Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1860 — Page 2

THE OLD LINE GUARD.

a rt. o a it Ltd n, . WIU.UM Cl'LLKY, SATUKDAY, - - -

EDITORS.

- - - OCTOBER 27.

National Democratic Ticket. FOIi PRESIDENT, JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE, OF KKNTUCKY. FOR VICE' PRESIDENT, "JO SEPirLNE,OF ORF.GON.

Senator Erijrht's Card Slander Eefutcd.

We received the Louisville Courier, containing the

following card from Senator Bright, as we were about

nutting our pa nor to press. o have onlv tmio to

say, that Mr. Bright availed himself of his first moment

of leisure, after his return home from the North, to

nail to the counter the miserable falsehood retailed by

the Louisville Democrat, Cincinnati Enquirer, State Sentinel, and other Douglas papers, that he had voted the Black Republican ticket at the late election. The

strong, clear, and positive manner in which he disposes of the calumny and calumniators, must raise blis

ters upon their foreheads. ' A Clr& from Senator Bright,

ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: James Morrison, of Marion. , Delana R. Eckels, of Putnam. DISTRICT ELECTORS. Is District Dr. G. G. Barton, of Daviess county.

Dr. William i. Sherrod, ot Orange. David Sheeks, of Monroe. Ethelbert C. Hibben, of Rush. Samuel Orr, of Delaware. Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. James A. Scott, of Putnam. Col. William M. .Tenners, of Tippecanoe. James Bradley, of Laporte. Robert Breckinridge, p, of Allen. John R. CofTroth, of Huntington.

STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 1st District J.B.Gardner,

2d " 3d " 4th " 5 th " 6 th " 7th " 8th " 9 th " 10th " 11th "

2d 3d 4th 5th Gth

7th 8th f)th 10th 1 1 th

Levi Sparks, Geo. II. Kvle, Dr. B. F.Mullen, Alex. White, John R. Elder, James M. Tomlinson, Julius Nioolai, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Thomas Wood, Thomas I). Lemon, G. F. R. Wadloigh, Dr. E. B. Thomas, W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman.

ELECTIONJIOKETS. We call on our friends in every county to provide themselves with plenty of Election Tickets. Do this at once. Don't neglect it, and see that they are furnished at every poll. They will bo supplied at this office, and sent to any direction given, postage free, for 75 cents a thousand. Send your orders, with the money, to ELDER "& DARKNESS. goTTlie money um-t accompany the order, to secure attention. .. British Abolition Eoi'ssaries at Work. ,

O R G AN I Z ATI O N O F T II E IN ARKANSAS.

MILITIA

From the Louisville Courier. Jeffkhsonville, Oct. 25, 18G0. Editors Louisville Courier: In requesting the use of your columns for the publication of this card, I de-

; part from a rule that I have observed through the ! whole of my political life, anil stoop to notice the cal- ' tunnies of a pensioned press. A friend has iust handed me a newspaper called

j the ( 'incinnati Enquirer, (otherwise I presume I should

not have seen it.) winch contains, in its issue ot the 1 7th inst., the following notice of myself: HOW JESSE 11. BRIGHT .VOTED. A gentleman of veracity, whom we can vouch for

as such, stated to us yesterday, in the presence of others, that he saw Mr. Jesse D. Blight's ticket, which

the Senator voted on the 9th inst.,and that it was the full Republican ticket, with one exception. He voted

for Lane, Republican, and against Hendricks, as did

the Breckinridge men ot Indiana generally.

In addition to this, I find, on my return to this place (after an absence of two weeks.) letters from several

friends (three ot whom reside in Kentucky,) eallin

my attention to this calumny, and requesting me to

notice it I do so very reluctantly, because ot my uu

willingness to dignify such an absurd charge with even a denial ; but I hope I shall do it satisfactorily to those who feci enough interest in the matter to read this

statement.

" The gentleman of veracity," who told the editor

ot the Enquirer that " he saw my ticket, that he

knows how 1 voted, and that I voted for Mr. Lane, or

any other Republican candidate on the State ticketxis

i a liar and slanderer; and I apply the same epithet to

, certain editors ot Uouglas newspapers, who have re iterated this charge and vouched for its truth.

I have been pursued by Stephen A. Douglas and his minions to a point where I find that my friends

i expect me to take some notice, over my own signaj ture, of these revilers and detainers of character, and

i especially, that I should notice the unmitigated false

hoods contained in that truth-telling newspaper, (! J j the " Cincinnati Enquirer :" and, in yielding to their ' wishes, and thus departing from a rule of action that ' has governed me through life, I want it distinctly understood that, personalty, I am indifferent alike to the j praise or censure of that class of editors who have been so actively engaged in villifying and abusing me ' throughout the pending Presidential canvass, because i of my open support of Breckinridge and Lane. I hope they have ascertained that I am not to be coaxed, driven, or slandered into the support of that traitor to i party and to principle. Stephen A. Douglas.

' Kospecttufly, yours, J. U. Ji Kill 111.

We publish in our paper to-day, as one of the signs . of the times, a letter from the Governor of Arkansas to the militia officers of that State, urging them to arm and drill, without delay, the respective forces under their command. The Governor says that British Abolition emissaries are at work, fomenting mischief amongst the slaves in that section of the country. lie apprehends danger from such a source to the institutions of the State, and thinks that no time should be lost in preparing to meet such an evil. Many of the Republican -papers at the East pretend to make merry at the views of the Governor; but really we do not see anything to laugh at. This is not the first time that we have heard of the mischief of British Abolitionists in this country. We recollect the time that General Jackson hanged two British Abolition emissaries in Florida, (Arbuthnot anil Ambrister,) who ,' were among the first to establish the underground railroad, fo run the slaves from Georgia into Florida, when the latter State was Spanish territory. About the same time, ..another . British emissary, (named Thompson.) visited New England and gave an impetus to the Abolition movements in that quarter from which they have spread all over the North and West. Another British Abolitionist, (one E. D. Baker.) has recently emigrated fioiii California into Oregon, and, through the aid of the combined Lincoln and Douglas managers in the Legislature .of that State, been elected to the United States Senate, over the gallant American hero who led the Indiana volunteers to victory and renown upon the battle-field of Buena Vista. Yancey at Louisville. This gentleman, who has been so much abused by the Dnugla-ites since he rejected their nomination for the Vice Pio.-idcney, made another speech at Louis., viile a few days since. It is highly spoken of by the Louisville papers, in an intellectual point of view. '. .We see that S inders, the bosom and confidential friend of Douglas, who tcndeied the nomination to

Yancey, speaks of it as a joke. That won't do. Sidney S. Baxter, for seventeen years Attorney General, of Virginia -one of the shrewdest lawyers in the country, and a gentleman of the most, unimpeachable veracity was present at the time when Sanders solicited Yancey to accept of the nomination. He confirms the charge made by both the Richmond Enquirer and Charleston Mtrcury, that the offer was actually made by Sanders ami declined by Yancey. Besides, the distinguished Alabaniian is well known to be a man of rather too high metal tor either Sanders or Douglas to venture such a joke upon. From Lawrence County. Bedi OUD, Lawrence Co., Oct. 25, '60. Mksks. Eldek & Hahkness Gents: Enclosed find $2,25 for 3uo0 Breckinridge and Lane tickets. The true Democracy of Lawrence county are fully aroused, and I think, willgivealargerBuECKiNKUHJE vote, in proportion to the population, than any county iu the Sta'.e. 1 expected to have gone to ludiaiiapolis, beibre this time, but I have concluded that I can do more good by addressing the people in this and adjoining counties, whieh I will do before the election. Yours respectfully, A. 11. Cahlto.n. 2" The Douglas men of Springfield. Missouri, undertook to get up a mass meeting a few days since. The speakers were there, but the Douglas men were not The audience was composed largely of Breekin ridge men, and, according to a corresjondent of the St. Louis Bulletin, it was impossible to suppress the enthusiasm for BrecEIXbiih;e, and cheer adcr cheer rent the air as his name was mentioned. After the meeting was over, about loot) Breckinridge men marched through the town, and gave vent to their enthusiasm by cheering and other manifestations. CJTb Uinl of Charleston, S. C., decline discounting or buying any paper on the northern cities, whieh mV.tin after the 6th of November; and th? Bjiik of North Carolina refuse atvomnwxlation. in tm hp'. to it MistiHiT- after thai date.

Combinations in New York and Oregon, HOW WILL NEW YORK CO? As the Empire State will decide tho contest, whether BRKCKixmiHii: or Lincoln shall be the next President, all eyes are turned to her. The Hon. Wm. II. Seward, the master-spirit of the Republicans, seems to be as great a braggart in the field of politics as Douglas. He ha electrified the Republicans with hopes that New York will elect the Lincoln ticket by at least sixty thousand over the Union ticket. lie has also attempted to cast odium upon the Union move

ment in that Stale. . In his recent speech at Spring

field, Illinois, he' said,: The State of New York will give a generous and cheerful and effective support to your neighbor, Abraham Lincoln. I have heard about combinations and coalitions there, and I have been urged from the beginning to abandon this journey, and turn back on my footsteps: Whenever 1 shall find any reason to suspect that the majority which the State of New York will give .for'.' the Republican candidate will.be less than tiO.oOO, cheers, I may do so. .'"." " The State of New York never fails never flinch

es. She has been committed from the beginning.and she will be to the end, under all circumstances, to the great principles of the Republican party. She voted to establish this a land of freedom tor you in 1 787. She sustained the Ordinance of .'87 till you were able to take care : of yourselves. Among the. first acts of her Government, she abolished slavery for herself. She has known nothing of compromises nothing of conditions or qualifications in the great principle, and she never will. She will sustain your distinguished j neighbor, because she knows he is true to this great I principle; and when she has helped to elect him, bv

civing as large majority as can be given by any halt-

! dozen other States, then vou will find that she will ask

lesi, exact less from him. and support him more faith- ; fully than any other State can do. This is the way i she did with John Quincy Adams. This is the way j she sustained General Taylor. That is the way she j will sustain Mr. Lincoln. Loud cheers." i If Mr. Seward has no better basis than this to found his hopes on, then, indeed, he is leaning upon a broken j reed. As we happened to be a New Yorker by birth, ' we profess to know something of her jioliticai career, i New York has never given a clear majority of all her

votes in favor of the Republican cause. Mr. Seward says, that " among the first acts of her "overmnent, she abolished slavery for herself." This

' is not correct. She did not pass an act to abolish slavery until 181a not until she found it to be unprofitable in her high latitude; and 1 hen she did it prosi'-rtieely giving the owners of slaves a chance to sell them to the Southern people before the act went into operation, Mr. Seward says that New York ' knows nothing of cvmjiroinises." This is another mistake. In 1824, when the Legislature of that State apointed Electors of President, the friends of Crawford. Clay and Adams united together against Jackson; ' compromised" their difficulties and dissensions, ami divided the Electors

first-named candidates.'-. That

"othing between them, however, whieh would weigh as heavy as a feather in the scale alongside of the present difference of principle between the Democrats and Republicans, which involves the pivrpctiiityand safety of the l'uion, and the Democratic ascendancy in the Senate, which Mr. Douglas has sacrificed, in order to gratify his vindictive feelings against General Lane. He has, through that infamous coalition with the common enemy, not only struck down ft gallant and faithful Democrat, who shed his blood and risked his life in one of the hardest fought battles with the foes of his country ever kkown in American history, but he has put in tLHeiiate, as he previously threatened to do, E. 1). Baker, a notorious English Aboli- :....:... :c ..... w..:.:..i.

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sent here for the very purpose of fomenting the dissensions between the North and the South, and thus hastening a dissolution of the Union. It was bad enough for Douglas to break up the National Convention at Baltimore and split up the Democratic party, to bring about the election of Lincoln, if he could not succeed himself to the Presidency ; but to resort to such means as that coalition to destroy the Democratic ascendancy in the Senate, as well as in the Executive branch of

the Government, caps the climax of his perfidy and treachery.

Mr. Seward says that New York will support Mr.

Lincoln as faithfully as she did John Quincy Adams.

Now, the fact is, that the people of New York never supported Mr. Adams ; but, on the contrary, a very large majority of them voted for his rival, Andrew Jackson, a slave owner. If "this is the way she will sustain Mr. Lincoln" that is, " the way she did Mr. Adams" then the rail-splitter will come out minus some ticenty thousand in that State. It is true that New York gave her vote for General Taylor; but he ran as the 1 1 rhig candidate, before the organization of the present Republican party, when gratitude for his military services at Buena Vista induced many Democrats to vote for him. Fremont was the first Republican candidate for President; and he only carried New York by a plurality not a majority vote. Iu 185U, the following was the vote of the State :

Negro Slavery. , Messrs. Editors : My object is, at this time, to make a few desultory remaiks iu regard to Negro Slavery as it exists in the United Slates. The times seem to demand it of us to explain, and even to defend, some of those points which have been assailed by the un-

mi ' i " i ,- i-t r imnint The trade in exchange i Now York alone for cotton is immense, and if the current of the cotton trade should be diverted from her, instead of forty millions per annum, it would be reduced to probably onefourth of that amount. The manufactured cotton goods that are obtained now for 1 o els. per yard, would raise to 40 or 50 cents. Sugar and rice would snir,.,.

scrupulous iu connection with the institution of sla- in like proportion. Let this disaster come upon the

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very; which is so much trauueeu ana vimneu, wmi

out having a clear and lucid view of the subject. Wo are prone to view this slavery question abstractly, without taking into consideration contingencies or circumstances. If we should be interrogated, as to which

we should prefer freedom or slavery the question

is easily answered

ginia orator

country, and I can conceive that the heart of the most

obdurate abolitionist would be softened, and melt like wax, through the influence of his pocket. , We still hope and trust'that there is a conservative element in our government, that will influence the. masses to tako a second sober thought on this most

swered, m the language ot Hie great , vitaUubjoct, and treat it with that, calmness and con-

r, Patrick Henry, " Give nie liberty, or . nideration that tlio niuKnitutlc c

lagnitude of the occasion require.

give me death 1" This is the way that the people look f this glorious Union, whieh was erected by the blood

upon this important matter; and so say I but there nnd treasure of our fathers, be rent asunder by trait-

Buchanan, (Dem.) .......... ..... .195,878 Fillmore, (Am.) 12-1,004 Total... 320,482 Fremont. (Rep.) , 276,907

ors to the Constitution, " 'twere better they had never

been born." It would then be said, and truthfully too, that "we were degenerate sons of noble sires;" but

this we cannot contemplate with any degree of composure it must not be accomplished. We must resist it as become freemen, and preserve our self-respect, and not meet the Scotland sneers of the lovers of freedom throughout the world, and cover ourselves with infamy "through all the coining myriads aof mankind, who shall abhor us as they would a pestilence." It is to be hoped that the false philanthropy which is so rife in the land, will become modified so much at least as to learn to attend to that which immediately concerns them, and let their neighbors attend to their own domestic institutions unmolested by importunities. Then we will maintain our dignity as a great and glorious nation, moving along with the stars and stripes waving over our beloved country; growing in power, exacting justice of all, and commanding the admiration of all mankind. .Justice.

Anti-Republican majority. ........... .43,570 In November, 1858, the vote for Governor stood

thus: ' Parker, (Dem.).. . ........ . . . . 230,513 Burrows, (Am.) . 00,880

Total... .

Morgan, (Rep.) ,

291.393 240,953

Anti-Republican majority . .. ..... 44,440

Iu November, 1S59, the vote for Secretary of Slate

stood as follows : For Jones, (Dem. anil Am.) 252,889 Leavenworth, .(Rep.) , , .251,139

between the thr?

was a combination of politicians in the Legislature, before the people of New York were invested with the right to choose the Electors.

Anti-Republican majority. . ............ . 1,750 There was a considerable falling off in the anti-Re

publican majority in 1859, it is true ; but there was also a falling off of 03,000 in the number of votes polled that is, so many less than the number polled

at the Presidential election in 1856.-

There will be a full vote in the coming election; and

if all the Douglas leaders prove true to the Union ticket, it will, succeed by a handsome majority Mr. Seward's extravagant brag to the contrary notwithstanding. In this case the Union ticket was nominated, it will be borne in mind, not by politicians, but by the People, headed by the merchants of New-York city, who have a large stake, in a business point of view, in the preservation of the Union. Their influence prevailed, over that of the Douglas political managers, with the masses of the people throughout the State. The Breckinridge State Central Committee there, made, previously, several overtures to the Douglas Committee, for a union upon one. ticket;' but those overtures, like the one made in Indiana ' by. the Breckinridge Committee here, failed. When the movement was made for a Union ticket by the People, headed by the merchants, the friendsof Bkeckixripge cordially seconded it; but they, at the same time, preserved their distinct organization. They kept their colors flying they adhered to their platform they sacrificed no principle they wheeled into column, and marched forward to strike a blow against the com

mon enemy, as the French army did at Y'orktown, whim it united with the American forces to defeat Cornwallis. They agreed to suppress their differences with the other divisions of the grand army of the Union until its enemies shall be overthrown. The Douglas division finally pursued- the same course. But it was a combination of the People very different from the combination of the politicians in the Legislature of New--York in 1824 very different from the late combination of the Douglas and Repub. liean managers in the Legislature of Oregon; in, which the Douglas leaders united villi (lit common em my of the Confederacy, in order to overthrow the Democratic ascendancy in the highest legislative body in the country in order to elevate an English 'Abolitionist over a distinguished American soldier, patriot, and Democrat! When the blow is struck by the Breckinridge forces against the common enemy when the common enemy is defeated when the Abolition Cornwallis is

made prisoner, and the Union is placed beyond dan. ger they will come to the right-about, and march out of the field again, as the noble French army did in 1783, with their banners flying.

The Electors uon the L'uion ticket in New Y'ork are pledged to go against Lincoln, and they will therefore vote in favor of the candidate opposed to him who will receive the strongest support from the other States of the Union. As the signs of the times indicate, from the local elections which have taken place in Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri,

Arkansas, Texas, Florida and Delaware, Bhecki.v-

It was a compromise ot principles as well as a com- KiixiE is that candidate. As neither Douglas nor bi nation of men of dill'erent factions to defeat Gen. Bell has carried a local election in a single Southern Jackson in New York, like that which has recently State, BitEC KiNRirx;E will probably receive the vote taken pi iee between the friends of Douglas ami Lin-1 of the whole South. In that case, the vote of New coin in the legislature of Oregon, to defeat the rc- Y'ork, added to the Southern States, will elect him by election of Gen. Joi: Lane to the Senate with this! the People.

AVill not the Demo rats of Indiana participate in the glories of this great victory over the common enemy of the Union? Or will they Hilly their high rep-

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without the knowledge or consent of Mr. Crawford,

! (if not Mr. Ciay.) Mr. Crawford was then confined ; to his Ix'd by a severe malady, whieh soon after terj niinatrd hi? life. Whereas, the recent combination j in Oregon was set on ft. as Mr. Douglas said a long ' time iK'ibrc its consummation, by hims'lf, when he j lton-ted he had "Joe Lane's head in a basket," and I intended to jrive his seat to E. I). Baker. The New

York combination, in 1?24, was bad enough, in all conseienee. but it !ore no comparison in enormitv with the coalition in Oregon. Tln re had been, previously, a severe quarrel between Mr. Clay and Mr. Adam, growing out of the treaty of Client, when the former cliarged the latter with sacrificing the interests of the West to promote the '-od-fish interest of the East - in ihe Briti-di wat.-r ni Newfoundland. There wa

utatioii for principle, patriotism and love of country, by sinking then Ives so low as to become man-worshipers f Will they administer (o the passions of a demagogue, intriguer, and traitor to their party, when all reliable Democratic States are making a common effort to place at the head of the Government Bueh tried friends of the Union as Bueckixripoe and Lane? The contest is approaching the fifth day of Yor trdtr is near at hand the old guard of Jackson have already entered the field the final struggle is about to commence irho will be found so lost to his country's welfare as to be absent from the grand Natmrud srttiv at ucli a mraiM tit?

are circumstances nnd conditions to bo investigated

before we can with reason and justice make a general sweep over the municipal regulations and laws of any

Stale or States ; wo should, in the first place, exam

ine into the cause and effect before the inevitable con

clusion is consummated.

Negro slaves were introduced into America when it

consisted of British colonies; and the first purchases

were made out of conimisseratioii for the unfortunate victims from the hands of their crncl masters; for it

is well known that there was, and is, incessant wars

kept up in Africa between the numerous tribes, as are between the American tribes of Indians ; and if there was no sale made of the captives, they were immediately put to death then it appears that the first step made to purchase the negro was an act of disinterested philanthropy. Soon, however, the speculator, like the vulture, hail discovered his prey; and the whole shipping of the mercantile world embarked in the horrid but profitable enterprise. This was the condition of slavery when our fathers struck the blow for freedom. At this time there were four hundred thousand negro slaves distributed throughout the thirteen colonies ; only one of which was free from this blighting curse. It was soon ascertained that slavery could not be made profitable in the

North, or in a grain-growing country. It was clearly demonstrated that white labor was preferable to slave

labor, and that there was more work and energy in the white man in a cold country, than iu the negro. Hence, slavery, following the laws of climate and profit, gradually gave way at the North, and concentrated at the South with as much obedience as water finds its level. Up to this period, the negroes have multiplied in a little more than seventy years, by im

portation and natural increase, to four millions of souls, the greater portion of whom are slaves. Now, the Abolitionist asks, " is it right and just to hold so many human beings in bondage ? " I answer it is until you can devise something better. Whenever you make the discovery, as this is an age of improvement and progression, of course it will be adopted ; but until you do, it is better to be silent. It is easier to tear down than to build up ; it is easier to burn down an edifice than to erect one; therefore let us look at things in a rational manner, and not as a fanatic and incendiary. ..When dollars and cents are concerned, liumau nature is about the same in all

countries and in all conditions. We now witness the extreme Southerner argueing the stability of the peculiar institution, and the North repudiating it with great warmth ; but when it was profitable to carry on the slave trade, the North were the principal operators in the business, whilst the South opposed it. Can we imagine for a moment that men differ much when interest is concerned? Shall we be told that the present generation of Massachusetts are more conscientious, or better men at heart than their fathers? Does not all the philanthropy of which they

boast turn upon the everlasting dollar? If negro labor had been as profitable in the New England States as in South Carolina, Georgia or Alabama, would not they have been tho last to part with the Negro? They never would have given him up, but. hugged him close to their bosoms notwithstanding the odor, for it seems they are not very particular in regard to this mitter, as there were upwards of seventy marriages, having been consummated the last year in Massachusetts alone, between the black and wdiite races. The present generation did not introduce

slavery into 'the States it camp to them by inherit

ance, and mostly imported in New England ships up

to the year 1808, then by act of Congress declared i piracy. If the property in negroes has descended

i to the present owners as an inheritance, it is not more ; incumbent in them to emancipate, than it would be

! for some of the descendants of New England to throw

! money in the ocean, which came to them by inherit

j ance, that was made in the negro traffic by their pro

genitors for they were the principal actors in the drama. I If the Southern planter is rolling in wealth and lux- ! ury by the profits of the negro left him by his fatheri

: so is the New-Englander enjoying in the same man-

i tier over the treasure his father made in the African j Slave Trade. If there is any compunction of con- ; science, let the New-Englander feel its force. If there

i has been a great wrong perjietrated upon the sons of

miserable Africa, the New-Englander is deeply imj plicated. He ought to blush, if it were possible a blush could mantle his stolid features, whenever he proclaims against the slavery of the South. J The question naturally arises, what shall be done ! with slavery ? My reply is to let it alone, for Provi- ! dence in His own good time will conduct it to a faI vorable issue. The subject, at this momentous period, i is beset on all sides with unsurmountable difficulties, 'and enveloped in the darkness of midnight; its destij ny is far in the future; it has baffled the understanding of all our distinguished Statesmen; and it is one ! of those entangled subjects that human foresight must succumb to. Suppose you, in your excessive zeal, should emancipate I hem, ait; you aware of the consequences? Do you not know that the negro race is idle, lazy, and ! unthrifty, not disposed to work unless they ait; com" j polled ? If you have any doubts upon this subject, ; take a view of Jamaica and St. Domingo, or even look at the race wherever found: then of what use would j they be to the world or to themselves? They would, j in tins event, perpetrate all manner of excesses and untold brutality, which would lead to their final ex- ) tinction or return to slavery. You sec the American Indian vanishing before the march of the white man ; Jie will not work, and, of course, is ot no utility to the j world, and therefore must soon be consigned to the ! tomb of oblivion. 1 j We will take another view of this subject. Suppose j the raising of cotton is destroyed, which it would be if

I the slaves arc liberated, the consequence would be Forney & Co., at Philadelphia, Lauman & Co., at appalling, to the Eastern States in particular, as, also t Reading, and Ilaldeman & Co., at Hani-burg (inns .. i.i ;f .s.;n .Kr.nl. 1 hi. th ! doing a heavy business in the ttraiaht-out trade, are

.ii . said to have won an immense amount on I. urtin s elec- , alU-.-nat.ve, the disaster to our country would amount Uon A o(. ., ,a, WOD ofl. ie j to about the same. The cotton, in this event, would j tion of the Douglas men, who did not supect the jbc inuiiediateiy shipped to England. This would , treachery of their leaders, and therefore staked their i brio" about a crisis that would shake the foundation ! money on Ft er. The gains of Forney, Lauman. I , ,'' . . . . . , and their aswx iates in this iramblins operation, are set of the monetary system to its centre; the sprndle. and ) d(jwn il(y ,oJ ightt Hn.-W-j looms of New-England would fx as wlenl a enamel ; iMU pays pretty w. 11 at that THtcChamlfrs'-urp (I'm.) houw. I ' f SfHnt.

Changes of Democratic Papers from Douglas to Breckinridge. Almost every mail, since the news of the Life infamous coalition between the Douglas men and Republicans in Oregon, as well as with the K. N.'s m Indiana and the Southern States, has brought us some

Democratic newspapers which have hauled down the squatter chief's name, and hoisted that of Bueckinbidge. Amongst the last ones received is that of the Winona (Minnesota) Democrat, whose Editor has made up his mind, that if Democrats follow Mr. Douglas any further, they will surely " land in the hosom of the liepuHican party." It stands the Democratic Editors in hand, everywhere, to pause and look about theirfselves, before the arch traitor " cuts down all the. bridges" which connect them with the Democracy. They have more to lose from his treason than any other class of men. In many instances, their principles are not only at stake, but their bread and butter also. Many a good fellow, connected with the press who has labored night and day for years to build up a good Democratic patronage, will wake up after the coming election, ami find himself ruined, through tho apostacy of this unprincipled demagogue. Hundreds of such will be found, when the traitor has gone clear over to the Opposition camp, who will be compelled to wade knee-deep in muddy water to get back to their old party, or else play second fiddle to old-estab

lished Opposition papers. Will they not follow the example set them by the editor of the Winona Democrat, before it is too late ? Hear what lie says : "Mr. Douglas cannot be elected. If he could, for the sake of beating Lincoln, we would still be willing to support him. With a hope that ho might possibly command sufficient strength for this 'purpose, in the North, we have continued to advocate his claims up to the present time. The result of the recent elections, however, has shown that he lias no strength w hatever; that he will not come within ten thousand votes of getting one electoral vote. Even the unholy alliance which himself and friends have made with Know-Nothingism, or, as it is called for the sake of disguise, Bell-Evorettism, has failed to draw. With an almost superhuman energy, and with an eloquence possessed by few men, he has canvassed the Free States, and in every place he has spoken, the Republican vote has been largely increased. lie has no strength before the people. He has not even a ghost of a chance for an election. "Therefore, even granting him what there was of regularity in the nomination, the present dangerous

condition of the country morally absolves anything of political obligation which may bind Democrats to him, and points out their duty clearly as being to vote for a man whom there is a chance to elect, and whose election would stay the fearful flood whieh threatens to overwhelm the Confederacy in one general ruin. That man is John C. Breckinridge. u We are well satisfied that it were a vain labor to apjieal to thoio Democrats who worship men instead of principle, to stop and consider whither they are drilling. They will not admit that if they pursue the blind policy which they are blindly following, that they will ultimately land in the bosom of the R -publican party." " '- : ,- . Where they will Go. Wc have affirmed that a portion of those who are now supporting Douglas will, after he is effectually "laid upon the shelf," as he will be on the 6th of November, pass into the Republican ranks, where they will find congenial spirits with their own. Indeed, such of those as have the intelligence fo foresee the inevitable fate of Douglas, will not wait till (he election before they transfer themselves to fhe enemy, but will support Mr. Lincoln, whose election they prefer to any Democrat other than Douglas. On every side and every hour, in this city and elsewhere, we hear Douglas men declaring that they prefer Lincoln to Breckinridge, and if they were sure Doug

las could not be elected, they would, without a moment's hesitation, cast their votes for Lincoln. It is

not unfreqiieutly that we find Douglas papers, 'convinced that the cause of the squatter chief is hope

less, passing into the Republican ranks, and engaging in the supxrt of Lincoln. We give below extracts to show the truth of our assertions.

The following is from the Franklin County Demo

crat, published in Illinois, which has been an earnest

and consistent supporter of Stephen A. Douglas:

The recent elections which have been

held in the South render it certain that Douglas can

not le elected, and we are now compelled, in duty to

conscience and our country, to choose between the re

maining three candidates, however reluctant we may be to abandon the fortunes of Mr. Douglas. The elections whieh have beon held show conclusively to

our mind that the race is between Mr. Breckinridgn ami Mr. Lincoln, and of the two we prefcrthe latter." Swindling their Friends.