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teen Councilmen, which is a gain of one mem
Der over the number of Republicans in the
Council now going out of existence.

terday, they generally indicate IN increasing
Republican strength. Indianapolis increased
her majority under the most adverse circum-
stances Lafayette held her own under circum-
stances even worse. Delphi achieved a full
Republican victory for the first time. Fort
Wayne, very much the strongest Democratic
town in the State-the parties last year stand
ing 700 to 200-gave Republican majority
this time, electing all the Republican candidates
but Mayor and part of the Council. In Terre
Haute only the Republican strength seems to
have lost, and that is more in appearance than
in reality.
The Straight-out Americans of New jersey,
in Trenton, have formed "Native American
Association" and adopted the following plat
form
None but the American-born for office, elect
i've or appointive
An extension of the naturalization laws such
as the exigencies of the times may require.
Free schools, an open Bible, aud free speech.
Protection to American labor against foreign
pauper labor.
protective tariff to guard American in
dustry.
No church or sectarian infpence in civil
officers.
While We oppose the extension of Slavery,
we concede the right to Territories to manage
their own affairs.
No foreigner to vote until af r he shall be
two years a naturalized citizen.
WHAT Is POPULAR SovEREIGNr1? -The New
York Century, in an article on popular sover-
eighty as interpreted by Douglas and his follow
ers, forcibly exhibits the tendency of this doc
trine towards absolutism in the Executive.
Events, it says, have clearly shown that the
e Il
friends have "removed the control over in
| choate societies on our border, not from Con-
gresS 10 the people, but from the Senate to the
President, from the conservative to the Erecutioe
arm IF the Central POtcer." In proof Of this
assertion it exhibits the course of Executive in
PREVENTION in Kansas, showing how the removal
of the bar of compromise by the DOuglasites
having created civil war, it became necessary
for Mr.. Buchanan, as faithful servant of De-
mocracy, to take sides with slave owners. 1t
was impossible that the armies, the agents, and
the patronage of Democratic Executive could
be kept neutral in such contest. The Century
concludes as follows:
"The transfer of power to the Executive has
made it necessary for that large majority of the
people who do not employ slaves to choose for
itself President who will recognise the supe-
rior claims of intelligent labor, and who will
States that are about to be born into the Union.
This majority must initiate the steady and un-
compromising conduct of the slave owners,
leaving minor and local differences to be after
wards determined. Let them remember that
the slaveholding body have always subordinated
minor questions and with fOrtitude and cour-
age worthy of the highest encomiums have
pressed forward toward the grand object, the
control of the National Executive.
! A DEMOCRATIC EDITOR SPEAKING Our
/ The Logan (Ohio) Gazette says:
/ But the Federal courts which refused to
punish the murderous man stealerSo Of the South,
have not only violated law; they have outraged
our common humanity, and deserve the execra-
ton of mankind.
1 /" 1t is idle, and worse than idle for Southern
men to ask, or to hope, for permanent con-
tinuance of this state of things. If they will
not punish the remorseless villain whom the
civilized world has agreed to designate pi-
/ rate, because the language affords no word
more suggestive of the internal, the North will
cease to punish as criminals those who spit
upon the fugitive law, and who, in the name
of God, nfract and disregard its requirements.
That law was always odious to the North,
and to the whole North. 1t has been obeyed
because it has the sanction of the compact
which unites North and South, free and slave
States, in a common Government, and because
its violation might interrupt the harmony so
desirable between the two sections of the Con
federacy. But if the South will do nothing for
the enforcement of law the preservation of har
mony, and the Precipitation of a sentiment which
ought to be as native To the South as to the
North, why, then, let US henceforth bid the flu
gitive God speed on his way to Canada, and
yex no more with onerous prosecutions the
men who aid him on his perilous road"
We are obliged to look, says the Monroe N
! ~ Democrat, mainly to Southern Democratic
organs, for tlat-iooted, honest expressions as to
/ the real position of the so-called Democratic
party Here at the North, Democratic papers
devote their efforts to hoodwinking their readers
They know, as we'll as the Southern organs OF
Democratic opinion and policy, that the great
end for which that party now permits itself t.
| be used, is the strengthening of Slavery; but il
is an unwelcome truth, and selfpreservaton
leads them to disguise 4" the true state of things
! The Charleston Mercury says:
"The Democratic party exists only in the
South. 1t is no longer national party. Why
should we not accept the true state of things,
and act upon them? As party, it is South
ern party, and nothing else. Why should il
not turn its back on the North, and ACT only for
the South p"
The MASSACHUSETTS FoLLY.--The reports
received from the election in Massachusetts,
held on Monday, to decide on the adoption or
| rejection of the amendment to the Constitution
requiring naturazed citizens to reside two
! years IN the State after naturalization before
voting, indicates that the amendment has been
adopted. While We regret this unjust and un-
necessary discrimination against any class of
citizens, in State so generally liberal as Mas
Sachusetts, we have the satisfaction of knowing
that the Republicans of the whole Union have
opposed it, and that the Republicans of Massa-
chusetts have generally opposed it, 700. Every
leading Republican paper, and all in the State
but tco, have opposed it, and the strongest
statesmen and most influential leaGers of the
party have opposed it. REPUBLICANisM in Mas
sachusetts, so far as it could speak by recog-
missed organs and utterance, has denounced the
injustice But Republicanism don't rule Massa-
chusetts, except by the aid of Americanism.
| THREE parties exist in that State, and all very
nearly equal in strength. The Republicans out
number either of the others, but are very far in
ferior to the others united. On National issues,
there being nothing to divide the Republicans
and Americans, they have acted together as
one party.-Iadiand State Journal
STRANGE History OF MURDEakR.-It was
mentioned few days ago that Felix Sanchez,
| Cuban mulatto, who, in January last, killed
his fatherin-law and stabbed his wife and
mother-in law, in New York, had teen arrested
at New Orleans. The Bee informs us
she was hid away in a Spaujard's house
some fifteen days, in New York. The Spaniard
then took him to Baltimore, and, BY reason of
his naturally dark skin, managed tosell him as
negro for 5 l,400. He was subsequently