Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1860 — Page 1

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r H H THE CONSTITUTION, THE UNION, AND THE EQUALITY OF THE STATES!

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THE OLD LINE GUARD. IS IUJHI.lSHKn 1 K I I A X A P O I. IS, INDIANA, HV ELDEII k HAUKJiESS. AT . .....i i ,.f.er tlie Presidential Election. t.OO, uniii" . ! Iu advance, in all eases. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. O- The following is from the pen of a naturalized Irish Catholic citizen, of nearly forty years residence in Kentucky one who has never given other than a Democratic vote, and who has helped to defeat other rebellious and treacherous aspirants to the Presidency than Douglas. It is from the Louisville Courier. The Know-Nothings' Appeal for Irish Votes. Am Patrick's Day. Och ! Patrick, mavourneeri, we first tried to coax you, And then we used blarney, but could not succeed ; Next we proscribed vou. brass knuck'd, stabb d, and shot you, .; ........ i I And swore by High Heaven 'gam your couuu, ... ; " With malignant hope, : I We lied on the Pope ; . . '; From our lodges we drove Whigs with Catholic wives; . Those born on our sou, As well as your Isle. ','", Oh ! we branded as slaves to the " despot of Rome ; Even those who had bleu, our near coin...; Till Democracy triumphed, and said you re at home, ( " In the land of the free, and the home of the brave. But now that our name of Know-Nothing is odious, And Oppositionists smells of Sam's carcass, yet raw, AVe will try to cajole you with sounds more melodious, " The Union, Constitution, and enforcement ot law, Seceders, we'll shout ! Disunion we'll scout ! And warn, as of old, against " Danger in the Dark With Douglas our tool, Kentucky we'll rule Och ! Pat, don't you see how the Squatters are crowin", , . i ..... T.. . u. ,.:,.nml. nf fVunha in our State: Ana rejoice o ei luu n . And how Combs, in his turn with heart overflowing, j To his dear Douglas " brethren gives uihk w. . cheat? Now Prentice and Harney hold Union church meetings, "" Where once rang, re-echoed, " Papists to hell And both ordain preachers for district peace-greetings, And a new Douglas clapper is hung to our Bell. Seceders, we'll ring ! And Union we'll sing ! While our allies and " brethren" of sonorous voice, Must leadjn the song I will coax them along. . And thus our old foe, by John Breckinridge headed, On the fifth of November we'll sweep from the State; For rebels like Douglas can always, when needed, Be used to defeat those whom they can't cheat. Now Patrick, my darling, you know that the spaniel Will lick first the foot that has given him a kick ; Though once we chastised and then drove to their kennel, Your leeejfc-NATiVF. brethren, they're returned to us sick .' The secession cant, And disunion rant, They peddle and sing now like Samite or Squatter; Combs spake, they cried! And then we allied .' Against Breck and Joe Lane, Och ! we'd vote for the " " divel! ' For rebels and factions are sure to unite ; So Patrick unite, now if so, we'll be civil, And our lodges, henceforth, will be held in daylight. Union Saver. . Louisville, Aug: 10, 1830. The Flag of our Party. Air: " Star-Spangled Banner. O say, do you see, as it floats on the breeze, Tlie emblem we hail of our country's salvation? On its broad folds inscribed, amidst stars all ablaze, The time-honored motto of a great and free nation. "E Pluribus Fnum" aye, true "we are one," And the only free people the sun shines upon; 'Tis the flag of our party! full high let it wave. For Breckinridge and Lane, ever gallant and brave. On the stump may be seen, through the mists of the strife, :. . The foe's saucv leaders their followers haranguing; Each Arnold-like traitor cries, "War to the knife," All those who oppose them most foully be-s!anging. And they echo their lies from the earth to the skiesSuch folly and falsehood all good men despise ; But the flag of our party! full high shall it wave For Breckinridge and Lane, ever gallant and brave. And where is that band, ever glorious and true, When danger besets and high courage is needed j To the good ship of State, both commander and crew C, Hark I tlie watcliwom is given snau . jws u heeded ? . i "Breckinridge and Lane . let us echo again, ! Their honor untarnished, their fame free of stain ; j Then the flagjof our party ! triumphant shall wave ' Jor statesmen ana neroes, me goou, wise, uu uia.c O thus be it ever true patriots will stand, Between our loved homes and a traitor's ambition ; From Breckinridge and Lane may our boasted free land Receive of their wisdom the fullest fruition. Then conquer we must, since our cause it is jus! In Breckinridge and Lane we may well put our trust; And the flag of our party! in victory shall wave "O'er the land of the free and the homo of the brave.

t 1 TOR lDcn o and replying to accusations, it seeing strange iiiai ue DoUglaSISm in lOO and IbU btrange has no ken notice of the direct and unequivocal; Consistency. ' ' statement recently made by Mr. Trumbull in one of his Illinois speeches, to the effect that he (Mr. Doug-; It will ot be denied for a moment, that the doctrine las) had proposed to give his adhesion to the Black j of squatter sovereignty means that a Territorial Le-: Republican party, on condition that he should receive ., , ' 1 , !,.,. ,.., ,.i, the suniKirt of that party in his canvass tor re-election gislature has the power to exclude slavery from su h ThJ no mere wxrr mmor.territory. It is also a well known fact that all the , It is a stat.mont deliberately made, in reply to a disDouglas jiapers South, as well as all the stump orators ; tinct question by Mr. Douglas' colleague in the Sen-1 of the Douglas party, claim that the Nebraska bill ate. We have preferred not to notice the fact before j " , 1 l t i . thi moment, because we presumed that Mr. Douglas. eon t ns souatter sovereignty, as enunciated ov Jii'lge ""u , r , , 1 ,. e, .. f . v.- , would at once meet and attempt to repel it; but since, Douglas: and by him and his followers the National )? has nQt yet done we think we are perfectly ju,-! Democracy are abused and villified by every vile epi- tified in placing it on record as a portion of the unconthet, such as "Danites," "disorganizers,""disunionists,, troverted political history of the times. j &C because tliey do not support Douglas and give Here follows the statement of Mr. Trumbull,! their assent to this abominable doctrine. In his CinJ wliiola has been heretofore published in the Old Line cinnati speech, Mr. Douglas said : ; Guard. Examine the bilhs and search the records, and vou ment comes ;n , form so minnte and cir-' will find that the great principle which underlies amw&nnal, it is so thoroughly consistent with the par-! those measure is the right of the people of each Mate .a, relatiin, made br ,ir. Rellore last winter, andj and each Territory, while a Territory, to dwide the t br Mr. Dw.aU, at ihe pe-j slavery question for themselves. riod referred to. that it bears on its face tlie indications ' We haTe examined the records and can find n,ith- cf probability. That probability is strengthened into; in therein to how that Congress in that bill ever in-' certainty, now that the assertion ha been MiflVred to

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speak for itself :

Extracts fkom the Congressional Globe, I First Session of Thiktv-thikd congress, f- pages 434, 519 and 20.FkurUaby 1G,1854. -j Tlie Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, re- ! suuied the consideration of the bill to organize the ! Territory of Nebraska; the pending question being on the amendment submitted on the 15th inst. by Mr. ruuao tn nriii tn t in 14.H1 see ion ot t ie substitute re portod from the Committee on Territories, as amended the morion of Mr. Domrlas. the words : nn the motion of Mr. Domrlas. the words : j " Under which the people of a Territory, .through I their appropriate representatives, if they see fit, may ! prohibit the existence of slavery therein." So that part of the section relating to that matter would read : That the Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally applicable, shall have the same force and efTect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which being inconsistent with tlie principles of non-intervention by Congress with slavery iu the States and Territories, as recognized by the Legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it ilii.rr.fmni: but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in j r:uA ctof l'ur wMpl'i tlm tieonh; of a Territory. their own way. sumect only to me onstuuuoit w m . , - i' i i -i. l.. -i,. t, Kc ntadves, may, if they see fit, prohibit the existence of slavery therein. March 2, 1854, the vote was taken on the above -Mi-Mn anj wgnlted as follows : Y Ar..vs. Chase. Dodsre of Wisconsin, lesj senden, Fish, Foot, Hamlin, Seward, Smith, Sumner, i and Wade 10. Adams. Atchison. Badirer. Bell, Benjamin, Brodhead, Brown, Butler, Clay, Clayton, Dawson, Dixon, Dodge of Iowa, Doiglas, Evans, Fitzpatriek, (iwin, Houston, Hunter, Johnson, Jones of Iowa. Jones of Tennessee, Mason, Morton, Norris, IVtit, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Shields, Slidell, Stewart, Toucey, Walker, Weller and AVilliams 3G. Mr, Douglas now insists that the construction of nine Republican Senators, attempted in 1854 to be put upon the Nebraska bill, is the true Democratic construction. The Contrast. The action of the two wings of the Democratic party indicates very clearly which is the true Dcmocratic party, and which is disposed to maintain in their integrity the time-honored principles of the Democracy. . Wherever the Douglasites have possessed numerical strength, they have excluded the friends of Breckinridge from any participation in the proceedings of theiHConventions, and have formally read them out of the party. The friends of Maj. Breckinridge have pursued a precisely opposite policy ; they have sought to re-unite the party on a basis of union satisfactory and honorable to ail. They have extended the olive branch of peace to the friends of Mr. Douglas, but their overtures for conciliation have been indignantly spurned and rejected. In Pennsylvania, the regular State Central Committee a majority of whom are the supporters of Breckinridge on the disruption of the party at Baltimore, proposed that the electoral ticket selected previous to the disruption of the party, should be sustained, both by the supported of Breckinridge and Douglas. There was no irregularity in the selection of the electoral ticket ; it was composed alike of friends of Breckinridge and Douglas. A cordial union upon it of all the parties opposed to the Black Republicans, would, beyond doubt, have secured its success. The Douglas men, however, rejected the proposition, and nominated a straight-out Douglas ticket not with any hope of securing the State for Douglas, but for the sole purpose of dividing and defeating the Democracy. In New York even the friends of Mr. Douglas conceded the necessity of united action against the Black Republicans, and a proposition allowing ten electors to Breckinridge was acceded to by a subcommittee of Douglasites. Douglas, however, about the time the union was being consummated, visited New York, and his friends, acting under his advice, rejected the proposition of the friends of Mr. Breckinridge, the only result of which can be to ensure the defeat of the Democracy in that State. The same spirit seems to have actuated the Douglas men of Kentucky in the recent State election. In Clatn thax- nnt nnlv nhandnnpd tllft Democratic ItlUV IIlt,., n.iJ H. v.t.j " party, and bolted the regular nominations, but at a single stride landed themselves in the camp of the oppositionists. How different has been the course of the friends oi Maj. Breckinridge ! In New York and Indiana they offered to the Douglas men honorable terms of union. The propositions were rejected. In Pennsylvania they pursued the same policy of conciliation, and offered terms upon whieh both parties might have successfully united ; but again the Douglas men re jected the overtures tor uniteu action against, me xiacK Republicans. In Tennessee, where the friends of Major Breckinridge have a large and unquestioned majority, desirrous for securing the harmony of the party, they have placed two of the supporters of Mr. Douglas on the electoral ticket. a,nvention for the purpose of harmonizing art an(1 thereby securing the success of our A proposition has recently been made in Kentucky thgt The jy Democrat, the chief orran of Douglas in the South, however, opposes j the it;0 anJ acciares iu determination to op- ' tarm, f u,wc.Pn the friends of Dousrand 3;,,. in this State, the Douglasites have formally read the friends of Mr. Breckinridge I ' out of the party. I i If the Democratic party is defeated, it will be by ! the reckless "rule or ruin" policy of Douglas and his ' friends. They have rejected all overtures, for union ; j I if we are defeated, they, and they alone, will have to bear the fearful responsibility. Cincinnati Courier. I Mr. Douglas as a Black Republican. 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pass uncontradicted through the country. It can not be doubted by any impartial man, that Mr. Douglas did really attempt to barter away his principles, or what little remnant of them ho had left, in return for a seat in the Senate, to be conferred by Black Republican votes. - Had the Black Republicans thought the game worth the candle had they not been fully convinced that the power of their numbers -was great enough to secure them a victory throughout the North without the necessity of purchasing the trifling support which Douglas could bring, to them Mr. Douglas would bo now a vigorous, if not an earnest, laborer in the Black Republican field. Mr. Slidell's prophecy, that in one vear Mr. Douglas would be found in the ranks of the Black Republican party, rests upon the incontrovertible basis of the Illinois Senator's past history and political conduct New Orleans Delta. The Man who Made the Douglas Platform Expounds it. It is unnecessary to introduce Governor Robert C. WieklilVe, of Louisiana, to our readers. They all know him. He it was who added the Southern plank to the Douglas platform at Baltimore. He, like Soule, is beyond all question a Squatter leader. He, beyond all question, knows what are the real feelings of the Douglas party in regard to a dissolution of the Union, and has a right to express them. Let him tell us what he thinks of the Union. We quote from his Inaugural Address, an official document: "I do not wish to speak lightly of the Union ; next to the liberty of the citizen and the sovereignty of the States, I regard it as the ' primary object of patriotic desire.' It should be dear to us as a sentiment, and dearer to us for its real value. But it cannot have escaped observation that the hold which this Union once had upon the affections of the South has been materially weakened, and that its dissolution is now frequently spoken of, if not with absolute levity, yet with positive indifference, and occasionally as desirable. ..... " Some thirty years ago, when a distinguished citizen of the United States said it was time to calculate the value of the Union, a general burst of indignation throughout the country was the patriotic response. Now, good men and wise men do calculate the value of the Union, and the public heart does not seem to be aggrieved by the comparatively low estimate that is 'sometimes placed upon it." Good men and wise men do calculate the value of the Union, and sometimes put a comparatively low estimate upon it do they V But hear him again lie invites an unlawful combination of the slave States for resistance to the Federal Government: " Unless the progress of this insanity is checked, the Union will soon be a matter of history. Unity of action on the part of the South a determination, calmly made and fearlessly executed, to permit no further encroachments, can alone perpetuate the Union of these States: and THAT UNION IS NOT WORTH PRESERVATION if we of the South are to be incessantly engaged, in and out of Congress, in defending ourselves from the attacks of those who use the Union as a means of assault upon us. " It has, therefore, become the painful duty of every slave State distinctly to declare that no further aggression will be permitted, and to invite the co-operation of every State in vindicating to the LAST EXTREME the rights secured by the Constitution, and which are immeasurably of more value than the Constitution itself." Hear him once more. He becomes rampant for a dissolution a postponement of it may make ourselves and our children the meanest of vassals : " It is worse than useless to disguise from ourselves the tendency of events. Heretofore, the safety of the South has been in party ; now its only hope of safety is in party; Ictus aim "at a higher security, and that without a change in the Constitution, can be found only, in, at least, an equilibrium in the Senate. The North struggles to destroy the equilibrium that she may have a like ascendancy in every branch of the Government : we must have power somewhere to protect ourselves. The North demands superiority, not for its protection, but for our Union. Whenever, therefore, it shall be made to appear that we are not permitted to guard ourselves from wrong ; whenever it shall be made appear that no more, slave States are to be admitted into the Union the time for a SEPARATION will have arrived ! Postpone it, and it maybe impossible ; ourselves and our children may become the meanest of vassals under the forms of Constitutional law, and we shall have forfeited deservedly our heritage of freedom, and the memory of our ancestors be but the brand of our own shame." The " Scarlet Letter" pales to a milky hue beside the fierce disunionisin of the maker of the Douglas platform. The awful Yancey the dreaded Yancey the frightful Yancey that sits like a nightmare on the popular mind, becomes quite tame and insipid when placed side by side with one of the great leaders of the Douglas party .-Frankfort Yeoman. THE CHANCESJN CONGRESS. FACTS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS! AND FIGURES DON'T LIEU Democrats! read what follows, and heedless of the clamor of demagogues, decide for yourselves which of the tickets now 111 the field has the best chance of being elected over the Black Republican candidates. Article XII of the amendments to the U. S. Constitution prescribes the mode of election, viz: Article XII. The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themsolves. They shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots, the pereon voted for as Vice President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as "President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each ; which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have snch majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But, in choosing the President, the vote shall be taken by States the representation from each State having one vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives "shall not choose a President whenever the right of justice shall devolve uxin them, before the 4th day of March next following, then the Vice President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President. A quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. The 36 th Congress, upon whom this election would devolve under the Constitution, is already elected. The politics and preferences of iis members are well known. We subjoin what would ! the rvmilt .if- a

ballot for President, and Vice President, if the election gets into Congress: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. B11ECKINHIDE STATES.

Alabama, - Mississippi, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana. Missouri, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, . Virginia, Total, 13. LINCOLN STATES. New Jersev, New York', Ohio, Connecticut, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin. Total, 15. DOUGLAS STATES, Illinois. Total, 1. BELL STATES. Tennessee. Total, 1. STATES DIVIDED. Kentucky, .Maryland, Between Breck. and Boll. North Carolina, I Total, 3. THE SENATE. BRECKINRIDGE STATES. Alabama, Missouri. Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, ' Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. Total, 10. LINCOLN STATES. New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin. Total, 10. DOCGI.AS STATES. None. BELL STATES. None. STATES EQUALLY DIVIDED. Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania. Total, 7. Or in the manner in which the Senate elects giving to each Senator a vote we have the following result : For Joseph Lane 3 For Hannibal Hamlin,.... .............. .25 For Ilerschcl V, Johnson .................. 2 For Edward Everett. 2 Therefore it is apparent that Breckinridge can be elected in the House, if the votes of Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina, only four slave States, are "added to what he has already, and the gallant General Lane can carry the Senate as it stands against Hamlin, Johnson, and Everett combined. "While it is equally true that Bell and Douglas together have not the strength to get a majority for either in the House no, not even if all the Southern States were to lend them their undivided vote ! Upon what ticket, then, should the South concentrate its strength to beat Lincoln and Hamlin? Missouri Democratic State Convention. Col. Snyder, from the Committee on Resolutions, reported the following: Whereas, The National Democratic Convention which assembled at Charleston in April last, and ad journed to Baltimore, failed to nominate candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States, according to the rules there adopted, ami the usages of the party; and Whereas, The delegates to that Convention eparated, and formed two Conventions, each presenting to the country candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, and a platform of principles, thereby leaving to the people their choice of candidates and principles to represent them, we, therefore, declare as follows: ... First, That we still adhere with unfaltering fidelity to the principles of Constitutional Government which the Democratic party has ever upheld principles which were laid down in the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1 798-99 ; which were ably expounded by Mr. Madison in his report to the Legislature of Virginia; which were carried by Thomas Jefferson into the Federal Government; which were faithfully acted upon by the long line of Democratic Presidents who succeeded the great founders of the party; which were endorsed and illustrated by Andrew Jackson, and which, recognizing and upholding as they do, the equality of the States, and the equal rights of the citizens of the several States, will, if faithfully adhered to, not only perpetuate the Union of the States, but disseminate its blessings equally and beneficially tlirnurliniit the borders of the Confederacy. Second, Upon the subject of slavery in the Territo ries the question wlucli lea to tne disruption 01 ine National Convention the Democratic party of Missouri holds the same principles that we field in 1849, when we, with marked unanimity, declared, through our representatives in the Legislature, that "the right to prohibit slavery in any Territory belongs exclusively to the people tliereof','and can only be exercised by them in forming their Constitution for a State Government, or in their sovereign capacity.as an independent State." We hold the same principles that we held in 1852 and 185G, when we made substantially the same declaration through our State Convention. We hold the same principles which we held in 1859, as unanimously declared by our representatives in the Legislature by solemn resolutions, and reaffirm, and continue to stand upon the platform of principles adopted by the State Convention assembled at Jefferson City, in Anril. 18G0: and we declare our unaltered and stead fast devotion to, and endorsement of, the platform re- j ported bv the majority of the Committee at the! Charleston Convention, and subsequently adopted by the National Democratic Convention assembled at the j Man land Institute, in Baltimore, in June last. j Believing that John C. Breckinridge and Joseph j Lane, nominated by the representatives of the Demo-j cratic States of the Uuiou, for President and Vice j President, will faithfully and zealously enforce these ; principles in the administration of government, wej unhesitatingly accept them as the candidates of the , Democracy of Missouri in the pending Presidential ! canvas. The resolutions were received with loud applause,: and were passed unanimously. The Result. That the State Convention has gjven the death-blow i to squatter sovereignty in Missouri is obvious to every j one. The Douglasites themselves admit the fact by j their disconsolate faces and dejected bearing: while ; the jubilant countenances and smiling looks of the j Democracy attest their confident belief that Missouri -will give her electoral vote, without any doubt, to the i Democratic candidate, John C. Breckinridge. The sharp-sighted RepuUicans pen-eive it too. and eek to

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arrest the danger by appealing to the Douglasites to make with them one common effort to defeat the Democracy, by a union upon Lincoln of the entire free soil sentiment of the State. We have alwavs feared that this would be the final - result of Doiiglasism, and that every advocate of squatter sovereignty would sooner or later find himself in the Black Republican ranks. Our fears are being realized soonet than we anticipated. The squatters, despairing of success with Douglas, are already betaking themselves in crowds to Lincoln; and we foar very much that the latter will not only lead Douglas iu Missouri, but poll a very heavy vote thirty thousand, at least. AVe appeal to our friends, every where, to be on the alert; to direct their attacks against this new and now more dangerous foe; to persuade every true Democrat, who has been deceived into the support of Douglas by the false cry of " regular nominee," to come to the support of the only Democratic candidate; the only man that can defeat Lincoln; the only candidate who is true to the Constitution. St. Louis Bulletin. . First Principles. The Richmond Enquirer has published the following paragraph : . ' The Democratic party, with John C. Breckinridge as its standard-bearer, occupies precisely the same position that it occupied in 1800, with Mr. Jefferson as -its standard-bearer. It adheres rigidly to fir't principles to the Constitution, in the letter and spirit in which it was adopted." And it is this which has ever given to the Democratic party its unity, strength and perpetuity. At the outset of our Government, the people became divided in opinion as to how the Constitution should be interpreted. Some were for a Constitution which tended to draw into the vortex of Congressional legislation, subjects foreign o its original intent, to centralize and consolidate the government of the States. Others were for a construction prohibiting Congress from the exercise of doubtful powers, and confining its action to such as were expressly granted to it by the Constitution. These received the name of Democrats ; their opponents were called Federalists. The doctrine of strict construction has ever been the characteristic doctrine of the Democratic party, It has always adhered to this line of policy which, in repeated instances, has been demonstrated as the true policy by which our government should be administered. One of the most remarkable instances occurred during the administration of Andrew Jackson. Previous toliis inauguration, Congress had run riot in the exercise of unoonstitutional "powers. It had usurped the reserved rights of the States, and was legislating on matters belonging exclusively to them.. The independence of the States was fast merging into a centralized and consolidated government, entirely different from what was intended by tho original compact. An immense systerii of internal improvements had been planned, "and was being carried into execution. To sustain this, an oppressive and unconstitutional tariff was imposed. The public debt became largely increased. Jackson perceived the mischief and foresaw the evil consequences that would ensue. He determined to bring the government back to its legitimate action, to restore the old policy of the Democratic partv from which the government had departed. He used the powers which the Constitution conferred upon the executive tor this very purpose. He vetoed their unconstitutional acts. For this he was niOst bitterly assailed. But the attention of the people having been thereby called to an examination of the first principles of "our government and the. rightful powers of Congress, he was triumphantly sustained. The policy of the Democratic party became vindicated and the party strengthened. Standing upon an enduring basis, it has, with slight interruptions, continued the dominant and ruling party of the country. Again is the Democratic party called upon to vindicate the equity and justice of their time-honored policy. At length has the vexed question of the power of Congress and of Territorial Legislatures over the subject'of slavery found its solution in the decision of the Supreme Court. By a recurrence to first principles, and with a single' eye to the Constitution, the Court, has determined the question. With alacrity the true Democracy takes the position pointed out by this tribunal. There they will continue to stand until victory shall perch upon their standard and all persons disobedient to the behests of their government be brought to yield to its beneficent sway. Detroit Democrat. Points Established by the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. Iu the 19th vol. of Howard's Reports, page 895, a syllabus of the Dred Scott decision, embracing the points established by the Court, is given in the following words: " 1st. The Territory thus acquired, is acquired by the people of the United States for their common and equal benefit, through their agent and tiustee the Federal Government. Congress can exercise no power over the rights of persons or property of a citizen in the Territory which is prohibited by the Constitution. The Government and the citizen, whenever the Territory is open to settlement, both enter with their respective rights defined and limited by the Constitution. 2d. Congress has no right (o prohibit citizens of any particular State or States from taking up their homes there, while it permits citizens of other States to do so. Nor has it a right to give privileges to one class of citizens which it refuses (o another. The Territory is acquired for their equal and common benefit, and if open to any, it must be open to all upon equal and the same terms. , . 3d. Every citizen has a right to take with him into the Territory any article of proj)erty which the Constitution of the United States recognizes as property. 4th. The Constitution of the United States recognizes slaves as property, and pledges the Federal Government to prolect it. And Congress cannot exercise anv more authority over property of that description than it may constitutionally exercise over property of any other kind. 5th. The act" of Congress, therefore, prohibiting a citizen of the United States taking with him his slaves when he remove? to a Territory in question to reside, is an exercise of authority over private property which is not warranted bv the Constitution, and the removal of the plaintiff, by his owner, to that Territory, gave him no title to freedom. . 6th. While it remains a Territory, Congress maylegislate over it within the scope of its constitutional powers, in relation to citizens of the United States, and may establish a Territorial Government, and the form of this local government must be regulated by the discretion of Congress; but with powers not exceeding those which Congress itself, by the Constitution, is authorized to exercise over citizens of the United States, in respect to their rights of property. Senator B jujamin, in his speech of May 22d, 1 860. says that this syllabus was prepared and written out bv Judjie Tancv hiuuili'. ELECTION TICKETS. In replv to several inquiries, we will etate, that we are prepared to print tickets for State. Congrenonal. and Couutv officers, on good paper, for $3.00 lor tke first thousand, and S2-00 for each additional thousand. Orders received one day, can be returned by express the day following. If orders are sent, be particular to write each name plain and distinct, so that there can be no mistake. All orders must be accompanied wuh the money, to receive attention. Addrew, ELDER & HARKNESs till oct. U lxtiAaroi i.