Daily national Democrat., 1859-11-02
The Anti-Donrlas COuntles.


Occasional" writes to Forneys Press from
Washington, as follows:
The Constitution, of this morning, gleeful-
ly parades the following paragraph;
DoUGLAs IN MIssIssIPPI.-The Oxford Mer.
curry says the Democracy of Noxubee county
recently passed this resolution:
Resotged, That, while we have hitherto abided
by the usages and supported the nominees of the
Democratic party of Mississippi we deem it not
improper to declare that, should the Hon. Stephen
A. Douglas be the the nominee of the Charleston
Convention as candidate for tie Presidency, in
view OF his position upon the question of slavery
him."
Inc same paper says meeting was recent
ly held in Oktibbeha county-a large Demo
cratic meeting-at which the following reso.
luton was adopted:
ResolCed, That we repudate with Ioathing
and contempt the odious doctrine recently
promulgated by Stephen A. Douglas-that a
Southerner can be deprived of his property in the
Territories by the operation of unriendly terrific
rial legislation"
Similar expressions of sentiment are occa
sionally made in other quarters of the South,
but they are nearly always promptly CON
demned by many Southern journals The
Presidential organ, however, which IS re-
markably ready to read out of the party all
Northern Democrats who do not bow implic-
lilly to the DEGREES of Administration conven.
tions, has no word of censure for the threats
Of fragrant "disorganization" contained in
such exhibitions of anti-Douglas feeling as
we have quoted above In fact, it admires
and approves of all disorganizing movements
directed against the great popular feeling
now pervading the Democracy of the whole
country. As "NoXubee" and "Oktibbeha'
counties are determined not to vote for Mr..
Douglas, whether he is the nominee of the
Charleston Convention or not it may be of
some importance to inquire whether their
political aid is absolutely Indispensable and
whether in case they secede from the Demo-
cratic party there would be possibility of
its continued existence. For myself, l am
half inclined to entertain the heretical idea
that the Northern Democracy have been
frightened most too often and too fatally by
few wordy threats from such districts as
Noxubee and Oktibbeha. If all the great
States of the Northwest, New England, New
York, New Jersey. and Pennsylvania, with
their teeming population Of nearly twenty
millions. their millions of Democratic voters,
and their excellent prospects of regaining
their political ascendancy if their wishes are
respected. happen to prefer Judge Douglas
as their Presidential nominee, am scarcely
prepared to admit that their prefer ence
should be surrendered in Difference to the
factious feelings of few insignificant coun
ties in Mississippi. Curious to see HOW many
votes Mr.. Douglas would lose by the refusal
of Noxubee and Oktibbeha counties to vote
for him, | referred to the election returns and
found that the former, in 1851, polled 597
votes for Governor Foote, Union candidate
for Governor, and Ss4 for Hon jefferson Da.
Wis. Southern extremist, and that, in the same
contest, Oktibbeha cast 346 votes for Gov.
Foote and 493 for Hon. Jefferson Davis
Neither of these counties, therefore, contains
as many voters as good sized Pennsylvania
township. or some of the precincts of your
city. Combined, they have less than 1000
votes, of all political opinions, and when Gov.
Foote (who is now warm advocate of the
election of Senator Douglas to the Presiden-
cyl canvassed them against G en-. Davis, the
very Ajax of the extreme Southern movement.
the latter was beaten by &C majority.