Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-09-23
POLITICAL ITEMS.

The Hon. Geo. P. Marsh, Of Vermont las
taken decided stand against Republican
| disunionism.
Hon Howell Cobb, of Georgia, addressed
Democratic meeting at kimberville, Pa on
Thursday. He has now Eve appointments to
speak at different towns in Pennsylvania the
present month.
The Boston Post says, the Young Mems
Christian Association, while waiting for the
procession to move on the 18th, took a vote for
President, which resulted: for Buchanan So.
Fremon 10, undecided 4.
1t is rumored that Hon. S. G. Haven, Mr..
fillmore's law partner, who now represents
the Buffalo district in Congress, has declined
| re nomination. He has been looking around
the district since the adjournment of Congress-
Among the speakers at q political meeting
at Parkersburg, Va, few days since, were
W jackson and W. jackson, on the
Democratic side, and Gen J J. jackson and
Jackson, jr on the American side.
Hon VIM. II. Seward writes to Detroit to
| say that if he shall be in the United States on
| the I'd day of October, with strength enough to
appear as man among men, he will speak to
| as many as will honor him with their attend.
| ance at Detroit on that day.
Hon. John Walworth, of Green county, Wis
c0nsin, president of the convention held at
Madison, July 18th, 1854, which formed the
Republican" party Of the Badger State,
| has repudiated nigger-worship, and come out
| for Buchanan.
The New York Herald, the organ of the
Fremonters, in speaking of the great Dems
| Ocratic torch-light demonstration in that city,
| says the procession was composed for the most
| part of ''unwashed Irish laborers" The
sheer at the Irish citizens is pitiful and con-
| temptible as the source is degraded and base
| from whence ii enamates.
Thus far, in Massachusetts,, they have for
Governor. and other State officers the Demo
| cratic ticket, the Wing ticket, the Fillmore
American" ticket and the Gardner or FIRE.
| mont American" ticket John II Clifford
| is on all of them except the Democratic Ho-
| mer Foot is on the Fillmore American" and
Wing tickets for Lieut.. Governor.
The Democrats and Fillmore men of Bote.
tourt county, Va, have united in barbecue,
| to take place at Buchanan on the 18th and
| 18th Of October. Among the distinguished
| speakers to be present, are Hon. A H. II.
| Stuart, Ex-Gov. Floyd, Hon. John NJ Botts,
| Hon. John Letcher, John N. Speed, Esq and
| Gen. Chapman.
A gentleman who has just returned from
South Bend, Indiana, informs the Adrian
| Watchtower, that three hundred Germans of
| the town of South Bend, who have hitherto
| intended to vote for Fremont, abandoned the
fortunes of that aspirant on the day prior to
that on which the Watchtower's informant
left, and hoisted Buchanan flag.
| A bill has been introduced into the Legs
lature Of Texas setting apart valuable tract
of land as large as the State of Tennessee, the
northern boundary Of which is within thirty
miles of Kansas, in which land bounties are
] offered to shareholders who will settle there
The object of the bill is to interpose the stauncb
barrier of saveholding community between
the influence of the possible free State institu
tions of Kansas and the slaveholding countie.
| of southern and middle Texas
The Baton Rouge Advocate Louisiana) maid
the following complimentary tribute to Mr.
| Buchanan
"The word safe is synonymous with tb,
name Of James Buchanan He is safe man
| Great interests may be confded to his keep
ing, with that same sense of security that the,
would be faithfully guarded, which would in
spire the private citizen who had deposited
his private wealth in the iron chest of tn,
national treasury
Mr.. Joseph William, planter, of Louisi an
writes to the editor of tho Memphis Eagle
that while on q visit to the North he called OF
Mr.. Fillmore, and in reply to questions Mr. F
stated that he was decidedly opposed to tn,
doctrine of squatter sovereignty, as advocated
by Cas-, Douglas, Buchanan and Van Buren,
that he believed that a Territory, until il
inhabitants were sufficiently numerous to an
thorlse the formation of a State constitution
could only be regarded as in condition O
| pupllage, possessing no sovereignty whatever
and referred to the Utah and New Mexic
Territorial bills, sanctioned by him, as a cor
rect indication Of his opinions
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