Litchfield enquirer., 1859-06-30
Jbs 4ittbdao Gnqlllter
rHURspAY. JUNE 50, 1859.

fEe The present indications are that the demo- cratic candidate for the Presidency in 1860 will be again taken from the northern states, the impress sion being very general at the south that no man from southern state prevent the success of a ..13tack Republican" The two most prominent men for the nomination of the Charleston Convcn- tion, in our opinion, are Daniel s. Dickinson and Stephen A. Douglas. Mfr Dickinson is in danger of being defeated in the nomination by the indiscretion of his hard' friends in New York, and the recent gathering of few of his most prominent supporters at the Astor House has not tended to conciate the 'soft portion of the party who since the death of MT. Marcy are under the lead of Gov. Seymour i; and unless the breach in the democracy of the En- pire state can be so far healed as to reconcile the < majority to the nomination of MT. Dickinson, he must fail. But it is evident that Mr. D. is the only man in that state upon whom the democracy of the south can unite. Gov. Seymour is a clever fellow, but his record is not entirely clear, and he is not considered outside of New York as at all formidable. Unless therefore New York can present to the con- vention the name Of MT. Dickinson, the candidate will be taken from another state. Gov Jones ofTen- nessee, sagacous politician, has taken ground for Mir. Douglas, as the only man who can unite suffi- Ycent strength to defeat the Republican candidate, and we shall notbe surprised if the administration party to- be yet driven into the support of the Little Giant Meanwhile Mir. D. has defined his position in the following letter to of his friends t8'Al5 WASHINGTON. June 22.
 My Dear Sir have received your letter inquiring whether my friends are al liberty 10 present my name to the Charleston Convention for the PrrsidentIal Nomination. Before the question can be finally de- termned il will be to understand distinctly upon what issues lhe canvass IS 10 be condncted
 Ii. as have ui tah they will. lbe Democratic par ty sha Il determine in the Presidential election in l560 adhere 10 he princptes embodied m ihe Comprom- ise measures o 1850 and raltd by the people in the Presidential election of 1852, and reafrned in the Kansas Nebraska act of 1854, and incorporated info the Cincinnati platform in iSj6 as expounded by Mir. Buchanan in his letter accepting the nonna,ion, and approved by the people in that event, my friends will be at liberty represent ny name 10 the Convenient it they see propor to do 90.
 If on the contrary, ii should become the policy of the Democratic pariy-which cannot ant,cpate-to repudiae these, Their time honered principles which we have achieved so many patriotic triumphs, ami m lieu of them the Convention shall inerp Hate into the creed of the party such issues as the revival o the African Slave Trade Congressional slave cole for the territories, he doctrine that the Constltu tion o the United States either establishes proh bs slavery in the Territories beyond the power of the pie legally 10 control as other property t IS due to andor to say that in spch event could not accept tbe nomination if tender ed 10 me.
 Trusting that this answer will he deemed sufficient 1y explicit, am, very respectfully, your friend,
 s. A. DOUGLAS. cTs J Dorr, Esq, Dubuque, Io,ca