The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-08-06
American PARTY.


I'd purpose of organising an American club,
r motion, In was:
i. Resolved. That this club be STYLED the ri
a. more American Club
n On motion, the club proceeded to the Gle
he ton Of officers, when it appeared that the fc
w lowing gentlemen had been chosen:
n PREsIDEST-M Watson
a. VIcE PREsIDEsrs-Reuben White,J D Pa
n, ker, VIM. H. Hackett, James Pegram, J.
u McRady and B. L. Hodge.
" SECRETARIES NJ Mutt and j. w JoEe
A. TREAsuRER-W R. Shivers.
M CoRREsPosDIsG CoMMIrrEE-Sa Ford "
/ A. Lacy, L. P. Grain, ". W George and !
e c. 0glesby ~ sz.s 81 9.=L a
a VIGILANCE COMMITTEES: -+ss B.
d WARD No. AT Albany B. Mccain, I
: W. George, Hugh Currie, Fl. lies. At Cooke
= store-J. B. Sims, H W Mooring, G. s
: Groom, J. NJ Simmons E4+.-5 msw r
:. WARD No. 2-J S. Wise, E. NJ. Coleman
e Thomas Hearne, J. NJ Ford, L. F. Holt.
WARD No. 3-Wm. C. Foster, T. L. Scogin
Erastus Crosby, VIM. Wyche, c. F. Harris.
f WARD No. Al. Markham, II. Howerton
r NJ Waldran, R. A Cuttf. D. S. Wilder.
WARD No. 5-B. K. Stephens, I'hos. NJ Call
VIM J. Beall, B. P. Peace.
WARD No. &c. K. Hall, W. E. Walmsy
D. C. BIount, Thomas Martin. z.-
WARD No 7-R. Y. B. Eddings, ]. c. Har,
well, J. f. Herndon, S. D. Caldwell
We have been brought up in the belief, says
| the Pee Dee Times, that the cardinal prin-
cIples advocated by the southern rights and
statesrights men of South Carolina, taught in
the most emphatic and positive language that:
1. Congress has no power to exclude slavery
from any territory. 2. The people of a terri
tory have no power to prohibit slavery so long
as the territorial government lasts. g. The
right of Shareholders to take their slaves into
the public domain, BY virtue of the constitu-
ton Of the United States a. That the people
of a territory can only exclude slavery from
among them after they hare formed a .State con-
stitution and been admitted into the Union by
congress. Such were the doctrines advanced
by the lamented Calhoun, and strenuously ad-
yocated during the entire course of his brilliant
career; and they are the identical principles at
this very day advocated by the statesrights de-
of South Carolina. Now, we would
very much like to know, how those gentlemen
who have heretofore been SO very ardent and
enthusiastic in their advocacy of statesrights |
and ''southern rights" can possibly support
Mr. Buchanan without repudiating their oacn
political princsp1es-or, at 4east, the principles
hey pretend to advocate. For does not Mr..
buchanan plainly tell them, in his letter accept
ng the nomination of the Cincinnati conven-
ION that, 'the people Of a territory, like those
If STATE, shall decide for themselves whether
slavery shall, Or shall not exist in their linn
ts?' i. d. in the territories?l Thisis "squat-
er sovereignty, and violates the rights of the
laveholder, and is at the same time in direct
opposition to the princl pies of southern rights,
because it confers upon emigrants from anti
slave States, upon freesoilers and abolitionists,
l right to exclude slaves from, and prohibit
lavery in, the territories. How can South Caro-
lnians endorse such monstrous dogma? We II
lever can, no matter whether it be advanced /
y democratic nominee for the presidency, or
he party itself. We prefer principles to men,
ven if the latter do style themselves demo
rats, and, therefore, we decline to put on the s
very ofsquatter sovereignty t
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A man down in Connecticut writes to the
ew York Express, to ascertain whether there
such man as ]. c. Fremont, or whether his
is not joke, got up to amuse the ,
and hoax the country people. ,
e says the only Fremont ever heard of in his
sIghborhood, is the young man Barnum hired i
catch woolly horse for him in the noun +
ms, and he thinks, if he is the man, Fred i
ouglass ought to be nominated for vice pres-e c
ent; SO as to have ''wooy horse" presi- d
mt and ''woolly head vice PRESIDENT s
'emont claims to be the first man who dis
vered the Great Salt lake, and the Express =,
inks that he will make another discovery be- r
re the 10th of November-the head-waters of y
1t river, located in Bullitt county, Kentucky, ,
which occasion he will have as fellow ex-
orer the hon James Buchanan Fremont :,
s passed his days principally among wooly :,
rses, with wild men and wild beasts; but =
en- as an enterprising hunter, his qualifca- r
MS for the presidency are not equal to those
Gordon Cunning, the famous Scotch MIN :.
], or lieutenant Gerard, the French lion kill -,
Colonel Fremont has made many hair ~ v,
eadth escapes in his time, but he will beat
IN Amburgh himself if he comes out with a =,
oe skin from the black republican menag- ;.
e of freesoH tigers, abolitioniss hyenas and :
lititude of wild eat isms. r@y @z
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DETECTION AT HoaE.-The Pittsburg Jour be
says, cali was made last week for de- eli
cratic convention in Washington, one of the ifc
st populous counties in Pennsylvania, to rat-