The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-09-08
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

the recently elected successor OF the Hon. Eli
s. Shorter, to Congress, from the second dis
trict of Alabama, while addressing the people
of Lowndes county, being Intercepted as to his
probable support Of Judge Douglas, should he
be the nominee of the Charleston Convention,
is reported to have answered promptly as fol-
lows:
He repudiated Stephen A. Douglas and his
odious doctrines-his squatter sovereignty--his
Territorial policy-his construction of the Gin
cinnati platform, and the whole string of his
vile teachings. Being asked if he would sup
port Douglas under the Charleston Convention,
he said emphatically, No, would not support
Stephen A. Douglas, if he was nominated on
my own PLATFORM He said that he regarded
Douglas as a corrupt man, and unworthy of the
support of true patriots, nc matter what plat
form he might run on, o. what promise he
might make. If Douglas should receive the
nomination of the Charleston Convention, he
advised that we nominate. separate ticket,
and appoint our best men as electors, and beat
him. He advised Southern Rights Democrats
TO go to the Charleston Contention, and demand
the endorsement of the Cincinnati platform, the
reputation of squatter sovereignty, the pro-
lection ofslave property in the Territories and
the recognition of all the rights claimed by the
South. If the Southern members could not
that they should then quit the concern and
come home. He desired to make one more eff
fort to preserve the Union on principle, but had
very little confidence in the success of the eff
fort. If it failed, then he wanted the South to
be united as one man, and burst the unholy
bands and take an independent position out of
the Union. By this step, tae South could lose
nothing, having the resoer ces and power to
control the manufacturing and commercial in
terests OF. the world
The Montgomery (Ala.) -Adrertisey'. arraigns
a contemporary called the Confederation, in the
following style, for showing readiness to sup
port Mr.. Douglas, in the e ent of his nomina-
ton
The Confederation sa rs that it does not
favor the claims of Judge Douglas for nominal
ton at Charleston Whit is the difference
between favoring his clai Nor the nomination,
and giving an assurance peforehand that you
will support him, if nominated There is vir-
tualy none. To all intents and purposes, they
are the same. The most ardent friend of
Douglas could ask nothing more. The most
Jealous wire worker for his nomination could
ask nothing more. Douglas himself could ask
nothing more. The Er;gefeld Advertiser,
which is universally set gown as a Douglas
paper, and in whose advocacy Douglas and his
Northern faction are triumphing, goes no
further. That is all they demaud-that you
will consent to support him, If nominated. They
will attend to the rest. They only want to know
that the South will submit quietly to the letters,
and they stand ready to bind them upon her
limbs.
"Again, suppose that the Alabama delegates,
having withdrawn from the Convention, should
unite with other delegates :rom the South, and
nominate candidate of their own, in opposi-
ton to the candidate of { e Convention, will
you support the Southern = ndidate?
Face the music, 'Conestogas and answer
the questions put to YOU.
Hon. H. WINTER DAvrs.-At a second meet.
ing of the American Delegate Convention in
the fourth Congressional district of Maryland,
the Hon. II. Winter Davis was renominated for
Congress by vote of 35 to, Is over Mr.. Yelott.
New JERSEY POLIrIcs.-E Everybody under
stands, of course that in his efforts to secure
Democratic victory in New Jersey, by div-
ding the Opposition forces Commodore Stock
ton is actuated by sens Of gratitude to an
Administration which was ind enough to con-
fer upon his son that YER desirable sinecure,
the mission to Rome.
Gratitude is very re- Etable emotion, and
in this case. We suggese, however, that the
Commodore moderate his denunciations of the
Republican party and of Republcanism, as such
denunciations may lead 10 the unpleasant pub
LEGATION of some of the letters he wrote last
winter to Republican Sepa;ors, when his sons
nomination as Minister to Rome pending
before them.-Repu6iic.
PoLIr1cs IN UTAH-Th 7" Genties " in Utah
Aax, Aal1 a
the polygamy, the union of church and State,
and other institutions of.sMormonism. They
made the following nominations
For Delegate to Congress, DIR. Garland Hart
for the Legislature, Com cilmen William II.
Lent and John Bigler; representatives., :. C.
Mills, J. NJ. Wallace, aed C. w. Croker;
Sheriff, o. P. Thomas.
DESCRIBING PoLIrrcs.--Several citizens of
Kent county, Nd, including Senator Pearce,
George Fickers, ESQ.,, ard other gentlemen
well known as Old Line Waigs, Democrats, and
Americans, have addresse] letter to Judge
Carmichael, requesting him to become n can
didate for Circuit Judge IL the seventh judicial
district, irrespective OF Az party nomination.
Judge c., in response COT Sents to be a candi-
date. He now holds the ostion of Judge by
virtue of an appointment oom Gov. Hicks.
from New York that Douglas, amongst his
other schemes, meditstes proposing at the next
SESSION of Congress to divide the State of Texas
into four Territorial diviaions, to be admitted
each into the Union as ION as filled up with
the adequate population 1roximately emitting
to Representative Wkether or not two of
these would become Free ,oil, or all Pro Slave
~, will depend upon the kind of emigration,
which of course is greaf Y influenced by the
protection and encouragement afforded. In
the northern counties Of Texas, there are al
ready large settlements Of anti-S Slavery inhabit-
ants. These may constitute the nucleus for
emigrant aid efforts as lie Kansas. In Wood
coanty, there has been, within two years, a
rank Abolition paper published weekly for a
length of time, though fhe publisher was at
last notified to leave. The compromise of 1850
left this an open question, and what Seward
hopes we have lately had secession to point out.
With the principle of SOU liter sovereignty and
the omnipotent majority, esho could venture to
predict the result The sDred Scott decision
must be made to override figher law Charles
ton Mercury. /.
New JERSEY PoLITIC = Trenton, ". j.,
Sept 1.-THE nominations of the Hon. Peter j .
Clark, of Hunterdon, for Governor, a gentleman
of high character, by the american Convention
of Camden, yesterday, Grated considerable of
a sensation in political ciscles here.
The Republicans of tn fourteenth Congress
sional district of Ohio hay. nominated the Hon.
Harrison G. Blake, of Eadina, to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of the Hon. Cyrus
Sphinx, of Wayne. The nomination was unani-
mously confirmed by the Convention, and the
candidates for nominatita made enthusiastic
speeches, pledging their 5earty support to the
nominee.