The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-09-02
Political NeWs-HOme and Abroad.

the Democratic State Convention of Wis
consin, after a session of two days:
For Governor-H. C. HOBART, of Calumet
County.
Lieut.. Governor-A. s. PALMER, of walworth
County.
Secretary Of state-A. B. ALDEN, of Colum.
bia County.
Treasurer-LYoN sILvERMANN., of Ozaukee
County.
Attorney General-sAMUEL CRAWFORD, of
Dane County.
Bank COMPTROLLER. C. SQUIREs, of Iowa
County.
State Prison CONN.,. C. FLICK, of Dodge
County.
Superintendent Pub. Ins.-L. C. DRAPER, of
Dane County.
A COMMITTEE from the Ashland Club of
Brooklyn, New York, waited upon the Hon.
JOHN MINOR Boris, at his rooms at the
Astor House, last Tuesday evening, to
inquire into his views on public questions,
and especially with reference to the next
Presidency. Mr.. Boris replied very frankly,
and said, if nominated by the United Oppo-
sition, he would accept.
The public dinner given by the citizens
of Warren county, Georgia, to their distin-
guished Representative in Congress, Hon
A. H. STEVENS, was attended by about one
thousand persons. Mr.. STEPHENS, although
in very i'll health, made speech of about
forty minutes duration. He came near
fainting toward the close, and was obliged
to stop. His speech was moderate and con-
sentative. He made no allusion to the
African slave trade. Senator TooMBs was
present, and delivered speech that was
also moderate in its tone.
The Detroit Tribune says the w. H.
Seward is the first choice of Michigan for
President, and has been for the last two
Presidential contests. The Milwaukee Sen.
tinel, another Republican sheet, says that
Wisconsin shares in this sentiment, and will
gladly give her electoral vote to Senator
Seward in 1860, las the ablest statesman
of the day."
No doubt this is the programme, but its
advocacy ir the more populous States of
the North would defeat the election of any
Opposition candidate II Seward is the
man for Michigan and Wisconsin, prominent
men of the Northern Opposition say he is
not the man for New York, New Jersey,
Delaware, Massachusetts,, Pennsylvania, nor
for at least fifteen other States of this
Union; because, they add, there can be no
concentration of the Opposition strength
upon charlottesville (Opp.) Journal.
That Infamous proscriptive proposition
recently adopted by the Black Republicans
of Massachusetts, and thus incorporated
into their Constitution, is as follows:
mo PERSON OF FOREIGN BIRTH SHALL
BE ENTITLED TO VOTE, NOR SHALL BE
ELIGIBLE TO OFFICE, UNLESS HE SHALL
HAVE RESIDED WITHIN THE JURISDIC-
TON OF THE STATE FOR TWO YEARS
SUBSEQUENT TO HIS NATURALIZATION,
and shall be otherwise qualified according to
the Constitution and laws of the Common.
wealth."
This the Republican doctrine in regard to
adopted citizens. A runaway slave can
vote just as soon as native white man, but
an Irishman, German, or other foreign
born citizen, is insulted and degraded below
the slave. Such is Black Republicanism.
The Black Republicans in Kansas are
not going along very smoothly. The ap.
portioLment, the grouping of counties, and
other questions, are causing trouble in the
camp The Mr.. EWING mentioned in the
annexed paragraph, is son of the Hon.
THOMAS EWING, of Ohio, Secretary of the
Treasury under President HARRISON, and
also in the first short-lived cabinet of Presi.
dent TYLER:
zone of the chief lights of the Republicans
| in Kansas, Mr.. Thomas Ewing, Jr., in a speech
at Lawrence, on Wednesday week, came out
| strongly against the new constitution. He said
| he favored the annextion of southern Ne
braska, and opposed the scheme of curtaiing
| our western boundary. He also expressed his
| dissatisfaction with the apportionment; he
thought the grouping together of counties was
unfair and unjust"
The Ohio democrats are in fine spirits
and have good hopes that the State will go
democratic next year. The liberal platform
laid down by the last State Convention.
meets with universal favor. The Republi.
cans of Ohio made grand mistake when
they refused to renominate Judge Swan for
the Supreme Bench on account of his ad-
verse opinion in the Oberlin Rescue case,
They see and feel their error, now that it is
too late to mend it, and know that thereby
their party strength has been greatly weak
ened. This democrats, on the contrary, are
in the best of spirits and full of hope.
The recent Democratic State Convention
of Wisconsin adopted, among others, the
following resolutions
Resolved, That the organized territories of the
| United States are justly entitled to the right of
selfgovernment and the Hndisturbed regulation
| of their local and domestic affairs, subject only
| to the Constitution Of the United States and
| that we adhere to the principles embodied in
| the compromise measures of 1850, ratified in
| Presidential election of 1852. re-affrmed in the
| Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 and incorpora.
| ted into the Cincinnati Platform, as expounded
by Mr.. Buchanan in his letter of election.
| Resolued, That we are opposed to interpola.
! ting into the creed of the Democratic platform
such new issues as the revival of the African
| slave trade or Congressional slave code for
tuition of the United States establishes or pro.
hibts slavery in the Territories beyond the
people legally to control it.
RESOLVED, That we affirm the absolute sover-
| eighty of the States of this Union respecting
| their domestic institutions, and that the general
government is one of delegated powers !; and
that we assert the perfect compatibility of the