Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1860 — Page 3

The Old Line Guard for 50 Cents.

'" - ' ' T I 1 lie back numbers ol the Old Lane Cmarcl , having become exhausted, and in order to place it within the reach of every National I Democrat, and extend its usefulness, we! , . , , , ,, . i 1 have determined to reduce the price, and ; furnish it, until the election, ; mTTTT7lT? TTTVTTT'Q A WFT'TT ':

X J f X X .JL X U ; are concerned, the liitKf'KlNliiDGE men are tlie best : vTT .. : -j 1 informed and the least prejudiced of anv class of parVV e have the most satisfactory evidence ; , . ... ' J r , , . . ,- , i l l ' tisans in the U nited States. AA e know what will be that I he Guard has done good work, and j- iueviable wnmiwni:ii of Congressional intcrvenwith the addition of Mr. Cclley to the i tiolj y earrietj it0 effect; we also know the effect of Editorial Department, no labor will be , squatter intervention, if it shall be prosecuted to the spared to make it effective in establishing! bitter end. The citizens of fifteen States will be deihose principles of justice and equality ' their rights defrauded, and to a they ,.-,' ii i x xi i 1 . '. resent the insult and avenge the cause. Ave also. know, which should ever regulate the interests f .f are 6UCcessful) and the prindpk.s we adv0. and intercourse of the people of all the : cate ar0 a(lo,)tedi ti,e mantle of peace will envelop States, and which must ultimately become ; the land ; the rights and equality of the States and the creed and rallying watchwords of the! their inhabitants will be secured; life and property Democratic party; and in advancing the 1 protected ; order preserved ; treason and faction sup- - 1T ( ,! pressed ; and all the vile host of plunder-loving corcause of Breckinridge and Liane, those 1 . m . . . , 'morants will be thrust into rtieir original obscurity Patriots and btatesmen who have proved j QQmM to eam an hont,st livingj 0r, like' Judas, on distant battle-fields their devotion to j hang themselves, if they prefer that mode of extinctheir country, while others, who are now-tion to the other one, of absolute starvation, seeking the suffrages of the people, remain- Senator Fitch and Dr. Sherrod were here on the ed at home, playing the carpet-knight and 7tl' and 1 mf l fat although the reputation ,,' ' ; ,. . , , of the former gentleman has been familiar to me, and plotting for the grauncatiou oi an unholy j. , .,? . .. . ., ,,.;.,, r i r ti o. J others who think with me, yet an the evening of tlie

ambition. Let our friends now go to work, and see

that the Guard is circulated in every conn-1 of the' delinquencies and downright treacherous rasTtbat it .-.in the hand of everv e-ood : calities of Douglas, never, during this campaign, has

'J ',' ... . National Democrat. Let the principles ot. , 1 lie cause we advocate be known no better f agent can be used for this purpose than : the Guard. We ask each one of our present sub-;

scribers, and all our speakers, to announce the aenmgogue, ana pmeea on a p.auoim or , .,, i .. principles even though bv so doing we should lose it everywhere, that the Guard w,li be Jm-; fo0W(;d Sunator Fitt.h) ; a jiislied, three .times a week, until alter the i h.M ad(llvsS) of ...rmt ,,0,Ver and eloquei.ee. He election, for 50 cents. Eleven copies for,has,Von golden opinions, and his efforts in our good

,$5.00. . j Qfo.-firr.iio niUrintmiw-mifl .nrl thorn I in at once, with the money. xddress, Elder (5c Harkness, Indianapolis Public Speaking. HON. JESSE D. BRIGHT Will address his fellow-citizens at the following times and places, at 1 V. M. : 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. : Cambridge City. Mr. E. Hibbex will speak in support of the good cause, at Cambridge City, on Friday evening, 14th instant. From Vanderburg County. ' Eva.nsvii.i.k, Sept. 9. Afr. Editor: There is quite a lively time here among all descriptions of political parties; and it is amusing to see the various modes adopted to give expression to the excited feelings with which each is possessed. The Lincoluites, with their black caps, symbolic of their profound compassion and regard for Sambo, are perhaps" the most confident and frantic. Almost every evening they have speeches and other interesting demonstrations. Poles, towering sky-ward, bearing to the breeze bunting of every kind, and cotton strips in the fashion of " burgees," inscribed with the names of Lincoln and Hamlin, float out in proud folds to the passing breeze whenever we have any. Frequently do they march "the dusty streets along," with noise-producing fife and drum, and when the allotted street corner is reached, they sing for the one thousandth time that delightful poetical production whose soul-inspiring chorus is, " Lincoln is the man for the. free." Sam Cumback, Ellsworth, Do Bruler, Jem Jones, Ben Harrison, C. M. Clay, Carl Schurz, et at, grind out the stuff, which, along with whisky, intoxicates their followers to the highest pitch of the wildest enthusiasm; and when on the day after the speech you walk along the streets, you hear the 'unwashed' tell in earnest tones and emphatic terms the woes of the negro, the wickedness of slavery, the aggressions of the Soulh, the merits of Lincoln, and the horrible doi-trines and designs of all who do not es teem a Presidential candidate, whose sole recommendation is, that until his contest with Douglas he lived the obscure life of a small lawyer in a small town in Illinois. It is likewise nearly the case with the men who support Douglas. They would doubtless be as delirious if they had as much money to aid them in their exer lions. T icv wear red cans, in mutation. I suppose, or ; . ...... the Jacobins, who deluged France with blood during the rei-n of terror. I have had a thomrht Uittin" through my brain, that these uniforms are appropn n i

. l L l ,i ,i 1 1 moreover. IIIOSL UI U3 lia.o ivau inni t . .'i ... uibt.c ate and ominous; but whether they were chosen by :-"lu" u cl' ' 1 ., , ... .. i t , Smiatter's recent speech at Newark, New Jersey, the leaders of these factions bv accident or design, to o'l"'1111'3 '-'-v l .... . . ... ., T ' i , Tt. where he savs. it is his "individual choice to retain a tynifv their purposes, I can only conjecture. Thev "v . . , , . , , j. , I eat in the Senate in preference to the Presidency ; have their wandering orators too, both small and great; 1 .,,..., ... , r 1 1 i .,- , . and it so happens that we agree with bun fully in that many ot wliom, hewever, find Douglas anything but a d"u 1 ' 1 . . , , , . , . ,, , .pi V. i , narticular. Indeed, we are determined that lie shall sugar-coated pill to swallow! There are others though ! pariiLuuu. ""--"! ? i i i i .i t -..i r-- ... 1 not be bored with such a petty little aflair as the rresnot quite so scrupulous, who laud the Little Giant to uuh ut JU,-U "i J the echo, and will not with either manners or patience idency, if we can prevent it. suffer his "holy name" to be coupled with anything' Ought not the Little Dodger and his friends feel but praise. They have not been quite so successful themselves under peculiar obligation to us, for our disat scaling heaven bv the aid of lofty poles, but with ! Isi,io11 t0 grati0' matter so essent.al to his the Babelites, if failure has attended" their too ambi- happine.-s? The Democracy of old Jennings know lions efforts, they have succeeded to the nfior, that the friends of Douglas have not the slightest conwithout the reversion of the gift of tongues. This ' "dt!ncc in uis t,lpcllon ? thnt the? on,y hoIu 10 seeure rivalry has been attended with much embittered feel.; endorsement over BitFOKixitiDUE in the popular i e i ,- , i vot. so that they uiav claim to themselves the regular ing among the members of the rival tactions, and it it '""-i J ' e . " , , -., .-i oi "aniztion, and proclaim Little Stephen as its expois not attended with disgracetul scenes of not ana ulc"1"'" ' ' ' r bloodshed, the quiet citizens of our respectable local-1 nentitv will have reason to be thankful. !. We happen to know something in this county about The Bcllitcs have, so far, been rather neglected regular organizations. We saw two years ago a regCol. Crockett, of Henderson, Kentucky, and Mr. ular "Douglas" disorganization, which defeated thegalBlythe. arc, as yet, the only uiouth-pieees who have j hint and gifled Hughes. AVe happen to know, too, condescended to hold forth for their especial edifica-j that less than two years ago, Judge Douglas, in a tion. This, however, is no doubt owing to the bad-; speech which he delivered in Philadelphia, endorsed ness of their cause. Their platform : " The Union, j and applauded, according to the Sfntineh statement,; the Constitution, and the enforcement of the Laws,': just such boiling in Pennsylvania as caused the elecis too flimsy a trap to catch any body but the most j tion of Dunn over Hughes in this district- j incurable and inveterate memtars of the disrupted,' AVe have not, and will not, forget these things. AVei dark -lantern order; and besides, it is well known hen are not willing "fur jolicv" against principle, to en-1

that nine-tenths of the Bell men in the free States will vote for Lincoln, because, in their hearts, they know that he is of them and with them, with the exception of the negro clog which his party have tied to his heels ; and they, for this reason, dislike to incur

the odium of abolitionism, but will be ready in case of SUCCCSS! assisted by their votes, to claim their share of tlie spoils. The Bkeciuxkidge and Laxe men plod the even tenor .of their way, without " fuss or feathers." We have had meetings a few, and speakers a tew, with illtclligent amliences. it ;s undeniable that, so &r as the",juetion agitated on the stump, and on 1,10 merits of which this contest must be decided, and : the dissolution or perpetuity of this Union determined, day aforementioned, he far excelled our expectations. A more thorough lucid and unexaggerated exposition ,,!,. . .,,,,1 ,,. n,,l,- v,.,m.f V lM till- tWP-ll " ' , - ' , , V was not reported, so that the honest masses of the i Dt.mocrat.v mlht wa(l it. and so be relieved of the de-1 lusion "that it is better to vote for a " political traitor," j if by his aid we can carry the State, than it jn to vote i for an honest man a gentleman, scorning" the arts of cause are producing great effects. We have had " Tom Corwin " here The "Wagon Bay " rather astonished me. I imagined I should behold a fine, tall, athletic, dark-complexioned man; but my imagination for once played me a vile trick ; for a more ugly-visaged, black, ungainly,: grisly squab, T never set eyes on. I believe he is a fair image of old John Brown, the Harper's Ferry traitor and murderer. The ladies were particularly invited to attend the gathering, as I suppose his ugliness would be a sufficient safeguard to them, supposing that he might have any design to influence their tender hearts or work upon their .gentle susceptibilities ; but when I reached the ground chosen for the meeting, there were but few of the softer sex in attendance. The day (Saturday, the 8th inst.,) was in the main propitious. A squad of " lyide Adeeps " came hither from Vinccnncs to disgrace the occasion. (They have just driven me from a quiet table, that they might have a game of euchre, and drink tangle-foot, although it is the holy Sabbath. What think you of this model, moral party ?) But a heavy thunder-storm coming on, broke up the gathering. There were about two thousand persons present, men, women, boys, girls, babies, and ministers of the gospel. Well, my opinion of "Tom Corwin," as a speaker, is, that he is a vociferous buffoon, who might by assiduous cultivation rival Sam AVells or Dan Rice; but no power of education could have made, or could make him a comedian, such as Mundcn, Burton, or Matthews. His chief attractions are, his stentorian lungs, his universal ugliness, and his immeasurable insolence and assurance. That he is an unmitigated Abolitionist, though a concealed, and therefore a dishonest and very dangerous one, no unprejudiced mind who heard him can successfully contradict. His whole theme was the moral status of slavery, but ?o sophisticallv and craftily discussed, that it required the utmost attention to detect his drift. Since I have heard him, let not Black Republicans tell me again of their conservatism. What has been predicted as the effect of the elevation of Lincoln to the Presidency, I much fear will be fully realized. Let us all be watchful and thoughtful, faithfully performing our duty as patriots, and, if mischief and untold ruin follow, our skirts will at least be clear. VIATOR. : From Jennings County. . 'Jexnixos C'oi'sty, Sept. 11. Mr. Editor : A majority of the 'Democracy of old Jennings are all right, and for Breckinridge and Lank.-' You may depend upon it, that the National Democratic ticket will receive a support in thiscouuly that will cause the Little Sucker's coat-tail to trail in the dust. He will find out that bv the time he has "crushed out" our United States Senators, Bright and Fitch, his own dear little carcass will be badly squeezed. lie will discover that while his organ in Indiana (the txntiner) thinks Henry S. Lane unfit for Governor, because of his al tempt to supplant Mr. . - . . ... i.. i.. i: ci.,..l i T. I--urirr ir in 1 1 ip ' u wt! m-iu'vt? oicnjicii i. Aun'-ia 'no less unfit for a Democratic President, because oi "-e - o . ... m. u i.i: c . !.... "!3 icpcareu oics ,,u , , .,... ! the rifht of Bright and Fitch to hold their seats. ,,, , l i.,t t :it

dorse by our votes a doctrine which is the most insidious and dangerous species of Fiee-Soilism that has ever been advocated before the American people. . There will he, within a few weeks, a Breckinridge pole in every township of this county. Spencer township can give a Democratic majority of 135t and already they have raised two beautiful Bheckink id gig poles one at Bucna A'ista, by the Germans; the oilier at Ilarrisburg. It is confidently asserted by the best posted citizens of Spencer that Breckinridge and Laxe will not lose ten Democratic votes in that township. I must not Omit to say in this connection, that Cyrus L. Dunham has, until recently, been, with the Democrats of Spencer township, more I)optilaiv.tlian..any..other.,poIiii('iaiii.tiIudiana.J.,l)is being known, Dunham was sent there for the purpose of talking them into the Douglas ranks, but no such effect followed his stirring eloquence. He did not change a single vote. The cause of our national candidate is equally prosperous in some other portions of the county. AVe. are determined that no other county in the State shall give a better account of herself in November next than old Jennings, in proportion to her Democratic vote. And we now say to Cass, Hamilton, Jackson, Monroe, Jefferson, Switzerland, Put

nam and other BitECKiNRiDGE strongholds, beat us if you can. TRUE DEMOCRAT. P. S. Can you tell who is to have Fitch's place in the Senate- Willard or Dunham ? Don't you think that both of them can be prevailed on to give way to some such sound organization men as Carr, Davis and llovey ' and (I almost forgot him) Dick Ryan V T. D. : From Adams County. Decati i;, 'September 7, 1800. Messrs. Editors : On yesterday the Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks, candidate for Governor, addressed the citizens of! .this place. As was anticipated, there wa3 (piite a crowd out to hear him. Tlie Bhixkinuidge men not having been invited into the ring, of course did not take an active part in the meeting. I wish to relate one little incident that occurred in connection with the meeting, to show you the feeling that the Douglasites exhibit 'towards the Democrats. A boy, about 15 years old, was wearing a Bheckiniudge and .Lane badge, and was marehing through the streets, merrily, as Young America is wont to do. when he was suddenly, accosted by one of the Douglas Marshals (and lie, too, our Post Master,) and Ordered to remove it immediately, saying at the same time that if he persisted in wearing it it might cause a row. Now, Messrs. Editors, this is no isolated case we are constantly receiving insults of a similar nature from these same pretenders to Democracy, and at the same time are asked to vote their State ticket! liepublicans were allowed to wear their Lincoln and Hamlin badges with impunity; but because a Bueckixiudge boy would dare to wear a' Bkeckinkidge badge, the mere sight of it was considered sufficient grounds to cause a row. OLD LINEIi. From Vigo County. ,,, -. ' Tebre Hacte, Sept. 10, 18G0. Mr. Editor : Permit me to say to the friends of the Hon. J. C. Bueckinhidge, of Kentucky, and the Hon. Joseph Lane, of Oregon, through your most excellent and valuable paper, that if our cause is as well defended all over the State of Indiana as.it is in tlie Seventh Congressional District by the Hon. J. A. Scott, I think we have nothing to fear in this canvass. If the people will only turn out, and come and hear the truth, they will be convinced of their error, and return home to the old paternal roof of the house of the faithful. -Mr.. Scott made two speeches yesterday to very large and respectable audiences; first, at lieelsville, in Putnam county, at 1 o'clock, and next at Terre Haute, the same night. It was admitted by all present, that Mr. Scott made the ablest defence of our cause that has been heard in this quarter this season. His points were all well set, and what is yet better, they ' were well defended, and he did it in a gentlemanly manner, such as no man could really get offend, ed at. I do think that if the little Dodger bad heard him, and had found Ma, that he would retire from the contest, and go home to Suck'er-dom ; and as for the man of rail-making notoriety, and flat-boating gam. inon, so much distinguished for his devotion to Abolitionism, and his hostility to tiic American soldiers in Mexico, &e., &c, I think his friends must have felt bad when Mr. Scott held up to them his past historyLet it suffice to say that Mr. Scott fully filled the bill. An Old Line Democrat. ' From the Pocket. EVANSVII.I.E, Sept. 10.1SCO. Mr. Editor: In political circles, in the "Pocket," excitement has run high during the past three days. The old guard are arousing themselves from their long inactivity, and preparing for the conflict. AVe are not of that class who, having eyes, see not, and cars, hear not ; but we are fully convinced that the Douglas wing is determined to enter into no compromise, except with Know Nothings, w hen they hope to defeat and demolish true Democratic principles, and we are determined they shall "smell powder" ere the war is ended, if war is what they want. On Friday last, we met in convention, to consult and determine what ; course it was most advisable to pursue. Preferring peace and harmony to war, we thought it best to ex. , tend the olive branch once again, to see if some com-. promise might not be effected, and accordingly ap-; point od a committee to confer with the Douglas wing: upon the subject. Senator Fitch and Dr. Sherrod: were present, ana aauresseu ine convention present-, ing facts, sustained by the record, which caused a few . of the Douglas worshipers to feel quite unwell, and, we are sorry to say, were obliged to leave. AA'hether, they have fully recovered, we have not learned. AA'e would recommend to any now lingering in a critical ; state, an infinitessimal part of a grain of the record of! the Dowdas Baltimore Convention, and we willensure ' the restoration of the patient's health immediately af ter takina the first dose. Fitch ana MK-rrou spoKeat ...orc nan .u ...e e.e- j ning ;,to a crowuea nouse. oeimiui i- neu m-m ure l-ioii; ihnn of tlm audience for nearly two hours. No ' , J, TV, .1. ,.i nff-pntinn

mercv was shown the Little Giant, I assure vou. buti the names of those distinguished statesmen and patri- , - -j- , ots, John C. Bieckinndw and Joseph Jane, before lie wasnierced even tothe dividmijasimderof the little , ' , i-, . i- .i . i i . nne na5mn.ui,iiu o rr. : the people as candidates for the two highest offices ! man, with kee.i witticisms and sarcastic hits. The j w;thin their gift is intervention, and is, ergo, Dis- j speech of the Senator was argumentative and con-) union. This is certainly a novel proportion, and it j vinciiiT throughout, giving his reasons whv he opiosed 1 places Mr. Douglas in a very awkward attitude before j , , c , m,,iji!rJ,v,r,. ' the countrv. For it has been but four vears ago since Douglas and why lie supiiortecl fsrtECKixRiDf.E, as ,- . , . , . i . i "'"r"" "" "'V 'il Mr l)rinM;n m-ciiini'il lirpriiclv the same "rnmiii tint'

well as discoursing upon the right of the citizens in the tbe Breckinridge Democracy now hold; and proTerritories. Senator Fitch havmgelosed, Dr. Sherrod claimed the right and joverof Congress to pass an act followed with a few short and happy remarks, pre- repealing the acts of the Territorial Legislature of sentedin the Doctor's usual eloquent stvle, inter- .Kansa' .""J ihrvbv giye protection to the Abolition- , , . , . , .. . , ' ists and Free-Noilers in Kansas. It will be reniemspersed now and then with a side-splitting anecdote.. th(U he Leat,,, of Kansas passed what the Such missionaries as Fitch and Sherrod will certainly '. Abolitionists termed the "Bloo'ly Code," one part of cause the blind followers of Douglas to be brought, which prescribed a heavy fine and imprisonment from darkness to light, and turn from the evil of their1 nvne speaking or writing anything against c ; slavery. The enactment of tins code raised a great wa.vs- ' t hue and crv throughout the Abolition States. They On Saturday last, the Republicans were to hold ,Dat tne bbertv of speech and the freedom of the

their"Grand Mass Meet in;." Having clamored so

long and -loud, arid with such seeming honesty having invited everybody and their friends, we supposed all the inhabitants from this State, and a few from ATanderburg county, would be preseritto listen to Tom, of the firm of Corwin & Co. At early dawn all was as " merry as a marriage bell,'' but somehow they managed to contain themselves, and the usual quietudepervaded our city until the hour of ten, when the iron monster came bellowing along in his maddened course with two whole cars attached freighted with ninety-two human beings, two conductors and four brakesmen. It is the opinion of some that the fireman was in the cars and reckoned among them, while others are willing to make oath that he was on thoit marshecn,!l. As to the number of AVidc Awakes who came in on this train we could form no accurate opinion, as it was utterly impossible to distinguish them among this grand moving mass of human beings I suffice it to say that they were soon snugly ensconced in a small room over the Canal Bank. In the afternoon, at the call of the drum, AA'ide Awakes form, and, preceded by the Baud, take up

their line of march to Blackford's woods, (some one ! suggests that they will proceed to a darker place than j that in November next,) where an overwhelming ; crowd of men, women, and a child were in attendance j to listen to the " AV agon Boy." The crowd was variously estimated from 450 to 451. AVe did hear one j patriotic old gentleman assert that, according the best of his judgment, there were 500 present. AVhew!: what an imagination that man must have. - ; j Corwin, being introduced, proceeded to dissect the i principles of the different parties in his usual eccen- j trie manner, and after entertaining the audience for : two hours with a fair display of numerous Ethiopian j characters and some amusing comedies, he retired, and j the multitude fled before an approaching shower. ! Many .were disappointed in the .speech and the man. j In fact Tom Corwin is not the Tom he was years ago. 1 One of the number of the Wide Awakes, after he had j listened to the speech, avowed he never knew what ! Republicanism was before, and he thought if that speech was a fair exponent, it; was time tor him to renounce the doctrine, and he accordingly drew off his uniform, and kindling it with a match, shouted for De- j mocracy over the dying embers. When once the true j doctrine of Republicanism is known in this section, there will scarcely be one left to tell the sad fate of its ! hasty death. ., j Let us organize, bring out our candidates, Send forth j our speakers, and bravely battle all opposition. If: Douglas men want war let us not disappoint them. J The feeling is in this section to bring out the " big ; guns" and charge upon the enemy, under whatever Hag they may disguise themselves. ; More anon. T. i From Fountain County. Newtown, Fountain County, Sept. 11. Mr. Editor: Having organized a Bueckixuidge and Lane Club at this place, with some twenty odd names to start on, and a number who have not had an opportunity of meeting with us yet, whom we know to be with us, and are not ashamed to manifest themselves we, who have thus met, have adopted the following sentiments as a starting point, and request them published in the Old Line Guard. . To wit: AVheheas, a period has arrived when it becomes the imperative duty of the people, of this once happy, j but now distracted Confederacy, to calmly consider the causes which have led to its present unhappy condition, it therefore becomes each one of us to investigate, and for the accomplishment of this end, we hereby form ourselves into an association which shall be styled the Richland Township National Democratic Club, and endorse the following sentiments as a synop sis of our political faith. To-wit: j 1. AVe cordially 'endorse the policy of James Bu- j ehanan in the administration of our General Govern- j ment, believing that he stands co-eqnal with his most ' eminent predecessors in adhering to the Constitution ! and tlie equality of the Slates. I 2d. AA'e now realize our fears, entertained two years previous, that the anti-Lecompton party would fuse with the anti-Democratic party, thereby endangering the institutions of our country 3. AA'e will firmly unite together and use all honor- j able means in resisting the measures of the Republi-j can party, with their Congressional intervention ; also ; the Douglas squatter sovereignty party, with their; Territorial intervention schemes holding that on the ; question of slavery the people of a Territory cannot legally settle that question until they come to form a State Constitution. 4. AVe believe that it is the duty of Congress, if j necessary, to protect the citizens of a Territory in all , their constitutional rights; that the Territorial Legislature has no constitutional power to legislate in favor of one class of her citizens to the prejudice of another; class, but that the Constitution requires at their hands equal and exact justice lo all. 5. AVe mutually believe that Stephen A. Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln are both sectional candidates ' for the Presidency, merely representing the interests of a portion, and not the whole of the L'nited States, ! and that the election of either would be calculated to endanger the peace and harmony of the States. 6. AA'e feel eminently elevated, being the only National party whose measures embrace, fraternally, ; every portion of our common country, and we mutually i.lniW nurse ves to adhere to the Cincinnati Platform uniK.reioofl by ;ts authori an(l as expiailie(i who nom;natJ(l Johs c Breckinridge 0onl.ral jSEr Lan-k for President and Vice! President ; and let come what will, we expect to vote i for BeeCk,xriige and Laxe. JACOB HAAS, President, j Aaron Black, Sec'y. " i - , , " Intervention nieins Disunion, " says j Douglas. A writer in the Memphis (Tenu.) Avalanche, under ; - the signature of "Hickory," shows up Douglas' incon sistency on this question in the following manner: r t. ...! I.-.. ..,.i.,:..i ii.n .hit u.Tycnion lcalls Disunion ;" in other words, that the doctrine ot protection to slave property, as set tortli in the nlatfonn of the National Democracy, who placed . . . - . . pres liad been outraged, and the rights of Northern

men trampled in the dust by the slavetocracy. An appeal went up from Kansas to the Congress of the United States for protection. ; They asked Congress to intervene and to do that which the Legislature refused. Here the case was directly made. The Abolitionists and Freesoilers called on Congress to repeal the acts of a Territorial Legislature, and protect theni in the liberty of speech and freedom of the press. And the appeal was made from a Territory organized under the Kansas and Nebraska bill, and was pending before Congress, August 27, 1856, nearly three mouths after the adoption of . the Democratic platform at Cincinnati. Mr. Douglas gave an attentive ear to this Abolition appeal ; he felt that their rights had been violated by the Legislature; and in a speech which he made in the Senate on the 27th August, 1856, on the Army Appropriation bill, he admitted that he had voted for to bills repealing

' the Kansas code, and taunted Senators AVade and Sumner with the declaration that the Abolitionists in the House would not take it up and pass it, and warming up as he progressed in his speech, he declared that he was willing to vote a third time for it, and charged that Abolition members wished to keep the bloody code in force to make political capital out of. He was then the peculiar friend off protection voted and spoke in favor of Congressional protection to Abolitionists, whose rights he conceived had been violated by the Legislature, and this was the act of Mr. Douglas, after he had endorsed the Kansas bill and the Cincinnati platform both of which he now holds . denies the right and power of Congress to legislate at all on any matter appertaining to the domestic affairs of a Territory. Non-intervention, he says, is the doctrine of both; that Congress has no power to repeal the laws of a Territorial Legislature; that their legislation can be supervised only by the decision of the courts under the Constitution. Now, the-'C very territorial laws which Mr. Douglas voted to repeal, were of a domestic character. They were intended to protect slave property ; to prevent Abolitionism from inciting slaves to insurrection, and very similar (though more severe) to the laws passed by a number of Southern States. Now, how can Mr. I). or any of his followers reconcile this to his p- ei t attitude;" by what rule of justice can. he, tinder the same bill and platform, give protection to the Abolitionists of the North, and refuse to give any to Southern men and their properly ? To the Southern man, he says : " You are at the mercy of a Territorial Legislature; Congress has no power to protect you or your property, and it is not right to interfere in your behalf." But to the Northern Abolitionists he says: " Congress has both the right and the power, and I vote and speak in behalf of protecting your rights." In reference to this Kansas code, Mr. ., in the speech already referred to, said, addressing himself to Senator AVade : " YVo passed a bill to annul them once, and sent it to the House of Representatives, and your majority would not take it up. AA'e then sent the bill a second time, and your majority in the House of Representatives would not take it up. It. was well known that the reason why you would not take it ui, was the fear that a few of your men would join us and pass the bill." Again, he says to Mr. Wade, " if your folks are sincere in desiring those obnoxious laws to be repealed, you will take up our bill and certainly' pass the repealing section, whether you pass the remainder or not, before 12 o'clock to-morrow." Now, what is the difference between protecting the liberties and the property of man ? Are they not equally sacred in the eye of the law, and was government not formed for the protection of both? But, says Mr. Douglas, this Southern man must go into the Territories and submit his property to the will of the majority, That the Territorial Legislature can exclude his property, and otherwise legislate in an unfriendly way against his interest ; that Congress can not protect him: that he must hxik alone to the courts and even if that tribunal should decide in behalf of his rights still that, the people of the Territory can lawfully exclude him can violate his constitutional rights." This is the 'doctrine' of Mr.. Douglas when called upon to protect Southern rights, and that too when these very Northern Abolitionists stood in the same relation to the Courts, that the Southern man with his negro stand, according to Mr. Douglas. Here is what he said in that same -speech, August 27th, 18-jti: "I was entirely willing to rely ou the Judiciary to make wise decisions on that subject in the annulment of those laws. I did hot believe that a law infringing the freedom of the press was consistent with the organic act allowing a decision of the slavery question by the people themselves. So with along list of those laws; but I did not deem it any part of my duty, nor did I deem it necessary to wipe out those laws by legislative enactment, by reasons that the courts would do it. - Rut when it was proposed here, I was entirely willing to pass a declaratory act, they were null and void, and should not be enforced, in order, etc.".' ..-'-;r.- ' "'; '.-::-' ; ; .'. .- Then in 1850, Mr. D. did not think he was intervening in violation of the Kansas bill and the Cincinnati platform in voting to give Congressional protection to Abolition rights, amply sufficient to protect them. But now, when a Southern man asks the same boon which he gave so willingly to the Northern man, he rolls up his eyes in holy horror, and says "No sir, I will not grant it -it is in violation of the Kansas bill and Cincinnati platform. It is intervention, and that is disunion." A Hi rf Toll 'FoisViinn CinoKiT, -- - r Apropos of fashions, faint whisperings gleet my ears of what is to be seen for September openings. Dresses more magnificent than have yet dazzled mortal ken; glittering gold, intermixed with everything; golden flowers for the coiffure; gold lily bells for the hats; bells of gold, with "brawbuckles of goivd" to clasp the dainty waists; tassels of bullion; nets of gold to confine the hair: cords of gold, to loop up oriental sleeves; jackets braided with gold and golden epaulettes; golden threads interwoven into gossamer handkerchiefs lo 'scratch pretty noses; cull's crossed on the back of the wrist - with gold buttons, in short, a new adaptation of the nursery rhyme will just suit my lady: "With gold on her fingers, and gold on her toes, Her charms will be golden wherever she goes." Perhaps you will be glad to hear that bonnets are to be considerably reduced; passee maidens, are sighing the requiem of departed coalscuttles, and with their ashes repose soft crowns, literally speaking. 1 mean only those made by milliners. Solfei'inu is to dispute the palm with Magenta in the otnlien (of course) for fashionable precedence. The colors are both, in my humble taste, too hideous to admit of even aeomf ortable nnd refreshing woman's quarrel. Emerald green velvet, half covered with the whitest of delicate marabout, irresistably seizes my fancy, just as the dark wave of ocean gleaming through wreaths of sea foam.- X Y. Correspondence N. O. Delta. Killed. Mr. I. Wheeler, a clerk in the New York Store, was killed at the Tremont House about II o'clock Sunday night, by falling over the banister of the stairway from the second story landing to the first floor. His skull whs fractured, and death ensued almost instantly. He was going lo his room at the lime uf the accident. Mr. W. was a native of Ireland, came from New York to this city, and has been employed in the New York Store for some six months. ELEOTIONTICKETS. 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