The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-12-02


road will be recommended by the President,
to run along the Mexican frontier, of course.
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Mobile Register, an influential Admins.
tration journal, IS of opinion that Douglass
success bodies only disaster to the Democracy.
1t assumes that Douglas has it in his power to
offer the Democracy in 1860 the alternative of
accepting his platform or of defeat. "There
is" it says, ruin TO them as national party in
either horn ofthe dilemma, we believe, but there
is Generalization as well as disaster in one."
1t expresses its own preferences as follows:
" As one would prefer that the Democratic
party should be defeated in the next Presiden-
tlal election, rather than it should win success
by the smallest possible further concession to
the Anti-Slavery sentiment of the North, we
therefore prefer defeat to the adoption of Mr.
Douglas as the Democratic candidate for the
Presidency, because that involves concession
Rather than this, we say, let the Democratic
party become in its organization, as it now is
In Its essential composition, Southern section
al party, and let US stand on our constitutional
rights, ana rely on our own moral and material
resources, for the protection of rights, in the
Union, If we can--out of it, if we must"
We have little doubt that the Register ex-
presses the feelings and purposes of a large ma
jority of the South, who will dictate the action
of the next National Convention, both in its
platform and candidate.
DEMocRAr1c REPUBLICAN CLups.-The oe.
NAL and successful initiation of Democratic
Republican Association in this CITY, on Friday
evening last, inspires US with confidence that
those who have begun this work will prosecute
it to the end. A central club here, with
branches in the different counties in the State,
would at once give confidence to every man as.
ISOLATED Herewith, no matter how feeble the
manifestation might be in his own vicinage. If
we are not mistaken, it was the formation of
Jeffersonian clubs in Virginia and the South
that secured Jeferson's first election in the
House of Representatives., and thus laid the
foundation of the old dominant Republican par
ty. After the lapse of quarter of a century,
the people having become Gall Republicans and
all Federalists," the nucleus of the Democratic
party was established by the Hickory Clubs
throughout the country in 1924, and down to
JacksOn's triumphant election in 1928. His
popularity was such, that candidacy for sec.
ond term resulted as q matter of course, and
under that occupation clubs fell into disuse
Again. in the popular movement of the second
Harrison campaign, clubs did mpre to concen-
ter the popular thought and sympathy than all
other party appliances, and, under the fatal
apathy that had overtaken the opposite organi-
zation, carried the Wings into power We thus
see from the experience of the past what can
be done by such association, and as we have a
large work to achieve here in Missouri, let us at
once adopt the most available and most healthy
form Of OrUa nj finn Cluho oro H. ,,o..,-.l
organs of popular expression. Through them
let our people speak.-.S. Louis Democrat
THE PRESIDENT "SoUND."-Senator Davis in
his Jackson speech endorses President Blu
chanan, and assures the South that "he will
take no step Backwards but, on the contrary,
will move another step in advance. We never
doubted that the President would be faithful
among the faithless in the great cause of prop
agating Slavery. Mr. Davis, after referring to
his course in Kansas, the removal of Mr.. Stan
ton, and other acts, continued:
"And it gives me pleasure here to say of
him. MIR. Buchanan what / am assured / can
now say with confidence, that he will not shrink
a hairs breadth from the position he has taken,
but rM more another step az adUdnce, and fall
if fall he must, manfully upholdng these rights,
and defying the insolence of ill-gotten power"
The HIGHER LAW DOWN SoUrH.-The New
Orleans Delta is very severe upon Mr. Seward,
for his Anti-Savery notions, but is nevertheless
believer in the Higher Law. That paper says:
The South, we say, should desire the nom-
nation of just such a man as Seward. His
record of unrecanted, unvarying, radical, and
bitter hostility to every interest, principle, and
idea, deemed vital by the whole South. There
no longer any dilatory bubbles, demurrers,
rebutters, or evasive pleas. The issue is ioin-
ed, and when the controversy is thus presented,
the South may submit its case to the verdict of
the people. Should that verdict be against it,
there is an appeal to Higher Law, not the
Higher Law OF an aggressive and trescherous
fanaticism, but one recognised by the principle
and the spirit of our Republication, and Illus
trated by the glorious deeds of our ancestors
law handed down to US amid the thunders and
lightning and the thick cloud of our Revolu-
tionary struggle--the law which recognises the
right of the people, whenever any form of gov
eminent becomes destructive of its true ends,
to alter or abolish it, and to institute q new
government, laying its foundations on such
principles and organizing its powers in such
form as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness"
Mr.. Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, has be-
come a thorough-going Protectionist He is
also thorough-going Douglasite, and, putting
that and that" together, it might be inferred
that Mr.. Douglas has become Protectionist
Can this be so? What says the .&atesf The
Press of the Goth has long article intended to-
show that the Slave Power of the South can
only hold the support of the Northern Democ-
racy by being more reasonable and conciia-
tory-in other words, that Democracy cannot
afford to continue cutting its throat at the
North, for the sake of sustaining the slavehold-
ers in every sort of folly and impertinence. 1t
remarks, plainly
"The Democratic party of the North is struck
powerless for all Federal functions, and rem
dered incapable of supporting the South in its
just demands, if we are not supported by it in
the policy of fostering the industry of our people"
OFFICIAL VoTE OF ILLINoIs.-The Chicago
Press and Tribune publishes the official vote of
Illinois in the recent elections. The majorities
for Members of Congress are as follows:
First district, E. B. Washburne, Rep. 9,4l4
Second district, ]. F. Farnsworth, Rep. 1888
Third district, Owen Lovejoy, Rep. 7.443
Fourth district, William Kellogg, Rep. 2.7ll
Fifth district, Isaac N. Morris, Dem 1861
Sixth district, Thomas L. Harris, Dem 4,447
Seventh district, j. c. Robinson, Dem 1859
Eighth district, Philip B. Foulke, Dem. 1889
Ninth district, John A. Logan, Dem. Il, S47
S The aggregate votes on the Congressional
tickets were: Republican, l26,OS4; Douglas |
Democratic, l2l,s40; Buchanan Democratic,