The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-23
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

MARYLAND DEAD TO THE SoUTH-The Nor
fol !SoutherH 1rgus is thoroughly disgusted
with Maryland Referring to the recent abor-
tive Shareholders Convention, it saws:
We'll, the Maryanders, after having grand
and imposing Convention on the subject have
decided to do nothing in regard to the i'm
mense and still increasing free negro popula-
ton of the State. With the incubus of74,783
free blacks against 90,368 slaves in the State,
they have determined substantially to let the
matter rest. Of course, the people of Mary
land have the right to settle the question for
themselves; but 1t Is easy to see that the ten
dency of their policy will be to wipe out Slave
~ from among them, at a comparatively early
day. We shall soon cease to regard Maryland
as slave State practically. Politically, she
has been dead to the South for a long time
pas"
The Two YEARS AMENDMENT.-The follow
ing resolution, adopted at large meeting of
German citizens, (says the Valparaiso Re
puJIican,) held at Indianapolis on the 10th of
Nav, hits the Mulatto Democracy, who have
been so deeply sympathizing with our adopted
citizens, square in the face:
Resoloed, That we will not permit the Dem
ocrats to blame the Republican party for the
Massachusetts, folly; at least, not before the
Democrats themselves will consent to hold their
party responsible for similar enactment
IA the Democratic State of South Carolina; and
that We regard their professions of friendship
for the naturaiZed citizens as an insult offered
to the common sense of the adopted citizens"
xAs.-Notwithstanding Senator Sam Hous-
toms vowed determination to retire from the
public service, he has at last consented to ac-
cept the nomination for Governor of Texas,
rendered to him by the Independent" Con
yention as will be seen from the following
letter, published in the Austin (Texas) LntelH-
gencer
INDEPENDENCE, June 6, 1859.
DEAR SIR: On yesterday 1 yielded my own
inclination to the wishes of my friends, and
concluded, if elected, to serve the people as the
Executive of the State. The Constitution and
the Union embraces the principle by which |
will be governed, if elected. They comprehend
all the old Jackson National Democracy ever
professed or officially practced.
SAM HoUsToN
Geo,ge W. Pdsclal, Esq.
GERMAN NATIONAL CONVENTION. Ger
man National Convention met, a few days since,
at Cleveland, Ohio. The purpose of this Con
vention, set forth in its call, was to take into
consideration the propriety of organizing sep
arate political party. About Us delegates were
present composed of both Republicans and
Democrats, from Massachusetts, New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania New Jersey and Illinois.
The German press had generally spoken against
the Convention, viewing it as unnecessary and
uncalled for, and this fact accounts for the
smallness of the attendance. After a harmO-
NOUS session, in which the whole subject
fully discussed, it adjourned SINE die, without
taking any steps toward the end for which the
Convention was called.
VERMONT PoLITICs.-B Burlington, w., June
1.-THE Democratic State Convention assem-
bled here Yesterday, and was quite largely at
tended. The following State nominations were
made For Governor John q. Sake of Bur
hngton for Lieut.. Governor, Stephen Thomas,
of West Fairlee for State Treasurer, James
L. Thurston, of Montpelier
For delegates to the National Convention at
Charleston, the following were chosen: John
l. Robinson, of Bennington Henry Keys, of
Newbury Jasper Rand, of Berkshire E. M.
Brown, of Woodstock. For substitutes Hen
stone; W. w. White, of st. Adams and Eras-
tus Plimpton, of Wadesboro'- all Douglas men.
1t is said that the Secretary of War has re-
turned from Virginia, and is quite i'll. His
health has been declining for several months,
and unless an Improvement soon takes place,
his retirement from the Cabinet may become
necessary. In that event, it is expected that
Charles j. Faulkner, of Virginia, will be ap-
pointed to the vacancy.
A writer in the Charleston Mercury says,
that at that place, in 1860, " the South must
either determine to keep out of the Convention,
and elsewhere nominate a candidate OF its own,
or to swallow Douglass squatter sovereignty
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Now, the question arises, which of these three
alternatives will be adopted?
The New York Ne,os is of the opinion that
Daniel S. Dickinson will be gratefully remem
bered, "when your Seward, and all other trick
sters are dead and forgotten" An admirable
critic, who reviewed Polok's Course of Time,
when that poem was the rage, declared that
the author would be remembered when Byron
and Moore were forgotten. "Yes," was the
answer but not till then."-Pror. Journal.
HE HARDs AND THE SOFTs.-We see it
stated in some of the papers, says the New
ork Herald, that thirty-six of the Democratic
Journals If this State are on the side of the
lizards against the Softs, and in favor of the ap-
pointment of the Charleston delegates by Con-
gressiona districts, and of the selection of Hon.
Daniei ). Dickinson as the candidate for Presi-
oent. How many papers the Softs can muster
on the side of Horatio Seymour we are unable
10 say, but presume the strength in this respect
Is about equally divided between the two fac
tons But the Softs hold the State, and they
will not lose the hold they have upon the wires
merely by being requested to do so, and it is
not natural that they should. The fight is still
going on, and the Black Republican journals
are anxious to witness the result.
PLATFORM OF THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
IN hrSrucKY:-Hon. Beriah Magoffin, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor in Kentucky. in
aspeech delivered i'm Mayfeld ON the 24th ult..
eook the occasion to define his position on the
question OF Slavery in the Territories. por-
I,on OF the Kentucky Democracy have taken a
aecided stand in favor of squatter sovereignty
Mr. Magofhn, in effect, said
mat Congress has the power to protect,
whist 1t cannot prohibit, Slavery in the Terri
tores; that the Territorial Legislature, as its
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