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ciples, and did what they could to advance their faith. That party is now swelled into giant proportions, and has become the great sectional parly of tlio North, the Black Republican partv. Now, the dogmas of 'fifteen yearn ago of your Phillipses, your Garrisons, ami your Parkers, are the dogmas of the great Republican leaders of the present dav of the So wards, the Lincoln, the Suniners, the Giddingses, aud the Iovcjoys. In their platform of principles they simply propose to hedge m slavery, not to touch it in the. Slates. "No more slave States," abolition or prohibition of slavery in the Territories; this is what they avow as their object. What is the natural progress of this party V Why, look into their platform, ami interpret it by the expression of their leaders! Lincoln says the country cannot stand half slave and half free. 'Seward says he said it in Boston week before last, aud he repeated itin Detroit

4hat there is an irrepressible conflict, which must gQ L

on until tne country is an siave or an iree. u inn is the local consequence of such expressions of judgment, in the light of our experience of the progress of Northern fanaticism, when men have honestly come to the conclusion that the country cannot endure half slave and half free ? 1 am inclined to believe that in their anxiety to make it endure, they will find some sanction in the Constitution satisfactory to their own minds, in making open war on the institution of slavery in the States. This has already been done. Certain shining lights in the Republican party have already taken that position men of ability, and ener-

y, and culture, have given those opinions to the pub

ic, l win mention iwsanuer spooner, ami j iiiigni

THE OLD LINK GUARD. A. B; CAKLTON, . . . . . i;i)iT()Ks WM.I.I AM tTM.KV, . ... ) THURSDAY, . . . . . , SEPTEMBER 27. National Democratic Ticket. FOR l'liKSIDKNT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KF.NTL'CKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOSEPH -LANE, OF OREGON.

Hurrah for Missouri IBring out the Big Hon. R. W, Thompson at Jeflersonviile.

Gun I" Urow, Chapman, Crow I"

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instance others.

Fellow-citizens, to what party must we look to break down this fanatical party ? To what party must wo look to preserve the ark of the covenant, the. Constitution of our country to preserve intact the union of these States? Is it to that party which coquets with this Republican party ? Is it to the party so nearly affiliated with the Republicans that we find men every day passing from one to the other, and back again' We find presses hauling down the Douglas flag and putting up Lincoln, and hauling down Lincoln and putting up Douglas ; is that the kind of party to breakdown the Republican organization? No, my friends, it is the friends of Breckinridge and Lane who revere the union of these States; we intend to stand by the union of these States, and we intend to break down, crush and destroy this Republican party and all its abettors. Enthusiastic applause. Mr. Douglas, our friend once our shining light and our great leader has made memorable speeches at the South. If it be thought proper to publish my speech, I will give1 extracts in lull; but it i.! getting Into, and I will simply give the gist of it, and put my interpretation on it. Our parly, standing on principle, in several of the States, has said to the friends of Mr. Douglas, We are ready to unite with you on honorable terms, to fight the common .enemy viz: the Republican party. Except in Pennsylvania and there only partially and with extreme reluctance, the arrangement was made it has been made it has been rejected everywhere South, and almost everywhere North. I am informed that the morning papers announce a determination to run a straight Douglas ticket in Pennsylvania. This action of Mr. Douglas shows emphatically that he is determined, so far as he can effect it, to elect Mr. Lincoln President ; and the responsibility of it attaches to him, and to him alone. The violence of his language is not surpassed and I speak with confidence to the friends of Mr. Douglas as well as to the friends of Mr. Breckinridge the violence of his language was never even equalled by. .fudge Jeffreys, oi inlamous memory ! Applause. His declarations throughout the South mean this: "I, Stephen A. Douglas, am determined that Lincoln shall be the next President of the United States. I trust that the. Southern Siates may thereby be induced to secede and then I mean to be the Andrew Jackson, or, the hero of tiie age, to dragoon them into submission." There is the field of usefulness, if I can understand language, (hat he has markeout for himself; and he has already erected his gallows as high as the gallows upon which Hainan was hung. Fellow-citizens, our revolutionary fathers were not deterred by such talk as that, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was not troubled by that. I do not believe t!ie time will come in our day and generation if our Union-loving friends will work 'with zeal, when we shall be called on to administer the Government in such a spint. I believe nothing of the kind: but the time may eonio when the political gallows will be used, and when the American people will hang on it traitors -to their principles and. demagogues - .Who have tried to mislead them. Cheers. '''... Fellow-citizens, I have but little more to say. I speak as a Northern man to gentlemen of the South, I speak as a Northern "secessionist" to Southern secessionists" and "disunionists." We can thank God that we are in glorious company; we. arc almost in the company of the great a '-my of martyrs ami saints. We are in company with the great body, not only of ; the old-line Democrats, who have been fighting the common enemy for years, but we are in company with . men, who on the battle-field, who in the wilderness .among the savages, and in all the vicissitudes of life have shown their devotion to their country. Iappeal to gentlemen all through the South lo stand inflexibly upon the platform of their principles. There is strength in every Southern State which is surely .and rapidly developing. The sultry days of the summer have passed, and the cool, bracing breezes of autumn have come, and we will find the slogan of our favorites going up from the pleasant savannas and the delightful hills of the Soul h.

Fellow-citizens, be not deceived by this show of factitious strength upon the part of those opposed to us and to our principles. In 1856, 'the same cry was raised (that Fillmore would certainly be elected) that is being raised in these days of the present canvass. Go back to the records, and you will find the same sanguine hopes expressed, and you will find the same prophecies of success; but I trust that in Ibis case they will not even have the accomplishment which they had in 1856 : I trust that they will not even have the State of Maryland. Applause. Our correspondence from all parts of the country, and especially from the South, ha-s been for the last fortnight extremely encouraging. We are assured that in every Slate, our friends are fighting with hope and confidence, and will spare no exertions to carry their respective States. The Gulf Stale Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida wiil go for Biecki.iiidgc, not only by majorities, but by large and overwhelming majorities. We are assured that we shall cany North Caroliua; our friends are confident of Virginia, of Missouri, of Kentucky, and of Tennessee. Be you sure of Maryland, and we may look forward lo an united South, standing on a national platform. Why, fellow-citizens, we spread our banner to the breeze, and raise our platform to the gaze of men, in letters of gold, so that all eyes can read it. Why do not our friends of the Bell and Everett party present their platform? Are they ashamed of it, or have they no platform? Laughter. They say they are for the Union and the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws. So says the rail-splitter so says the squatter hero! Laughter and cries of "Good!" So say we. "Under which King, Bezouian !" Which platform do you choree, or will you go back to 1856, and stand ujion your odious and reprobated platform of bigotry and intolerance, of oaths and tests, proscribing the foreign-born citizen aud the Catholic citizen?. Fellow-citizens, I do not like such company. I have a great respect for these gentlemen individually; I have no doubt but that they are sincere patriots, but they are behiud the times. The times are crying lor light and truth; the times demand a frank ami u-otii-ful expression of principle, and will have it. Ah, gentlemen, friends of Bell and Everett, come out and tell us where you stand, and perhaps we may all vote with vou; but under present circumstances we feel

bound to apieal to you as atriols. as lovers of your

ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: James Morrison, of Marion. Delana It. Eckels, of Putnam.

DISTRICT ELECTORS. Is District Dr. G. G. Barton, of Daviess county.

Douglas and the Fugitive Slave Law. The Yeoman wants to know where. Douglas was when the Fugitive Slave Law passed. If the editor

was as well posted as an editor ought to be, he would know himself. Douglas told afterwards in the Senate where he was, and why he had not been present, A few weeks after it had passed, Douglas went, home to Chicago, and the City Council found he was there. They had passed ordinances nullifying the law. Douglas was announced to speak immediately; and he made the first set speech for the law ever made before the people. The effect the Council immediately repealed all their nullifying ordinances. Louisville Democrat. Yes Douglas told in the Sonalo, if our memory serves us correctly, that at the time of the third rend

ing ot tne r ugitive Slave taw, the day bejore its pas- s;ons of exui,at j()n graced the columns of journals de- I ftll(, ,,n .l1l1v i , .1 .111 c .,ru 1,., ..;,.; i.:....i.' 0,.:,.i,t ..... ..r J .... .. .. ... .... . . J inl has probably listened too much to the twaddle of

j y o 1 voicu 10 me interests ot me Illinois ucuiaunmic. iui .i, i;(,i c.,..i..... . , T- , , , .

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Sneh were the wild shouts of the Douglas editors after the. recent Shite election in Missouri, when Claiborne F.Jackson was elected Governor. "Crow, Chapman, Crow! "cried the leading Douglas men in every quarter, and chicken cocks did crow at the head of all the Douglas papers. Bang! bang! bang!

! thundered the cannon. Tremendous were the clicera ,

of the squatter sovereigns. " Hurrah for the Little

Giant I" A Douglas Govei

"Hurrah for Douglas ! " " Missouri certain for the

This well-known leader of the American party of Indiana addressed a largo meeting at Jeflersonviile on Saturday evening last. It is known that he is " first, last, and all the while," for Bell now, as he was for Fillmoro in 1856. But notwithstanding his warm attachment for Bell, he is too much of a man to slander his opponents; and therefore he took occasion in his speech to scout at the charge of "dl-union" made by some of the Bell and Douglas men against Mr. Bkkck-

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01 me s 1 nailer sueiei"iis. iiuiiuii iui uiu ijiuiu rr ,,1 1 . I t 0 iNRiwiK. He said "he knew Maj. Brkckinkidoe

, ,7.. - ... to be a ixenlleman, a scholar, and a patriot" As the

as! " Missouri certain lor the ,,. P r 11 iv t r r

1 . ., v..inw. ui uiu .wen i-tfff, in Amimiiajuiia, is u ween I little Sorter!" And a thousand other similar expres- . , , .. . , . ,

2d " Dr. William F. Sherrod, of Orange.

3d " David Sheeks, of Monroe. 4th " Ethelbert C. Hibbcn, of Rush. 5th " Samuel Orr, of Delaware. 6th " Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. 7th " James A. Scott, of Putnam. 8th " Col. William M. .Tenners, of Tippecanoe. 9th -" James Bradley, of Laporte. 10th " Robert Breckinridge, jr., of Allen. 1 1 til " John It. ColVroth, of Huntington. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

1st Distriet2d " 3d " 4th " 5th " 6 th "

7th 8th Dth loth 1 1th

-J. B. Gardner, Levi Sparks," Geo. II. Kvle, Dr. B. F.Mullen, Alex. White, John It, Elder, James M. Tonilinson, Julius Nicolai, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Thomas Wood, Thomas D. Lemon, G. F. It. Wadleigh, Dr. E. B. Thomas, W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman.

I FUR CONGKKSS, SEVENTH DISTRICT, j JAMES A. SCOTT, of Putnam. ! Judge D, E. Eckels, ,' . j. The Bui-x'KlNit'iDGK and Lank Elector lor .the State at large ; and j . James A, Scott, . j The BitECKixnmoK and Lane candidate for Congress in the 7th District, will address their fellow-citi-ze 11s as follows : J Gabon's Store, Green county, Friday, Sept. 28. ... Jonesborough, Green count;-, Saturday, Sept. 29.. j Spencer, Owen county, Monday, Oct. 1. :. j Goiport, Owen county, Monday night, Oct 1. ! lt" Speaking to commence at 2 o'clock P. M., each I dav. . :

friends at the Astor House in New York, and that he

then set out for Washington, but arrived there the day after it had passed. The enjoyment of the wine bottle, or rather the contents of it, in the society of a few-

boon companions at that crack hotel, was far more agreeable to him at that time than giving renjmmible voles in the Senate. . The Frankfort, Ivy. Yeoman replies to the 7)ewiocrut as follows: " Douglas dodged the brunt of the battle and avoided the responsibility of recording his name in favor of the Fugitive Slave Bill. But he did something astonishing after it became the law of the land under the seal of Dickinson, Clay, Bright, Fillmore, and other illustrious men of the North and South, whose names were an asgis great enough to cover and protect a thousand "little giants." The battle was over the victory won, and the illustrious Sen" ator had neither scar nor laurel, unless persistently voting for the Wihnot Proviso in a variety of shapes had earned him fame. He must do something. Like the jolly hero of sack and eapon memory, he must carry

otf a dead Hotspur; and, accordingly, after the ad

journment of Congress, he made a ferocious assault

upon a nullifying ordinance, and, as the Democrat as

serts, actually braved a whole town council. Such an extraordinary instance of moral and political daring has not its equal in history! When wo consider what unexampled obedience has ever since been paid by

the citizens of Chicago to the requirements of the Fugitive Slave Law, we are inclined to think that a mon" ument ought to be erected to Judge Douglas, bearing the inscription in bold characters that 'the best way to aid in passing a law you are in favor of, is not to vote for it.'"- '.'".'".'"

Mass Meeting at Cambridge' City, Bright, Fitch and Otild, the bold and unflinching champions of the true Democracy will all address the meeting at Cambridge City, on Monday Evening, Oct 1, at 7 o'clock, at Masonic Hail. Let every man within convenient distance of Cambrige City, who is not afraid of the truth, and desires to hear it every man who loves sound Democratic principle, and desires to be influenced bv it, attend this meeting.

The Powder Bought.

The Tide Changing in the .West! Great' Breckinridge and Lane Convention in Missouri ! Eight Hundred Delegates Present ! The Governor all Eight ! The Deinocra-y of Missouri assembled at Jefferson City on the 21st inst., in unprecedented numbers.

! Eighty counties were represented by sound and true

1 Democratsby men who had grown gray in the cause, j as well as by young and ardent politicians just commencing political life. And in addition to the delei gates present, there was a dense mass of Democrats

from all parts of the State, who had accompanied the delegates, to learn the true reasons why there were two candidates in the field for President, both professing to bo Democrats. The matter was set forth in a clear light by Senators Green and Polk, and other able speakers.. They gave a plain and accurate statement of the proceedings at the National Convention. They satisfied the multitude that that body having failed to make a nomination according to the usages

i of the party, there was no regular nominee before the

We understand that the powder is now bought, and country, and that both Breckixridge and Douglas

being made into cartridges, intended to send forth in j stood upon their respective platforms without the presthunder tones, the welcome tidings to the friends of tige of a regular nomination. After these gentlemen Brkckixuidgk and Lane, that the Douglas State ! had addressed the Convention in their usual eloquent ticket has been elected in Indiana. : and able -manner, Governor Jackson, whose election A e do not intend that any National Old Line had been claimed as a Douglas victory, was called Democrat shall have it in his power to shake his gory j upon the stand. To the astonishment of the friends locks at us and say, thou didst this! j of the little Giant present, he declared that he was a - - - i i warm .friend of Breckinridge, and approved his The TtiUTii Pi. vivi.y Uttered. We call atten- platform of principles. When the Governor declared tioii to the speech of the Hon, Isaac I. Stevens, at this, the great multitude of Breckinridge men became Frederick, Md.,. which appears on our first page. Mr. j almost wild with enthusiasm. The Governor explained Stevens is the Chairman of the National Democratic j how it was that he had given a little encouragement Committee, (favorable to the election of Breckin-' for the belief entertained that he was for Douglas. ridge and Lane.) at Washington. His speech will ! lie said it all nrnse nut. of the. mistakes of th( teln-

notwithstanding all the wind and gas which then es-

j caped from their lungs and pipes notwithstanding till the bluster and noise made about the " great triumph" of the squatter chief in Missouri, it turns out that bis friends and followers all went off at "half-cock." Claiborne F. Jackson, the Governor elect, came out in a speech at the Democratic State Convention, held at Jefferson City on the 21st inst, strongly aud decidedly for Breckinridge! At the conclusion of Senator Green's speech before that Convention, Gen. Itanney moved that Claiborne F. Jackson, who was present, be invited to speak. Great applause, and three cheers for Governor Jackson. Now, hear Governor Jackson's own words:

" Gov. Jackson said he came here with no expectation to speak. Ho was proud' to hear the unanimity with which they agreed upon the resolutions. They accorded with his sentiments, and for them he had fought as hard as any man in Miss0u.1L We may differ in opinion upon a mere question of fact, but the principles of these resolutions he pledged himself he would never betray. He differed with Judge Douglas

upon the Territorial question. lie had differed with other candidates for whom he had voted. When the news ot the Baltimore nominations reached him he was in the midst of a warm contest. He had not seen the official proceedings of the Convention which nominated Judge Douglas. A voice You never will. The proceedings w ere meager, and by telegraph, and lie relied upon t he statement of a member of the Convention and the facts before him. lie had a high admiration for Major Breckinridge, and knew him to be an honorable man and good Democrat Applause. He endorsed every resolution in the platform tipon which Breckinridge and Lane stand. flnunense

cheering, the Convention rising to its feet And as he said before, he would always defend them. Major lireckinridge teas his preference, lie. had said so all the time, and now repeated it. Tt was only a difference about a nomination a difference of fact He desired to see the party united; he went to St. Louis for that purpose, and to meet the Central Committee, lie wanted to see the Democracy harmonious. lie

owed his election to the supporters of both Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Douglas, and some of whom he saw in this Convention. He begged his Democratic friends to seek conciliation. They were all Democrats, and ho believed would come together if they were reasoned with in a spirit of calmness and forbearance. lie thanked the Convention for the honor it had done him in inviting him to address so large and respectable a body, and retired from the sland amidst deafening applause." At the close of Gov. Jackson's speech, he was surrounded by his particular friends, and greeted warmly by the hand. All felt that " Old Claib " was all right, and would henceforth act with the Democracy. The

baud struck up the lively air of " Few Days," and everybody felt that it would be only a " few days" before a glorious victory would be achieved for Breckinridge and Lane.

bo found extremely interesting.

Senator Bright at Greencastle. . This able and indefatigable supporter of the true Democratic platform made another powerful speech at Greencastle 011 Monday last. He literally stormed the Douglas castle at that place and took many pris-

graph out of the first reports sent out from Baltimore, that Douglas had been regularly nominated. Having subsequently heard the truth, and being convinced that there was no regular nominee in the field, he hail

j made up his mind to go for Breckinridge, on the ; ground of principle his platform being the one which i he had always supported, and the only sound Demo-. ' prat.ie nlatlhrni before the eonnti-v. When floi'e.rnor

oners captive, but liberated them all on their parole of' t 1 . , : e : ...,1 . 1 . . ... i Jackson got through, the simatter sovereign triends of honor. He give a brief sketch of his effort in ano-1 T, , t ' a- ,.i .... ,...c.

iuuuias present wcie juiil-i.ijj mujjiuuu wiiii luiiiusion, chagrin and mortification. They were altogether unprepared for such a turn in the tide of affairs. And then it was the turn of the Breckinridge men to cheer

ther column; but remember, it is only a sketch. The Great Demonstration.

The meeting on the 2th promises to be the most! 811(1 shout- an,J such a s,,out as weut UP from t,,at live imposing ever assembled in Indiana. The peoffle are i and vast mass of Democrats has not been heard since

j coming u-oui un pans ot ine otaie oy rauroau, in wag- the victory ot ijencral Jackson at JMow Orleans. 011s, 011 horseback, with banners and music, and all ; The Democratic legions in Missouri (savsthe St. i the emblems of popular enthusiasm. from other . .,.., ,. , , ," , ! quarters we hear of other imposing devices to express 1 "f B"lletln) arc m,w a''sed, and the war- ; the popular sympathies. S7e Sentinel. cry is already resounding throughout the extreme "Imposing d-cices," trulv ! The whole demonstra-; pwtionsof the Stft'c. Determined and reinvigorated, ! tion is based iijn a gro '" imposition." The people tl,e H''3 went wme t0 their constituents as good !n all parts of the Slate" and countrv, have been aml f"aitl,ful servants of the Democratic cause. All : " imposed on" by Douglas editors and speakers, and ; h;uI to tht! States' Ul,lts I"oeracy of Missouri ! ' told that Douglas and Johnson were the regular Dcm- j """" ocratic candidates for President and Vice President.! Wide AwakeS."

j The people, under this " imposition," are turning out j to honor those whom they consider to be the regular nominees of the party. But the Douglas editors and i speakers know that Douglas was not regularly nomin- ! ateu. They know that he did Rot get the two-Oiirds

vote which Polk, Cass, Pierce and Buchanan received when they were presented as the regular Democratic

candidates. They know that Douglas did not get even

Gen. Lane and Gov. B right at Terre Haute, These distinguished gentlemen arrived at Terre Haute on Monday night. The papers of that city say that they were "met at the depot by a band of music, and escorted to the Terre Haute Hotel, where a large concourse of citizens of all partes had met to do honor to one of Indiana's bravest sons. Gen. Lane being called for, appeared on the balcony and addressed the crowd, disclaiming any desire to make a political speech, as he thought it unbecoming in a candidate for President or Vice President to urge his own

claims.. "Senator Bright followed, in a few pertinent remarks, and was greeted with much applause." They left on the 11 o'clock train, for Vineennes, the same night

The Hartford Times says ihat the name "WideAwake" was the designation by which John Brown's company was known in Kansas, and was adopted in compliment to that "martyred hero." Mr. Seward said, also, in one of his late speeches, that the Wide Awake organization was relied on to assist at the inauguration of Lincoln a fact which has been before hin'ed. The Wide Awakes have a regular military drill, and an organization throughout the North. The

a majority of the votes of the real delegates in the j avowal of Mr. Seward proves that it is designed to National Convention, and that a large number of those support by f rco. if necessary to their plans, the measc ' ii.- i:.:... a 1.. .:. .. .: tl-

who voted for hiin were bogu delegates. Thev know : ' i'' . o.gnizai , , , . , . , , . , tion lias been effected under the disguise of campaign j that when this (Wyii0H was about to be practiced ,.,llb,. bt uni,er j,,;, (lis?llisCi lhfi Abolitioni-ts of the upon the Convention, m arly all the delegates from North ait) at this moment completely organized as a j the Democratic States left the Convention in Balli-; milit'iry Iwlg ou'side of the, late ! j more, proceeded to the Maryland Institute, and nom- I3 not such a movement well calculated to fire the i inated John- C. Breckinridge for President, and Southern mind, coming, as it does, so soon after John J Joseph Lane for Vice President They know that Brotrn'$ raid in Virginia f Can the people of the 1 Johnson, the 'Douglas candidate for Vh e President' South lie cxw-cfed to stand etill and keep their tern-, i was not nominated at all at Baltimore, even by the j ier under su.-h provocation t Should we wonder if

country, to rally under our standard, and contend j bogus delegates there in att-nd iii-e ; but that he was they arm, also, in order to be prepared for another as-

with os lor the equality of the States rallv around

our candidates, and let us elect Breckinridge and Lane. I am much obliged to you, fellow-citizens, for your kind atteut"on, and will close mv remarks.

TO CORRESPONDENTS. We solicit our friends in all parts of the Slate to faorv us occasionally with communications short, but to the poiut so that - the public may be informed of the strength and spirit of the Bkeckimudge movement iu tills State.

nominated bv tro men onlv, in a drinkinir saloon at mm!i mvin their wiil w.-ll as niion their institntinn?

w 1 - 1 Wa-hinglon. after Mr. Fiizpatrick had declined the' Should we wonder if they drill, too, in every South. hogns nomination for that office. The S-ntiifl, there-; ern StaU to keep up with this "military My" (of fore, very, properly says tliat this "great demonstra-j Wide Awakes) which hasorganized-'oxfiV. -ofthtlatrf tion on the 2H:h promises to be the most imposing one What will be the conseqnrnce, if these Wide Awake ever assembled in Indian." But the Democracy of supporters of Lincoln sliouM, in eae of his election, Indiana are gradually and steadily wak'u.g up to the j march to Washington and take part in his inaiiguraIn position, " as the Democracy of MLs.souri and other tion ? Will it not be siitlkicnt canst: to excite the

The Warfare upon Douglas. The warfare upon Mr. Douglas by the friends of Breckinridge is personal, for be cannot be charged with unsoundness in his political sentiments without condemning the political orthodoxy of every Democrat who supported Mr. Buchanan in lS5ti.' Is there any justice in striking a man down to gratify the personal animosities and disappointed hopes of men who desire to wield the Democratic party for their own advancement? State Sentinel. "Personal animosities," do you say? Look at the United States Senate ! Look at the House of Representatives ! See if you cannot find some Democrats there, who know what is " political orthodoxy " as well as you. See if you can find a single Democratic

member of the Senate, except Pugh, to agree with you. See if you can find more than a corporal's guard of the members of the House, elected as Dem

ocrats, to sustain what you say. Are all the Democratic members of both houses of Congress governed by "personal animosities" against Douglas? Are all the Democratic Representatives of the whole country influenced by "disappointed hopes " in their "warfare" upon him? Do you really think that old General Cass, now bordering on thp age of three score and ten, with bis mind fixed more upon a future world than this, is actuated by such "personal" considerations? Do you think that all the illustrious members of the Cabinet, as well as the President, are disposed

; to "strike down" any man, in order to promote "their j own advancement?" Can the President be "adI ranccd" to any higher position under our Government

j than the one he already fills ? Yet all these distinj gui.-hed members of the legislative anil executive dct partiucnts all these representatives of the Deinocracy of the Nation are found in a compact body

against Douglas and Johnson, and in favor of Breckinridge and Lane! There was a time when such distinguished statesmen were thought to be the endiod-

; imrnls of principle when they were considered to be i reliable exponents of true Democratic principle. i But Hiicc the advent of Stephen A. Douglas, as the J bogus candidate of the squatter sovereigns, he alone

has become the sole depository of the pure article. ...... The Committee of Fifteen. The Committer of Fifteen, appointed in pursuance of a resolution adopted at the recent great Union

Meeting in New York, to make a Union electoral J ticket, met on Saturday lo receive a rejKirt from the i sub-Committee on the selection of names for that puri pose, but the sub-Committee bad not completed their

work. They announced, however, that thev would

the little Sucker against the great Kentucky states

man, we have copied several paragraphs from Mr. Thompson's speech for his especial benefit. We doubt not he will eagerly lay it before his readers, coming, as it does, from one in whom every true Bell man places the utmost confidence. Correspondence of the Louisville Courier.' Ji:rFEUsoNVil.l.E, Lr., Sept. 22, 18G0. Last evening the Hon. It. W. Thompson, of Terre Haute, made an address to our citizens on the political topics now agitating the public mind. Your city papers had a notice of the meeting, but it was accompanied with no flourish of trumpets, consequently Ave saw but few of the Bell men of Louisville at the meeting. If they had been here they would have heard some things that would have afforded them food for thought.

The speech of Mr. Thompson was very long, somewhat rambling, and at times exceedingly eloquent. lie is unquestionably the best stump speaker, and the ablest man the Bell-Everelt party have in their ranks. Thompson is evidently a Bell man from principle a real old line Whig, and he very clearly gave the fusion men to understand that he was not in the market for sale. , The first part of Mr. Thompson's speech was devoted chiefly to an examination and vindication, first of himself and his political course, and secondly of the principles and policy of the old Whig party. He. claims that that parly was the party of patriotism and conservatism, and still the party of progress; and, moreover, that he would not consent to be tied to the coat-tail of Mr. Douglas or the Douglas parly, at the dictation of the politicians of Kentucky, or the politicians of New York. " I went to Baltimore," said Mr. Thompson, "to take part in the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency, intending to stand by the nomination

when made in good faith. Unit conven'ictn was a noble gathering of patriots from every section of the country, and fhey nominated candidate's evcy way worthy of our support. Bell and Everett are national and conservative men, and we are pledged by every principle of honor to give them a hearty and united support on the principles laid down in our noble platform' The Constitution, the Union, and the Enforcement of the Laws." We cannot, in honor, as old line Whigs and conservative men, fuse with our life-long enemies, and go over in a body to the support of Squatter Sovereignty, and the author of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Tho.-e of my Whig friends in New York, or on the other side of the river, who choose to adopt this policy, must do so on their own responsibility, but most certainly Dick Thompson is not goiug to take that course under the pressure of the silly cry of its being necessary to 'save the UTnion.' "They tell me, now, that I am a traitor to the cause. Well, gentlemen, if to be for Bell first, Bell last, and Bell all the time, is treason to Mr. Bell, or the cause of the Union, then I am a traitor, and those who don't like my course must make the best of it Why, gen

tlemen, I see by the papers that a number of very respectable gentlemen of New York, headed by Gov. Hunt many of whom took part in the nomination of Mr. Bell now propose that all of us Old Line Whigs, Americans and Democrats shall abandon our party platfoims and form one grand LTnion organization, having for its object the defeat of Mr. Lincoln. Why, gentlemen, what would this amount to ? It would be simply a confession not only of our own weakness, but of our own wrong. It would be to yield everything like principle, and to sacrifice even our honor, at the risk of offending many friends of outparty for whom I have the highest personal regard. I cannot be a party to any such arrangement. Mr. Thompson then wenton to say that in 1856, his friends on the other side of the river advised, persuaded, and caused the Fillmore men to vote for Morton, the Republican candidate for Governor, for the purpose of breaking up the Democracy, and now they were using every means in their power to induce the Bell men so to vote as to defeat Henry S. Lane, a far more conservative man than Morton, and a good Old

Line lug at that; while Judge Morton was well known to be a Free-Soil Democrat " How is it possible, said Mr, Thompson, ''that wo can, as a party, expect the support of the conservative men of the country if we permit ourselves to become the mere foot ball of the corrupt politicians of the old parties, in the manner proposed ? For my own part," continued Mr. T., " in 1856 I did not vote at all for Governor, and in 1800 I intend to vote for H. S. Lane, whom I have known for many years as a whole-souled Whig, and with whom I formerly served in Congress but you, gentlemen, who differ with sic, may all vole as you please; I shall not attempt lo persuade you." , Mr. Thompson then gave his views of the various candidates for the Presidency, and spoke in high terms of our own noble standard bearer, John C. Breckinridge. He said he knew Mr. Breckinridge 'personally, and although he differed with him politically as much as it was possible for one-public man to differ from

another, yet he knew Major Breckinridge lobe a gen

tleman, a scholar, and a true patriot, lie did not be

lieve a moment that Mr. Breckinridge was a disunionist. It was perfect folly and the merest deniagoguery to make a political party responsible for the idiosyncracies and follies of all its members, much less lo

make its candidate responsible therefor, "lou say," continued Mr. Thompson, "that there are disunionisls supporting Mr. Breckinridge; certainly there are; but are they not mainly the very same individuals who supported the Democratic candidates in -18.56, and would not Mr. Douglas, if he had received the regular nomination of his party, have been glad fo have received the supiort of those very same disunionists V"

Stales have done. And it is likely that before the . whole Southern people to madness? Yefc no matter I prepared to present the ticket on Monday last NovwiilK-r election comes on, the whole monftra-l How nm -h titer may 1 proceed and jwW, Douglas It nas not Jpti l,owt.Tt ri appeared in the New York tion" for Douglas and John-on will rzle ou. j ays he will ly JJnrot at all hztrdi ! , jr.

CSuch of our Foreign born friends as have been deluded into the support of Stephen A. Douglas, and thus form a part of the Know Nothing organization, ought to put themselves in communication with some spiritual medium. They may then ascertain the views and feelings of those innocent Irish and German men, women and children who were murdered, and then burned at their own firesides, at Louisville, towards those, who are now advising the fusion with the Doii"-

'as and Bell parties in Indiana. The liberties of our people are never usurped by one act, but by a series of acts step by step the foreign born citizens may pass over to those who have heretofore been their deadly political foes, if they do not exercise proper vigilance. Adopted citizens! it behooves you to watch, with an unfaltering eye, the demasogues who now seek to lead you to your own destruction. Beware of the actors in the scenes of "Bloexly Monday" and their Douglas coadjutors! f-y Let us admit, fur argument's sake, says the Louisville Courier, that the supporters of Bkkckikiuih;e and Lank arc bolters that they are not Democrats. Let us suppose, further, that Douglas is the onlv pure Democrat in the country, and that he will be elected President How, then, would it stand? There would not lie one tingle Democrat in the S nate of the l'tiied States.' Pugh, the only supporter Douglas has in the body of which he is a member, w ill go out on the 5th of March. If the Do,iglaitcs were right in saying that Bright and Fitch, anil Hunter, and such men as they, are not Democrat, Douglass, being defeated, as he will be, in bis wild goose rhae after the Presidency, would be the only Democrat out of sixty-six Senators.