Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1858 — DOUGLAS READ OUT. [ARTICLE]

DOUGLAS READ OUT.

adjourns over from to-mor* row to the 6th of January. readers will be glad to learn that this is the last week ot the delinquent Hsu to-We learn there will be a donation party at the Rev. Mr. Mock’s on December 31, afternoon artd evening. fptyWe are indebted to some unknown triend tor sending Us the reports of the State and of the managers of the benevolent institutions of the State. fKrWe are indebted to Mr. Snyder for a copy of the Indianapolis Volksbl 41. a Doug-ilas-German paper. It is undoubtedly a good paper, but is "all Dutch” to u?. two branches of the Legislature last week resolved to adjourn but the Senate has since rescinded the res •lotion. No day is yet set for adjournment. ♦m, o<7"Hon John Gj. Davis has introduced a bill in the lower House of Congress for the ■ repeal cf the odious clause in English’s bill, which keeps Kansas from being admitted as a free State until she has ninety-three thousand inhabitants. Davis is true to his principles-. (jJyAVe notice that our young friend. Norman Warner, has boughtout the blacksmith shop of Mr. Thomas Dunlap, and intends to carry on. the shop himself in future. He is an industrious and energetic young man. and will undoubtedly give satisfaction to all <.vho patronize him. We wish him success. I . ~, GO"A cargo of three hundred and fifty negroes’from the coast of Africa was landed up the Savannah river last week, and sold to planters in the interior of Georgia and South Carolina. It seems that our Southern meighbors are determined #n nullifying the 'laws preventing the introduction of more •slaves into this country. But, perhaps this r is their understanding of the “squatter sov--ereignty” principie. Wilson, of Massachu‘■etts. lias brought f •rwnrtl a plan in the United States Senate tor giving to the people of ■ the Territories the election of those officers ■ now appointed over them bv the President. The proposition had been .previously made in the House by Mr. Morris, Douglas Democrat, of Illinois. This is a movement toward genuine “popular sovereignty,” in which Opposition members will probably I generally unite. (gTIt will be seen by un advertisement on the fourth-p ige, that the - Iroquois Lyceum” will give another of their entertaining exhibitions on Thursday night of next week. Those who were so fortunate as to enjoy their periormarcb last summer will be glad to hearth’s and. we predict in advance that the young ladies of Rensselaer will make a l etter impression on the public thm did th? gentlemen last week. {C'j” Moplgomery, of Pennsylvania, and English,'of this State, have had a pugilistic ■ encounter in the streets of Washington. I They met lust Saturday morning. English ; said, “How are you, Mr.. Montgomery P* The latter paid ho attention to this, when Eng- ! lish struck him over the head with a cane. Montgomery turned- on him, and English drew a sword catie. Montgomery then picked up a brick and threw it at Englrsli while the latter was .running, hitting him on the A.cZ. Montgomery has tlius undoubtedly heeled our CongressmSh of his rowdyism, and made him give leg bail for his safety. (K?* Tie Washington correspondent of; the Cincinnati Enquirer says: “If D mglas is to stay in the party, it is i understood that Bright and Slidell leave it ” i A “consummation devout ly to be wished.” • But where could Bright (the se.B-uominated r candidate for the Presidency) and Slidell go" to! Even the Border Ruffi nis are honorable compare*! with our Bogus Senator. The same correspondent adds, in the same letter: , -A ’•henuhn- Broderick (of Culiforni i) is re- ! {girded in V. ashingtou a» having gone over ; Xo th;- Republic. m».j body s >ul and breeches. fH" is ■ mu,' of great energy and character, i put i)<jf will; a corresponding amount o! i brauis:. He hates Buih.initn with a Spaiiq I'rd's kmc, and takes every occasion to show it.” Jlopp it is true, as Broderick is a man of commanding influence. ———<>——— ——>Some two months ago, Jared Benjamin living in Newton township, had stolen from his premises a wagon wheel, doubletree, trace-chains, carriage cushions, plow clevises, &c. Mr. Benjamin waited for some time, hoping that the missing articles would come back. On Wednesday night, the 8th hist., three or four spokes cut from the missing wheel were placed on Mr. Benjamin’s gate-post. This was adding insult to injury, and he and his friends took immediate steps to ferret out the rogues. They were successful, and, through the persuasive and convincing eloquence of Judge Lynch, the articles came to light, and ample restitution was made for the damage done. We give the facts above as we find them circulating about the streets.

> The Senate of the United States hive turned out D itiglas from the Chairmanship of the Committee on Territories, a position I he had held for several years, and substituted l in his place Senator Green, of Missouri, a I . . Border Ruffian in principle, who w >s first brought into notoriety by breakjrfg a lance I with Douglas last winter. The Administration Democrats h ive thus form illy read the “Little Giqnt” oirt of the p irty. and thrown his “squitter sovereignty” principle overboard. This is the best m ive they h ive made since the elections toward securing the elev ition of a R‘publican President in : 1860. The ostensible reason given for it was I that there was matter of pressing urgency Ito be considered by the Committee during I the absence of Mr. Douglas in his Southern .tour. All fudge. Everybody knows that, in the ab-ence of a Ch iirm in, the next old- ■ est member on the Coininitt.e takes his place temporarily. We take following from the Star, Administration: ; “The question of the pr ■pri -ty of substituting s mie gentleman whose sentiments ■ are in better accord twi th those of the mass of the Democratic Senators on he various ITerrit.iries-slavery q ’estions than are th > e of Mr. D >u£las,in the latter s place as e.hairtriuU of the committee named above, was i elaborately discussed, we apprehend.yesterday, after the Senate’s adjournm-nt. in the i Democratic Senatorial Caucus mentioned in i our last issue. While there wa- entire unanimity of Opinion with reference to the evijdent propriety of taking due ■•arg that the of-oin of the Democratic majority. in th.it I now most important commi tee known to i the S uiate’s organiz ition, and to the future of the Deitnoc atic party, should be in full ; accord with the D unocratic partv; wi:h rei ference to the vital qu *s.ti >ns upon which he must act inevitably as such organ,’here was ; nevertheless an evident disinclination in.uij iiested by three or tour to making the neces- | sary change in the absence of Senator i Douglas, ,least the act might be miscoi - strued. If we are not more th ui ; one Senator who ultimately voted to select an ither in Mr. D s ste i I exp'-esse I. sit.:a a ■ disinclination. II •wever, th“ motion to : make the change prevailed by a vote oS*alimit ' seventeen to nine. On voting next to select a cbairmati, Mr. Douglas received but one I vote. It is understood lurther, 'h it ev n that Senator will sustain the action of the ! caucus, which w.e ii iii as evidence that the Democracy of the S- nate will under no circumstances temporize upon Mr. D mgl is’ new.squatter sovereignty doctrine. • L continued as the chairman of the 'l'erritories Committee, and acting as the represent,at ive of his own sent imonts, and those of the Repubiicati pariy. rather than of the Democracy, tis last witter, on other vital slavery ; questions, he can do far more harm to the D rnocratic party than as a simple member ‘of the committee. It was but 1 tlie duty of" the Dm icr.itic majority of the body to guard, : at any hazard of newspaper misrepresentation against the resuds of any sueii contin- , gency, and that duty has been fairly and firmly discharged. » “Earnest wishes were expressed in the j j caucus that Senator D mglas m ly renew’ his ! affiliation with the Democracy, in which none I share more sincerely than ourself. But, ; while his last published opini ms are flagrant- ; ly at war with the doctrine of the Demo- j cratic. party on the slavery question with reference to Territories, and while his pro- i fessed followers in every mm-slavehaiding ! State are in open alliance witli th“ R pub- ! j lican party, pursuing to the better end, knife . i (political) in hand, every Democrat in pub- : I lie life who sustains the policy of the Dein- ■ ocratic party ol the Senate upon the Terri- | | tories-slavery question, we feel that to have i failed to substitute some other gen'leman a.- ■ [ Chairman of their most important committee ; I in a political point of view, would liave been an act of timidity and weakness combined. ■ by no means to be justified by any [ilea of a desire to harm- nize the party. Mr. D mgl is cam bring about harm any in the party in ' a day, by openly abandoning liis support, of the anti-slavery heresy he, holds in common with the R 'p.ililicin p irty of the Senate i chamber, and at the same time taking due i ' care that hereafter those in Indiana. Penn- . | sylvaniu, and elsewhere, who Claim to follow ' Ibis teaching—tube his immediate suppor-■ ters—cease to mike com n m eau<e with | the Republican party, ag >irist the c i ml,dates. ; principles and me isures o the Dem tcr icv.” ; T’he New York ])■ ay-B>oh, a staunch Ad- I uiinistrat ion journa 1, thus explains the reason j of the late indignity oflered to D.mglas: i “'rhe action o.'th * caucus is believed to have | nothing v hatever. or, indeed, very little, to; do'with Seuaior Dmiglas’ course last winter. II is solciy owing to the false and danger- '■ ous doctrine which Senator Douglas contin ■ nos to repeat and uphold—the dognia o> ; •squatter sovereignty. T intinr* hisurriv d \ when the Democratic party, in conseq iem e | ol the Supreme Uouri decision should repu- , diate this heresy. It has now done so un mist ik.ib y and empit it.ic tlly. The idea that ■ a lew settlers in a Territo-y, rustled in there I by Emigrant Aid Societies, can exclude | Southern citizen- with their rights of property as guaranteed by the ConsHtution, is so preposterous, that, it only needs to be presented to the minds of the people to be at once rejected. Senator. Douglas will find that ths Democratic party will never uphold such a position. 77te Dred\Scott decision , in its entirety must be aecept-nl ai the real practical living issue, and the rightjofall citizens tn the common Territory of the Union must be conceded without anv special pleading or

legal technicalities. * * * * Senator Douglas’ “greqt principle” is exploded, and we have come back to the point where we ought to have started.”