Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1858 — Page 2

. .4, J I- ■ i ■ - ■■ ■ Instruction and domestic discipline are the great conservative principles of this Republic; the moral lessons taught our youth around the family hearth-stone, are the cor- - ner-posts in the sustentation of our Churches and the bulwark of future strength to this nation. Had it not been for the influence of the Bible, that noble instrument which has just been read, would never have been written—thia Republic would not have had an existence. Take from us now the influence of that hallowed book, th!e Constitution of our country would be torn into fragments, and the bright sun of liberty, which is now casting over us its life-giving rays, would soon set in a crimson sea of anarchy and blood. The intelligence and morality of the people are at all times a nation’s safeguard. - They are alone the rudder that guides the ship of State safely.through the breakers of discord and the rocks of faction. Here, in our own favored land, where the humblest individual’s vote is of as much consequence as the highest magistrate’s, .how important is it that every one should be .endowed with intelligence, and that intelligence governed by high moral principle! Indeed, as all the political power of our Republic exists in the hands of the people, our being, as a nation, depends on the moral Character of its citizens. This is an admitted truth. It becomes, then, a duty which we owe to ourselves and to our country to do all we can to foster and encourage it. We are destined, as a nation, to occupy a lofty position in the history of time. We now stand forth as a beacon-star to all the world. Other nations Jiave their Argus eyes fixed upon us. Here the great principles of huma'n rights and human liberty are being tested. The experiment of self-gov-ernment is here being tried upon an extended scale. With a generally disseminated in-telligence-—with the school-book in one hand and the Bible in the other, we have not the least doubt of the ultimate success of the trial. On us, then, rests this great responsibility; shall we discharge' our duty—bur whole duty! Shall we enlighten and elevate, and purify by example and by precept! Shall we not lielp to build up a nation, powerful in strength, exalted in intelligence, and 'rich in all the moral virtues? Children of the Sabbath-schools, parents and friends, permit me to admonish you that “the night cometh in which no man can work'’—the old, the middle-aged and the young are alike smitten in death. “Leaves have their Kime to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, ■ , . And stars to set; but all. Thou hast all seasons for thiiie own, O Death!’, . Yes, my friends, disease enters our dwellings—tlie loved ones of home languish on the bed bf sickness and distress. Here a dearly-loved mother is claimed for the grave—there a father is touched by the icy hand of death; or, it may be, that youth and beauty, who had promised themselves many long years of worldly pleasure, are called to lie down in the silent tomb. Even now, as I throw my eye around this assembly, I miss a manly form, whose presence always greeted ,us in gatherings like this. You yi’ell remember him upon this day one short year since, when he stood in yonder pulpit and told us the story of the early settlement of this county. You well recollect the instruction and interest of that discourse. Haw often have you been made to laugh at his humor! how often instructed by his wisdom!.how frequently benefitted by his advice! Where now are his sage counsels? where now his ready wit? The Angel of Death has claimed all for his own; and he that we loved so well for his warm social qualities, for his kindness, for his benevolence,dor his wisdom and integrity, sleeps 'the sleep of death! W,ho will be the next tp follow? Alas! “we know not the day nor the h%ur,” for; as a thief in the night, cometh . the dread avenger. Det us, then, work . while it is day; let us not only live for this wqrld, but let us live for a glorious immortality in an other world, where sorrow and •" death never come. ’ ,

From Kansas.

St. Louis, July 23. The Kansas Herald says that General ’ Galheun has issued certificates of election to all tho§e elected under the Lecompton Constitution.., f ' The Free-State members from Leavenworth county receive certificates, which give that party a majority in both branches of the Legislature. The returns for Stat e officers will be made to the Legislature, in whose hands the whole subject rests. The Herald exhorts the people to vote for the ordinance, and settle the question, without further strife or agitation. Chicago (Ill.) Press and Tribune Bays that a mpeting of farmers was lately held at Baden, in that State, to regulate the prices of labor during the harvest. Jt was agreed and resolved that SI,BO per day was good pay, and that the demand of more ought to be resisted. The Alton Democrat gays that in the vicinity of‘that city $1,50 is the established price. Two dollars per day has been paid in some localities in the Hguthecn part of the State. . KrOn the morning of July L6th an accident. occurred to the express train on the Vork and Erie railroad, at Shin Hol-seventy-five miles from New York city, The two hind cars of the train were thrown from the track, by the breaking of a rail, and, with their contents, were precipitated down an embankment of thirty feet. As far aa known, five were killed, and about fifty badly wounded.

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1858.

THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Congress, SCHUYLER COLFAX. Of St. Joseph. Attorney Genera l , WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd. Treasurer of State, JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. Secretary of State, WILLIAM PEELE, of Randolph. Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN YOUNG, of Marion. For Supreme Judges. FIRST DISTRICT, HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cass. second district, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. THIRD DISTRICT. SIMON YANDES, 1 of Marion. fourth district, WM. D. GRISWOLD, ®f Vigo. For State Senator, DAVID TURNER, Of Lake county.

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeState men a id one third! long as God allows the vital current to flow through my veins, I will never, never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind; or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory to the everlasting curse of human bondage.—Henry Clay.

REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Jasper ai d Pulaski counties will meet in Mass Convention at Francisville, on Saturday, August 7, To nominate a candidate for Representative in the State Legislature;

COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republicans of Jasper county will hold* 1 their primary elections, to nominate candidates for county officers, On Thursday, August 12, At the usual places of diolding elections; and the Board of Canvassers will meet at the Court House in Rensselaer, On Saturday, August 14, To open the returns and declare the result of the vote. The officers to be elected are Treasurer, Sheriff, Surveyor and County Commissioner.

JUDGE TURNER,

Our candidate for State Senator, will address the citizens of Jasper county on the 14th of August, the day of the ineetirfg of the Republican Board of Canvassers. QJf The Court of Common Pleas is npw in session, Judge Boyer presiding. (KJ”The election in Kansas on the GreenEnglish swindle comes off next Monday. G. Howe, Esq., was elected Justice of the Peace last Saturday by a flattering majority. QJ7*Tke Laporte Union commences its twenty-first volume this week. The Union is a good Republican paper. QJ7”Samuel Bruner, residing a mile west of town, had a valuable horse stolen from his pasture one night last week. business, Mr. Van Nostrand has concluded to remain another week, taking Ambrotypes. ■ are indebted to Colonel Walker, ed itor of the Laporte Times, for an extra I containing the proceeedings of the Democratic Congressional Convention. 0O”We forgot to notice last week the receipt of Emerson's Magazine and Putnam's Mtmthlyfsr July. This,number comjnences a new Volume, aiid it fully keeps up its reputation. - • Democrats held their Senatorial Convention at Valparaiso last Thursday, and nominated John N. Skinner, who has the necessary qualifications, being a wealthy man and a railroad contractor through Porter county. Walker, the Democratic nominee for Congress in thia district, has heretofore been a bitter Anti-Administration man; but he now stands on a platform fully and =emphatlcally indorsing Buchanan, and expressing entire confidence in his Administration, * r-

JUDGE HACKLEMAN.

The friends of this gentleman all over the State, and the friends of an economical and truly democratic administration of our governffientaevery where, rejoice that the Fourth District has brought this political champion on the track as their Republican candidate for Congress. No man in this State is better entitled to this honor than P. A. Hackleman. No man has stronger claims upon his party; and no man is more worthy of the entire confidence of every one opposed to the present extravagant, anti-democratic and reckless Administration than this gentleman. For twenty years he has been giving his time and his talents for the promotion of the rights of our people; and never has been found wanting in his advocacy of the principles upon which the liberty and happiness of our whole people, rest. The Judge is thoroughly posted as a politician, and intimately acquainted with all the ramifications of our government. He will take into the canvass indomitable energy and unflagging zeal. The miserable rotteness and venial corruption of the party in power will be ably presented and exposed; and the tyrannical ,and outrageous course adopted by the Administration to force on to an unwilling people that surn of all villianies, the Lecompton Constitution, will be stripped of all its fustian, and shown up in its naked deformity. We have no doubt of the election of Judge H. The people of the Fourth District know him well. They honor his commanding talents and sterling integrity, and no doubt will give him such a vote as will place him in a position where they can be used more effectually in taking our government out of the grasp of dishonest politicians and placing it where it legitimately belongs—in the hands of the people. Index.

TUSCAN WHEAT.

We were shown, a few days ago, a sample of this wheat, raised by Jasper N. Taylor, from seed sent from the Patent Office last year. It was somewhat injured by the rust, yet the grain is plump, and the yield is enormous. Mr. Taylor informed us that he raised on one-half a rod of ground seven quarts of wheat, making seventy bushels to the acre. “This is a tremendous yield, and should be further tested. The Commissioner of the Patent Office says that Tuscan wheat has not been known to rust for nineteen years; but the rust this year is more general than ever known before. Even the oats in this section have been almost entirely killed by the rust; a thing our farmers say they never saw before. 0O”Mr. McDonald, of Lakecounty, was a candidate for nomination before the late Bepublican Senatorial Convention, but did not get a vote. We now understand that he wrote a letter to the Democratic Senatorial Convention, saying that he could no longer act with the Republican party, and asking for a nomination. The Democrts treated him with contempt, at, he deserved. Mr. McDonald is now an independent candidate for Senator, and will undoubtedly go into oblivion after the next election. Evan L. Humphreys Ijas our thanks for the first green corn of the season. Roasting ears were a luxury we had not looked for for some time to come. 4. Mrs. R. B. James also has our thanks for a mess of green corn. We think the season is now approaching when the printer will live on the “fat of, the land.” Atlantic Telegraph, as was anticipated, has again proved a failure. When the vessels were one hundred and forty miles apart, communication ceased, and the Niagara put down the brakes to prevent the wire running, when a sudden lunge snapped it. (gy = The long agony (to some) in regard to the postoffice, is at last over Dr. Ticlienor has been removed, and Mr. McCarthy appointed in his place. Mr. McCarthy expects his commission about the last of the week. letter from our Chicago correspondent. We hope to hear weekly from him, especially about the political news of Illinois, which is now very interesting. We have received Graham's Magazine for July. This is an excellent periodical and deserves to be patronized. the sth instant Raynard’s balloon, which ascended from Bridgeport, Connecticut, is reported to have gene up sixteen thousand feet—over three miles. The cold at that elevation was severe, being 32 ° below zero. At the greatest elevation My. Raynard reports that he could distinctly hear the music of the band and the shouts of the people. Salem, Massachusetts, cold water being scasoe, they use hot water from the | tanners’ tanks, to water the streets, and say it keeps down the dust more effectually. Cold water is apt to lay on the surface in little puddles; but hot water penetrates the dust, and wets it thoroughly. Salt water is preferable to fresh, as it crusts the surface of the dust, to Some extent, and is thus more serviceable in keeping .it down. OiF’G. P. R. James, the novelist, has been tendered a. British Consulate in Russia.

GARDEN CITY GLEANINGS.

The Gazette—The Campaign in Illinois—lmprovements in Chicago City Government, and a Word to the Girls, dfc. Chicago, July 23, 1858. Pear Gazette: Whether or not I have been conferring a favor upon,:your readers by my long silence, I am unable to determine; but that my mind leans to the negative, this communication is evidence. Amid the dust and bustle'of this great city, your weekly visits bring refreshment and food for the imagination. Refreshing, because it rei minds me of times when an inhabitant of a smaller place than this, I reveled in the, luxury of green fields and the shade of forest trees; food for the imagination, because it leads me to wonder how, as a political issue, you can leave out of sight the party straws, and fall to work with such generous liberality and fairness on the more worthy matters of the political world, putting to j shame in many instances, in the minds of unprejudiced men, your older and bombastic city brethI ren. The unobtrusive worth dwelling always I under the garb of modesty must, sooner or later, I carry qpnviction to the most unobserving and i obstinate, and the result is a lasting and well-de- ’ fined impression.' ISuch an impression I feel ' you are making, and your coming is looked for j with pleasure byall who have been so fortunate ■ as to watch your progress from the first number. I The above is my conscientious opinion, and is not by any means intended as flattery. Our city, as well as the entire State, is alive to I the work before us in the campaign, and has been since the returri of Douglas. This reminds me of the many contradictory stories that are afloat in reference to his reception and audatory, and that of Abraham Lincoln on the subsequent evening. Now, I was presenton both occasions, and will, with your permission, give you a fair and impartial statement. The reception that ' Douglas met with on: his return was certainly a ' grand one, exceeding in numbers anything of-the I kind I have seen sinqe I have ceased to be a re’si- ■ dent of our most-coirrupt seat of government. I The display of militairy, fireworks, waste of pow- ! der, &c., was carried through in grand style. To attempt making an accurate estimate of the number present would be impossible. I do not think, however, that there were over ten thousand. lam quite sure of it. . The lion of the evening carried himself admirably; his speech was well delivered and enthusiastically received. As an orator, he far outshines his opponent, who, i by the way, w. s seated beside Kim during the evening. He misconstrued (whether intentionally or not I am unable to say) some portions of a speech delivered by Mr. Lincoln at Springfield, and I must admit that there was more sophistry in that construction than fair argument. As you are aware, Mr. Li neo. n addressed the people on the following evening from the some place. His I speech you made mention of in last week’s issue, and, as you say, “it will give the Little Giant great trouble to get round it.” His hearers numbered more than “three-quarters” of those of the previous evening, and though there was less display, there was as much enthusiasm. The contest will be a close one; both men are popular; both are talented; there will be much maneuvering, and the best general will carry the day; who is the best remains to be seen, and present opinions are based upon mere conjecture. Our city at present, in a business point of view, is rather quiet, the depression arising from the late crisis. Matters will no doubt revive with the fall trade, and we will get along as noisily as ever. Improvements are rapidly progressing; magnificent blocks are going up all over the city, and the streets are being filled and bowldered. They think it unnecessary to pull down a brick block here to rebuild to the new grade, but dig round the foundations, put scjvws under them, and raise them by the inch, without incommoding the occupants. No one but a pure-blooded Yankee would think of undertaking such a tusk, . but Yankee enterprise is to be depended upon on all occasions as much as woman’s ingenuity in cases of emergency. Our present city government is not much of an improvement on that of last year, for the reason that John Wentworth is, in fact, the head and front of it. Mayor Haines is a worthy man, but too honest for Long John, who molds him as his ideas of policy dictate. To let Haines administer affairs as his own mind suggests would result in proper satisfaction, but Wentworth’s dastardly trickery has brought the present incumbent into serious difficulties, but rather too . disgusting to detail to your readers. Our city, under such authority, is fast gaining an unenvia- ’ ble reputation as to morality. Rascality is on I the increase, murder is rife, and the corruption of officials “is rank and smells to heaven.” Seekers after amusements are well rewarded, if excursions on our beautiful lake, and picnics to the groves along its shores, can be appreciated; and why should such pastimes not be agreeable 1 ? Could man desire better amusement, for a time, ; than to find himself safely aboard one of our | magnificent lake steamers, “cleaving the liquid | road”.under soft light of a summer moon, and the jayous laugh of light hearts malting delicious music the while. Yet, strange that amid such scenes melancholy should intrude her unwelcome presence. Strange that at such a time a suicide should choose to launch himself from time to eternity. Deeply depressed indeed must have been the heart that could discard the genial influences of such a scene, to seek the mysteries of an unknown shore. Still, that heart must have been a good one—eye, far to good to have its affections so bad'y centered. The world's hearts are not "all made of such tender stuff, that the heedless folly of a girl could so hopelessly crush. Woman knows but too well the harrowing sorrows caused by neglect and indifference; why, then, should she endeavor to visit its effecta upon undeserving ones? Would a true woman do so? I think not; if she be not true, she certainly is not worth the having, let alone the sacrifice of a life. In the opinion of most men, what the girls call their flirtations and their pretty pleasantries is always detracting instead of adding to the.r attractions. They ungenerously rely too much on their ability to restore themselves to favor when they feel so disposed; that ability too frequently exists only in their own imaginations, and is, therefore, an unsafe foundation. Inad-

vertantly alluding to the late melancholy occurrence that hurt much the pleasure of the late Cleveland excursionists, L have written at greater length than I intended; you can bring an action of trespass, if you wish. Yours, Quiz.

SPEECH OF HENRY S. FITCH.

An enthusiastic mass meeting of the Lecompton wing of the Democratic party was held at Chicago last Friday night, at which Colonel Carpenter and Henry S. Fitch made speeches. The papers say that the Douglas men disgraced themselves by their disorderly conduct at the meeting. The following is the speech of Mr. Fich, who, by the way, is son of Senator Fitch. He gives the Little Giant some hard raps over the .knuckles: It is not pay intention, gentlemen, at this late hour, to detain you more than a very few minutes- We are on the eve of an exciting, important, trenchant campaign in' Illinois; for the election of State Officers, "State Legislature apd Congressmen. The people are divided into three distinct parties, and present for the suffrage of electors three distinct tickets —'the Republican, the Douglas and the National Democratic. This meeting has been called to ratify and indorse the latter, and to present to the public a few of our reasons for so doing. I say reasons, plain, solid, .earnest reasons. Our appeal is to your judgment. We have not the taste, nor the training, nor the trickery, to substitute for the merits of this controversy a melange of fireworks and sophistry. The rhetoric of rockets and the logic of Roman lights are the political patents of Douglas. We leave hjm to the enjoyment of his persuasive pyrotechnics. [Cheers] We are opposed to the Republican party, as being only one of the protean shapes of the old hereditary enemy that Democracy has fought for half a century. We are opposed to their principles as repugnant t > the peace, welfare and good will of the Republic. We are opposed to its leaders, as being the lawless, vulpine, and unscrupulous devotees of sectional fanaticism. We are opposed to its entire organization, from core to circumference, as being the political embodiment of a pharasaical philanthropy, without a single Christian or patriot trust. As an affiiiator of this party and as a disorganizer of the Democracy, we are opposed to Judge Douglas and his partisans. I shall not attempt,: on this occasion, to enumerate the achievements of Mr. Douglas; distinguished Senator has himself given so many masterly elucidations of this subject, that it would be lolly in a less enthusiastic admirer to essay so exhausted a topic. That the Judge is one of the greatest of living men, is a fact within his own Knowledge, and the gallant frankness w ilh which he imparts this information to his auditors cannot be too highly commended. [Applause, and cries of “Good.”] An}' one who has had the pleasure of hearing one of his late speeches, has heard a far finer autobiography of the orator than any I could give. As to his patriotic virtues, even the Times —-'the Judge is not the idol of himself alone—though happiest in fictions, has failed to do him justice. ’ The simple,question for us is, what is the Judge’s position, what its merits as discussed in his opening speech of this campaign? I cannot approach this speech without involuntarily admiring the delicate modesty with which he barely alludes to his own gigantic services, in defending this “great principle, that underlies our free institutions.” The entire absence of all egotistical and complacent allusions to self, of all boastful platitudes £nd personal vanities which characterized th* speech, is exceedingly refreshing, and reftiinds us of the best efforts of the late Mr.TOnton. . ‘-This Duncan, Bath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office. that his virtues Will plead tike angels, trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking ufT.’'’ [Applause.] From the Democratic Articles of Faith, he culls-out sain) pleasant points for parade. He sustains trie Dred Scott decision; a citizen of the United States : could not conveniently do less than uphold the calm, convincing judgment of so august a tribunal. Secondly, he maintains that this is not a government lor negroes. We have yet to see thfe Republican, or even negro, who asserts what Mr. Douglas so laboriously denies. The point for us is, how stands Douglas on the leading measures of the Administration and Democratic party, and especially on the compromise of the English bill. I do not propose to rehearse the arguments of the Lecompton issue. The public is familiar with them. The President held, and the Democracy agreed with him, that there was nothing in the Kansas bill requiring a direct vote of the people on the Constitution; that that measure did not deprive them of the right enjoyed by the people of every other Territory, the right to delegate; that it did not deprive a legally elected and unrestricted delegation from using their delegated powers in convention as they deemed most expedient; that the right conferred of regulating their domestic institutions in their own way could scarcely be interpreted to suit the convenience of Judge Douglas, into a prohibition to manage their domestic institutions in any other manner than that suggested by the author of the bill; thut having formed a constitution with all the formulas and legal requisites, in conformity with the act of ’54 they were entitled to admission under it. Douglas, upon the other hand, contended that Popular Sovereignly was a very limited sovereignty, without the power of appointing authorized representatives to act as their agents in constituting their State Government; that his great Popular Sovereignty was a very lame and impotent Sovereignty, requiring an Enabling Act to enable them to do anything;[kughter and applause] that the-grand,» fundamental principle which underlies our free institutions, of which the Judge is the original discoverer, and to which he has devoted his past life and pledges his future, practically clothed the people of a Territory only with those humble rights now inherent in them by the Constitution of the United States to petition tor redress of grievances. A very prayerful and supplicating sort of Sovereignty, for which the people of Kansas ought to be very thankful! [Laughter.] The contest upon this issue ended in the compromises of the English bill, which Mr.

Douglas claims as a surrender on the part of Mr. Buchanan and a victory for himself, and yet he .denounces its provisions and refuses to abide by its results. If Lecompton is accepted by the people of Kansas, Douglas will generously accept it also, for the satisfactory reason, he can’t help it. But if Lecompton is voted down, he is not for keeping Kansas under a Free-State Constitution out of the Union, until she has the ratio which by the English bill will entitle her to a representation. Everybody who differed from Mr. Douglas in his interpretation of the Kansas bill were conspirators against the liberties ot Kansas; Congress was endeavoring to consummate a fraud, and the President was ignorant of the very ordinary language of the Senator’s bill; and now, everybody who proposes in good faith to abide by the fruits of the English compromise, are attempting to coerce the inhabitants of Kansas by a bribe and a threat. ALLthose who failed to support him in his rebellious opposition to this bill, in defiance of the express will of a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Administration are bolters and renegades. It was the misfortune of Mr. Douglas not to distinguish between himself and the party he had the honor to represent. Blindly lie applied to the “Little Giant” the'devotion due to Democracy. [CheeriandTaisses.] He had seen the Whigs and he believed the Democrats livecl in Douglas. [Cries of “that’s so.”] He fed on this fancy till it became his cardinal article; that when Senator Douglas buttons his coat about his sinewy chest, the whole vital fold ot the Democracy was warmed and cared for. [Laughter.] In this humor he talked freely of “my party” and “my principles.” Illinois is his vassal, and conventions that will not work his will is his scoff. Sections veered at his word. State platforms were his property. In his unbridlpd lust of power and vanity, he dared gainsay-the decision of the National party; attempted to control the Cabinet and command the President, and erect his own opinion as the one only standard of political morality. In point of effrontery his party is worthy of their leader. The bastard of Democracy, it claimed the heritage of. the true heir—a puny, political heresy, it yet assumed the part and tone of the true Democratic Church militant—the parasite of a single man, it yet prates.of principle and mimics the unity and allegiance it has dishonorably forsaken—a fragment of Illinois, it yet assumes the harlequin in its pretences to the sympathy and association of the party' controlling the U nion. It is an anomaly. It tries to elect Mr, Douglas. Elected, it dies; defeated it dies. It is the hope only of men who cannot or will not see the strength and majesty of a National Party. It begins, continues and ends in Mr. Douglas. The truth is, that Dougherty and Reynolds are the regular j nominees of the only legitimate organization. of the Democratic party in Illinois. Our delegates from this and other counties were properly elected. They met in pursuance of the order of the State Democratic Committee—they met at the time and place specified in that order—they adopted a platform in accordance with the principles enunciated and supported in and out of Congress by an overwhelming Democratic majority throughout the Union. At an »d-----journeu meeting they nominated their candidates, and intend to support them. The Douglas delegates to the April Convention refused to acquiesce in our measures, but formed a separate Convention for themselves, repudiating the measures of the Administration and the National Democratic Representatives in Congress assembled. They adopted a platform in open rebellion to the known will of the Democratic party and its highest authorized opponents. They and they alone are properly the bolters. The vassals of a man who refuses to submit to the usages of his party, and deserted it in an hour of,great peril; a man who did do, and is still doing more to distract the Democratic organization, than any other -leader since the days of Van Biyen, they yet have the graceless assurance to talk about the friends ot the Administration I within this State being bolters. The DemI ocratic party is not confined to this State, but belongs to the whole Union, and a majority of its members in the Union regulate the character of its creed. Its orthodoxy ia not embodied in\Mr. Douglas, nor its principles dependent upon his whims, grieviously as that gentleman may labor under the delusion. Mr. Douglas has the right to pursue such course as pleases him, and adopt such views as please him; but he has no. right to claim that his pleasure is Democracy, [Applause-and cries of good good.] Conscious that their position is untenable judged by the usages ot our party, or the Justice of the cause, they have resorted for lack of arguments to the most elaborate invectives, and to the lowest persona No insinuation is too bitter, no motive too corrupt, no act too abandoned, with which to charge us and the chiefs of our party. The members ol the Cabinet are denounced as “petty tyrants”—their appointeffsrwithin this State as “Lazzaroni,” and, it is even considered a mark of virtue and the sign of a Douglas follower, to assail that grand old man who now so bravely wears the sovereign dignity—a chieftain covered with an imperishable lustre, won in battles through half a century in the cause of Democracy—a leader who victoriously encountered the well-girded giants of Marshfield and Ashland when your “Little Giant’s” lame was hedged in by county lines—a man who has garnered up in the history of his country more of the splendors of statesmanship—more of the vivid charities and courtesies of the citizen—more of the unsullied features of the American character, than any other man within the Republic. Against this character, strong and honest, we leave their partisan malice to hurl in vain their frantic assaults. Judge Douglas, after taking up house with Seward, after making himself at home with Hale, fresh with the kiss of Giddings on his cheek, comes here, and through his magnificent gift of perversion and assurance, charges us with having formed an unholy alliance with the Republicans. With what peculiar grace nnd delicacy does this accusation fall so glibly from the tongue of the Senator! Who received the Senator with a congratulatory address? Who were the frontispieces of his recent oration! Republicans! Who have “sounded the loud trumpet o’er Egypt’s dark sea” on his recent visit to Springfield? Republicans. Who has composed arid daily