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=. Lord Macaulcy and Marlborough B.
The Luck of Ladysmedc. Part iv. t. War
Spcculations. 5. The Scigc of Plymouth.
g. The New Parliament and its Work Z.
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JUDGE DOUGLAS AND THE Presidency
WAsHINGroS, Junc.-Thc friends of Judge
Douglas arc in receipt of the following let
ter, explaining his position in regard to the
Presidency:
WAsHTNGToN, Juno %, 1S59-My Dear
Sr:-I have received your letter, inuuirinr
whether my friends arc at liberty to present
my name 30 tic Charleston Convention. for
| nj IN II n
question can be finally determined, it
| will be necessary to understand distinctly
upon what issues tho canvass is to be con.
ducted IT, rs have full faith they will, the
Democratic party shall determine, in the
Presidential election of 1850, to adhere to
the principles embraced in the Compromise
Measures of 1910; and ratified by the pco-
pie in the, election of 1852; and reaffrmcd
in the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 and in.
corporatcd into the Cincinnati Platform OF
1856; as cxpounded by Mr.. buchanan in
his letter accepting the nomination and ap.
proved by the people in his olcction-in that
event, my friends will be at liberty to present
my name to tho convention, if they see prop
or to do so.
If. on the contrary, ii shall become tho
policy of the Democratic party, (Which can
not anticipato,) to ropudiate these, Their
time-honorcd principles, on which we have
uchicFcu 80 many patrlotlc triumpcs, and ir
lieu Of them, the Convention shall inferno
late into the creed OF the party such new is
sues as the revival of tho African Slay,
Trade; or n Congressional slave code for thu
territories; or the doctrine that the Constitu
tion of the United States either cstablishc
or prohibits slavery in tho territories, bcyon,
the power of tho people legally to control i
as otbor propcrty-it is due to candor to say
that in such an event could not accept tn
nomination, if rendered to me.
Trusting that this answer will be dcemcc
sufficiently explicit.
am, very respectfully. your friend.
S. A. DOUGLAS.
To j. B. Dow, Esq, Dubuque, Iowa
TRoTrINc MArcu-Princess beat Flori
: Temple in the trottng match at New Yorl
on Thursday last, in two straight two mill
heats. Time--5:0l--5:02.
MARSHAL McMAHoN.-Ireland holds he
own, as tho "most fighting nation" undc
tho sun. Mcmahon, the hero of Maoent
as well as of the Malakoif, is descended from
an iIlustrous Irish family, that was banishc
after the battle of Boync, on account of 1t
adherence to the cause Of the Stuarts.