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lis which threaten our Union may bring
to the rescue the conservative patriotism OF
all who love it, and save it from dissolution
by npholding and maintaining the rights
OF the States that compose it.
| have the honor to be, respectfully, your
obedient servant,
uERsCHEL V. Johnson.
Messrs. AlexandcrC c. Morton, l.. P. Glow
er, +. W. Glover, VIM. Sinclair, John King
Democratic Triumph in Pennsylvania.
The triumph Of the Democratic party in
Pennsylvania, is one that should cause eve
ry lover Of his country, and of her institu-
| tions, to rejoice, even cyu!t. Not simply as
a triumph Of the party, but the principles,
which they nailed to their banner Of non
intervention with the institutions Of the
South )" the endorsement of the Kansas
Nebraska Bill; leaving the people Of the
| Territories, as well us States, free to form
their domestic institutions.
1t is the triumph OF the Constitution.
Most gloriousy has old Pennsylvania, the
"key Stone OF the Federal Arch rescued it
from the dissertations and insults to Which
the fusonists subjected it last fall Let us
hear no more of the impotence Of those
sound men at the North.
One Of the good results of this triumph
will be the return, Of Senator Broadhead
to the L. S. Senate.
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC TRIuMpH.-Wc
are pleased to announce that the Democrat
ic party Of Indiana have carried the State
by 10 or $4,000 majority. In that State
also they laid down a platform, involving
the intervention doctrine, as embodied
in the Nebraska Kansas Bill.
The Aboit:onists Of the North and the
Know Nothings Of the South may abuse
the Constitutional party rs long as they
please; but Of this they may rest assured,
that it has planted itself boldly upon the
Constitution, and cvey one North or South.
who do not come up to the mark without
'proterlnission," will be ruled from its ranks.
This rigid definition Of position, we are
glad to see is, in the State ofNew York. dri-
wing from the ranks Of the party the unsound
members Of il,c SOFT" party, and such Free
Soil papers as the Albany Atlas, whom it
must be confessed our President has cher
ished too long An open face to face
fight with Abolitionism and Frecsoilsm is
what every Southern man should desire.
Such we hope to have in the next Prcsitlen
tial election-could Southern men be in
duccfto forget for the time, at least, their
hostiIitics 10 Catholics and foreigners.
SorND REsoLUTIoN.-The following is
one Of 4 set of Resolutions unanimously
adopted at the National Democratic Con
vention Of Courtlanl CO., New York. 1t
refers, as will be seen, to the Missouri line,
and is rs sound, forcib!e and clear as any
Southerner could wish:
"Resolrea, That as Congress never pos
scssed the constitutional light to separate
the States by sectional line, granting to
the people on one side the privilege OF en-
acting their own laws in reference to their
domestic affairs, and prohibiting the exer-
else Of the same right to the citizens Of the
other section, the act Of our late Congress
in er;,sing that line and restoring to the pco-
pie the powcrr which justly belonged to
them, to regulate their domestic institu-
tions in accordance with the will of the
majority, was an act of justice, and in
strict accordance with the Democratic prin-
ciplcs upon which our Government was
ounded."-Fairfcld HeraM.