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Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
Later from Rio Grslnhc and
NOallaersl M exicO. a.

BY the arriya a of the steamship Cen
eraL Rusk, from the brazos. St.zJago; at
New Orleans, we have received files Of
the Brownsville Flag TO the LIST inst,
There was a sever gale at the Brazos
on the Goth ult. The island was washed
by the sea up to the foot of the sand
hills.
The Flag learns from a friend at Roma
that a party of Indians, supposed to be
Camanches, attacked a company of nine
persons going from the town of Puebla
to Lampasos, in Mexico. Fonr men
were killed, and the five remaining in
Guiding a DE-. Thompson, an America,
several wounded. A few days previ-
Gus to this attack a train of carts, load
ed with fruit for Mier, was attacked by
the same tribe of Indians. One of the
cartmen was killed aud several wounded.
Major Cunningham, Paymaster for
the intel States Army, had returned
t. B:owsville after a somewhat protract-
ed alse ice on the broad prairie s Of tho
State.
Major Cunningham has just returned
from a visit to the extreme frontier posts
of South western Texas. On the wa
tiers of the Pecos, the reported hunting
grounds of the Indians, he says there
are no indications of their having been
there for some time past-they have
doubtless changed their quarters to a
more northern latitude.
The Flag learns that the Rev. Bishop
BARRACKS and some twenty odd clergy
men, banishcd by Colonel Zuazua from
San Luis Potosi, lave arrived in Mata-
moras. 1t is said they contemplate So
journing-in that city until order is again
restored in Mexico.
We take the following Mexican news
from the Flag: @
By way of Matamoras We have dates
from Aguascalientes to the 9Th, from
San Luis Potosi to the 9TH, and from
Monterey to the 10th inst.
The papers contain nothing now sto
the movcments of the ~coutending par
ties, save that General Xidaurri was to
lave arrived in San Luis on the 11th,
Miramou had fed from Gaudalajara,
leaving that place in command of Gen.
eral Casanova. From all accounts Mir
anon is so holly pressed that he c1Hnot
find shelter in any one place for a day
at a time.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
A COnvcrt-AImost,

We presume u readers will be sur
prised to learn that that old political
sinner, NJ. B. Chadwick, dropped in
at our democratic meeting on Saturday
last, and intimated that he desired to
reuounce all his Republican and negro
notions, and henceforward to be a regu-
lar democrat. He said he had stronger
claims to be a democrat than any mem
Der present, because he had been ''rais-
ell on democratic milk" The wary de-
mocracy being somewhat doubtful of
the sincerity of so great a political sin
ner, concluded to admit him into the
party on probation for six months, at
the end of which time, if satisfied with
his faith, he will be fully installed.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
.eThe Lecompton Democracv."


This slang term is applied by the
Black Republican editors to the honest
Democracy, just as though our friends
would feel grieved because of the cpl
thets the common enemy of our prin
eiples and our country may see proper
to heap upon us.
The ancestors of the present Black Re-
publican party, the old Federalists, ap-
piled the name of Democracy" to the
friends of their country by way of re-
Proach and disgrace. The terms "Dem-
ocrat" and 'Jacobin" were the most Of
fensive epithets the Federalists of 1898
and 1900 could use in speaking of the
friends of Thomas Jefferson. But it
only had the effect of popularizing the
word democrat" and our party have
ever since adopted it as the proudest
and most ~endearing name that freedom
could rally under.
Some years ago the Federal party ap-
piled the term "Locofoco" to the De-
moeracy, by way of derision; but the
name soon became SO popular that our
friends appeared to like it amazingly
And at the same time the Federalists
undertook to steal the name of Democrat
and apply it to themselves. But they
found themselves in the position of the
donkey that %enveloped itself in a lions
skin-for in spite of all its efforts, the
big ears would protrude, and its loud
braying would bctray its paternity.
And now the terms 'Slave Democra-
cy', and "Lecompton Democracy" that
are SO fippantly applied by the disun-
~ionists to country's friends will not
seriously grieve any one, for they wiN
not stick. "Lecompton' was a mere
bubble of the day-it has passed. a
way. and will soon be forgotten; while
the Democratic party and its glorious
principles will remain as firm and as
true as the eternal hills.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
EgSince our last Marion has bee,

E1-Since our last Marion has been
visited by a majority ofthe commission.
crs appointed by tie last Log stature,
to Investigate the late defalcation in the
State financial department. Their i'm
pres. ion seems to be that some of OIL
citizens mere s:posted." Messrs, Edger,
ton, Morgan, and Reemlin are sharp on
the track, and consequently participa-
tors in the late fraud had better beware.
We predict a report that will tend to
showwhere the peoples money has gone
that the speculation commenced
years ago-in fine, that a number who
have heretofore passed as tolerably hon.
est men are really the parties who have
swindled Messrs. Bliss, Breslin and
Gibson, and through them the the poo
pie. We shall see what We shall see!-
-Hurion Mirror.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
Va Lewis D. Campbell, in his speech

HE Lewis D. Campbell, in his speech
at the Paris Convention, said that he
had been assured by prominent Demo
Gratis in Congress, that he should not be
disturbed in his seat if he would keep
quiet on the Lecompton business, and
after his rejection, a proposition had
been made to him, to go over to the
Democratic party and they would take
care of him, to which he replied by tell.
ing the following story:
"Mousieur Folk, a Frcnchman, who
went to Jamaica to embark in business
had been sadly abused there. He hat
been robbed, whipped, put in prison
his property confscated, and every spe
cies of indignity and outrage Offered
him. On his return he told the story
most pitifully to Colonel Pike, of Ar
kansas.
"'Why Monsieur Folk said the Col
onel, according to your story Jamaic;
must be as bad as the Internal regions.
"'Ma foi'-it is worse.
"tNow, Monsieur, do you really NEAR
that?'
I "'C'est vrai-it is true.
"Well, now, Monsieur Folk SAID
Colonel Pike, suppose you were on youi
death-bed tonight, and the Lord should
appear to you, and say you might &c
back to Jamaica or go to the inferno.
regions, what would you say?p
AZ would say, Monsieur. good Lord
if it beez all the re zamc to you, if i,
makes no difference at all, 1 should very
much choose to please to prefer much
racer to 60 to h-ll.'"
He told his Democratic friends, it is
made no difference, he should prefer the
Frenchman's choice to joining the Dem.
o%cratic party. lie would prefer going
to h-ll, to joining the Democratic par
ty-so heEsays. This is the gentleman
who is the opponent of Mr.. Vallandig
ham in this District man who woult
like to have the votes of the people t.
enable him to represent them in Con
gress. Our readers can form som
opinion of the man from the abov
story. Ham. Tel.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
RehoId the Enemy!

Democrats, are you all ready for the
contest?-ready to make a charge in
phalanx, along the whole line of the dark
fusion2 Charge vigero usly, remarks
the Dayton Empire, for the enemy is al
ready battering at your gates, in the
hope of making impressions on your
lines by his beggarly winnings for Dem
o~cratie votes. Give him no votes; show
him no quarters-he deserves neither.
Teach him that you are Democrats that
you have no desire to make him your
b~ed-fellow, unless he chooses to come and
lie in the National bed, which is broad
enough to hold all repenting sinners
Tell him you vote for principles as well
as for men;-that your principles are
right, and your tickets are right; that
your candidates possess Jeffersoni:saa re-.
quirments, that they are honest and ca,
pable, which is all you require of them.
The mere circumstances that the can
didate is not just the man you would
have placed upon the ticket, should by
no means induce you to give aid and
comfort to the enemy. The ticket may
suit your neighbor, although it don't
suit you in certain particulars; in anoth-
er year the ticket may suit you exactly,
and not your neighbor in all particulars.
Have patience, therefore, and act uron
the principle reciprocity. Make COM
mon cause against the enemy now that
you may be prepared to make a common
cause hereafter. A house divided "a
gainst itself, cannot stand. Remember
he is the sa ne old enemy, only in a more
malignant and vindictive form. Fear
ing to meet you in a single combat, he
casts around for any body or faction
with whom he might fuse, either with or
without principles; with or without plat
form. He calls upon all who ever were
or ever expect to be, your enemies, to
join and help him to defeat you, and
he sneaks into your own ranks;
with the poison under his tongue, and
whines like a starved dog for maternal
with which he may be enabled to Stay
you in secret.
This is the enemy, fellow Democrats,
that now undertakes to whisper his su-
gar-coated hypo risy into your ears
Not a regularly organized political par
ty by any means: but a political faction
of odds and ends--particularly ends--a
of factions, without principles
or a common cause. A band of politi-
hucksters, of the most unrcstrained
kind, who stop at nothing in their ma
propensities to defame the char
acter of your President, your Congress
candidate, and the Democratic
generally.
They perfdiously appear to bargain
away a portion oftheir own ticket for a
of yours, while they stab your
candidate in the dark. Stand by your
guns, therefore, and defend the princi-
pies of your Fathers and of the %consti-
Look neither to the right nor
to the left, but let the watch word be,
BY the Eternals the Union MUST and
he preserred!H'
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
Horace Ereelcy in Favor OF The
Admission of Slave States into
the Union.

AdmaIsSidp of slave states into
Even Horace Greeley, of the N. Y.
Tribune, the most ultra Republican ed
itor in the Union, ''backs down" from
the old position, and adopts the Demo
cratic doctrine on the subject of the ad-
mission aslave States. Nothing shows
the utter generalization of the Repub-
%licans, and their abandonment of the
most distinctly We article of their creed,
better than the following extract from
the late ipeech of their great champion
Greeley ,at the Ulster county meeting,
N. Y. He said:
"Whateyer might be said of the poll.
cy of excluding a slave State, he thought
that they would eve be able to exclude
a slave State on the ground of its being
a slave State, When a ~eoGmunity is
formed, and with slavery, and says, we
prop ose to come into the Union-as q
State, they would not be able to go be
hind her own action, or interfere with
her sovereignty, SO far as to prevent her
coming into the Union with slavery, SC
as she was republican in form. He
Stated this, not as his opinion, but as a
deduction from history. Fur instance,
tsuppose Cuba should come into the
tUhfon,-and he did not desire that she
should; he desired that she should not,
and had formed a State government
they never would be able to keep her
out because she was a slave State.
"Another point. He thought that
lexperience had settled the matter, what,
ever we might say Unpopular sovereign
ty or of the rights of the people, that
the principle obliquely laid down in the
Cincinnati platform, and more deliber-
atcly expressed in the Presidents Mes,
sage, that the appropriate time for a
State to decide for herself when she will
have or when she will not have slavery,
is when she comes to ask admission in
to the Union, was practically settled
He did not say he would not like to
have it otherwise, but it was so very
difficult to determine when Territories
should decide this question for them
selves, that he saw no other course of
action than to say that when they come
to frame a State government they shall
decide for themselves whether they will
have a slave State or a free State"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

The Ohio Statesman o fSunday morn
ing last, gives an account of a frightful
rail road accident which occurred on the
night express train, at the No. 6 Bridge
on the Pittsburg, Columbus and Gin
cinnati railroad, at which thirty persons
we're wounded, and only one or W Sc
riously. The train reached the bridge
at about s o'clock, Friday night, and
while passing through, the tender at
tached to the locomotive flew off the
track, with such force as to break down
the bridge. The locomotive passed
through but the timbers of the bridge
separating, precipitated the two baggage
cars and two passenger cars to the bed
of the creek, and the entire structure
fell in upon the train, crushing in the
tops and sides of the cars. The two
baggage cars were stove in, and the first
passenger car was crushed to pieces; the
rear end Of the hind car remained up on
the abutment, some fifteen or twenty
feet high. The passengers in the latter
car were all thrown to the lower end in
a heap, the seats and a large stove fall.
ing on top. Of those in this car, scarce
ly q passenger escaped without injury.
though they were none very dangerous
ly hurt.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
TIacRcAn0eracy of Michigan md
the President.

The Republican press have very gen.
orally insisted that the nomination q
Senator STUART for Governor, by the
Democracy of Michigan, was-n reflection
upon the policy of president BUCHANAN.
So far from tits being the case, Mr..
STUART, before making the race, was
compelled to stand upon a platform of
which this resolution was a part:
"That we declare our confidence in the
ability, integrity and patriotism of the
Administration of our venerable Presi-
deut, James Buchanan, and it shall
have our hearty support in all its meas
ures for the mainteuance of our glorious
Constitution and Union, and for the ad-
vancement Of the prosperity and happi-
ness of our whole country"
Severe repudiate that! The Convention
also passed a resolution respecting the
right of search, highly complimentary to
General Cass, President BUcANAN's Sec
rotary Of State.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
Attack upon Tom Corwin

Old JOSHUA II. GIDDINCS is defeat
ed, but he is net dead yet, and he will
most likely make some aware of the fact
before theyare much older. His organ,
the Ashtabula s ntinez, charges that he
was unfairly beaten. 1t recapitulates
the circumstances, and says:
"From these facts we feel warranted
in saying that Mr.. Giddings would have
been chosen by a large majority, if a
fair expression had been given to the
popular ~voite."
In another article the S.ntinel takes
the first installment of revenge by pub
fishing the following attack upon Gov
ernor CoRYIN and Mr.. FILLMORE. We
predict that the State Journal of Colum-
bus, will not defend Mr.. FILLMORE and
Gov. CoRwIN against the attacks made
upon them by its Abolition aud Negro
Suffrage allies. 1t is wholly devoted to
the CHASE and GIpDINGs faction, and
will see Gov. CoRwIN at Jerico sooner
than he shall have any influence in the
party. The Scntincl's studied effort to
depricate Gov. CoRwIN is as follows:
Gov. CoRwIN.-Within a few days
past Goverpor Corwin received the Con
gressional dominated in his district, af-
ter a very close contest and many bal
lettings, by one vote. 1t is very few
years, since no man would have had the
temerity to offer in competition with
Tom Corwih. But Mr.. e. has been
brought to feel the effects of wavering,
or seeming to waver, whore liberty is
concerned. Eleven years ago he stood
before the country as the eloquent cham
pion of the cause of Freedom and Jus
tice. rebuking the slave party in tn
path of their resistless strides to power,
telling them ike a prophet oftheir great
wrongs; and had he stood firm he might
have been President. But the syren
voice of compromise lulled him to rest,
and he wrecked upon the rocks of he
Fillmore Administration one Of the
proudest regulations as a son of Free
dom. He is now returned, advanced in
age, and lost in position, stepping feebly
upon the Republican platform, but still
showing signs of the power of his first
love-"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

Do They RESOLVE TO VIOLATE THE
CoNsTITUTIoN.-The following is a copy
of one of the resolutions of the Repub-
lican Platform, adopted in Philadelphia,
and reafhrmed by their Convention at
Springfield:
"That the Constitution confers upon
Congress sovereign power over the ter
%ritories of the United States for their
government, and that in the exercise of
this power it is both the right and the
duty of congress to prohibit in the ter
ritories those twin relics of barbarism,
poligamy and slavery"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

naA canada paper says that a gen
tleman recently turned I've horses into
a field of rusted oats and they were
all found dead the next morning. Ru.t
is supposed to be caused by a very min
ute insect which lives on the juice of
the straw, and the rust is its poisonous
sccretions.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
Republican split in Illinois.

We learn from the Freeport Gil. Bull
letin tina the Republicans of the First
Congressional District, Illinois, have
been divided by the nomination ofWash.
burn, the old member. Another Re
publican has announced himselfas a can
didate, and is stamping the district a.
gainst him. The Republican party is not
only hopclessly demoralizcd and in a
state of decay, but it is very badly divi-
ded in all its strongholds. Scarcely a
"greasc-spot" will be left of it in the
coming elections throughout the North
west.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

Bs~ 1t is said that the water works
about to be constructed in Washington,
ID. c., will conduct the water from the
Big Falls Oh the Potomac fourteen miles
to the city, ana will COS $4,000, 900.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

B5~The dissatisfaction of the Repub-
licans on the Western Reserve, on &C.
count of the defeat of GIDDINGs, is in
creasing rather than diminishing. The
defeat of GIDDINes and the reputation
of the ultra slavery issue will probably,
reduce the Republican vote in Cheese
dom fully five thousand votes,
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

ps~ A. c. Pepper, Esq, of Rising
Sun, Ind, who bolted from the Democ-
racy and became a candidate against
their nominee for the State Senate, has
lately backed Down and quit.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
what TO Keep Before the PeO-


Keep it before the people, that the
Black Republican party has abandoned
its principles.
Keep it before the people, that the
Democratic principles of popular sover-
eighty has triumphed and is acknowledge
ed by all parties to be correct.
Keep it before the people. that the
Republican party has never fulfilled .
pledge made by that party to the Peo-
pie.
Keep it before the people, that the
Republican party pledged themselves to
the restoration of the Missouri Compro-
mise.
Keep it before the people, that Che
Republican party pledged themselves
to the repeal of the RugitiEeslaKe
Keep it before the people, that the Re
publican party pledged themselves 10
the abolition Of slayeryia the District
of Columbia.
Keep it before the people, that the
Republican party pledged themselves 70
the prohibition of the inter7slaye trade.
Keep it before the people, that this
same Republican party never redeemed
one single one of these pledges, and
never intended to from the beginning.
Keep it before the people, that the
Republican members of Congress have
voted to admit slave States into the I'm
ion, and refused to vote to admit free
States because they supposed thereby
they could keep up the slavery agita-
ton. al -aa
Keep it before the people, that the
Republican party espoused the cause of
polygamy in Utah, after they had de-
nounced il in their platform. sal *
Keep it before the people, that the
present Republican party is the only
party that ever had its members expell-
ed from the halls of Congress for bril-
berry and corruption. sai1
Keep it before the people, that the
success of this miserable compound of
a5olitionism, know-nothipgism, free
loveism and every other l-oathsomeism
of this age and country, is dangcrous'to
the peace of the country aud prosPeriS
ty of the people. p a-/
Keep it before the people, that the
Democracy of Ohio intend to redeem
the state from abolitionism, and that
every Democrat is required to do his du-
ty. q
Proclaim to the world, that the DEM
~ocratic party is -unalterable opposed to
negro suffrage, and negro equality, in
any shape or manner, and that is the
only party capable of administering our
State and National governments.
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That Lewis D. Campbell voted for he
Crittenden- Montgomery anaendme 1t,
which allowed Kansas to come into the
Union as q Slave State.
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That Lewis D. Campbell voted foE
Dunn's Bill, which proposed to estah-
lish slavery in the terri tories ofkansas
and Nebraska.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That Lewis D. Campbell, in his Letter
to the Dayton Journal, said he would
make any reasonable sacrifice iii behalf
of Popular Sovereignty. ''a4'
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE,
That Lewis d. Campbell said at the
Paris Convention, that he would not
vote for the admission of any new State
with a pro-slavery constitution.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

nm An officer in the United States
Mint at Philadelphia says a million of
dollars in gold weigh nearly two and a
quarter tuns.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

Rg- The Chicago Times thinks tkare
isn't a man in the country that is a
match for Mr.. Douglas. But he found
a beautiful woman a couple of years ago
that consented to be a match for him.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16
rsa- The black Republicans are at Il

nmA The black Republicans are at this
time showing to the world what a beau
tiful set of hypocrites they are. Seven
or eight months since their speakers and
presses said nothing but one continual
praise of Stephen A. Douglas. Now
their tune is changed. They are wish
ing, hoping and rejoicing over what they
consider the prospect of his defeat to the
U. S. Senate. What has caused this
sudden change? Simply this: Then they
thought By patting him they could dis
tract the Democratic party. Now they
have no further use for him, and wish
to see him succeeded by a black republi-
can of the blacklist kind. An honest,
consistent black republican would be one
of the greatest c~uriosities of the present
century.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

SPIRITUALIsM.-Mrs. CARVER, of
Cincinnati, will speak in a france state,
in the Town Hall, on Monday morning
next, at Z o'clock. Admission from
gentlemen, who arc not already %contr;-
butors, ten cents. Ladies free.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-09-16

p- Recently we have added many
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through the efforts of our friends. The
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