The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-24

s. Baltimore Sun, writes that the contest tor th
next presidency will commence in earnest i'm
mediately after the meeting of congress. Th
+ republican chiefs Of the east and west have cor
certed and promulgated new and extraordinar
issues for 1860. These positions are: lst, tha
all slaveholding States shall become non slave
, holding, upon the pretense that uniformity i
: this respect Is necessary to the existence of tn
Union; Cd, that the United States suprem
court should be reorganised, so as to represen
the views of the anti slavery cliques; and, Sd
that all colors and races should be admitted t
social and civil equality. Such is the pro
gramme to be put forth by the fanatics of tn
north, and will be supported by all the freesoi
and abolition factions throughout the land
Another letter, dated some days later, says
Douglas, instead of coming here quite chop
fallen and repentant, he will be the proud re
preventative of the independent Democracy,
another new party, we suppose, and will b.
hailed by the party as its very embodiment
The result of the elections show thatin Illinois
as in very many other northern States, the de
mocracy generally favor Douglas in his resist
ance Of the presidents dictation upon the subjec
of the Lecompton constitution. Of course, al
freesoilers do so. ...... Circumstances tend very
strongly to make Mr.. Douglas the favorite can
didate for the next presidency. 1t has beer
proposed in democratic councils lately that the
northern delegates to the Charleston national
democratic convention should yield to the south
ern delegates the selection of a presidential can
didate. At present, there is no doubt that the
choice of the south would necessarily fall upon
Mr.. Douglas or governor Wise, and the former
seems to have the preference because he is
supposed to possess the greater share of avail
ability. The contest for the presidency does
not usually begin till the second congress in an
administration is opened But the commence
ment Of the struygl is now precipitated by the
Douglas feud. AS an evidence of this, it is re-
ported to-day that great Douglas paper is to
be established here, by conjunction of the
Richmond South and the Washington States
Douglas is to be put in the field at once on the
democratic side. We place the foregoing be-
fore our readers for the purpose of letting them
know how the wind blows.
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The following resolutions, introduced by
hon. J. N. Davis, are at present before the Mis-
sissippi Legislature:
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the practice of congress to admit territories in
to the Union as States, without the proper ratio
of population to enttle them to one member in
the house of representatives, Kansas should
have been admitted under the Lecompton con-
stitution and senate bill.
9. Resolved, That hereafter no new State
should be admitted until she has the necessary
population for one member in the lower house
of congress.
3. Resolved, That no person should be al
lowed to vote in the territories of the United
States except citizens either native born or nat
uralised.
4. Resolved, That the territories of the u.
States, are the common property OF all the
States, and each citizen thereof has the RIGHT
to take into the same such property as he may
desire, and be protected by law in all his rights
and immunities therein. That the doctrine
that few rowing squatters, either by their
own authority Or the authority of congress,
can pass laws prohibiting the introduction of
slaves, or any other species of property, into
said territories, is alike unconstitutional and
dangerous and in direct contraventon to the
decision of the supreme court in the bred Scott
case.
5. Whereas, at the adoption of the federal
constitution, every State which formed the
Union, save one, tolerated and practsed slave
ry; and whereas, property in slaves, is direct
ly and fully recognised by said constitution, and
also by the holy bible; therefore,
Resolved, That the institution of slavery. as
now held and practised in the southern States,
is neither legally Or morally wrong, and hence
the law of congress making the slave trade pira-
cy, should be repealed.
6. Resolved, That the governor be request
ed to forward copy of the foregoing resolu-
tons TO each OF our senators and members of
the house of representatives in congress, that
they may be spread upon their journals
Z. Resolved, That southern authors and all
southern school books should be ENCOURAGED
BY Mississippi and Mssssippians.
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The ENGLISH LABoRER.-Aceordin to some
Of the British journals, the condition of large
portion of the English laborers is truly de-
olorable. They can, with great difficulty, earn
he means of subsistence, while their social
comforts are few and far between. Various
Efforts have been made to produce change,
'ut thus far with little success The North
I'm Times published at Liverpool takes up
he subject in detail, and in the course of
article, says: ''We boast of our
bhorrenee of negro slavery; we romance, we
noralise, and we actually weep over the tales !
# African suffering, but we cannot afford 8
assing thought for the millions of white slaves {
Who constitute the masses of our laboring DO {
ula,ion. What are these in reality but mere c
minated macbines?-employed only because :
has not been possible, as yet, to discover E
theirs to supercede them. AS their employ i
lent has been the result of necessity, and not /
{ choice, the great object Of the employer has 1
cen to tax the physical endurance of the en- !