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honest way to settle this controversy about equal rights in the Territories is, that the popular sovereignty3 which can take away property, begins only when a Constitution is formed, ami then it may abolish slavery, because they can provide a remedy. This they cannot do while they are a Terrritory. And every honest man will see that this is the reason why they should not have the power to abolish slavery because they cannot make any recompense. A Territorial Legislature cannot spend a dollar without a law of Congress authorizing the expenditure, by a specific appropriation; they cannot appoint an officer but by consent of Congress ; they cannot pay a salary without the approval of the President; they cannot settle the per diem of their own body without the order of Congress, and all accounts" of expenditures must be audited by the petty accounting officers at Washington. Is that popular sovereignty? Is such -an infant government to take away-private property without the power of compensation? THE DEAL ISSUE IN THIS ELECTION. But, after all, these issues are not the real issue that is before us in this Presidential election. Why .don't the statesmen leave off wrangling and look it in the face? The real issue is : Shall the federal government be re-organized upon the principle of hostility to the social organization of fifteen S;atcs of this Union ? Why, then, are the friends of the Union disputing all the day long whore there is a grand national issue, upon which all conservative men should unite as the paramount issue "The Country, the Constitution, (he Union," and these to be preserved only by " 'The equality of the States." THE BATTLE OF THE STATES, That is what is coming, if Mr. Lincoln assumes the government. We have had the United States contending with a single State, as in the case of Rhode Island, when she refused to come into the Union. We have had a single State contending with the United States, as in the case of nullification in South Carolina, when she undertook, not to secede from the Union as a State, but to resist a single law of the Union as individuals. The L'uion has stood all these shocks. But now we are threatened with a severer test than all. I repeat, the true issue is the " battle of the States." The pretended issue of slavery extension in new Territories is not the real issue. It is the " irrepressible conflict " which is assumed by the one great Northern party, which is the common enemy of us all, and o!' the Constitution and the Union. , Mr. Lincoln, their candidate, w as the first to affirm that this conflict does now exist, and he has just pledged himself, if elected President, to carry it on while he lives, and leave it to others, after he is dead, to continue it until all the States are free or slave. Mr. Seward, his great Mentor, affirms that the Mis-: souri Compromise was the first departure fioin the Abolition policy of the federal government, and we -.'.must go buck to the Federal " Massachusetts School," and establish a policy to suppress slavery in the Union, and tliis policy he pledges himself that Mr. Lincoln, if chosen President, will inaugurate. There is the Republican programme of the battle of the Slates ; the array of one section of States against another section of S:ates. And when a section of States say to this LTnion that they are not in tin; Union, I do not know where the power of peace is to call them back. It is civil war: it is revolution; and there is the end of the government. And if the Republicans, with Mr Seward's ami Mr. Lincoln's policy of irrepressible conflict between the States, do take possession of the government, do we not know that they have a power, under this Constitution, which I have heard some of their acute nu n talk of, and which is an awful and dangerous power? and I wish I could ring this in the ears of every man in the South, who is weakening the union and strength of the South by this local diversion to the impossible support of Mr. Bell and Mr. Douglas, whether separately or united. Do we not know that there is, in the tenth section of the first article of the Constitution, a provision which declares that, with the consentof Congress, any number of Siates may lay duty on tonnage, keep troops and ships of war in time of peace, enter into agreements and compacts with other States, or with a foreign power, aud engage in war? With the confeat of Congress, they do all that. Let these Northern States elect Mr. Lincoln ; let them secure, as they may in a very short period, the Senate the House of Representatives they already have, and to the possession of the Senate they are progressing fast between the divisions of their opponent. Let them get Congress and the President, and what has Congress to do but to authorize these Slates to confederate together for the wry purpose of doing what Mr. Seward says it is the duty of every man to assist in doing- putting down the institutions of the South and then to say to the South, with the a-niy and navy of the United States to back them, "Now, surrender your slaves, or we take them from you by force?" Where will the South be then ? Where will the country be then ? That is disunion by the force of the Constitution. It will be constitutional war on the institutions of the South. It will be a Northern Abolition confederacy under the Constitution. And yet we are told that the South is hesitating and dividing, like the North, between three candidates, and preparing to make itseif an easy prey for the abolitionists. Gentlemen, that there should be a doubt of the self-reliance of the South, a doubt of her unity on this vital issue, is the strangest of all the phases of this strange canvas-'. AYhatever may be done in the North, I do not see how the South can consent to weaken her position in the Union by diversion from Mr. Breckinridge fo Mr. Bell. Certain it is that the distinctive doctrine of that party North, as far as they avow any, is opposition to the admission of slavery into the Territories and the admission of new Stales with slavery. Now, if there is anything that tiie South distinctively demands, it is that they shall have the right to settle in Territories with their slave property undisturbed, and that any new State shall be admitted with or without slavery, as its people nny desire. The Bell and Everett party is opposed to this in the North. I don't know what their doctrines are in the South; it they are not opposed to it there, they have two faces. And, therefore, it is that, echoing with my feeble voice the noble appeal made by my eloquent and profound predecessor (Gen. Cushiug) to the men of the South, I say, in adding my humble warning, that this is to them their very existence. If, now, they desert themselves and desert iis, they are utterly fallen, utterly and hopelessly conquered; and unless the South stinds unitedly upon Bio k'nridge and Lane for it can unite no where else unless it presents the moral force of undivided councils; when this irrepressible party comes into Kwer, if it does come into pawer, what sort of a South will it be? Instead of the chivalrous South, the invincible South, the patriotic South, the proud South, it will be the divided and weak, the miserably divided South, and it will not have even strength enough to crawl out of the Union, let its position be ever so intolerant and humiliating. That, I siy to the South here as a Northern Democrat; that, every National Democrat of the North givs to them ; and if they have deceived themselves when they said, as they did in that Convention, that they never could go into a successful election on the nomination of Stephen A. Douglas if they have deceived us, and are willing b' their divisions to insure the election of Mr. Lincoln and that is the result of such divisions the high-toned character of the South and her own self-respect will be dishonored, I will not g-ty beyond retrieving. But 1 do not fear that. I have confidence in the Democracy of the Sonth. They have a historical reputation to maintain, as old . as the Union. They have never failed. Virginia never lowered her flag. No man but a Democrat ever received her electoral vote for President. Cheers. I can not believe that now, in these latter days, when Virginia stands as the great representative and head of Southern Democracy and the " equal rights of the States," she is to falter or fail. Great applause. There I leave this disciwion. Believing, as all history teaches us, that there can be no successful Democratic party in the Union without the union of the Northern and Southern Democracy believing that this united party can be maintained only by a just adherence to "equality of ths States" believing that just equality requires an equal right to peacefully settle with property in the Terr tones, we, the National Democracy of Massachusetts, as a portion of tliat Democracy which is to continue to povern and advance this country, as it hf s wis ly dot:e fur sixty years, have raised our flig with firmness for ourselvoi, but with no hostility to those we have hith

erto acted with ; standing by principle, but ready at all times, on principle, to co-operate with conservative men in preserving the Union as it has been maintained. And here the National Democracy will stand, in triumph or in defeat. And in the faith oi our fathers, our trust in God, and in the " discriminating sense of the American people, we will stand up for the WHOLE COUNTKY, TIIE WHOLE CONSTITUTION, AND the whole Union !

TIIE OLD LINE GUAM).

A. 15. CARLTON, . WILLIAM CUI.LKV,

THURSDAY,.

EDITOKS.

OCTOBER 4.

National Democratic Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOSEPH LANE, OF OREGON. ., ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: James Morrison, of Marion. Dclana R. Eckels, of Putnam. DISTRICT ELECTORS.

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

' Dr. William If. blierrod, ot orange. 1 ' David Sheeks, of Monroe. ' Ethelbert C. Hibben, of Rush. ' Samuel Orr, of Delaware. 1 .: Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. ' .Tnmes A. Scott, of Putnam.

' Col. William M. Jenners, of Tippecanoe. ' - James Bradley, of Laporte. ' :. Robert Breckinridge. jr., of Allen. 1 John R. Coffroth, of Huntington. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

2d

3d 4th 5 th Gth 7th 8th 9th 10 th 11th

1st District J. B. Gardner, :

2d 3d 4th 5th (ith

7th . 8th Jt!i lOlh 11th

Levi Sparks,

Geo. II. Ivvle, Dr. B. F. Mullen, Alex. White, John R. Elder, James M. Tomlinson, Julius Nicolai, James Johnson, James Oliver, Thomas Wood, Thomas D. Lemon, G. F. R. Wadlei-h, Dr. E. B. Thomas, W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman.

: FOIt 'CONGRESS.' 8KVENTH DISTRICT, ; JAMES A. SCOTT, of Putnam. ' FOR STATE SENATOR FOR THE COUNTIES OF SULLIVAN AND VIGO, WILLIAM N. HUMPHREYS,

Public Speaking, HON. J. R. COFFROTH, ' AND . . DR. B. F. MULLEN, Friends of Breckinridge and Lane, will.address the people on the Political topics of the day, at the following times and places. It is hoped that all will turn out to hear truth and the light doctrine vindicated:'..' . OAKLAND, Thursday, Oct. i. AUGUSTA. Friday, Oct. 5. Speaking to commence each day at 1 o'clock, P. M. V : Hon. J. D. Bright. WILL ADDRESS HIS FELLOW-CITIZENS, At PARIS, Jennings county, on Friday, Oct. 5, at 1 o'clock, P. M. . , At LEXINGTON, Scott county, on Saturday, Oct. 6, at 1 o'clock, P. M. ':' At NEW WASHINGTON, on Saturday, Oct. fi, at 7 o'clock, P. M., .' On the political questions of the day. Turn out, Democrats.'

Meeting at the Court Hosse. HON J. II. COFFROTH, Will address the citizens of Indianapolis, on the political questions of the day, on Friday evening, at the Court House. Let there be a full meeting. Ho! for Boone County. A special excursion train will leave the Union Depot this morning, at 9 o'clock for Lebanon, where Governor Johnson is to address the people. Let all those who desire to hear the distinguished Georgian, the eminent statesman, and the eloquent orator, go to Lebanon this morning. There are hundreds of our citizens who were prevented from hearing Gov. Johnson on Friday, and an opportunity is thus given that they may never again have. State Sentinel, 2d. If the " distinguished Georgia" fire-eater produced the same effect in Boone county as he did on the 28th ult., we shall look for large accessions to the Breckinridge ranks. If he denounced the numerous body of good and true men there, as he did here, as "camp followers," " bolters," "traitors," &c, &c., we shall expect at least to double our munbers. The "distin

guished Georgian" has a right to talk to his hundred i negroes upon his plantation as he chooses; but lie will ,

find out that he is among white men, who will not so rea lily countenance his insolence.

Metropolitan Hall. This model Theater of . the West was opened for the season on last Monday night, by Mr. Manager Ellsler, of the Wood Theater ' of Cincinnati, with a full company. It will remain open during the season, and attractions presented, ' both in pieces and performances, tliat cannot fail to , draw good houses. In the present company all are , good, while several are excellent performers. Miss McCarthy, as a singer, lias few equals in America, and brings down the house with rounds of applause on t each appearance. The attendance at the hall this , week was not large, but by respectable and fashionable audiences. After the politioal excitements have .cfl nwav If will hi l.ottpr. Mr. A. IT. Brown is

jit. -V , . ..... - Treasurer of the company.

The Committee of Fifteen Grand Ratification of the Union Electoral Ticket in New York. The New York Journal of Commerce, of Monday, says : " The Committee of Fifteen met on Saturday, to consider the numerous urgent demands for a grand mass meeting to ratify the Union Electoral ticket recently announced by them. After a consultation, it was decided to hold such a meeting at the Cooper Institute on Monday evening, October 8tb. " The Tammany Hall and Mozart Hall organizations, the National" Democratic Volunteers, and all the Breckinridge, Douglas, and Bell-Everett Clubs will take part in the meeting, which will undoubtedly be one of the largest and most enthusiastic ever held in this citr."

The Douglas Candidate for Vice President. There was considerable curiosity amongst the people, in 1850, to learn why Fremont was nominated for President ; why a man who was never known as a Republican, or as anything else than a Democrat, should be taken up for that high office in preference to such ablo and well known advocates of the Republican creed as Seward, Chase( Hale, and Giddings. But, after awhile, the reason was plainly seen and understood, when it leaked out that he was the owner of a gold mine, miles in length, in California, and that, therefore, he could afford to blued freely during the campaign. There was as much curiosity among the Democrats, a 'fe wubrtmoiithssince, to learn why Tlerscliel VT Johnson, the man who was nominated at a saloon in Washington, for Vice President, by a sub-committee of two from the Douglas National Committee, and who was never known as anything else than a Georgia disunionist of the most ultra sort, should be put up as the squatter candidate for the second office in the Union. But the State Sentinel of Tuesday gives us an inkling of the motive that led to that strange maneuver on the part of the Convention of two, who placed this regular nominee before the Democracy, in preference to thousands of old and well-tried Democrats and firm supporters of the Union in every section of the country. It turns out, from a long article on the third page of the Sentinel, that he is the owner of a princely estate in Georgia, (consisting of some three or four thousand acres,) as well as the master of a hundred slaves, whose labor yields an annual profit of eighteen or twenty thousand dollars. He, therefore, can aL-o bleed freely iu this campaign; and that circumstance, probably, led to his Tegular nomination

over the heads of so many other friends of Douglas, who had strong claims upon him, on account of the able and uniform support which they had given to his squatter doctrine. But these leading squatters, like the mass of their party, are generally poor men dependent mosly upon the spoils of office for support, and, therefore, are unable to render much material aid during the present campaign, towards furnishing iho sinews of war. Yet this man Johnson this notorious fire-eater whose nomination is a burlesque upon the usages and forms of Democratic Conventions whose purse, and nothing else, was the prime motive which induced the committee of two, to present his name to the country for Vice President had the impudence, like Douglas, to denounce the friends of Breckinridge and Lane as " camp-followers !" Hear the insolence of this "regular" nominee : "You have been told in the address of Judge Douglas to which you have just listened, that Mr. Breckinridge, in the free States, stands no shadow of a chance to carry a single electoral vote; 'He has no chance;' 'Not a glimmer;' ' Hurrah for Douglas and Jolimon.' I have no doubt of the truth of tliat proposition, and I am just as well convinced that the supporters of Breckinridge in the free States, and Buchanan and his Cabinet, see it just as plainly as we do. Applause. I cordially subscribe to the sentiment that, whether they design to promote the election of Lincoln or not, by the course which they are pursuing, that the inevitable tendency of that course is to produce that result. ' That's so.' And Mr. Buchanan and his Administration, and his camp-followers everywhere, must be held responsible for it." " That's it," and cheers. Was the like of such impertinence ever heard of before? Who docs this owner of the Georgia principality think ho is talking to ? Does he imagine that hor-anw he, is the reoipient of some eighteen or twenty thousand dollars annually from the proceeds of slave labor that because he can strut about on his plantation, with his hundred negro followers at his heels, that therefore the comparatively poor white men of the West, who support Breckinridge and Lane, must be the "camp followers" of James Buchanan ? What has James Buchanan to give them, which would place them in such an abject condition as to become his "camp followers?" He might, perhaps, if he had four years to run, give one man out of a thousand a post office, worth a hundred or two hundred dollars. Does he mean to say that such a consideration is enough to induce the thousands of independent Democrats in every free State, as well as in every slave State, who are now supporting Breckinridge and Lane, fo divide off from their old Democratic friends, if there was no principle involved in the division ? The preposterousness, as well as the insolence of such

an idea, is seen, when we consider that James Buch

anan has now only five months to remain in office , only five months before he closes his official careerbefore he surrenders his control of Government patronage before he retires to private life. He is the setting sun in our political firmament, which mercenary politicians never worship. If the friends of Breckinridge and Lane were swayed by such mercenary consideration as induce men to " follow the camp," they would be more apt to follow this Georgia prineej with his well-filled purse, so -long as it is replenished

annually with twenty thousand dollars from the profits

of slave labor. If they were influenced by such pitiful appliances, as the proceeds of little post offices, they would not be found battling in the ranks of Mr. Breckinridge, their noble standard-bearer, who is sneered at by such aristociats as this Georgia lord, because, as they say, he is so poor as not to own a single negro especially if, as he alleges, their standardbearer stands "not the ghost of a chance" of receivin" the vote of a single free State in the Union. -Mercenary men always rally to the strongest side ; always worship the rising sun; always pander to the pleasures of political leaders and candidates having the best chance, as well as the largest purse. Some of such mercenaries stood before and around this insolent aristocrat this saloon candidate for Vice President, when he uttered the words, " camp-followers." God forbid that We should denounce all the men iu that large crowd as such mercenaries. They were thousands of good, honest and well-disosed Democrats listening to him, under the delusion that he and Douglas were the regular candidates for the two highest offices in the Union. They tame up to the capital of the State to pay their respects to those whom

they considered to be the regular standard-bearers of their party. But the office-seekers, big and litt!e,who cheered this Georgia lordling this would-be Vice President this notorious disunionist when he denounced the friends of Breckinridge and Lane as "camp followers," were the very men who are really entitled to such epithets. Many of the candidates in that crowd for town and county offices, as well as Statu offices, who participated in the " thunders of applause" to this Georgia aristocrat .as well as to Douglas, when he uttered those infamous epithets, were the very men who "follow the camp" for a livelihood. Yes those who cheered the loudest, and echoed the strongest, when the words "camp-followers,' " bolters," "secessionists,'' and "di'unionists" were applied by Johnson and Douglas to the Breckinridge men, re now not only following the Douglas camp, but also the Breckinridge camp, begging and importuning for votes to place thein in the possession of the spoils of office. While vet h"firc frcm the effect of their loud cheer

on the old Fair Ground while yet faint from the ef- eomplish against England what can we, with six feet of the " tremendous hurrahs" and " thunders of frigates for a navy, and with scarcely as many regiapplause" in which they joined while yet suffering menta for an army what can we hope for in a confrom the effect of the fervent hosannahs which they , test with that gigantic power?" "She," predicted shouted to these arrogant traducers ef the true Con- Adams, "would crush us with a blow!" That wasanstitutional Democrats of Indiana, they have the mean- other grand mistake. Santa Anna, with hh'twenty-five ness to ask Breckinridge men to assist in putting them thousand well'drilled troops around him, sent an order into power in the State to aid in giving them the ! to Taylor, when ho first saw him upon tho field with command of all its official patronage and influence. only five thousand volunteers under his command, to Perhaps these Sir Archy McSycophants, who thus al- "surrender," and thus save the effusion of blood; but ternately pander, first to the Georgia millionaire, and tho triumph of that little band of volunteers at Buena then to the men whom he has traduced as " camp ibl- Vista, led on, as they were by such gallant Generals lowers," may get some of the Breckinridge votes j-as Wool and Joe Lane, as well as by " Old Rough perhaps they may thus get strength enough to apply j and Ready," convinced the one-legged Mexican despot the lash, after the election, to the Breckinridge men inj that he, too, had mistaken his opponcutsAnd the the saine inannor'M''tIeTcorgia aristocrat ahil''tle"ll- : holy,or rather the unholy 'allies" ledoiTby linigla linois demagogue have done and perhaps they wont, Bell and Lincoln, against Breckinridge and hig that'sall! " small band of Constitutional volunteers, may expe-

But if, as the saloon candidate for Vice-President neuce still another defeat. If the Empire State alone,

says, Breckinridge will not get an electoral vote in the free States, and the "inevitable tendency" of the

course which his friends are pursuing, isto promote the election of Lincoln, what, we ask, is the tendency of the course of the Douglas men ? Douglas, it is now certain, will not get an electoral vote in either the free or slave States; and as Bell is expected to get only one or two slave States, then, according to Johnson, the Republican candidate is bound to get nearly all the votes, slave and free. We have heard of political prophets before to-day ; but we think this Georgia wiseacre surpasses them all in his sagacity, as well as in his insolence. He will turn out the worst deceived man, except Douglas, after the election, that ever was known; and after the ides of November, neither of them will ever be heard of, as politicians, again, except as laughing-stocks for tho whole country.

General Combs in Indianapolis, The distinguished 'Know-Nothing General of Kentucky, for whom the Douglas men in that State voted in tho recent - lection as Clerk of the Court of Appeals, made a political speech at the Capitol in Indianapolis, on Tuesday evening last. Having received

the "aid and comfort" of the squatter sovereigns in his own State to put him in a good fat State office there, he came here to return the compliment, and to

exert his influence with his K. N. friends to induce

them to assist in electing the Douglas State officers in Indiana, The combined forces of the Bell and Douglas tactions, therefore, turned out in considerable numbers to hear the General excepting, of course, that portion of the Americans who are known to be

attached to the Dick Thompson wing. The hall of

the House of Representatives was, it is said, nearly filled with the loving brethren; and the speech made by the General produced such a good feeling, that it subsequently brought about between them a complete love-feast at the Palmer House. The General had not a word, however, to say in favor of Bell on this occasion ; his whole speech was all for Douglas and his friends on the Indiana State ticket. The Sentinel seems to be in ecstacies with this Know-Nothing champion in Kentucky, and Douglas champion in Indiana. Do listen to what it says of him : " General Combs was accompanied to his rooms at the Palmer House bv a number of friends, and was

called upon during the evening by many persons of it i .- . c .-11.. i. : c

all poimcai panics, ouciany, He is uuu vi mo muot agreeable men we ever met, and his early experience, to judge from a few stray incidents related in tho very few moments we had the pleasure of being with him, mould make a very interesting volume." Tin General, no doubt, felt kind and sociable toward his Douglas admirers. Why shouldn't he ? After having fought tho battles of the opposition to the Democracy in Kentucky for thirty years, without ever tasting the spoils of office after having participated with the K.-N.'s in the scenes of that " bloody Monday" in 1855 after having grown gray as a life-long and bitter enemy of the Democratic party, he is suddenly taken up by the Douglas men and put into a high State office, worth some five thousand dollars annually. Why, this is enough to make any K--N. feel good enough to make a hungry office-seeker of any party feel good ; but we wonder how the Douglas rival of Gen. Combs, who was sacrificed by his squatter friends, to make room for the K.-N. candidate, feels ? We wonder how the. Irishmen and Germans in the ranks of the Douglas faction in Kentucky, who were induced to vote for the Douglas candidate, whilst the politicians slyly voted for Combs, the participator in the scenes of that "bloody Monday "we wonder how they fed. The General, it is true, lias appointed the Douglas candidate, Boiling, to a deputyship under him, and gives him the bones to pick after he is done with them; he, hiiaself, indulging in the lion's share, and washing it down with the best old Madeira. Feels good," does he? No doubt of it! Perhaps the Douglas candidates for Stile officers in Indiana may " feel geod," too, after the election, if the General can persuade all his K.-N. friends on this side of the river to vote for them. But Dick Thompson may have a word or two more to say upon that head; and, perhaps, some of the independent men of that party, who did not participate in the love feast at the Palmer Honse, may refuse to bo sold out, merely in order to ratify the compact made by the old General with the Douglas men on the other side of the big stream. While General Combs, General George D. Prentice, and the General Committee of the K.-N. faction of Kentucky, and the General Committee of Louisville, who commanded the K.-N. parly of that city on " bloody Monday," are making their most " earnest appeals" to their brethren in Indiana to support the Douglas State ticket in Indiana, all the Douglas Generals in Kentucky are urging their followers to vote for the Bell electoral ticket there. Never was there a more corrupt and unprincipled coalition on Goti'd earth.

Coalition of the Douglas Men and Lincoln Men in Oregon. While Douglas men and Bell men are coalescing with each other in Kentucky and other slave States against Breckinridge, it would seem from the following intelligence that the Douglasites and Lincoluites are doing the same thing in Oregon. Three against one is a pretty formidable coalition, we must confess but we have heard that " the battle is not always to the strong," and we don't despair yet. Cornwallis, with a large and well-appointed army of British veterans, flattered himself that, with the aid of the Hessians; he would soon be able to crush the small body of undisciplined militia ander Washington; but the battle of Yorktown, in old Virginia, convinced him of his mistake. Packenham, with twelve thousand picked men, the flower of the British army, imagined that he also would soon do the business for old Hickory and his three thousand Kentucky and Tennessee volunteers; but the battle of New Orleans would have satisfied him also of his error, if he had lived to see the result of it. "What!" exclaimed John Quincy Adams at the commencement of the list war with the British. What can we. a a nation. exi-ct to a-

or old Pennsylvania aud New Jersey together only

maintain their ground against Lincoln, as their little forces did in '7C against Cornwallis, all will yet be well But where is the evidence of this Douglas and Lincoln coalition ? Here is the proof, taken from the telegraphic column of tho State Sentinel, of Tuesday last. Read it, Democrats : " The political news from Oregon is important. The Oregon Legislature met at Salem on the 10th ult. The Hou:e was organized by choosing Benjamin Harding, (Douglas Dem.) who at the last two elections voted for Logan (Republican) for Congress, as Speaker; J. MePatten, Chief Clerk ; Allen (Douglas Dcm.) Assistant Clerk, and Leverage (Republican) Sergeant at-Arms. '" " The Senatorial organization was regarded by the Breckinridge members as an indication that a Douglas-Republican coalition was already formed to elect Col. Baker and S. W. Ncsmith, Senators. The Constitution of Oregon requires two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, to form a quorum to do business. Upon receiving tho news of the organization of the House, nix Breckinridge men bolted from Salem early on the morning of the 11th, leaving that body without a quorum, and in that condition it has continued up to the latest accounts. The names of the Senators who withdrew are Florence, Monroe, Perry, McIIenry, Fitzhugh and Shelley. The latter is a son-in-law of Gen. Lane. " A resolution was passed by the Senate, empowering tho Sergeant-at-Arms to compel the attendance of absent members, and to call to his aid all necessary force. " The President of the Senate is Mr. S. S. Elkins, and the Secretary Mr. Paple, both Douglas men. The Sergcat-at-Arms is also a Douglas man. The Assistant Secretary and Enrolling Clerk arc Republicans. " An attempt will bp made by the Breckinridge men to defeat a Governor in the House to prevent the election of Baker and Nesmith. This cannot be accomplished, anil the want of a quorum will not necessarily prevent the election of the Senator. "It is probable that two United States Senators will be elected by a coalition between the Douglas men and Republicans. Colonel E. D. Baker has received the Republican nomination at caucus, and will be one of the Senators if there is any election at all. This is generally conceded on bo: h sides. "Both Houses adjourned until Mondav, September 17th." Is comment upon this unprincipled coalition necessary 'i

The Author of the Cincinnati Platform on the Stand. We invite the particular attention of the great crowd of people of all parties who listened to the speeches of Douglas and Johnson in Indianapolis, on the 28th ult., to the speech of the Hon. B. F. Ilallctt, the author of the Cincinnati Platform, which we this day lay before our readers. As Madison, the father of the Constitution, was supposed to know the meaning of every passage in that sacred compact, so Hallett, the frarner of the Democratic Platform, may be allowed to understand the purpose and intention of every plank which it contains. Mr. Hallett was one of the regular delegates to the last Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, who were shut out of their seats by the highhanded act of the Douglas majority, which, through the aid of bogus delegates, obtained the control of that body. He, being detained at home by sickness in his family, was unable to attend at Charleston, when the Convention first assembled there; and he, therefore, sent a substitute in his place. When, however, tho Convention again assembled at Baltimore, he appeared and claimed his scat; but the Douglas managers, learning that ho was not one of their man-worshipers, and that he was in favor of Breckinridge, or some other true and consistent supporter of the Cincinnati platform, refused to permit him to take his seat, and allowed his substitute, who had committed himself to the fortunes of the little Sucker while at Charleston, to retain it. By resorting to such management in ousting the regular delegates, aud admitting bogus delegates from a number of Southern States, as well as from Massachusetts the Douglas managers succeeded in getting what they call a majority of the Convention for their favorite candidate, and in giving him the semblance of a nomination. Mr. Hallett is one of the firmest and most uniform Democrats in the country, Ho is the author of not only the Cincinnati platform, but he is tho framor of every platform adopted by every National Convention of the Democracy which has assembled since the nomination of James K. Polk. He is the embodiment of true Democratic principle, if any one man can be ; and if any builder understands the nature of his own work if any one understands the meaning and intention of the various parts which compose tho foundation upon which the Democratic party has stood for the last twenty years, he is that man. We trust that the Democrats of Indiana will read the entire speech of this distinguished champion of Democratic principles. But we call their particular attention to the following passages : Mr. Douglas says that the objection made to him by Mr. Breckinridge is, that he is the representative of a dogma, which dogma is the principle of nonintervention, by Congress, with slavery in the Territories, and for that reason the split was made at Baltimore. That, allow me to say, is a great mistake. The National Democracy which supports Mr. Breckinridge, and Mr. Breckinridge himselt, affirm, adhere to, and maintain the doctrine of " non-interference" with slavery in the Territories as the corner-stone of their Territorial policy. The heresy of the squatter sovereignty dogma consists in thisthat it is only half-way non-intervention, and makes non-intervention devour itself. Jt restricts Congress from prohibiting, but licenses the Territorial Legislature to prohibit and destroy. Congress, it says, shall not intervene with all its power, but a petty Legislature, the creature of Congress, and pid per diem by Congress, may intervene as a sovereign. Citizens of the South may go with their slave property into the Territories, in spite of all the power of Congress to prohibit, but the Territorial Legislature may disfranchise the slaveholder and take away his property as soon as he gets there. That is the dogma which Mr. Breckinridge con demns. His doctrine of non-intervention is entire and complete that neither Congress nor the Territory shall intervene to impair or destroy the equal rights of tho States in the common territory. This is his precise language " Hands off the whole subject of slavery by the Federal Government, except for one or to protective purposes mentioned in the Constitution the equal right of all eectionsin the common territory, and the absolute powr of each new State