Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1858 — Politiral. [ARTICLE]

Politiral.

[Prom the New Albany Tribune. A»<l •Lecomp ten Democrats Moving. It would seem from the following extract, which we take from the Rockport Democrat, that the Anti-Lecomptonites of Spencer county, Indiana, are beginning’ to wake up to a proper appreciation of their duty and their rights. On Saturday, the 24th ult., the Anti-Lecompton Democrats of that eonftty held a Convention, at which a full Democratic ticket was nominated. In speaking of this Convention, the Democrat "Never in the history of Spencer county Conventions, was there one like that of last Saturday. It appeared as though the entire mass of the Democracy and popular Sovereignty men of the county were present. The lowest estimate placed upon the number there, that we heard, was 1,000 and up to as high as 1,500. Our own opinion is, that 1,200 would be a reasonable estimate. The masses present seemed actuated by one common patriotic impulse, and that was hostility, deep and settled, to the Lecompton Constitution, the Bill English swindle, and •icier*, upholders, apologists end drfenders. All with one accord seemed determined to stand fast to the glorious doctrine of selfgovernment, as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. In another place we give the proceedings of the Convention in full. From thore proceedings it will be seen that a most excellent and strong ticket was nominated, by the firm and consistent Democracy of Spencer county. The men on that ticket, from Representative dowrf to Coroner, are men in whom the Democracy’ of Spencer county can place implicit confidence. They are firm, reliable and honest Democrats, who have never hopped from side to side for the sake of catching the popular breeze. Democrats in 1856, they were sin•ere in their advocacy of popular sovereignty and. self-government, and like thousands of other honest and true Democrats, they stand to-day on the broad and comprehensive platform erected at Cincinnati, in June, 1858. They are sincere in the belief-that popular sovereignty and the rights of the people, meant more than a gull trap. That it was, and is, a true and living principle of Democracy, and as such, worthy of our warmest sympathies and constant support.” In contrasting the ticket brought out by this Convention, with the one nominated by tne Administration Convention of the 10th erf July, the Democrat says: "The ticket nominated on the 24th, is composed of men reared in the midst of this people, and who have voted the unscratched Democratic t eket all their lives. While, on the ticket of the bolters, may be found men who were rampant Know Nothings in 1854 aud 1855, men who, politically speaking, afie c i angelings. First fighting on one •ide and then on the other. In a word they are inert political time servers, going with the party that is most likely to bestow offices upon them or their friends. Can the people have confidence in men who are Republicans or Know. Nothings to-day and Democratic candidates to-morrow. We believe not.” Judge Hovey was present at this meeting, •and made an able speech, of which the Democrat thus remarks: “The Judge was peculiarly felicitous in showing up the deformity of Lecomptonism and its offspring in barbarism, the Bill English swindle. He laid the whole thing open to the gaze of an insulted and outraged people. His proofs were strong and convincing. jSuch was the power of truth as handled by Judge. Hovey, that scores and scores of wavering and timid Democrats, who thought Mr. Buchanan was the embodiment of Democracy, and could do no wrong, were converted to Democracy, and from this out, will swell the cohorts of freedom, in its contest against monarchy.”