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7 A MB H A THE CONSTITUTION, THE UNION, AND THE EQUALITY OF THE STATES!

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THE OLD LINE GUARD. ; IS l'X!JU.TSIIKl X" OFS. I - "VST 33 33 X3L 3j Y , V T- INDIANAPOLIS IJDI A J A, 11V KLItEU & II lKKJiliSS. 1" 33 XI IVI S3 , SI. 00, iniUluitcr tlo lreiaential Election. In advance, in all cases. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. S P.E E C II ' OF THE HON. HENRY W. HILLIAED, Of Alabama, at the Monster Union Meeting at the Cooper Institute in New York, Mr. Ililliard said : The contest now going on is not an ordinary canvass ! it wears an aspect of tar higher significance, and more momentous results lift themselves to view in the background. Applause. Bodies of men disciplined, drilled, marching to the sound of martial music, bearing, not arms as yet, but torches tread the streets of this great national emporium, and ranee their columns under the very shadow of the statue of Washington, For what purpose are they trained? Against what enemy are they to march One sentiment inflames the whole body. They are banded together for one purpose. They hate the South, and they will seek to overthrow the institutions of the South. At this moment an extraordinary number of citizens from the Southern States are in New York; they fill "the hotels; they throng the streets ; they are seen in your great trading establishments; they come with the confidence of a kindred people, to visit and trade with a kindred people, great cheering, and yet, torches borne oy men 10 denounce their institutions and seek to turn an uio power of a common Government against them, glare upon them at midnight, and the tread of disciplined battalions shakes, the very paving stones as tney inarcii in their training, to prepare for a resistless assault upon the rights and the honor of our section. t V hat other object can they have in view ? It is said that they desire to exclude slavery from the Territories, when there is not a Territory open to it to-day. Thenobject lies far beyond that they intend to crush out slavery in the States where it exists. They proclaim thiwdi the lips of their great leader, " the irrepressi ble conflict." They intend to trample the Constitution under their feet, and to spread devastation through the slaveholding States. Their war cry is as furious as that which was thundered by the legions who marched under banners upon which was inscribed "Delenda est Carthago." This distinguishes the present Presidential canvass from any that has preceded it. The speaker proceeded to examine the assertion that our republican system is a failure, and refuted it on all grounds. He also defined the distinction between State rights and the rights of the General Government, and showed that the State nights theory was the only one upon which the Government could be administered. Witli reference to the Republican party, the speaker said that the South sees this mighty organization spreading its battalions all through the Northern and Northwestern States. She hears the tramp of men mustering to the overthrow of her institutions. But she stands undismayed, confident yet in the patriotic instincts of the American people; confident in the fraternal regard of her Northern friends ; but more confident still in her own self-respect and courage for she never will submit to be wronged and degraded, nor live to see her institutions brought under the ban of the Government. Applause. She borrows the spirit of the national song of England, her mother, and exclaims O Lord, our God, arise, Scatter our enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks On Tl.cc our hearts we fix God ave the Slate ! Enthusiastic cheering. We must defeat this fierce, tectional league, and save the Government from their grasp. Why should the North be arrayed against the South? There is ample room on this continent for the expansion and working of our systems of civilization; systems which are not conflicting, but which are admirably adapted to each other ; tor we consume your products, and we supply you with the material for your industry. Applause. Let the two systems work side by side; the North is already powerful, and your population is rapidly increasing, by a steady stream of emigration which spreads all over your vast territory. Slavery will not go where it is not wanted ; it is governed by natural laws of soil and climate, and we are content to leave it to its natural expansion. Above a well de fined parallel of latitude it cannot be profitably cmployed. It 18 madness, then, to sees 10 mint n, oy legislation, by usurpation, and intlaming the North against the South, and by proclaiming humanitarian doctrines, as si allow as they are dangerous. To God's providence this great interest must be committed; He sees the sublime "march of nations; He alone can guide our steps; and it is stupendous folly, as well as audacitv. for our brethren of the North to pass away from the lines of their own social system in the vain hope of reforming ours. I have said that it would be a gross violation of the Constitution to engraft upon the Government a policy hostile to slaveiy. It would be more than this it would be a flagrant breach of good faith. Does any man believe that the Federal Government could have been constructed if it had been understood that its powers were to be directed against slavery in the States? Why, it was expressly slipulated in the Constitution that the foreign slave trade should not be prohibited by the Government for twenty years after its adoption." Why stipulate for the continued importation of slaves for twenty years, if it was to be the policy of the Government in future to eradicate that institution in the States? Why not forthwith cut off all f urtlier suppl y of slaves from abroad ? So resolute were the franiers of the Constitution upon this point,

that the power to i'gulate commerce, by a bare ma-; maine. jority vote of the two Houses of Congress, was not j Our State election is over, and the result in part is granted until that clause in reference to the importa-! before the people in figures. Douglas and his inde-r-r -i j 1. i Tf I .. .. . . ' o i.i:

UOD3 ui penjons nun auroau waa iirst seeureu. ju, i lensibie uoctnne 01 oquauer ooverei;itj , an jiiajhthen, the Government could not have been construct-! tion candidate for Governor, squatter sovereignty caned with a distinct understanding at the time that its j didates for Congress, Wilmot Proviso and Abolition policy was to be directed against slavery, is it not both j platforms, have done their work for the Democratic unconstitutional and a flagrant breach of good faith to j party of Maine. AVe are defeated, miserably, overseize the departments of that Government a Govern- j whelmingly defeated, and the majorities against us ment common to all the States and turn them against i will probably be counted bv tens of thousands. We

that system of labor in the Southern States? The Constitution provides for the representation of slaves a an elementary part of the machinerv of the Government; and it prohibits the cutting of a still larger supply of slaves from Africa for twenty years. How, then, can- it be asserted that this is an anti-lavery Government in its nature, and that it was put upon the wrong track forty years since by admitting a slaveholding State into the Union? Ought not the people of the State to enjoy the privilege of framing their own domestic institutions? Can hostility to slavery, upon the ground of its being a moral wrong, as Mr. Simmonds asserts it to be, authorize a statesman to direct the energies of a common Government against it, when the Constitution not only confers no such 1 power, but when its provisions actually are made tot perpetuate it is not tins a direct appeal 10 mc nign-i er law r ah mat uie jhhiiii asxs is mai vunsuiution be upheld ; she demands nothing but tliat the Government bo administered in the spirit of that in strument Cheers.! Her enemies are the enemies of the Constitution, and- they can reach her institu-

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tions only by trampling that under foot, She does not envy the prosperity, of the North. She rejoices in the increasing wealth and power of a kindred people; she witnesses your rapid advancement, your wonderful growth, with just pride, and she bids you go on in your course of expansion and civilization ; she sees your splendid cities with hearty satisfaction, and glories in your commerce which bears the flag of the Republic to the remotest seas of the globe; she is content with her own lot; she asks no special legislation for her benefit ; all that she demands is a full participation in the benefits of a common Government, a full recognition of her rights, and a clear vindication of honor. Great applause. Wronged, degraded, excluded from the full benefit' of her own Government, she will never consent to be, nor will she suffer her institutions to be brought under the ban of that Government. Cheers. When we survey the wide picture of national power and glory and happiness, that spreads out before us, we can hardly repress our indignation against those wild and wicked agitators, who seek to destroy it and we exclaim in the language of Milton s nervous and anxious prayer, against the enemies of the people of England, " Leave us not a prey to these importunate wolves, that wait and think long till they devour thy tender flocks; these wild boars that have broke into thy vineyard, and left the print of their polluting hoofs on the souls of thy servants. O let them not bring about their wicked designs, that stand now at the bottomless pit, expecting the watchword to open and let out those dreadful locusts and scorpions, to re-involve us in that pitchy cloud of infernal darkness, where we shall never more see the light of thy truth again, never hope for the cheerful dawn, never mire hear the bird of morning sing." This is a grand struggle between nationalism and sectionalism. The very existence of the Union is in volved in it; men of extreme opinions seek to grasp the reins of government, and if they succeed they will plunge the country into irretrievable ruin. They must be put down. Tremendous cheers. National men statesmen who stand by the Constitution and love the Union, and desire to see the law enforced, they must be sustained, and to their hands we must commit the Government. Renewed applause. .Rash men of sectional views cannot govern this great country. A perfect illustration of what would follow is found in the classics. Phaeton desired but for one day to drive the chariot of the Sun: ho seized the reins in his feeble hands the wild steeds flew from their accustomed track. . The universe was threatened with destruction, and not until a bolt flew from the uplifted hand of Jupiter, hurling the impetuous driver from his scat, could order be restored to nature. Better far to keep rash, sectional, incompetent men out of the scat of power than risk the task to the aroused majesty of the American people of restoring order and hurling them from their places. It is not the first time, it is true, that the candidates for the highest offices in the republic have been taken from one section of the Union, but it must be remembered that this election is mado to turn alone on a sectional issue, every question of legitimate national policy is ignored, and slavery is the only question discussed. To take candidates now from one section to proclaim war against another section to denounce the institutions of co-ordinate States this is the issue before the country ; this is the policy exhibited to our view ; and it has never till now threatened to take control of the Government If they come into power it will be the beginning of the end, this government cannot be administered upon that plan. The day that witnesses the election of Mr. Lincoln, if that calamity is to be visited upon us, will witness a convulsion that will shake the institutions of this country to their deepest foundations. Public confidence will expire stocks will go down property of every description fall suddenly in value commerce will feel the shock as if a storm had swept the sea and rent the sails of mighty ships and this grand republican system this glorious confederacy of free and powerful States, seated in friendly alliance upon a continent over which the gorgeous ensign of the Republic streams to-dav. the symbol of peace, of union, and of strength, will rock as under the throes of an earthquake. The mariner can discover with his practiced eye the signs of the rising tempest, and even far in upon the land a bird is sometimes seen flying before the fury of the coming storm, which threatens to sweep its billowy home ; and I do not doubt that men of cxt nerience. sweeping the horizon with their classes, be gin even now to read the signs of danger in some of those aspects wnicii tne times cusciose to uieir view, while they escape the observation of a casual observer. I have always been for the Union I am for the Union to-day ; but the best friends of the Union may be overwhelmed as a faithful helmsman is sometimes driven from his post by the fury of a resistless tempest. Let us put down, now and forever, sectional men ; they exult in the hope of victory; they spread their fierce legions all about us, as Leslie's army shut in Cromwell ; let us, like that grand old Christian soldier, rise in our impetuous strength, and cut their lines to pieces. The Union must be preserved ; glorious objects lie before us; our destiny as a nation is not yet iulfillcd. Mexico, Cuba those great problems--can only be solved by us. Europe is just now rising under the in somnia teaching 01 our example, imi us ucuuiuuiisu tho n-raml nntl beneficent obiects of our destiny as a nation. Loud applause. Upon you, gentlemen of j the State ot JNew lone, depends everything ai tins crisis ; do not be dismayed by the magnitude of the task which lies before you; think of your vast strength; think of the gloiy which will crown you, if, meeting the surging billows which have just broken over the State of Idaine, you say to them, " Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staved." It is glorious to see great strength dis played in the beneficent work of saving, and not of destroying. You can save a nation you can rescue the republic you can cover yourselves all over with glory. The Lacedemonians stood at the pass of Thermopylae and, dying, earned immortality; they perished because they were feeble ; they counted but hundreds against a host. But you are mighty you arc invincible; rise to the full grandeur of your position. Friends of the Constitution, friends of liberly, friends of the Republic, rise in the full majesty of your strength, and crush the enemies of your country. Loud and long continued cheering. The Result of the Election. I have lost every member of Congress, we have not elected a single member of the Scnato, and if we have chosen any Representatives to the Legislature, it must be in the " rural districts." With this disastrous result before their eyes, will the Democracy of Maine longer follow the lead of Douglas ? Will they longer listen to his deceitful leaders, who have cheated and defrauded them into the 8iqport of a man and of doctrines, that have only served to render them an easy prey to Black Republicanism ? Xol Let the Democracy of Maine no longer follow this downward path. Let them rally around the National banner of Breckinridge and Lane. Let them nlant thnmselves unou a platform as broad as the Union itself the platform of the Equality of the States. Jiangor (Maine) L won. CTThe Hannibal (Mo.) Democrat has dropped the Douglas flag, and now supports Breckinridge and Lane.

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From the St. 1 ous Bulletin. The Campaign in Missouri. , 'JUDGE BOWLIN ON Tilt STUMP. --The Democracy of Daviess county, Missouri, had a grand mass meeting at Gallatin, the county seat, on Saturday, the loth inst. It was an impromptu meeting, and a large crowd was not expected, yet when the hour arrived, the court house was crowded to its utmost capacity. Old men, who had not attended a public meeting for many months, were there, and young men just budding into Democracy. On the entrance of Judge Bowliu into the court house, lie was greeted with enthusiastic applause. Being introduced to the audience, he spoke for more than three hours, in substance as follows : Though he appeared before tnem apparently a stranger, this being the first time he had ever had the pleasure of visiting their county, yet he did not feel himself so much of a stranger, when he reflected, that the confiding relation of constituents and representative had formerly existed between, them. lie retained cherished recollections of that period when the Democratic county of Daviess rolled up her triumphant majorities for him, endorsing again and again a political career which has been without change, save in the natural progress of the Democracy from that period to this. He felt then that no man ever had nobler or more confiding constituents, or they a representative more ambitious to serve them with fidelity. Added to his own consciousness of having faithfully discharged his duty, he was buoyed up with the proud consolation that his conduct had met their entire approbation, as evinced in their support. This, he trusted, gave him some claims still to the confidence of the Democracy here, who had trusted him, and had not been deceived and who knew that in his whole po litical history, amidst every division, and through every conflict of opinion, he had maintained his loyalty to the true Democracy. And before he proceeded more particularly to his subject, he said he had a word to say to that portion of the Democracy who called themselves Douglas Democrats. He reminded them of the times when they had lbught the battles of the Democracy together, arm to arm, and shoulder to shoulder, against the common enemy of our principles. He reminded them, in the same detail, of the struggles they had gone through together, and the victories they had gallantly conquered and then appealed to them to know whether they were going to yield to the seductive flatteries of that same common foe, and suffer them to divide and conquer.. Will you, he asked, yield to intrigue, all the triumphs they had so gallantly won by their patriotism and courage ? He again and again assured the Douglas Democrats his old compatriots in the conflicts of a quarter of a century that he had no" design or wish to offend them, and that if any expression escaped him in the heat of debate, that they might think intemperate or harsh, he made the apology in advance, by assuring them that no oil'ence was intended that ho did not come before them to arouse and inflame their anger, and confirm them in their errors but to appeal to them by their common brotherhood in a common cause through long gone years by all their brilliant victories, which they had won together by the bright history of the Democracy of the past, and its cherished hopes of the future by the glorious spirit of patriotism which swelled in the breast of every true Democrat to come back to their old veteran comrades in the cause. He knew, he said, that they did not desire to abandon the Democratic party, and lose their share in the glorious work of building it up, and the bright rewards that awaited the faithful in the future; yet he most solemnly assured them that their present course led directly to that result. There could not be two Democratic parties in the country, and both be right; one or the other must be wrong. Then to ascertain which was right, and which was wrong, look to the platforms look to the men who lead the respective wings, and compare both with the principles they had through life been battling for; and then go where your calm, patriotic judgment leads vou. He had no fear of the result. For himself, he had taken that review as soon as he saw the storm rising in the distance, and without regard to men, he had determined for himself the principle, and followed it to its legitimate conclusion in the ranks of the true Democracy. Measures, not men, was the Democratic motto. Stand by that, and you cannot err; abandon it, and you are at sea, without .compass or rudder. Tried by this test, he put the question to them, in the spirit ot kindness, had they not strayed from the fold ? Had they not forgotten the true faith, and followed false idols and false gods ? Again, he asked them to try their position by an other test Ask yourselves who are your leaders t Ask it frankly and boldly, like Democratic veterans, who could face the music on any question, who are your leaders ? Are they not, with very few excep tions, old broken-down W Jugs, without character enough to find quarters in a party of similar sentiments to their own, and have to seek quarters through a wing of the severed Democracy? He entreated them not to feel angry at these questions from an old friend, but look around you, and ask yourselves who are the editors, who the orators that lead your wing of the party ? He appealed to their candor to say if they were not men who, for more than a quarter of a cen tury, had. Lke vanquished vampyrcs, squatted over their victims, sucking the blood of high-toned, patriotic, honorable Democrats, without acquiring aught to enrich their own frigid systems ? Again, ask yourselves, Douglas Democrats, what is their present staple in the political market ? Was it not constant and untiring abuse of a Democratic administration, which was created by Democrats, was supported by Democrats, and persecuted alike by Black Republicans and their allies? Was it not constant and untiring abuse of every prominent Democrat in the land ? The whole staple of theirspeeches and editorials is abuse of Democratic men and Democratic measures. Was not that so ? They had labored so long in a miserable opposition, defaming Democrats, that they could make no other defence. They have been tearing character to tatters so long, that they have lost the art of vindicating reputation they have no word for theirchampion, but the false cry of availability, regularity of nomination, and persecution ; yet there are those who think his cause might find gome advantage in a defence. A vote for Douglas in November would be a vote for squatter sovereignty and free-soilism in their worst form a vote against the institutions of their cherished State and would exile them forever from their party. The followers of every apostate from the Democratic party, have only strewed the pathway of their champion" with their" bones! and if you follow them until after November, all the teachings of our history is but prophetic of your fate. In connection with this, he asked permission to spread briefly the history of the glorious party they had helped to rear up to its present mighty proportions; and which they were now about to abandon, lie then went into a history of the Democratic party; its peculiar adaptation to the progress of the country; the progress of the country under its administration of affairs; and the opposition it had had to encounter in its march. He demonstrated that it was the only Union, the only national, the only conservative party, and the only progressive one in existence. He reviewed some of the measures of the opposing party to demonstrate they were not founded upon principle, but upon utilitarian ideas; and could never survive the Administration which pave them birth; whilst the Democratic doctrines were all founded upon principles that lay at the foundation of all free governments, and could never perish. He averred that the laws and living institutions of the government under which it was administered, all had a Democratic origin. No j meAnre survived which did not have a Democratic

origin; that, in the nature of things, the Government

could only progress under Democratic auspices. He then took notice of the first rise of a purely see tional party, founded on geographical lines the fell spirit of fanatiei.-m that gave it birth, and the curse it was likely to inflict upon the country, . lie cited the farewell warning to the Fatherof his Country against the formation of such a party, and said that Wash ington, in tho spirit of a pure and holy patriot ism, looked through the dim vista of time to some re mote period, when the population would be doubtless crowded, and men would be pressing upon each other for bread when political corruptions might be more rife, and, fearing such consequences, uttered his warning against such a party. If the dead were permitted to visit this world and participate in human passions and human affairs, what would be his feelings at beholding such a party rising in this land, within the period of the life of a man from the date of his patriotic warning. Yet it was so. Fanaticism and the fell spirit of an unholy ambition hail done its work, and we had this sectional party upon us, and they could not shut their eyes to the startling fact, that its growth had been as rapid as its designs were wicked, lie reviewed its measures, and showed that it had no binding tic in doctrines, and was only held together by the spirit of persecution and persecution of their brethren. That the only tie in their doctrine that bound them together had been ruled unconstitutional by the highest judicial tribunal in the land in a ease of unquesitoneu jurisincuuii, wuieu pmccu mum m mi; attitude of a party battling for the overthrow of the Constitution. This party, gathering itself tegether from the debris of all the former decayed parties, in turn took its stand to resist the onward and upward march of the progressive Democracy, and was like the rest, overthrown. But the fight was too fierce and the contest was too close to make them yield to a superior victory. They prepared for another fight, and began rallying their forces for 18G0, lie then drew a picture of the strength and the efforts making by the Black Republicans to renew the fight; and the Democratic party being tho only national organization, to again meet and overthrow them. The struggles of both for the renewal of the conflict, that might possibly involve the fate of the Republic, with Judge Douglas as our chosen leader, to bear aloft our banner in the fight when at this most inauspicious moment lie raised the banner of revolt by an open war upon the Administration, in a vindictive attack upon one of its measures. This he followed Up until he cut the. last tie that bound him to the Democratic party, lie here reviewed at some lengin Judge Douglas' position in the party how it had idol ized him, and how its hopes were built up in mm. He also reviewed the new doctrine sought to te enf rafted on the Democratic platform, exposing squatter sovereignty, and repudiating the new false tille. of popular sovereignty assumed tor the heresy, l opuiar sovereignty was the basis of all free government, and underlied it as a foundation from which every power snrunff. and was as old as free government itself. Our ancestors had stamped the great principles of popular sovereignty upon our institutions, and breathed into them that spirit of enterprize which made the nation outstrip the world in the inarch of empire. lie meant popular sovereignty, not in the absurd sense in which it was now used by demagogues, to mislead and deceive the people, but in that sublime sense in which our patriot fathers used it when they made it the basis of free government. The sovereignty of the people, tho will of the great masses, who guide and direct their government under wholesome constitutional restraints, silently and quietly enunciated through the ballot box, yet with a potency of voice that makes nations stand entranced, is a conception only surpassed in grandeur and magnificence by the fiat of Omnipotence itself. Yet this sublime principle of free government is sought to be prostituted, as a covering to that rickety concern, that heretical blind to freesoilism, called squatter sovereignty. What a contrast, between a great nation of people governing themselves through the silent power of the ballot box, under wholesome self-imposed constitutional restrictions for the protection of persons and property held sacred from violation, and a squad of unrestrained settlers on the public domain, making their will the law to overthrow courts and constitu tions alike by bare majorities, which may be as changeable as Proteus, and as variable as the winds. He then reviewed the efforts to force Judge Douglas and his sectional platform upon the Democratic party from the first cry of availability, down to the last howl of regularity of nomination criticising the action of the Conventions, and exposing at length the frauds and false assumptions. He exposed very successfully not only the efforts of the Douglasites, to impose a sectional platform and a sectional candidate, but absolutely to put a plank in our platform for a Congressional slave code against our will and protest and concluded this branch of his subject by asking: "what do the Southern Suites demand?" Simply equality of rights, equality of privileges, whilst they bear an equal share of the burdens of government. That is all; no more. The principle of equality of rights lies at the very foundation of our whole superstructure. The government wasfounded upon the idcaof popularsovcreignty, and the equal rights and the equal delegations of the whole people. It recognized no privileged class, born, booted and spurred, to override other classes of citizens. Under j our glorious institutions, the ragged urchin was the peer of the proudest of the land ; and beneath their fostering care and protection, if he had talent, energy I and virtue, might aspire to the highest positions in the Republic. The path of honor and glory was as open to him, and was as likelv to be trod by him, as by the I pampered child of opulence. ealth and poverty I might create a conventional disparity in society; but: under the broad banner of our country were all equal. The path to glory and renown was equally open to all who had the genius and courage to battle forthc prize.) What a beautiful commentary did not this present, of j the working of our glorious system of . government, j where the equal rights of every citizen had taken deepj root under the fostering wing of Democratic liberty. If, then, equality of rights lie at the foundation of our whole political svstem, and is equally applicable to : individuals and to States, what is there in the national i territories, acquired by the common blood and common treasure of the nation, to exempt them from1 from the operation of the great principle of equality ? j He then passed to the charge of disunion against , them by a pensioned press, conducted by just such pa- , t riot 8 ! 'As money can incite , To write a patriot black, a traitor white," and exposed and repelled the vile imputation at some ; length, exposing the antecedents ot thosi wno made; the charge, and vindicating the Democracy from it j He then took up liell and Everett, and their plat- j form. (?) He exposed and ridiculed the idea of try-j intr to humbug the people bv declaring a set of noli ti-; cat axioms that could find no opponent to them iu the United States. Ihey were tor the Constitution, the Union, and the enforcement of the laws. Who were ; against either ? Could a man be found in the united : States that was opposed to cither? But he insisted; that whilst the platform, as such, was simply ridiculous, J yet it betrayed a design on the part of those who en-j ginecreu it. into existence, u seize power, wiuioui those restraints which a free people always impose. ' The idea was not Anglo-Saxon, but Austrian, and the people would so tell them on the ides of November. ; He then went into the history-of charters, bills of right, constitutions and platforms, and showed that the' all come from a common origin, and were the implements in the hands of a free people to restrain the abuse of power in their magistrates, and that it was an insult to the people to offer them such a mockery. He then made an appeal to the voting men who had not vet cat their first vote, to be cautious how they i cast it He1 urged them to judge for themselves, to study the Constitution of tV country, and see how essentially it was based on TX-mocratic principles, and how necessary Democratic organization was to a successful administration under it. No other rties in

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this country had ever fitted it, or it them, hence their administrations were so few and so unsuccessful. He told them to deliberate well before they cast an, antiDt'mocratic vote, as it might blight all their future hopes and prospects in life. But above all, in the prespnt. cotifliet nt'nnininns. in hp. enntiotis how thev cast a vote which might identify them in future with a FreeSoil element in the State. It would be like the mark of Cain upon them, never to be erased. There never was a time when there was so much danger of error in a first vote. Apostacy is rife in the land, and there is only one thing certain in the fate of an apostate, and that is, he never returns to the fold he has abandoned; and his pathway into other organizations is generally marked with the wreck of his adherents. There is but one safe course, and that is to vote the true Democratic ticket. After Judge Bowlin had concluded his remarks, the meeting was permanently organized, and resolutions passed, expressing the sentiment and purpose of the people of Daviess county. A set of good sound delegates was chosen, to attend the convention at Jefferson City. The Democracy of Daviess county is aroused, and will make such a report of itself in November next, as to cause squattcrism to go howling to its den. The Effect of the War upon the South in a Commercial Point of View. Savannah, Ga., Sept, 11, lMo. To the Editor of the. Journal of Commerce: I should like to know i in their calculations as to the results of the election of their candidate lor President, the. Republicans have ever considered the probability of a cessation of commercial relations between the North and the South. One thing is certain to follow the election of Lincoln a practical dissolution of the Union, in the total dissolution of all commercial ties ; and it would be well for all classes at the North, whether farmers, manufacturers, nicrehants.iiieclianics, ship-owners, brokers, and those dependent upon them, to reflect as to how fiir their various interests are likely to be affected in the event supposed. I cannot believe that those men are aware as to what extent they are dependent on Southern patronage, and how large a portion of tho proceeds of our cotton crop finds its way into Northern pockets. I have been a planter for a good many years, and I was considerably startled at the result of an investigation of the subject, as far as connected with myself and my own family. On examination of my expenditures, one year with another, I find that nearly throe-fourths of my income has, either directly or indirectly, found its way into the hands of Northern men ; and I believe this to be true with a majority of the producing classes here. . I am aroused in the morning by the bell of a clock hailing from Connecticut. Leaving a bed which, with all its paraphernalia, is of Northern origin, I thrust my feet into a pair of Massachusetts shoes; and, as I join my family at the table, everything that meets my 'eye, except the faces so dear to me, is all, all Northern. My coffee, which has paid toll to a Northern importer, been parched over an Albany stove, ground in a mill from Meriden, Conn., poured from a Yankee urn into a Yankee cup, sweetened with sugar refined in New York, stirred with a spoon of like origin used to be drank without one emotion other than pleasing. Will it bo ever thus ? Is it so now ? To church or to school, a Northern bell invites us. In our devotions or our dances, a Northern organ or a Northern fiddle lends its inspiriting strains. Whether we ride or walk, sit or sleep, we do all, my Northern friends, through your kind assistance. I take a look at my sour visage in a Northern mirror, stamp my foot on a Northern carpet, and rush out of a house which was constructed with Northern tools, fitted with Northern doors, sash, blinds, glass, &c, painted with Northern paint, furnished and adorned throughout, from cellar to attic, with the works of Northern hands. I mount a Northern saddlc,and ride over a farm which I cultivated with Northern implements, by negroes clad in cloth made in Massachusetts, from materials furnished anywhere from Vermont to ; Ohio. :. ':: - " - ', My cotton, prepared for market by Northern gin and press, enveloped in bagging which has paid tribute to a Boston Indiaman, is hauled by a Northern engine to the seaport, whence it is shippped in a Northern vessel to its ultimate point of destination paying, in its transport, commission, brokerage, insurance, exchange, and a host of other charges. Now, will the Republicans pause to consider who reaps the largest benefits from the cotton crop? The above considerations would seem to place the people of the South in a very dependent position. If so, it is one with which they have hitherto been contented. They have till now, in the innocency of their hearts, been willing thus to share with Northern men the profits of slave labor. They have been thus apparently dependent from choice, not from necessity. From the seaboard to the mountains, can be found every variety of climate, and its attendant productions. Abundant water-power, mines of coal, iron, gold and lead, are embraced within the Southern States. Anil if we have not yet acquired the skill to engage successfully in manufactures, you may be sure we shall not be long without it, when once impelled to the necessity of independence. Our forests produce every species of ship timber, and in the event of the triumph of the sectional, Republican party, you have my assurance, whatever it is worth, that Northern ships will soon be without Southern cargoes. One word as to the design of "wiping out" the institution of slavery in the United States. It is pimply absurd. Cotton can only be raised successfully by slave labor. That has b en demonstrated. And it is an article too essential to. the comfort and peace of mankind, for its cultivation to be abandoned. As to the "barbarism of slavery," let any honest Northern man take all the productions of Stowe, Sumner & Co., in his hand, and make a tour of the Southern States, and my word for it, he will go home and vote for some one other than old Abe. Yours, C. From Texas. The Houston T"legraph publishes the following letter from Gen. Houston: Executive Department, Austin, August 20, 1860. Mn. W. S. Taylor Dear Sir: Your letter of the 12th has this moment reached me. Reply ing.JI would gathat Congress has no power over the subject of slavery. The Territories are but the creatures of Congress, and Congress having no power to legislate upon the subject ot slavery, it cannot invest the Territories with that which it does not possess. A Territory can exercise no power whatever in relation to slavcrv. A State, only, has the jwwer to establish or abolish it This is the true Democratic creed, as I understand it, on the subject A Territory in convention, preparatory to Incoming a State, can. by their Constitutution, say whether they will or will not have slavery. This is the whole sum of the matter. Very truly. yours, SAM HOUSTON. " The Constitution and the equality of the States! These are the svmbols of everlasting Union. Let these be the rallying cries of the eople." J. C. BuECKINRIIMiK. "Instead of breaking up the Union, we intend to strengthen and lengthen it.. J. C. BrkckixRIDOK. " We know no seetion as distinct from the other; we kuow the Constitution and the States under it, and their right as guaranteed under that instrument" Joseph Lake.