanking the citizens of Raleigh for their kind reception. His voice
was so low that we could not hear him distinctly. After the Judge had concluded his remarks, Henry W. Miller, Esq., proposed three cheers for the Hon. S. A. Douglas, to which about a dozen voices responded.:
1 here was scarcely any enthusiasm tor Air. Douglas,
Douglas Charged by Burlingame with an Avowed Intention to Elect Lincoln. No other reasonable explanation can be given of Mr. Douglas' refusal to have his supportei-s and the supporters of Mr. Breckinridge unite on a common electoral ticket, than that he is determined to effect the election of Lincoln. With Democrats he will have nothing to do; but with Know-Nothings he will
unite upon any terms. The following communication is from a gentleman of high standing, whose statements can bo relied upon. After reading it. well mnv
every Democrat exclaim "What can tlm sir.,
conduct of Stephen A. Douglas mean, except the dfs-
uiiL-grauon ami ueieao or the old Democratic party?" Read the communication Banaor (Maine') Daihi
Union, August 25th:
BURLINGAME AND DOUGLAS. The Hon. Anson Burlingame addressed tin. '(;.
of Belfast on last Tuesday evening. The only point the speaker made which is worthy of the attention of Democrats, is that which disclosed his alleged confi
dential relations with Mr. Douglas. Upon this matter I give Mr. Burlingame's language,as follows: "Colfax,
x- raiiK joiair, ana myseit nave had Irequent private interviews with Mi-. Douglas, in his own house. On those occasions, Mr. Douglas freely made use of expressions of the deepest indignation against southern dictation." "I also had a private interview with Mr. Douglas," continued Mr. Burlingame, "on the occasion of his late visit to Boston. Mr. Douglas then made use of this language: 'Burlingame, I am elected Senator for six years; I have got Joe Lane's head in a basket, and shall soon have Slidell's, Bright's, and Fitch's. Won't it be a splendid sight, Burlingame, to see McDougal returned from California, Baker from Oregon, and Douglas and 'Old Abe,' all at Washington together for the next President is to come from Illinois!'": ... Mr. Burlingame then exhorted the Douidas men tn
vote for Lincoln, both to revenge the wrongs done to
their tavorito by the Southern Democracy, and to carry out Mr. Douglas wishes "for," said Mr. B., "what else than the election of Lincoln could Mr. Douglas have had in view when, in his recent speech at Rocky Point, Rhode Island, he declared that he never, on earth, would agree to a union with the Breckinridge men." "This," said Mr. B., "means the election of Lincoln, and nothing else." I believe it to be due to Mr. Douglas and to the Democratic party, that these statements should be published broadcast throughout the country, in order if they be false, that Mr. Douglas may contradict them, and if they be true, that the Democratic party may know whither he is drifting. The char isrlirwei
and explicit that Mr. Douglas secretly desires and is laboring for the election of Lincoln, and his own lan
guage is cited in proof of the charge. Will Mr. Douglas authoritatively deny Mr. Burlingame's statement? Belfast, August 23, 1860. Inquirer.
A Capital Idea of Capital.
nerschel V. Johnson, in a speech at Philadelphia on Sept. 1 7, 1856, said; "We believe CAPITAL SHOULD OWN LA
BOR; is there any doubt that there must be a laboring class everywhere? In all countries and under every form of social organization there must be a laboring class a class of' men who gel their living by the sweat of their brow; and then there. niut be another class that controls and directs the capital of the country." We suppose it makes no difference to Herschcl whether the labor is white or black, so long as capital
owns it. A somewhat similar statement was made bv one of the proprietors of the Ohio Statesman, the central Douglas organ, to the employees of that office when they complained that they were being cheated out of a portion of their labor. It seems to bo a Douglas sentiment lhat capital should own labor, for labor cannot compete with capital. Workingmen having due notice will govern themselves accordingly, when Douglas gets to be President and Herschcl his Vice President Electors Wanted, The Douglasites in Mississippi have not vet been
Hurrah for Iowa! We have before us a pamphlet of eighteen pagesj
containing the "Proceedings of the State National Democratic Convention of Iowa, held at Davenport, August 15, 1800. For President John C. Breckin
ridge ; for Vice President, Joseph Lane." The Convention appo'nted an electoral ticket and
a State Executive Cemmittee. They also adopted a platform, which has the ring of the true metal. We find also, in the pamphlet, an able "Address to the Na
tional Democrats of the State of Iowa." We believe that every State in the Union now has a Breckin
ridge aud Lane ticket in the field, except South Carolina, which will elect Breckinridge electors by
her Legislature.
and the excitement occasioned by his arrival was of i able to find seven men in the State willing to serve as
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iuuyiai c.cuiurs. iuc louoning caia we take Irom the New Orleans Courier: A Ca h i). In the Picayune of yesterdav I see my name annonnced as elector on the Douglas State ticket in the Fifth Congressional District of Missirsippi. There is some mistake in this, as I have never
been consulted on the subject by any party. I have long been the personal and political friend of Mr. Douglas, and have a grateful recollection of manv of his acts. But I endorse the action of the Mississippi delegates in the Charleston Convention and elsewhere, " anil shall vote for Breckinridge and Lane. J. F. II. CLAIBORNE.
Lexington, Mo., Sept. A. Senator Polk addressed a crowd at the Court House to-day in favor of Breckinridge and Lane. So it goes. The Polks, the Pierces, the Cashes, the Dickinsons, and other veterans who haTe so long led the Democratic masses throughout the Union to victory and fame, are again rallying the true Democracy under those gallant standard-bearer, BreckinRiik;k am) Lank.
C3"The Boston Post says that Gov. Johnson, can
didate for Vice President on the Douglas ticket, said
in a recent sjK-cch at Augusta, Ga., that if any one j could prove to him that Mr. Douglas was in favor of squatter sovereignty, he would vote for Breckix-!
ridge. If that be so, Douglas will lose the vote of j are getting up a campaign paper under the above bin associate on the Presidential ticket. name, as we learn from the Sentintl and Jwrnui.
The Union Flag. The Bell men of Indianapolis