Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23


81 CO zGREGs.
No organization yet. Up TO Wednesday
evening there had been seventeen ballots
the last standing Sherman LOG, Millson Sc,
Gilmer 6, Ethridge :, scattering IL; number of
votes necessary to elect ia. On several pre-
vieus ballots Mr.. Sherman had come within
four votes of an election, and on one only lack
ed three. Becoek declined early this week,
as did also Boteler, who had been run as the
South American candidate after Gilner decli-
ned. For a number OF balIotings the Demo
cracy failed TO concentrate their strength on
any candidate, but when Boteler declined in ia
vor Of Nilsson, they again united on him. Mill
son is a Virginia Democrat, but voted against
the Nebraska bill. The final result is doubt
full. The Republicans stick firmly to Sherman
while some of the South Americans show a
disposition to go over to MilEson. If they al
do so, and a few of the anti-Leeompton Demo
Gratis give him their votes he may be elected
There has been the usual amount of disun-
ion speeches from the Southern Democratic
members, some two or three of whom were if
possible more ~insolent in manner and violent
in. language than any that had preceded them.
Still there were some slight CLEANS of return
ing sense-severaI of them having aeknowf
edged they would not regard the mere election
of a Republican President sufficient to justify
a secession from the Union, they would wait
for some overt act a waiting which would be
of long continuance, for there would be no
likelihood of a Republican President or a Re
publican Congress committing any overt act
against their region or in any way infringing
upon their constitutional rights. a2a 20 Ina
En- the Sen ate nothing Of any Importance
has transpired since the close Of the debate on
Mason's resolution for the appointment of the
investigating eJmnInraittse q The committee con-
sists of Messrs. Mason, Davis, Cofiamer, Fitch,
and Doolittle. - +
UNION SAVING.
Union meetings are now the order of the
day in the Eastern commercial cities, and
large ones have recently been held in
Boston, Philadelphia and New York-that in
the latter city nominating Gen. WINFIELD
Scorr fr the Presidency. In Boston and
Philadelphia the Garrisonian Abolitionists
had previously held meetings for the pur-
pose of expressing sympathy for Brown, that
at Philadelphia being attended by an exceed
ingiy riotous demonstration on the part of a
large and excited ,concourse of those opposed
to the objects of the meeting. on the outside
of the Hall, which had been called for the pur-
pose of breaking up the meeting to be held
within; but the outsiders did not succeed in
their object In New York the union meet
ing was followedlb by one of the same character
as those held in the other cities, at which
Wende II Phillips delivered a Still more bitter
and ultra speech than that he uttered a few
weeks since in Brooklyn. There was also, as
in Philadelphia, a large body of men present
for the purpose Of breaking. up. the meeting,
and a great deal of disturbance was the resnlt
but though the first speaker, Rev. Dir. Chez
yer, was silenced by the groans,' Kisses, &c,
Phillips persevered and finished his speech, He
seems to have a happy faculty of getting along
under such circumstances, ami is evidently not
easily to be put down in that way.
These union demonstrations are got up and
conducted by the mercantile classes, these
who fear that their southern trade will suff,r
and are alarmed at the threats of non-inter
course which reach them from that section OF
, the country. True there are no disunionists
at the Nerthssave AMI ekeeptePhiAips, CARR
son and their few followers, but still these
meetings are. held to show the Southern peo-
pie that Boston, New York and Philadelphia
merchants are not only loyal to the Union but
ready and willing 20 accede to an7 demands
the slavery-propasandists may be pleased to
make upon them-nay, they are even willing
to go beyond What is asked of them and glori
fly slavery, which not even the .fre-eaters, much
less, reasonable southern men either ask or ex.
pect of them. While these demonstrations are
going on Southern members of Congress are
characterizing them as hyporcitical declara-
tions made for the purpose of hoodwinkine
ami deceiving, and many of the southern pa
pers denounce and ridicule them.