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THE VOICE OF A TRUE DEMOCRAT! LKTTKR KUO.1I J. X. McX AMAII, K>» t . liowt.ixo Green, Sept. 2<; !«.*)(;. T" Ihf Ki/ifor of t/ir ('lay County Demoerut: 1 cnuit me, through the columns of your paper, to state my position, as a Democrat, to the Democracy of Clay
— county a ml the 7th Congressional ]>is-(ireenca-stle,Saturday, October 9,1858.,'t ct 0 f] liaoa lhave always 1 na
The
Mr. Coffroth took the position in a * / i ! 1 «-«*>twaslor the immorta recent speech in Uuntington county that A,ld, ' i w -'^Xun tor President^ and I Kansas oueht to he admitted ini. the 'j"''" ^ory Dcmocratic eandiUnionsos as she asks, with a cm, d ? U ' for down to James Bnstitution fairly and fully expressing the C . ha . n . an ’ Au, r 1 11 1 am ,,lost " lth K,y will of the people of that Territory J.'n ‘V' llvc> ' / ‘ ,x P c ct to wind up my po
; CIk |nt)iana 4.)css.
HOWATID BRIGGS, Editor aad Proprietor.
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Book of Chronicles.
BY FAIR FLAY.
whether she has more or less population ! itical tarcu .r‘ u 8U 'Pl ,ort uf ^ Democrat
!
m ■' 1
people
re or less population • , , , - - .
than is required by the English hill C IT * 'T 10r , " ,,lli,R ' ps -
lie takes the true Democratic ground. 1 J' 0 '; 11 a , 1 v " tL ; r tur twenty-eight that the laws of one Congress may be re- '• V / . 1011 1 . , twentypealed by the next succeeding one. He * v '■ 1 n 'sh.,11 vote for the pledges himself, if elected, of which we Ilo "' 1,H0s of Democratic party 1 can entertain but little doubt, that he a,n ‘ruly sorry at the state of things that will vote for the admission of Kansas at V 1,1 ' he 1 < of the 7th the earliest opportunity that she may .•'"f-'res-Kmal D.stnct I was a delegate I present a constitution to Congress, yvhieii p° ( : '- V C .V U, ,' t ^ 0 . ' R ‘ Congressional is the fairly expre sod will ofthe people ® ”J, 0 ? }^ tw / 8 T ho <J F®"!.?*?*® whether it has a constitution prohibiting i" '' 1 '“ 1 ' ' a '• A H that or establishing slavery. ' VT"'/“'n ’bore i'or
[.Ind, rtnn S'„u ( 1„r,t. ^'"'.C- pavis. and did all in my power m n a - L . . for him that could be done, but was de —Mr. Coffroth is the Democratic can- f C ated. And when the resolution came
didatc for Congress 111 the 11th Indiana up endorsing John C. Davis'and .Stephen district; and his position in regard to A. Douglas’course in Cougros- on the the admission of Kansas is the same as Deeonipton constitution, and was voted that of Mr. Sccrest, and of every demo- Jow "’ T . th ought and believed that the
..1:1 , <• <. • ,, ... convention hud done great injustice to
viaUc candidate fur Congrc - m the State. |, 0 th gentlemen I had dotenniued under
l.ven hill English himself tgneres the that state of things to vote for John G
English bill in so far as that bill pro- Davis, any how. Since that time 1 have poses to keep out Kansas until she has ^ceu a portion of the committee on resothe full quota of population for a repre- ;. uti "‘ ,s ' an , d the y 1,avc informed me that,
<• All liave ttSS'l.-.Z: itr 1 - " ,o!
heretofore declared that Kan-as has pop- With this understanding, [ fed bound. illation sufficient to secure her admission (is u Ih mnerut. tv :'<iud by tin iiumiiuis id'
as a State; every democratic candidate t/n porty.
for Congress in Indiana is pledged to fa- uul a Democrat <.l the genuine Old vor her admission, without regard to pop Dkkoiy stamp. Itulltlanil by the Don ulataou, whenever *b« applies with a con- n{met , y hcr , . „ In a t . un stitution fan 1) 1.1' 1 ficd by bci people. vers..lion with an old Democratic friend. This is true popular sovereignty -the last Saturday, my mind was directed back true doctrine ! to the struggle of 1854 and 1856; when Everywhere, during thi- canvass. Mr. tl 1011 ' a11 ‘‘dort made to enforce the T , ' r 1 , c I. two-third rule on John G. J>avis, to de nay, the democratic candidate lor Con- ,1 , ■ , • . . , ,
.. . . feat him; and in his absence, the old 1
gre-s 111 the Indianapolis District has wheel-horse of Democracy, )I EMU’>SE stated, most explicitly, that he was in CHEST, stepped forward in his behalf
favor of the admission of Kansas as a *nd deb- ited the sehcine.
.State, whenever she should present her ^ l. iy. bo n ].c.r-ou;.,ly anil intimately application for admission, with a consti- ‘“'D o' 1 *" 1 ’ lle..iy .'k ic-t lor twon
. y-live v ears, have served yvith him hi sev-
tution legally framed, republican 11. lorm. er .,i Democratic conventions, and /.mm/; reflecting the will of a majority of her him n In << I’RVKmstnl! I think that people, without reference to her numeri- the course taken by John G. J)avis in this eal strength ; and, if elected as a Iteprc-, cal,Va> ' a 'i* 1 '! Henry Scerest, shoyvs tin tentative, he should so vote, if Kansas greatest ingratitude. John .s/.-p,,/oDA//,/.• . before you further go! \\ e shall need should present her application lor ad- the services of both of you in 1860 to
mission while he was a member of Con- electa Democratic President,
gress. Whenever the people of Kansas 1 hold it i wrong for Democrats to were willitig to assume the burden and abuse Davis or any other Democrat. My responsibilities of a State government, he 'rien ! hip for t lie Hon. John G. Davis
, ' , has been and is yet unlimited. Hut, in-
ker as an equal - *
was willing to reoeiv.
. ... 1 asmueh ns he has seen fit to take a strange and sovereign . fate, villi such nistitu-| C0U ,. <e | n t),j s canvass, 1 shall of nocessilions and domestic jioliej as they might ty, and for the good of the j.arty orgauielect whether ehc had or had not u rep- zation, bid him adieu for the present, resentativo population. The Indiana /hinoiriits! stand by our nominees and State Sentinel says-this is and has been f " ul ' ,,,,rr « t,,J tnutake, VIC
Mr. Kay’s position upon this issue, and
I he so desires us to state it. John .A'.' MeNajiau.
TORI
therr is
IS OCRS!
I am, respectfully, yours,
From the T.jne Haute Jouruul. Tlic ( irciill Judfceslili).
1 have observed in some of the news-!
Tin- K. |.til.Hems Parly.
I’our years ago it came before the people ■i roinising retrenchment and reform, it
|vas pledged to advance the cause of free- l' a l>crs, and also in posters, the circular i Jdmoand p, slavery to its death- 0*Cowgill, Esq., wherein he an- ■ 1 • nounces Inmselt as an independent can■i> promised to restore ■governmoiit toits (lidutc p,,. the office of Judge of the Sixth ■original purity,” and quiet all di.seii don Judicial JMstriet. Mr. Cowgill assumes • (i.iid strife auioiig the people. to base his claims to an election upon lias it been the means of setting his individual and professional qualifica1 a 1 liberty a single slave? lions for the position to which he aspires,
that his thorough a< quaint-
» • •' •• " ' ' ■ • lac* in the District will super ed< the the tausc of freedom ? necessity of making an active canvass, h Has it organized a single I'’roe If Mr. Cowgill is sincere in the opinI 8tate ? ion he.expresses, that political consideraR ted' Has it abolished slavery in a single tions should be so entirely divorced from
REGULARLY NOMINATED DEMOCMTIC TltOI.
FOR COXCiRFSS.
Henrv Scrrt'sl.
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SECRETARY OF STATE, Daniel iTIeC^nre. AUDITOR OF STATE, •I olm Wo Dodd. TREASURER OF STATE, ^aihaniel F. CTussiist^liaiu. SUIT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Samuel la. §1 ATTORNEY GENERAL, Joseph E. McDonald. SUPREME JUDGES, James L. Worden, Andrew Davison, Samuel E. Perk Ins, J a sues M. Hanna. JUDGE OF CIRCUIT COURT, SoHoiteon Cla.ypoo!. CIRCUIT PROSECUTOR, Justice &. Baehelder. REPRESENT ATI YES, S&e£ana EL WiRiamst^a, Anderson Crordon. SHERIFF, Solomon Akers. TREASURl’R, Oiaries 1$. Joinastosio COMMISSIONER, Rieliard Sinkler. SUR YE YOU, B{)iisSi» Cowtsili.
and our hopes arc forever lost in these things.” WhereuponChristojihcrproposed to rt iuoiint his old battery of twelve-
CHAPTBU SIXTH. i r i i i i .1 xa • . -iii pound ialsehoods and renew the attack Now it came to pass in those days that i i • r • i i i , . , , , , , * on Henry and his friends, and charge the mighty battle between the army of *1 * i * • i u * . J upon them Lecoiiiptonisin and^ticwiatsJohn the >'-nbe and the lojrions of Henry •• • n • c.i vt • *•
- t'net in the views of the Administration,
was nigh at hand, and much excitement .. t 8ai( , h0) u pn „ le thcm with prevailed thronghout the land and their harJ (iuestit)nrt) S1 ,y iuf , unto them —‘If frn iids were drawing thonistdvi's up m aAa ; it-.* i 4 ,
1 inhabitants are enough to make
battle array; and it ca.no to paa* that u Slave State, what numher will it m.uirc Henry and lus legions pitched their tents tQ mako a Frec state,’ &e, and 1 will upon the democratic plutforum of 1856 w i t h the weapons granted me by Beelxeand 1858, and there rested upon thoir bub, the chief of devils, slay my enemies arms. W bile the army of John disputed by i lull j r ,, U aud hy tl,ousands, and those with them for their pos.tion, knowing it wh(jm p do not 8 , ay with luy l y i Dg twelve to be the strong fortress of constitutional IHluuders . [ will eontinue to puzzle with rights, for it came to pass that the Black my qucstion8t cvcn unto the giv i ug up Republicans had long ere this struck „{• t h 0 ghost.” But it came to pass that their tents, which were posted on the his que8tions wcrc ;mswc red after this
bill ol t’oiigressionul Sovereignty, and had tied their colors, hoping to decoy the
If 35,000 inhabitants arc enough to form a Slave State, this same number
friends of Henry but the old democratic is all * u Qi ( . iellt t0 regulate their own do-
veterans were not F. be thus deceived
me tic institutions in their own way, and ■■•t.iblisb or abolish this same slavery,
or Border-
Huffinn outside interference, or even that of the great Sanhedrim itself, the opinions > i the Black Bepuhlieans to the contrary
Christopher the Pharisee -who was then notwithstanding.” And the multitude of
and stood firm as a rock, upon their own
popular rights and behind the bulwarks lm truinmalcd by Abolition
of the Constitution, and burled their defiance at John the Scribe. Joseph his charioteer. Austin the chief butler, and
also Chaplain to the host (?) of John while they were deploying upon Stephen
followers of Henry cried out, “Amen!” .Now it came to pass when Christopher
and then upon their "Slat, r/at/onn;' ,| ie Pharisee and his brethren heard these hoping thereby to draw the friends of sayiug8) (h at there was no more spirit in Henry into ambush that they might rise them) for hc had p08tcd these sayings at in ilieii real and .-la) them. jea. or bind t |ie head of that obnoxious sheet, the tlmin in cords and force them to go oyer K ep ubliean JJannrr, for many week* in
1 11 d"iin tin- Scribe uwoccawoB, boaating ilrii he tlurcb .
had done, that they could once gain the strongholds of ojfin^ and enjoy some of Uncb Sam's loaves aud fishes, and be numbered as the ghk.at onks of the na tion, and sit in the high places, and be
called honorable among men.
Now it came to pass in these days that Christopher the Pharisee in performing his ministerial duties under John ihe
repulsed the friends of Henry upon this issue; hut it came to pass that it was no issue with the friends of Henry at all, it only being a proposition conceded by “all the world and the vest of mankind” that the same number that would make a 1'reo State would also make a Slave State,
and vice versa.
Now it came to pass in the days of
Scribe, had much to say ol ono Danic. these changes among the Black Rcpubliwho lived in the land of Vigo, aud there cangj fhat t } ley had ceased their praises fore said many things of him unbecoming „p Stephen, after the orders of Horaco a man and a Chaplain professing so much thcil . ll!gh pr i C8t( nud began to resort to of morality, goodue s and virtue as wu- tlieir ti,no-worn practice of calumny and his wont to do, for he desired that a ll M c traetion, in which perfection was, with men should bow down and wo.-hip him, (Len , itsulf perfet . tud> aud f als0 8ayiDg8 |and say unto him, “Rabbi! RabbiD’and lalse doctrine8 wure promulgated that he should dispense the.bless.ngs of throughout the land of Amcricus, ins, the land to them, according to his will. mucll that tho pil i a r 8 of Li i Jur ty wore l AtJ " "^ ll 11 <a,m 1,1 ^ K ' u td l ' u made to quake, and our free institutions .hardsayrngs of Christopher eoneermng^ hcave frollJ ccntre to circumference himself, he joined issue with him, aad ! wi th convulsive throea, and reel and tot la. bed him or-ly, ». Muueh that bv t cr as a drunken man, with the falsehoods
, made l hristophor tfl, J’hoi isri writhe and
squirm as a wounded serpent, and lush himself into a great fury; and after Daniel had departed, he wrote hard sayings of him, us was his wont to do, for he could not with, land Daniel when face
Iri.itr nr 'JVrril'MA
, v . Bight oi. where waB the necessity lor him
toy lias it made any efort to repeal tj) infonn UH) iu the very next paragraph, ■hi (ngitive slave law ? 0 j’ party to which bo belonged, and te»' Has it made any eflort to abolish t0 ( j t .|ine the exact shade of his political •livery in the District of Columbia? opinions? Docs not this look very much ■ teirllas it. made any etfort to restore u8 it - M r t’owgill were making an in.sidtlic Mi-o/uri Compromise .' i oug appeal for support upon political ■'*~rHas it fulfilled a single promise H eoHsiJvnitious, to one class of men, and •vu made to the people ? asking favors from another upon pre- ^ C '^'80 far from this, during the four tended high no-party grounds ? And is short years of its existence, it committed this doubts position characteristic ol that pore crimes, errors and follies,—was judicial fairness ami openness we ,le>irc
lion-stiouiu r/e so entirely divorced from i>i r-wirpi/ixr i\ i x » ( rpi ) 1 n i I x l \r t .5 judieiid elections ns to be altogether lost rHiliV 1 IvUN 1J.A ! . 1 l Lit J l ’x\ 1 , 'K I. 14.
in a Judge?
We subscribe to the position of Mr. Cow-
IB THE POLLS! D12MWCKATS!
To the Polls!!
guilty of more ineousisteneies. deecptioi
ami scandals, elevated to office a greater ^ VbIt'politb-aVeonshlerath7n7 number of weak, ignorant, corrupt and not influence the choice of judicial offi-
nnprinciplcd men, than nil other parties cere, in a much broader, and, we believe, | ho had not been tho nominee of a con- quite the Jirvo done in a half century. Krdianyc truer sense, than ho seems to understand vention? lias the fact that he accepted dieial District. He is at least destitute negro's wool for the sweet scented flovera. ' I|( j j laV(J (.,t' ter trying sev ■■ - ' it. If it be true, then no man will make such a nomination prevented him from of that candor that ought to chnrncteme iin d having it done up in his H by HU ora i rocomVaendcd remedies withBP. ..The Indmnnpolis Journab theecu- a wwrBe Judge because he has received holding the scales of justice with even one who wears tho judicial ermine. Kepubliean Banner, it rai.- 1 such an ob out effect,) relieved of a very sovero, oh
of John and his Republican friends, and the true patriots of the land of Ameiicus wore almost at their wit’s end to save the constitution from these pretended friends, but the friends of Henry and all the host of patriots throughout the land,
jto face, but fled as a spectre, for he feared ))utklud on lhc ir armors and went, forth the withering sarcasm of Daniel. j lo tho re80ue) armcd with truo Democrat. And it came to pass while John the ic principlc8) anJ havLng ou all thc pau . Scribe was maneuvering hm army, he saw ()ply of a ju8t unJ righteoU8 warfart . ( tliat his force in rank and tile was weak,' ,. 0Iltending for the truc pri ^ iplc8 of a and he therefore sent n despatch to one gloriou8 R opu bli C ; they planted them !!„ hard of the land of \ igo, who afore-; sclve8 upon the con8titution of thc l alu ! ( Ume had been an enemy to John, saying, I aud awaitcJ {]i0 on8et of thcir cver wa , ••Come and enlist tor mo, seeing the in- verlng nnd pan . ic id a l enemies, determinefficiency of my force, and I will hence-' dto rcpul .. e tUem aud maLc way f 0 , tb(: forth be your friend and do battle f“r, gK , rious libol . tie8 bestowed ujmii tho bind you,’ snd Richard formed u league with , |f An , erieU8 |, v a Beneficent Heaven.
John and went forth in his cause. And
i * i . • ,| i .. * , Wlilcii Is the Party of Freedom! John yot sccinGT the need ol more help. • ,, , , ... , • ° . 1 Democratic CougressoB have admitted Bent up to tho hn l ol . larion, to i.ie overy free State into thc Union. They great city, to Richard the leper, saying, I voted to and did admit u free State last “For God - sake, come and help mo! winter. The opposition Congress never and Richard also came and stood between ad,l, bt c d n free State, and last winter the contending forces, easting a blow, first ^ ,cd a ? ui , n8t a ! ,mitt ) n S on «- ' Vhe " .... .; i i .1 i black republicanism (Jiargcs the Democ111 t1ie fa, - co1 onc and then the 0,W - racy with being pro-slavery, remind it of
Heaving a query in tbe minds of the these facts.
“lookers on” for whom he was battlin '
.. , an ,. I Im Roekville Rcimblican is eon-
and Kubard the leper did no exceeding til , uallv i lal pi ng 0 n what it considers a igreat things in this contest iu favor of giave charge against 3Ir. Scercst. That John. And it t amo to pass that John paper says ■•he is openly in i’AVoit q/’/he and his followers were yet grieved, and Urcd S> ott l>crision ! \\ onderlul 1 Ol waxed sorrowful, mid fain would have , ' 0UI>e ''''7; ‘ i '°' 8 Douglas and every
, , , , r other g.m l Demoorat and national man
sent t0 ( ” liux ani1 otlu ' ls 1 ” 1 ' alJ - TJU, Is Mr. D,vis in favor of it? Flease an knowing that all the strongholds ol 8Wor _Haute Journal Hepublieanism were in jeopardv, thev - - ,, , | Bkmkvko in 1i:n Days ok a Most deigned not to send; but John the S r,b, 0h>( , su ,. runtll ._F r(J111 N . (,. W,l|commanded Christopher to burn ineeii ■• ];., llls |. :> | oftlm Wholesale Dry Good* unto tin' people, of odorous gums and House of ritch A Williams, Madison Ind. .sweet seeuted flowers, that tin re by they M vntsoN, Nov. DJ, 18.i5.
,i might pie.ise thc people, and Christoplmr; Dili )\ . 1 in u.’vs : l>rar Sir: l take
for 0,01,0 SOlh Ju- ivei.t l"rtli M M
Gral organ of Republic luiism in this Suite, Ul0 uom inatron of a convention, if there hand? Has hc known party in the ad- An Anti Ucompton Dem..CUVT. i . j ‘ ,, t j ho ' i( , , u wc , re C0I11 minute and painful cough, attended’with Jays that John O.Dxvis ^s opposed ignottinu dishonorable in A® manner he i ministration of the hue f To parapbras, ,, „ ,*.*♦- . , n n d t dcoart fer ftom th Republi in «xtremc coreness of tho breast, and ton-
Pf 0 ,. W P 11 deniess of tho lungs; difficult breathing., altar ol incense. •• • ** 11 i •. i-
c stump ■ hut at tho same time he boast - nomination.
loss of appetite, Ac., and have used it in
Now John seeing that all his plans niy f am i| v j' ur several years, iu eases ot
ttint the Republican pape. - do not mis- We eon illustrate this position from Mr live of party. l< cause he was nominated 7, jj r D , v i 8 W e h ive known by rei.uta- 11:111 11,1,1 tliat 1)0 would llavo ,0 severe colds, (some of the patients being ret resent bin,. We do n’t know how it , : ,,w « i11 ;.° 1 wn hi8tor A' tl Il ‘. 185 " hc “ C0 " VCntl °" ? ,, ,. .ion for 20 years. During all that time oppose Henry with an inferior force, he predisposed to consumption.) and in all - *«. Tr^Tf' ^ awi
elposo it privately to tickle republicans, vention, wc believe; certainly as the rep ment upon himself in his own circular. ' i , ', tl U ' reirularly uomin ited | ° ca 1 d avouiirl iim v havioteor. Bui the way things are workiiur in this resentativc of a party. In 1856 hc was Wo do, however, submit that thc man d,', candid,ite for Corf-re^ In Chief Butler and Chiqdain, sayttig unto dist iet.be stands a good . hanee to please a f a j“ a a V'ominlm of j" a ^, ia J manife-*s an ungratefulness and ingrati-|them, “The legions of Henry are against ^
liable Medioim
Yours truly,
N. 0. Williams.
snd tickle nobody.
inRoiDlb Cnrolina on 10th In-t Mr Coy ill hnvc ma»lc abetter Ju^ge if qnalifioation 1 - or fltne^ for office,’ not Pair ainountrrl t,» *1.500. btanJing in solnl i»luiin)x agam.^t U' .i\c one.