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Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
Walker in G South.

The change in favor of Governor
Walkers Kansas policy at the South is
going on with great rapidity, as it Is be-
coming better understood. The Clarks-
vile CTenn-) Jcfersonian has come out
in a strong article sustainingit. Hon. a.
o. P Nicholson lately approved it in a
public speech in Western Tennessee
The Columbus (Miss) Democrat, which
had attacked him with great violence
in its issue of the 18th, says:
The last news from Kansas is to the
effect that Governor Walkers course is
approved by all the Democrats, pro
slavery as we'll as anti-slavcry, in the
Territory, and that the oily opposition to
him con.es from the d~isorganizing To-
peka Abolitionists. We do not know
how this may be; bat, if true, we of the
South may as well be content at once,
and permit the people, the bona fde in
habitants and legalized voters, to settle
their own affairs and frame their organ
ic law according to their own views and
opinions, without any outside pressure
or foreign Interference. This is the
foundation principle Of the Kansas-Ne-
braska Act-the true Democratic prin-
ciple, founded IN Justice and common
sense.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
Our Prospects.

To-day CThursday) is the day which
the Democracy of Ohio will assemble in
Convention, for the purpose of selecting
their standard bearer for the coming
campaign, and we are pleased to witness
the zeal with which our friends are pre-
pairing to enter the contest, which will
be one of the most important that ever
took place in Ohio. There seams a
universal determination to shake off the
fctters of Abolitionism, and to rebuke
the hypocrisy, deception and raseality
which it has practisod upon the people
of Ohio, during the two short years it
has been in power, and if the Democra-
cy place upon their ticket good, honest
and upright men, we predict its entire
success by a majority which will make
the day of the election one long to be
remembered on account of the glorious
success of the Democracy, and the over
throw of a faction in power which
preached and promised "retrenchment'
and ''reform," but which has not only
almost bankrupted the State, but dis
graced her in the eyes of the whole ma
ton. The people are weary of such
government, and will no longer listen to
the promises of those now administer
ing for them, and We would say to this
nigger-worshiping party: you may as
well come down, you have sinned griev-
ously, your race is run, it is not in your
power to deceive the honest masses any
more, the handwriting is on the wall,
like the monarch of Babylon, you have
been weighed in the balance and found
sadly wanting and you may howl and
shrek until you become hoarse, but
there is no mysterious, undeveloped
power in your party, that can avert the
popular storm. You may as we'll ad-
NIT that you have been smoked out and
your deception and villainy exposed to
the gaze of an indignant people-that
your vessel has been struck below the
water line-that, in a word, the "migh-
ty' have fallen. There are few victims
over whose collins, at least, W. could
not shed a tear, when, however, We shall
stand beside the lonely grave of.46oEe
tionisu, and witness its funeral writes,
we shall feel like exclaiming-blessed
is the hand that smiteth, and ever prais-
ed be He who executeth his judgments
in the earth.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
The South and Kansas.

The developments at the South on the
great and vital points of a submission of
the new constitution of Kansas to the
people, are daily becoming more graft
flying, Thus the Wilmington CONNER
cial, of North Carolina, says
owe must confess that we are some
what in a fog" and cannot see why the
submission of the constitution of Kansas
to the people should be thought incon-
slstant with the principles laid down by
President Pierce and the Cincinnati
platform, or at all repugnant to the doc
trlne OF southern rights, as declared and
maintained by the most patriotic of our
southern citizens for years long past.
A difference of opinion on this or any
other topic will not permanently affect
the relationship of the Southern unity,
as the enemies of the present admins
tratlon expect; many of whom, of the
south too, would have Kansas admitted
as a free state if that event would break
the moral power and impeach tho polit-
clal integrity of the present administra-
ton.
With the corruptions and intrigues
't"' may NC IouSH6 ~ DCdI upon INC
election or ratification or rejection i'll
Congress we have nothing to do. Bet
ter that Kansas should be admitted as a
free State, and all the evils that would
probably attend that event be encounter
ed, than that southern citizens should
repUdiate the great principle, the battle
for whose assertion has been fought and
won, viz "that the question of sIacery on
ooti-slaoeyy shall be decided Gy the people
Of the territories"
In copying his brief and excellent ar
ticle, the Washington Union remarks
"This is the right language and the
right doctrine. Let the principle OF
the popular sovereignty be firmly and
impartially upheld, without reference as
to who are or who are not to be gamers
by its practicle enforcement"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
a sign ia. New YcrA.

The Buffalo Republic, the organ of
the Democratic portion of the Republi-
cans in Western New York, had a very
significant political article on Saturday
last. 1t alluded to the fact hat all
parties arc now in a disorganizcd state,
and that efforts at RECONCILIATION are
making. 1t then goes on to say that
there is no union of feeling between the
radical Democratic Republicans ana
the Seward men save on slavery; and
that as the coming State election is not
to be affected by that "grcat ISSUE" the
party will probably be disrupted. 1t
expresses its disapprobation of the leg
i%slation of last winter, and its determin-
alton not to sustain the party unless ii
is repudiatcd and denounced. Finally,
itgives formal notice that any concession
to the "Know Nothings' will not be
tolerated. This is the first squeak OF
the discordant clements. Others will
soon follow.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
The Opposition Campaign Open
ed--"NiEger ON Inc Stump"

Last Sabbath evening was desecrated
in Eaton by the howlings of an impu-
dent, ebon skined, greasy buck negro.
imported here by the stock holders
of the underground rail road, who at
tempted to deliver himself of what he
styled a lecture on human freedom, in
which he advocated amalgamation and
negro equality, and libelled the people
of the South, by retailing base concoct-
ed stories in regard to the manner Of
treatment his race receive at their hands.
The Black Republicans appeared to rel
ish the %uneomely discourse Of this sooty
African, but not the peculiar odor which
he caused the room to be scented with
they invited him to tarry with them un-
til Monday night, but to defend THEN
delicate olfactories from the fume, he
was politely requested to speak in the
open air, in front of the Court House.
The condition of this "all decency' par
ty must be desperate indeed, when they
are compelled to import such vulgar
stock to stump the county in their be-
half. DIR. VAUGHAN lectured before the
Normal Institute in the First Presbytc-
rian Church, on Physical Scicnce-the
African on amalgamation and negro
equality; the latter drew the largest au-
dience! So his hearers were more nu-
merous on Sabbath evening, than any
of our Ministers of the Gospel had at
their respective places of worship, and
some who pretend to be members of high
standing in our several Churches, vaca-
ted their seats and were present to cheer
the incoherent rawlings and blasphemy OF
this illiterate Ethiopian. We have NO
objections to his "stumping' the coun-
ty to help the sinking cause of Black
Republicanism, or to preach the curse
of slavery, but we think a descent re-
gard for the Sabbath, should induce his
stockholders to allow him but six days
to do so, or, if they must force him to
prostitute the seventh, at least teach
him to dispense with negro antics on
that sacred day.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

nnThe grand Rapids (AIich.) In
quirer contains full report ofthe trial,
conviction and expulsion from the
church ofDeacon p. G. Stcbbins, of the
town of Alphine, in that county. lie
was the first deacon of the church to
which he belonged-the Frecwill Bap-
fists, and the charge against him was
that he sustained slavery by voting for
Buchanan. lie was also charged with
deception, because when asked if he was
going to vote for liberty or slavery, he
saidliberty. Stc5bins admitted the facts
charged, but defended himselfby saying
that the Democratic ticket, which he did
vote, supported the most liberal princi-
pies of any ticket now in vogue.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

HoUo,cay's Oiat"tcnt and PHHs.-A
PROTECTION AGAINST COUNTERFEITs e
list the Water-mark, EHoLLowAr' New
YORK and LONDON" which appears in
semi-transparent letters in every leaf Of
the book of directions. If this is no;
seen when the paper is held to the light
the same is spurious. Unlike the min
cral preparations that drive the virus
Of cruptions and sores into the vital or
CANS, this marvellous Ointment dischar-
ges the poison before it heals the flesh.
The Pills inevitably curc Dyspepsia and
all bilious disorders, purifying and Wit
alizing the blood, &c.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
Republican Honesty and Fair
HESS.

The lovers of honesty and fairness
will find a beautiful demonstration of
those qualities in the exposure which
we are about to make. One of the prin-
cipal charges which the Republican
press has made against Chief Justice
fancy, in connection with the bred
Scott decision, was that he uttered the
sentiment that negroes have no rights
which white men are bound to respect.
This charge has appeared in all the Or
gans of Republicanism, and has espec-
ally been reiterated in the Ga==cYc and
Commercial of this city. Now mark
the dishonesty of those prints. In
Judge Taney's decision occurs the fol-
lowing paragraph, when speaking of nc
grocs:
"They had, for more Than q century be
fore, been rcgaraed as being Of an inter
rior order and altogether mft to associate
,cith tic achite race, either IN socialor pol
itical retatioHs; and SO far inffcrriior that
they had no rights which the vhite men
'reTc bound to respect; and that the negro
might justly and lawfully be reduced to
slavery for his benefit. He was bought
and sold, treated as an ordinary article
of merchandise and traffic, whenever q
profit could be made by it."
"This opinion was, at the time, fixed
and universakia the civilized portion of
the white race. 1t was regarded as an
axiom in morals as well as in politics,
which no enc thought of disputing, or
supposed to be open to dispute; and men
in every grade and position of society
daily and habitually acted upon it in
their private pursuits, as we'll as in mat
ters Of public concern, without doubling
for 4 moment the correctness of his
opinion"
The Judge was speaking of how ne
grocs were regarded a century before the
Re folution. He was narrating a fact,
and yet it is attributed to him as a scnti-
mont. It is useless, VIC suppose, to eH-
poet the Gazette and its allies to rctrac'
the columny.-Cin. Enquirer.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
A fact for our Republican friends

The black Republicans, says the Gin
c%innati Enquirer, continue to be terribly
exercised about the late decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
which has decided that negroes are not
constitutional citizens of the Union
Now, we would ask the gentlemen, if
negroes are "citizens," why it is that
the Topeka Constitution-which was
made by them in Kansas, and which
they obstinately persist shall be the one
under which she shall be admitted into
the Union-contains a clause that free
men of color shall not be allowed to set
tie in the State? This clause was refer
red separately to the republican Free
State electors, nobody else voted on the
question, and it was carried by a large
majority. The "Topcka Constitution
with this stringent clause against ne
groes, is thu shibboleth and policy of
the republican faction; it is their pana-
cea for the Kansas diHiculties-was vo-
ted for by all the republican members
of Congress, and has been adopted and
approved by them in every possible way.
Wewould ask in all sincerity, where and
what is Black Republican consistency
which denies to negroes the right of eY-
er living in Kansas, and drives them
from the State as criminals, and then
finds fault with the United States Su-
preme Court because it decided that they
are not citizens of the United States ?
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
The EEcsls:s OF tilc Election ia
COVinEE0n.

The Democracy of Covington did
gloriously yesterday. Their majority
is between three and four hundred.
when it is usually one hundred and fifty
for the Know Nothings. Campb-l II and
Kenton Counties give large Democratic
majorities. feathers, supported by the
Know Nothings, is very badly beaten
for the State Senate by Fisk, Democrat.
The Democrtic members of the LegisIa-
ture are elected in both counties. But
little opposition to Stevenson for Con
grcss.-CJn. Eng.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

R9~Our Republican friends are get
ting extremely weak in the knees for an
issue. Kansas has failed them. The
hope of a rupture in the Democratic
party, because of the course of Walker
in that Territory, is getting small by de-
grees, and beautifully less. A few ul-
tras at the South are disposed to raise
their 'bristles" because the Admins
~tration and Walker favor the submission
of the Constitution when framed to the
people-but the sober, reliable, conscr-
vativc men Of all parties are rallying to
the support Of the President with a una
nimity unparalleled. Here again, then,
we find the guns of our Republican
friends spiked. Where next will they
turn for hope?
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
1.-THE Model Governor"

1t seems that Governor Chase, re-
marks the Sandusky Ht,ror, has been
playing strong games of late-and when
the Republicans leave him, he will loose
that prestige which has of late been
thrown around the "model Governor"
His friends are exerting every nerve to
avert the potency of the storm, that is
shortly to overtake him-and are try
ing to let down as easily as possible.
But all this will not do-the people see
in him nothing, but the sly, scheming
politician who works for Black Repub-
licanism at the expense of the people of
the State. Instead of attending to the
treasury as required by law, he was at
tending to bleeding Kansas" and by
his criminal neglect, the treasury was
plundered by one of his companys Shrek
ers of over half a million of money.
This alone ought to be enough to sink
him, in the estimation of every we'll
wisher of the State. The Legislature
passed a law making him the special
guardian of the treasury coniding
that money to his care thinking o course
it would be safe, when guarded by the
great amphictyonic council of Black
Republicanism when headed by this
moral man-but alas the pockets of
his liege subjects have to bleed as
we'll as Kansas.
There was a law passed authorizing
the County Treasurer, to deposit in the
banks under the direction of the State
Treasurer. When it went into opera
ton there was a great strife among the
banks, to be the repositories of the
peoples money under this law. The
City Bank of Cincinnati became one of
these suppliants, and Salmon P. Chase,
Ohio's model Governor" was the man
who recommended this bank as the safest
one in Cincinnati for a custodian of the
money. Yes, Governor Chase is the
man who induced Breslin to order the
Treasurer of Hamilton county to de-
post in this bank-and what was the
result? Why the bank failed in a short
time after, and the State lost S79,S11,95
by following the advice Of .this model
Governor" 1t seems that Gov. Chase
has made it his special business both in
oficc" and out, to aid in depletion of the
treasury-to ~squander the taxes raised
by the poor as well as the rich. His
disregard of the constitution which he
is sworn to support, is as fragrant as his
disregard of the duties of his Office.
When the treasury is robbed by his CO.
shrieker Gibson, he tramples the con
stitution of the State under foot, and
puts Ohio a begging suppliant at the
feet of the money shavers and shylecks,
and borrows money at six per cent. to
make the deficit caused by the great
robbery. This is q beautiful spectacle
for the people of Ohio to contemplate
to see their State a suppliant and a
debtor to those money shavcrs, who do
nGt even respect the laws of the land
enough to pay their taxes-and in that
situation too by the base conduct CT
Ohio's model Governor" Citizens do
you want such Governor again? The
people will dispense with his services
hereafter.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
lDHrIV Fidelity.

The Democratic Party, now so over
whcImingly triumphant throughout the
county is a proud exhibition of attach
ment to principle and of fidelity to the
party organization which achieves the
triumph of its principles. While one
party after another has risen, fourished
for a short season and then sunk into
forgetfulness, the Democratic party has
pursued its steady onward march, and
its great governing power has been sub
mission to the will ofthe majority, which
when once expressed, demands the CO.
operation and enforcement of every
member of the great family no matter
what his previous preferences or opin-
ion may have been. In this, harmony
of action has been its strength-the Sc
cret of the Sampson like power; and
whenever Observation-Disclosures, it has been
Observation-Disclosures in resisting the
nominees of Convention, or refusing
support to Caucus nominations, it has
fraught with evil to the party, and soon
er or later has been followed by the pol
itical and moral degradation of all con-
cerned in the act of treachery to the
unity of the Organization There is a
wise lesson to be learned from the histo-
ry of parties in this country. Rebellion
against the will of their majorities, has
been so often practiced among the op-
ponents of the Democracy that they
have almost ceased to exist; while con-
tinued and answering fidelity to the
popular will. has made the Democratic
Party the only party of any vitality o
in existance. That it may long c%ontin-
ue thus, and fulfil all its beneicent mis-
sion to the country, there must be no
hesitation in visiting infamy and dis
grace upon any rccrcant who shall set
up his will against that Of the majority,
or from any motives of selfshness, favor
or affection, shall disregard the binding
force of the conventional or Caucus
nominations of the Democratic Party.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

Bea-So far as elected, the members OF
the next house of representatives stand
81 Republicans, rs Democrats, 2 Know
Nothings. All the free states have held
their elections, and nine slave states are
yet to elect. The Southern Know-Noth-
ings may choose Is or 20 members more.
The Democratic party is tolerably Ger
tain of ten or fifteen clear majority in
the house.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06
VIc1ss1rUDEs OF REpUBLIcANIsM.

VIcIssITUDEs OF REPUBLICANIsM.-
Frank Blair on the stump IN Missouri,
advocating the election of Rollins, the
Know Nothing candidate Davy VIII
mot is FORMULATING Pennsylvania,
swearing he is the best Know Nothing
in the State, and Banks is trembling in
Massachusetts, lest some of the Know
Nothings will repudiate the action of
the Convention Of that party which
nominated him.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

New COUNTERFEIT. - Five dollal
counterfeit notes on the Chippewa Bank
of Wisconsin are in circulation. They
are a fac-simile of the genuine, vignettc,
two horses alarmed at Il train Of cars,
Indian on the right end, arms Of the
State on the left. The engraving and
signatures are sufficiently good to de-
cciye the greater portion ofthe comuni-
tY.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

ra- The national Intelligence is out
with a long and able leader sustaining
Walker and the administrations in their
Kansas policy.-Tho \. Y. Commercial
Advertiser and n. Y. fines do the
same thing. They all pronounce the
present defiant attitude Of Lane and
his Topeka party in building up Coy
crnment within a Government, as a rank
rebellion not only against thelaws of the
Territory but against the laws of the
United States.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

THE PRESIDENT AS EXECUroR.-An
exchange says: Mr.. Isaac S. Parker
recently died, and on opening his will
it was found that President Buchanan
is named as one of the executors. Mr..
Buchanan's housckccper is a sister Of
the deceased.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

nsA-Thc number of opposition votes
cast in the late French election is stated
to have been about a million. Nine
tcnths of these were cast in the cities
and large towns of the empire. 1t is al
legged that if the opposition had moro
time to organize, it could have doubled
or tTcblcd the number.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-08-06

nn-In the State of South Carolina.
the marriage law is o,stringent that not
a single divorce, it is said has cvcr been
granted.