Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-10

I POLITICAL-Ihe Washington Union says il il
clear that the next House of Representatives il
lost to those "who support the national platform
and endorse the action Of Congress last Winter
on the Kanzss question" 1t adds;
1--WE fear there will be majority Of the oppo.
sitien, even exclusive of such men as Thomas
L. Harris Of Illinois. and Horace F. Clark oil
! New York The question, however, is Of little
| practical importance for if the Democracy shall
have control ofthe House only by the aid of such
Democrats as the gentlemen we have mentioned,
its tenure will be a slender aud uncertain one
indeed"
The Union asserts that an anti Lincoln major.
ity in the Illinois Legislature is not the same as
Douglas majority, on the strength of letter
from wel-infOrmed correspondent in Illinois.
who wrote the day before election:
II have Just returned from trip through the
State l find that there are hosts Of good Dem
ocrats who will vote for Douglas candidates to
beat Lincoln, although they have 10 confidence
in the Little Giant The election returns will
not therefore give very good indication of his
strength. 1t was the impression among leading
Democrats at Springfield that Douglas will not
under any circumstances, be returned, even
though his friends BIS in apparent majority in the
Legislature. They believe that among them will
be found a sufficient number OF members elected
to beat Lincoln, who will refuse to vote for
Douglas, and thus prevent the election of eth.
en-"
The tone of portion Of the late speech Olsen.
ator Hammond, at Barnwell, in South Car
olina, indicates that there is germ of discomfort
growing up at the South. against the odieus doc
trne Of ultra pro-slaveryism which has hereto.
fore obtained there. 1t is also evident that eff
forts are to be made, there, in the utter helpless
ness of the South m oup rlatF,rr, ~ 49,.
heretofore pursued, to take advantage of the an.
ticipaled rising popularity of Senator Douglas, to
make use Of him as a rallying point to construct
under his lead new national" Demo cratic par.
~ of more moderate pro slavery bias than that on
which Mr. Buchanan has been wrecked,
The famous Lawrence Nj Kett Of South
Carolina, who appears to be true blue Buehan-
an man. out and on, is greatly exercised by the
prevalence of Douglas doctrines among the
Northern Democracy, and threatens disunion if
kanzas is admitted contrary to the English bill !:
"If Kanzas is now thrust into the Union as a
Tree State, against and over the provisions of the
conference bill-if the South is to be outraged BY
seeing this territory, with its rebelliOus and ma.
rAuding population and its licentious and anarch-
lcal agtstions lassoed and dragged into the fed
eral slsterhood in defiance OF law and right and
justice, and pledged f4ith-then she must tear
asunder party ties, and take her safety into her
own hands. The fulfllment Of the bond the
South must and will exact. and any violation Of
1t must be followed by retrbution." y
The Charleston Mercury thus speaks of the
abandonment Of the issue of the English Kanzas
bill by the Northern members of Congress who
supported it last Spring and Summer, since they
came home and asked reelection of their constit-
uents: rs- @YH
Tho other half--being mese fraction Of the
North, represented By some "a or 80 members of
the House of Representatives, and half dozen in
the Senate-were supposed to be sound. They
we're bepraised in the South as gold purified
martyrs ready for tina stake-angels in their holt
ness, dauntlessness, and purity, clothed in the
white garments of the Democratic faith They
go back to the people armed with truth, the
whole power of the administration, and the
great issues OF the Union to support them. Alas !
they DID not even make fight. They went down
on their knees at the first shout of abolitionism
and crawled and prayed for pardon and mercy
with abundant promises OF future atonement
They forthwith, as one man, from Maine to Kan
zas, gave up the Kanzas Conference act and
pledged themselves TO vote for its violation on
the lrst motion oftbe aboltionists in Congress-
Hon E. B. Washburne is reelected to Com
gress from the LIST (Northwestern) District OF H.
linois, BY the comfortable majority of $500 We
believe this is the largest majotity given or to be
given, for any member Of the next House, of any
party in any district of the entire Union. The
hon. John F Farnsworth, in the Chicago Dis
trict. is very likely to have the largest maj GRITTY
next to MIR. Washhurne
Several hundred Republicans in Lowell voted
openly for B. F. Butler for Senator, and secured
his election; while equal number contributed
to the same result by not voting against him.
He had over l7Q0 votes for Senator in the same
towns that gave him less than 1900 for member
of Congress. The Republican candidate for Sem
ator against him was accounted weak and unpop-
ular. 43s t7a r-aea saa
General H. K. Oliver has received the Repub.
lican nomination for Mayor of Lawrence