The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-21
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

We IND the following singular blunder going
the rounds of the press
Oregon has chosen the first delegates to
the National Democratic Convention. They
are A. G. Hovey, w. Warren, and Leander
Holmes. The State Convention appointing
them squatted Oh squatter sovereignty, as fol
lows:
p" While we recognise the fact that by the
Constitution the sovereignty of the Territories
is vested IN the Congress of the United States
We acknowledge as well that Congress may
delegate the exercise of that sovereignty, in
part or in whole, to the people of such Terri
tories, and are in favor of such delegation, as
far as may be consistent with the protection of
free labor and good government therein"
When this paragraph first started on its news
errand, it was couched in correct terms but
by the blunder of some editor, who thought
he knew better, Hhe word Democratic was
substituted for the word Republican," The
delegates named were appointed to the Repub
quoted was passed by a Republican State Con
vention.-Ptsdurgh Gazette.
W. l.. Yancey, one of the shining lights and
most distinguished leaders of Southern Democ
racy, gives, as his reason for being a Demo
crat, that the measures Of the Democracy are
calculated to produce disunion. There's a vol
ume Of truth in almost single line.
The Democracy, says the Richmond Wing,
want to elect their President next year-for
what, do you suppose Why, to settle the
Slavery question +" That is the cry on the ere
of erery Presidential election
The following toasts were given at public
dinner, at Columbia, S. c., on the 4th of July !:
"The Union and the Constitution and
inseparable united they stand, divided they
fall.
" Reopening the African Slave Trade-As
undesirable as it is nexpedient. Let not the
South be divided on so barren and hopeless an
issue.
The Southern Commercial Conventional
msnomer; perversion of terms. We regard
it as a humbug and a nuisance"
Mr. Rhett will ind that even in South Caro-
lima there are many who will not follow his
lead.
The elections in Tennessee North Carolina
Kentucky, and Texas, all take place early in
August.
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE To BE A UNITED STATES
SENATOR. - Private accounts from Kentucky
represent that the election of Mr.. Breckenridge
to the Senate of the United States is almost
positively certain to occur. On the 4th of
March, 1861, the singular spectacle will be wit
messed, of the Vice President descending from
the chair to the floor of the Senate.
The New Orleans Picayune says it is not
" singular in the sense that it has never hap
pened before. During the great tariff struggle
of 1884, Mr.. Calhoun, then Vice Presi-
dent of the United States was elected to the
United States Senate from the State of South
Carolina, to succeed Robert Y. Hayne, elected
Governor, and resigned the Vice Presidency to
accept the senator!shhiiP.
The Holly Springs Democrat thus delivers
itself:
Eve ape in, heart and hand, for the repeal
of the laws of Congress interdcting the trade,
and we not afraid to see the question agi.
tated but we are for the measure, not as Dem
Qcrat, but as a Southern man and hence zoe
$hsutd be opposed 20 seeing 1t made a party test
medsnFe nevertheless, if there be patty il the
South DESTROYS of stalking its fortunes upon an
active opposition to this measure, let that par.
ty make the issue; and we are miataken, If ten
years will not bury such party so low that the
resurrection trump can never reach it. Slave
labor is needed to develop the resources of the
South but it is so dear that the poor can never
hope to obtain it until there is more abundant
supply; and hence the people will be in for a
supply of it from Africa as soon as they see TIA
subject in its true colors, lei tie man sbfo d
aspiring 10 Iittgre fGnots nde place hsmself IN
Imposition to This tmed$hre." = ," e. "'"