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"Those are serious accusations, and the people arc anxious to get nt the (acts. Are they altogether false, or are they only partially true? Did Mr. Douglas ever treat at all with the "Republican party, through ouo of its prominent leaders? The specifications are clear and posiiive, and Mr. Douglas has been called upon to answer, categorically, whether the allegations are true or false. What does he do? He tells us that his whole public life has been spent in laboring for the Democratic cause, and that it is most unprovable, that while he was publiclv professing Democracy lie should have been "privately uttering sentiments inconsistent with his record." Was there ever such a be""in" of the question? Why, that is the very thin charged, that while Mr. Douglas was yet in the Democratic ranks, and was professing himself to be a ,.i.it nf tin- Democrats, he was secretly confer

ring with Republican chieftains, and proposing a plan to disnlaee a Democratic Senator from his seat.-Con-f soious innocence wouiii uave uicui mu , "Gentlemen, I will be as clear on these points as the sunlight. Mr. Blair did visit my house, but nothing of the alleged conversation occurred. I never expressed a wish to give him Mr. Gieen's seat. I never i. .... i ; i t i. ,..:! ,,,. nml ! I t in success ol " l" b .... n the emancipation movement in Missouri. I never siid I had crossed the Rubicon, and wascoming as f,i-t as I could towards the Republican party. And so of the rest I will not shelter myself behind an oblinf ..nnfiili-imn. I not on v permit. Due uemanu of Mr. Blair to tell all he knows." Mr. Douglas should either have said this, or said nothing. All but the blindest of his partisans will now believe that the charges are at least substantially true, and that he fears to confront the proof. What with many before was only suspicion is now certainty, and the heaviest loss of votes he has yet experienced will result from his St. Louis speech. The Failure of the Breckinridge Men to Effect a Union with the Douglas Men in Connecticut. The undersigned were appointed as the Executive Committee of the National Democratic party for the State of Connecticut, by the convention which assembled at New Haven on the 12th day of September, 1800. This committee was especially charged with the duty of conferring with members of other National organizations, o cU'ecf, if possible, a union of all conservative nu n. to the end that in the coming 'Presidential election Connecticut should cast her influence in behalf of such principles as would tend to the perpetuity of the Union, and the defeat of the Northern sectional candidates, Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin. . In the furtherance of that object, which the New Haven Convention felt to be of paramount importance, the undersigned placed themselves in communication with the gentlemen 'composing the Douglas Electoral Ticket, as the only persons belonging to that organization with whom they could properl'' confer, or who would be likely to possess such powers as would be necessary to establish and perfect such a union as was contemplated at that time. We submit to the Democracy of Connecticut the correspondence, in the confident belief that the responsibility of the failure to elleet the result desired does not rest upon the undersigned, and that the Democracy of the State will place it where it properly belongs. HAit'n oiiD, September 1G, I860. Ge.nti.emkn: The late National Democratic State Convention which met at New Haven, placed in nomination an electoral ticket favorable to the elevation of Breckinridge and Lane to the offices of President and Vice President of the United States. So deeply impressed was that body with the necessity of joint action on the part of ail National organizations that a committee was appointed with full and ample powers to perfect any honorable arrangement. That committee not know'ing any other persons connected with the organization to which you are attached whom they could properly address, now place themselves in communication with you, the gentlemen composing the Electoral ticket nominated by the late Hartford Convention, and pledged to the support of Messrs. ' Douglas and Johnson for the high positions above named. If you are authorized so to do, and like us, desire to preserve intact the Democratic organization, it would give us pleasure to consult with you upon the terms of an Electoral ticket, formed upon such a basisas would unite all the National men of the State, and save our old Commonwealth from the grasp of Black Republicanism. Early action will be desirable, as the hour of election rapidly approaches. A duplicate of this note will be this day mailed to each gentleman whose name is upon the Douglas Electoral ticket. Any communication may be addressed to the undersigned. Very respectfully, . ' Wm. W. Eaton. Chairman. Per order of the Executive Committee. . To Messrs. Sam. Colt, - J. J. Penrose, E. A. Converse, F. Croswell, Win. G. Johnson, and W. P. Burrail. '..".. Hartford, Sept. 29th, 18G0. Hon. Wm. IF. Eaton, Hartford Sir : In reply to your note of the 17th. inst., addressed to us, we can but say that by reference, to the proceedings of the Democratic Suite Convention held at Hartford on the 31st ult., and by the action of which we were placed in the position we at presenfot'eupy, you will perceive that we arc not at liberty to entertain the proposition suggested in your communication. We are, sirs, yours, respectfully, ,"...:' Sam. Coi.t, J. J. Penuose, FUED. CllOSWF.I.L, E. C. Converse, W. G. Johnson, W. P. Bl KltAI L, Such, Democrats of Connecticut, was the result of an application for harmonious and united action; a result to be deprecated by every national man, by every well-wisher to the Union, within the. borders of our State. The members of the. Douglas Electoral Ticket gravely say to the Democracy of the State, that they have not the power and therefore will not move one step to effect a union, which, in all probability, would result in the defeat of Black Republicanism, when all men know, that the Convention which placed them in the position which they occupy, gave them full poieers to Jill any vacancies which might occur on their ticket. Let the responsibility .best where it belongs. We might here very properly rest, but the importance of the occasion, the unfortunate disruption of the Democratic party in the Northern States, will be our warrant for the few additional sentences to which we ask the candid attention of every Connecticut Democrat. There are two Democratic tickets in the. field. In the absence of a union, it will become the duty of ev; ery Democrat to choose, to determine for himself to which of these tickets he will render his support The claim is hardiv made bv the friends of Judge Dougla: that he having received a regular nomination according to the usages of the party, every Democrat is bound to vote tor the electoral ticket placed in nomination by his friends, or be guilty of party treason. All this we deny, ut terly deny. Judge Douglas has never received a nomination which is binding upon a party man: and we call upon every national Democrat in Connecticut to stand by our "true, eflicient, and gallant leaders, Breckinridge and Lane. For the last three years the friends of Judge Dougla have been urging his claims to the nomination which was to be made at Charleston, and that too, while he was engaged in a factitious fight with the D-'inojra'ic Administration of the country. Planing themselves upon a dogma to which the true Democracy of the country, North as well as South, are persistently and thoroughly opposed, the friends of Mr. Douglas, in season and out of season, have heralded his, as the only name which could lead to success the Democratic masses in 1860. And now as to the regularity of his nomination. The Convention which met at Charleston was compod of uv nibers entitled to cast 303 votes, and notwidisrt inding the withdrawal of over fifty delegates, the utmost strength which Mr. Douglas could command was 1 5 2$ votes, or one more than a majority, and that too after the adoption of the unit rule, in utter violation of all the usages which had previously governed National Democratic Conventions. We assert here, defying contradiction, that had the

Charleston Convention been governed by the same rules which had obtained in previous National Conventions, his highest vote would have been but ,120. It will be recollected that the Convention adopted the wo-thirds rule, making it necessary for a candidate to receive 202 votes in order to secure the nomination. After a ten days struggle the Charleston Convene tiou adjourned to meet in Baltimore on the 18th of June, and we hesitate not to say, that every patriotic heart in our State entertained strong hopes that upon the re-assembling of the Convention, more judicious counsels would prevail, and that the friends of Douglas, perceiving as they could not fail to do, that every j

democratic State was persistent in opposition 10 uib nomination, would withdraw his name from before the Convention, that a perfect union might be formed up on come other man But the " rule or ruin- policy continued to govern! the Convention, and not only was the name of Mr. Douglas determinedly kept before the Convention, but the " Democracy of sovereign States was wantonly disfranchised in a National Convention," and a course of action was pursued by the friends of Mr. Douglas, I i . i p . 1 i : l ; which in me o pinion oi tne uuueisi"iieu, bus eu euu- ; trary to Democratic usage, so at war with every idea j of common fairness in party matters, as to warrant the j disruption of the Convention, to render its action null land void, and to destroy the binding force of its man;aates. Virginia. We learn from a reliable and well in- j formed gentleman from the Thirteenth District, that . Douglas will not carry more than ten votes in each : county in that district, and that Judge Hopkins, the Dougias elector, had given up the canvass, and con-j cedes that the State will go for Breckinripue by an j immense majority. The Charge Proven. The Proof that "Douglas and his men" wanted to cii-j Imp Mr. Yancey on totluir ticket by the offer of the' Vice Presidency, and a Pledge thai Douglas would) Lie, and thus give him the Presidency six months thereafter. ! The Douglass press has denied the charge that Mr. ! Yancey, so much abused by "Douglas and his men"; had been offered the Vice Presidential nomination on the ticket with Mr. Douglas, and that the nomination thus tendered was pressed upon the ground that if Mr. ; Yancey would accept, Mr. Douglas was so enfeebled ; by disease that he would die in six months after his inauguration, and that then Mr. Yancey would be President of the United States. ; This charge, first made by the Richmond Enquirer, ' on the authority of a delegate who remained in thei Douglas fraction of the Baltimore Convention, has been denied by the papers in the interest of the " Little j Squatter." Unfortunately for these editors, the Wash- ; ington Constitution has drawn out the proof in the ' case, and names George. Sanders a bitter, malignant : rartii-an, wl o has been more bespattered with praise by the Douglas press than almost any other man a j personal, political, and intimate friend of Mr. Douglas. j as the man who had made the offer, and who urged it upon the ground that Douglas could live but a short ! time after the election, and that then Mr. Yancey,! now maligned by the Douglas papers, and by Douglas himself, as a Disunionist, would thus have the whole ; power of the Executive Department of the Govern-, mentin his hands: j THE OFFER OF THE VICE PRESIDENCY TO ' .:. MR. YANCEY. .. j Under the head "Another Falsehood Nailed," the : States and Union, with more boldness than discretion, j declares that it is untrue that the friends ot Hi: Douglas requested Mr. Yancey to allow his name to be used as the Douglas candidate for the Vice Presidency, and that our statement to that effect is without foundation. When we made the statement, we were entirely convinced of its truth. We knew that the offer was made and reiterated to Mr. Yancey by Mr. Douglas and some of his leading partisans, and that it was only when Mr. Yancey intimated that he considered the proposition as insulting to him, that he was freed from the importunities of the Douglasites. We know this from the best authority. : We do not desire to Dandy epitnets wiui mt. noughts' organ; but in order to prove the correctness of our assertion, and the shameless hardihood ol those who presume to impugn our veracity, we wrote the following letter to our esteemed fellow citizen, S. S. Bax ter, Esq., who, we were, informed, was present on one occasion when the oiler was made, and we received the following reply. Mr. Baxter's high character and standing render it impossible to question for a moment the truth of anything which ho says or writes: " Office of the ' Constitution,' ) - Washington, Cyt. 18, 18(i0. "My Dear Sir: I would ask your attention to the following editorial article which appeared a few days ago in the columns of the States and Union of this city: another falsehood nailed. ' It has been stated in some quarters that Mr. Wm. L. Yancev was offered the Vice Presidential nomina tion on t Douglas ticket. This is a weak attempt of j the bolters to get their champion into decent political affiliation. We emphatically deny that any such offer; was made that anybody had authority to make it. j ' The fanatical disunionist was never invited todis-i grace the Democratic ticket by having his name print-j ed on it. There is no foundation for such a rumor,! and the author of it, whoever he be, while evidently sharing in the desire for -decent association he wishes to push his chief into, nullifies the attempt by the tin-j truth with which ho makes it. ! ' Wc call upon the Constitution to correct the false- ; hood.' : i "I believe that you know, of your own personal, knowledge, that the fact which the Douglas organ; recklessly pronounces to be a 'falsehood,' h entirely j true. If so, I shall be much obliged to you to state j what you know in relation to the matter, and give me permission to publish your reply. j " Very truly yours, Wm. M. Browne, i " S.'S. Baxter, Esq., Counselor-at-Law, Washington ' City." ,'.'! Washington, October 18, 18G0. j Wm. M. Browne, Esq., Edi'or of the Constitution: j Dear Sir: Your note of to-day has been received.; In reply I state that when Mr. Yancey was en route : for the Baltimore Convention he stopped in Washing-1 ton. and stayed with Hon. Mr. Pugh, of Alabama. In company with Mr. W. Fisher, of Virginia, a ! delegate to the Convention, I called to see Mr. Ian-, eey. Mr. Yancey was alone when we called. Mr. j Pugh and Col. Hubbard, of Virginia, subsequently! came in. i In the course of the conversation it was remarked that Mr. Douglas' strength in the Convention was' much increased by the number of Southern men who expected to be nominated as Vice President on his ticket. Iu reply to this remark Mr. Yancey informed; us that the Vice" Presidency had been tendered to him; if he. would unite in the nomination of Mr. Douglas.; He spoke of the projKMition with scorn. While we were conversing on the subject, Mr. George Sanders, : of New York, came in. Alter some general conver-j sat ion about the prospects of Douglas, anil of uniting the party on him, Mr. Sanders urged Mr. Yancey to accept the offer that had been jiade. him. and, as an inducement to accept it, assured Mr. Yancey that. Douglas must die within six months after his inaugu-j ration, and that then Mr. Yancey would have the whole matter in his power. ' This is the substance of the conversation which: occurred in my presence. Mr. Fisher was present. ; lam not sure whether Mr. Pugh and Colonel Ilubbard were present at the time, but I believe they! were. Kespectiuuy yours, S. S. Baxter. Not onlv is the name of the man who acted as the chief fugler for Mr. Douglas at Charleston and at Bal-t timore given, but the names of other gentlemen men ; of high standing and of undoub'od reraci'y, who were ! present, are also given to the public, and who s'and : ready to subtan'iate the assertion made by Mr. Bax-1 ter, one of the most respectable citizens of Washing-' ton. ! Thus do the Dongas faction find their falsehoods about Mr. Yancev, ami their double dealing, " like . chickens come home to rorwt." The charge. proven

as it is by the Washington Constitution, opens up a; chapter in' political gambling thar has scarce a parallel j on record. We eonum-int the charge and proof which ! sustains it to the careful attention of the honest por-! tion of the Dou-das party. Like the fabled shirt of NesstH, it will s'ick to Mr. Douglas as long as a vestige ! of the " Little S patter" remains, for George Sanders ! is too well known as an attache of Mr. Douglas, and i

as his boon companion and confidential friend and sworn associate, tor anybody to Doiievo mat ne wouiu dare make such an overture to Mr. Yancey n he had not been authorized to do so by Mr. Douglas himself, Cleveland Democrat. Black Republican Sentiments.

We copy a few extracts from Helper's Impending j .'.e so tijsposeH, by direct act or "unfriendly legislaCrisjs, the " Anti-Slavery Bible" of the Irrepressi-, ,; 5t, Li,'oln and Douglas propose a wav by bles, endorsed in writing by Schuyler Colfax, John which"the citizen's right to property shall be detiovSherman, Horace Greeley, Joshua R. Giddings, sixty- 0j jn a Territory. This is "intervention" to break three Republican members of Congress, and a large jolvn a constitutional right, which is beyond the reach number of leading Republicans. These are the sen-; 0f Territorial majorities. Senator Douglas proposes timents of conservative PepublicansREAV : intervention by a Territorial majority to destroy the " Slaveholders are a nuisance." j citizen's rights, which the Constitution assumes are iu"Itisour imperative business to abate nuisances." violable; and then he calls himself a "non-interveu-'We propose to exterminate this catalogue from j tionist.-- Times. beginning to end." .'! - - "We believe that THIEVES are, as a general And Still They OoiUe. rule, less amenable to the law than SLAVEIIOLD-; . ' From all parts of the State we receive the most '"SLAVEHOLDERS ARE MORE CRIMINAL I ccer'ng accounts. The recent elections in PennTIIAN COMMON MURDERERS." J fvlvf J"?' 'j10' ,a,Kl I"dialla- &acf' :v""f , , , i doubt that Douglas cannot get the Electoral ote of a " Slaveholders and slave traders are as a gen or-,e Stale ; t!iat jie cmuoU i fact, get a single al thing, unfit to occupy any honorable station in eiL.ctoral voU, out of New York, where there has life." I been a fusion which may defeat Lincoln. Under ' It is our honest opinion that all the pro-slavery ; these circumstances, thousands of good Democrats in slaveholders, who are alone responsible for the contiu- j Missouri, who were, at one time, resolved to vote tor uance of the baneful institution among us, deserve to j Dowlas, because they believed him to be the availabe AT ONCE REDUCED TO A PARALLEL ! Lie candidate, are patriotically meeting under the banWITH THE BASEST CRIMINALS THAT LIE! new of Breckinridge and Lane, determined to place FETTERED IN THE CELLS OF OUR PUBLIC j Missouri side by side with her Southern sisters, in dePRISONS." j tense of the Constitution and the Union. Among

" Were it possible that the whole number (i.e., of; the slaveholders) could be e o-athereu together, and tivintnpr,'il inln tiinr enu;il tynn'rs nf'liconsed f:?v"ROBBERS, RUFFIANS, THIEVES and MURDER - ERS,S society, we feel assured, would suiler less from their atrocities than it does now." Is it surprising that the people of the slaveholding States should be alarmed at the prospect of the election of a President, and the triumph of a parry, publicly committed to these atrocious sentiments? Is itsurprising that, in view of the success of such a party, and the election of such men, Southern people of all parties, like Watts, a Bell-Everett leader, Ilerschel V. Johnson, Douglas candidate for Vice President, and Toombs, a friend of Mr. Breckinridge, should feel and say that such a contingency would make it necessary lor the South to take care of itself at all hazards' Is it surprising that even the semi-abo'.ilion-Her oivr.iiis iii the North, like the Indian apolis Sentinel, should now feel constrained, or free, to twll us t,t Lincoln's election would eoninel us to choose between -'secesssion" and "subjugation V" Look at these extracts again; read them carefully; ; and remember that they have been formally en-1 dorsed bv nearly all the leaders of the Lincoln party.' 'Remember that the name ot John JJeli, the present K. N. candidate for President, was favorably mentioned by many prominent Black Republicans in connection with the Chicago nomination! Remember, that at least one man, Judge McLean, Was a candidate for the Presidential nomination before the Convention that chose Lincoln, and was also votad for in that by which Bell was nominated, receiving twelve votes in the one and twenty-one in the other! Remember, that in Indiana, at the recent elect'on, Hon. R. W. Thompson, Col. Edwards, and the great bodv of the Know-Nothing-Bell party voted for the . .1 i j r. - 1 . nominee oi inose iioiunig ine views we nave quoivu, and do not forget that the. Louisville Journal has " no complaint to utter against the course they saw fit to pursue." And remember, that the Know-Notliing National Convention, by which John Bell was nominated, reused to permit the subject of the rights of the South, or of the aggressions of the North, or of the best means of preserving the Union to be discussed by its members during its deliberations ! Remember, also, that with these men, with the endorsers of these anominable utterances, with Colfax, Covode, Greeley, &c, Stephen Arnold Douglas, m the winter of 1857-8, and since, was in constant, di rect, and close communication, acting with them, takking counsel lrom them, giving advice to tliein, sending messages through one of them to another, and that lie promised them to fight their battles in 18G0 ! :- ,-. Remember, that during the present canvass, Doug las said to a personal and political friend, that lie preferred that New Jersey should go for Lincoln to seeing a union between his friends and those of Mr. Breckinridge I Remember, that Douglas declared with a violent oath to Hon. John McPherson, that he would (jive the election to Lincoln rather than permit it to go into the House ! Remember, that Douglas' organ in Pennsylvania, Forney's Press, says Curtin, the candidate of these men, is in great part indebted to the Douglasites for his success ! Remember, that W. A. Richardson, of Ills., Douglas' factotum, says that between Breckinridge and Lincoln he is indifferent I Remember, that the Cleveland (O.) Plain Dealer, a leading Douglas paper in Ohio, has said that it would prefer Douglas local olliccrs and a Black Republican Federal Administration to having a Democratic National Administration with the county and district patronage in the hands of the Opposition ! Louisville Courier "Forcing Slavery inxo the Territories." Early in the campaign, Senator Douglas made the 'charge that Mr. Breckinridge sustained a platform that would force slavery into the Territories, and that Mr. Lincoln occupied one that would force it out. Later in his tour of stump-speech-making, he declared that Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Lincoln supported similar principles, and that they could coalesce and act together; but that he, occupying a middle or half-way ground, could not unite with either. He was willing, however, to unite with Senator Fitzpatrick, and .ac cepted a nomination on the Presidential ticket with him, though Senator Fitzpatrick had recently voted for the Senate's resolutions, which embrace the same doctrines that are in the Breckinridge platform ; and it is now a well-established fact that he was willing to run on the ticket with Mr. Yancev.who is now a great ! bugbear with Mr. Douglas and his friends. I But it is not true that Mr. Breckinridge is running I upon a platform that would "force slavery into the Territories." With the same reason Senator Douglas j might assert that it forces mules into the Territories, when tlfe people prefer to use horses. It forces nothing into or out of the Territory, but asserts that the rights of the owners of property in the Territory, shall not be destroyed or impaired. It does not pro-j pose to discriminate in the kinds ot property lield ty the inhabitants of a Territory. If it be proiierty pioperty recognized by the Constitution of the United Srates the owner shall be protected in its use. This is a principle of the Government, and it must be sustained. If Mr. Lincoln is elected, he will be obliged to act upon it, if he regard? the Constitution which he must swear to supiiort, or if he acknowledges the fun damental principle of Government that the rights of persons ana property shall be protected, l lie platform of Mr. Breckinridge proxses nothing more. It does not designate Lorse or mule property, slave or other kind ofproperty, but the right of the owner to property l-ecognized by the Constitution is held inviolable. It does not propose to destroy or impair that right It forces no kind of property into any Territory. But it merely lays down the great fundamental principle of Government, the right of protection to persons and property. But can slave property be protected? asks tb reader. The same as any other property by the Executive officers and the Courts, who are all appointed bv the General Government But will Consressional i

Legislation be required ? Not unless it is necessary-; i weaker now than prior to the late elections. Mr. and it is hoped that co such exigency will arise. It j B reck iu rid pe is gaining rapidly, and the single quesdid arise in Utah, where persons were robbed and i tion of doubt which now rests over his succe-- in this their propertv taken. An armv was s-nt there, and i State is one of time. The work now poes bravely on,

Congress made appropriation" to ntain it in protect-j

ting persons and property. Oilier exigencies may arise iu other Territories, but we hope not. The doctrines of the Breckinridge fila:form are the doctrines of the Constitution the principles of our government. Senator Douglas has misrepresented them. In departing from these principles, Mr. Douglas has gone full "half-way" over to the doctrines of Abraham Lincoln, who declares that Congress may

destroy the rights of a citizen in Ins pioperty in tlio , J.U11UU1 its, pruwueu u ue omvu jnunuj Mr. Douglas says Congress cannot, but that a Territorial Lesrislature can destroy that right. As the latter is dependent upon the former for its legislative power, we cannot see that there is much difference between Mr. Douglas and Mr. Lincoln on that point both go for destroying the property of the citizens if a majoritv nf uithiif Prmnrroaw nl fill) Tpi'l'ilnrijll T.PfwlnflirH those who have acted thus patriotically is the Jlon. j Jonn . iteici, meinour oi congress eieci, mnu uir Fifth District of Missouri, who has heretofore, been ! claimed by the Douglasites as a supporter of their can- : didate. W itness the following lrom Uie Jjoraer war: Hon. John W. Reid, recently elected to Congress from the Lexington district, has declared for Breckinridge and Lane. Liberty Union. Wo are glad to hear it. We felt confident that lie would do so at the proper time. St. Louis Bulletin. Judge Douglas. From the Illinois State Democrat. Douglas has come spoke his piece and has departed on his forlorn pilgrimage like the "Wandering Jew" march march knowing no rest. I lis mission of evil is nearly accomplished. His tortuous ; track throughout the entire north is strewed with the ! dead political bodies of his adherents, who have fallen in the contest, in obedience to his commands, in support of his "great principle." The contest, just closed in Vermont, Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, it would seem, ought to cause him to pause and reflect on ms ruinous course, wi men imm, mi. . consequence of his policv and they would teach their lesson to any mind and bring home to the heart of any true lover of Democratic principles the sure conviction that the policy he has pursued, is, and ever will be, crowned with nothingJjut disaster ami defeat. And still, like the madman, he pursues his course, regardless of its consequences. . Friends fall around him, in their blind devotion to ins cause, nuin stains i 1 1 1 ..l. : nV.... Al.n,.,; JMIj .,11 alr,t.ir ' auiu.l'l, aim i. iniMijJiuii nul l iiuiiijmii mil' cm ivi.p his baleful track. Still on on he marches, to satiate his thirst with more victims and more, sacrifices. The Democracy of the northwest, where all his boasted strength was concentrated, shows but his weakness; and never before has such complete, total defeat met us in the fall elections as those just passed. But he has gone to carry his evil prestige to another field. Our Southern brethren now must feel the blast that has just passed over us the withering, blasting simoon of "squatter sovereignty." As if the weight ol Know Nothingism and northern Abolitionism were not enough to contend with, they must now have the last great evil from the political Pandora's box "squatter sovereignty;" as explained and exhibited by the "great magician." ; The North will breathe freer and deeper, now that the political Cataline has gone forth; and, though the time is short, yet much maybe done to show our brethren in the South that the North is not abolitionized that though defeat has met us, that the rank and file are still unconquered that we have had but a temporary defeat, through the bad leadership ot' an incompetent leader. 'We are men true to our" ancient' principles- true to the Constitution and all its compacts and we will stand by our brethren of the South in maintaining their just rights. : No Agitation. ..We invite the attention of those who are constantly crying out against the Democratic party because of the eternal agitation of the "Nigger question" to the speech of Mr. Seward, at Lansing, Michigan. When your house is on fire it will not do to say " sleep on," "do not cry fire for fear you may disturb the quiet of the city and arouse the fears of your neighbors." We say get up and cry out "lire," "iire,"at the top of your lungs. Let your neighbors know of the dreadful danger that threatens them and you. When a foreign or domestic toe comes marching upon yon with banners flying, openly proclaiming the existence of an " irrepressible conflict" between them and you. duty to yourself and your country requires that you should boldlv meet the danger and not retreat before your con tinually advancing foe, and cry out as you go, "let us of the retreating army ignore the question." It is idle to suppose that "no agitation" or non-action by the South would beget quiet in the North. In the lauguage of the Nashville Patriot in 1858: " Abolitionism is essentially aggressive. Founded upon interference with the constitutional rights of others, it lives, moves and has its being in agitation and aggression. So long as there is slavery in this Union, so long will Abolition be Active, Insolent and Insulting." That there may be no mistake as to the ultimate design of the Black Republicans, listen to Horace Greeley: " We desire not merely a majority of nominally free States, but that every State shall be thotoughly free and devoted to the cause of Universal Freedom. A majority of such free States as California or even New Jersey or Indiana would be a very poor reward j r tne martyraom or an tne nooie spirirs, irom love- ; J 31 -J-on, to r imii at uaranonn, wno nave freely rendered up their lives in testimony to the wrong and curse of slavery." The question of Abolitionism, it will thus be seen, is not an abstract, but a practical question. It cannot be ignored or stayed by the cry ot "no agitation." It is upon us and we must meet it. Nnshrille American. The Votejof Kentucky. From the Kentucky Statesman. The friends of Breckinridge and I.ane have good reason to entertain the mo-t confident expectations of the vote of Kentucky in November. From every section of the State highly encouraging news pours in uxn us indicating the rapid progress of a complete revolution in the popular sentiment of the State as expressed in August. The disastrous result' of the late State elections in the North have had the effect to prostrate the Douglas faction and paralyze the old Opposition here, while they have but stimulated the Democracy to eTen more determined and resolute exertion. Large accessions to our cause from the Bell party are heralded to ns from many parts of the State, while in some localities we hear of regular stampedes in the Douglas faction. We do not over estimate the extent of this reaction in the opinion that the Douglas Tote of Kentucky has, in the last two weeks, fallen off" over fifty per cent, and that Mr. Bell is ereatlv snd we ronfidently belief will jrive n the Sttr. j

Now is the time for work, constant, energetic and in dei'aiigable exertion. Let the people understand the issues, appreciate the full significance of their votes in the pending crisis, and no appi bUuusiond need be felt as to the voice of Kentucky. Opinions Abroad of the Conduct of the Douglas Managers in Indiana, From the Boston Post. As the smoke of the late battle grounds goes otr, a clear view is left of the results ot the recent elections. Nearly the same characteristics were seen in tlie canvass in the three States of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the same causes have produced the same results; the Democratic party divided, and the Black Republicans through the gap, have walked into power. Last spring the Democracy held Indiana; felt con fi-

vania; but have thus far failed as far as these States are concerned. ' We have from time to time presented evidence of the spirit displayed bv the more rabid supporters of Douglas in all these States, Take the cases of Pennsylvania and Indiana. In both, the supporters of Mr. Breckinridge made earnest efforts to present an united front against the Black Republicans. In Pennsylvania a part of the Douglas men came into a union; in Indiana they steadily refused, from first to last, to even make a show of compromise, but repelled all advances with studied insult ; they affected to believe that the prestige of their candidate was such that they would carrv everything before them. In Indiana not only wa the candidate for Governor an out and out Douglas supporter, but the whole State ticket in nomination was for Douglas; and when the Douglas State Committee found that a supporter of Breckinridge was on the Electoral ticket, they formally erased his name and placed in its stead a full-blooded Douglas man. Nor would the Douglas supporters even give an assurance that if the Breckinridge men voted for the State ticket, they would not claim a triumph as a Douglas triumph. Such was the spirit evinced by the Douglas leaders in Indiana. In that State there was no union, though the supporters of Brerkinr'dge were SO desirous of saving the State ficm the Block Republicans, that they declined to put iu nomination a State ticket. As the consequences of such a policy, the Bhv k Republicans have carried all these Slates by heavy majorities. The result of these elections makes New York the battle ground. Of course it cannot affect the issue in the fifteeen slaveholding States and in the two Pacific States; for the 127 votes they cast will be thrown solidly against Lincoln, and it still needs but twenty-five votes to defeat his election. New York can cast these votes if her patriotic national men will it. At the lasl State election, even with a partial union, the Highci Law men were beaten. The supporters of Breckinridge and Lane, all along, have manifested a disposition to unite with the Douglas and Bell men; and their Committee at length have accepted, even, the new ticket proposed by the meeting at the Cooper Institute. There is now a ticket in the field on which the National men, one and all. can honorably unite. The tone of the New Y'ork National press is most cheering. The masses, feeling the peril of the crisis, ar rallying enthusiastically to the support of the Union ticket." Nobly would the Empire State stand were she to roll back the Abolition tide. Douglas Gives Up his Own State. From the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche. Like the fugitive from justice, Douglas is seeking refuge in the South. Repudiated and despised at home he comes South, for the purpose of pursuing his accustomed avocation. If he has influence he. ought to exercise it at home. There is need for all his talent and eloquence in the. State of Illinois. But, instead of remaining at home and striving to rescue his own State from the hands of Black Republicanism, he gives it up and comes to Tennessee for the purpose of giving this State to Bell. lie professes a desire for the defeat of Lincoln, and yet, in the very hour of danger, when the battle is waxing hot, when the enemy, encouraged by recent successes, and by the prospect of almost certain victory, are redoubling their efforts, and dealing their heaviest blows; at this hour, when the conservative allies are struggling, almost without hope, against the swelling ranks of their fanatical opponents; it is at this hour and under these circumstances, that Stephen A. Dougles meanly deserts the field of battle, and rushes out of the very sight, and bevond the. very hearing of every Black Republican in the land. Why does he come South ? Because he knows that he cannot stem the resistless anti-slavery tide, even in his own State ; because he wishes to disturb and distract the endangered South ; because he wishes to involve the whole Democratic party in the deep and remediless ruin which has over-.:' whelmed him and his fortunes. Why? In Massachusetts, where the Republicans have the entire sway, why don't they say a German, an Irishman, an Englishman, or a Frenchman, shall vote in two years, and make the dirty negro wait seven, instead of allowing a negro to vote in two. years and making white men wait seven? Why don't (hey do this, and wipe out the black stain that now attaches to the S ate of the gifted Daniel Webster ? Why ? Would Indiana tolerate such a state of things an hour? Never, while the Democracy can rule. Judge Douglas Corning to Make Speeches in Favor of Bell. Wc have been 'requested by a friend of Judgr Douglas in this city, to state that he will be here on Saturday, the 25th inst. In making this announcement, the question very naturally presents itself, what is Judge Douglas coming South to make speeches for? It is well known that he. has no possible chance of carrying a single Southern State nay more, that he will not carry a majority of votes in a dozen counties in all the South. Then, we repeat the question, what is he coming South to make speeches for ? Why, the. answer is plain he is coming to canvass in favor of John Bell. A large portion of the honest voters in the South who, in the first instance, were disposed to support Judge Douglas, have become convinced that to support him, under the circumstances, would be virtually supporting John Bell, and have consequently determined to support 'Mr. Breckinridge; and the mission of Judge Douglas South is to try to bring back these honest Democratic voters to his support, and thereby, if possible, to create a sufficient division in the Democratic party South to give the electoral votes of some of the States to Mr. Bell. This is evidently his object, and it is the object of the Douglas leaders South. The thing has become so evident that they can deceive nobody unless they are willing to be deceived.. Chattanooga llrfeclor. KANSAS. Lands in the late New York Indian Reserve. Synpift of the Presirirnt's Proclamation? o. i(7t dated .August 21, 1800. IT orders pnhlic sales of the vacant tracts of public lands in the late Reserve for the New York Indians, in the Territory of Kiuitii-, a-- follows : At llie Lan j Otike at Fort Scott, on the 3d day of December next, of the tracts or parcels of public lauds, not covered by iutlivhluul Indian locations, in thirty six townships and pints of townships fallinjr within the hue reserve almve mentioned for New York Indians, and within the eounm of Bourlxiu. Allen, and Woodson. At :hi I-and Otriec at Fokt Scott, on the 17th day of December next, of the tracts or parcels of puMic lands, not covered by individual Indian locations, in thirty-fix township and purts of townships tailing within the laf re.-erve a'xivc mentioned IVr New Yoik Indian, end within the counties of Woodson, Greenwood, and Butler. The lands will be offered with the nnal exceptions of school sections, &c, Sc. The sales will be kept open nntil the lands are all ottered, which is to be accomplished wiihin two weeks, and no longer; and no private entry of any of the lands will be admiitcd until afier the expiration of the two weeks. Pre-emption claimant are required to establish their claims to the satisfaction of the proper IJepister and Receiver, and make payment for the same on or before the day appointed for the commencement of the public iiW, otherwise their claims will b forfeited. JOS. S. WILSON, Commissioner of the General Land Office. General Land Office, September in, 1 80. Oct. w