New-York daily tribune., 1859-05-17
POLITICAL.

contract sas to perform ar official duty in certifying
10 tie Government tia; the sursties be
Irving AID Thomas +. Foster we're responsible men.
5. nator Iverson 81 Georgia, whose term expires
in ls6I Lac written l,ti,F in which he takes occa-
sion 10 say "tbat nothing woul b. more gratifying
to Ire than renewal q the cld lence AMI vors Of
ny political ll nds which expressed in Ry f1rncr
election" particularly an ASSURANCE "that the
sentiments uttered BY on recen. occasion IN the
Senate, upon the sutj-c Of southern Rights, reolns
and remedies ore the sentiments oi u1j Iri,y of the
people of ny naiiye State.
The Hon. l. y. Davis Of Pamela Comfy IS making
speeches North Mississippi in favor of the rsoPenins
OF the African save-rade. |, was this Mr.. Davis Who
Introduced the State Senate, during the a-t -e--
sion Of the Legislature, sees Of resolutions, one of
which related to the snhjec: Of the African slave
! trade.
john Mitcher- Southern Cai-ea is glad 70 per-
ceiye that The y. Y Da.iy Mrs, though an Admins
iraon paper has open s columns to DISCUSSION on
'tfe infamous traflic-onr most excellent and picu'
/ precy True, the articles carefully stated TO
/ be BY Southern Statesman, bu. they are printed
/ with editorial Donors"
Tie cav ass betwr. D The Hon. j. ID. e. Atkins AMI
The Hon. Emerson EtheIiige, for seat in Congress
/ from the IXth District Of Tennessee, commences
! to-day at Paris. They have published long
li-t OF appointments extending 10 the Is, Of July
Atkins was the member from that District in the last
/ Copgres- and defeated Etheridee, who was his lm
! mediate predecessor.
The municipal election at Cumberland Nj, on
! the gth inst, resulted in The success of ID. w. Ne
Cleary the American candidate for Mayor by % ma
iorty. His majority lat year was l3 The Council
men elected are Horace Resley, DR.. {. ii. Ohr,
Samuel Luman, Jesse Korhs ard a. j. Ryland, Amer-
cans: and j. B. Wiiencr, Democrat. The Council
las year stood five Democrats and one American.
TIE Aan A,6or (Meu.l Argas, does not
iudcrse tie doctrine enuhcated by The Detroit Free
Press that Slavery may be introduced into every Ter
ritory and that when there the people not legs
late in regard to it, except To protect ii. The drgus
contends at the people OF Territory have rghtto
say whether they VIII have Slavery not. For this
mild dissent, The Grand Rapids Enquirer twits The
Argus with leaning toward Free-SOlism
SPEAK ing Of the adoption of the two years
amendment IN Massachusetts,, through the combined
efforts of Americans aud Democrats, TIE Detroit
Tribune remarks:
One fact stands forth for the satisfaction Of that
Influential class of our iellowctzens at whose polti
cal status this Odi0us amenunent strikes, and that
is this that every State in the Union controlled by the
Republicans either by its Press, its leading public
men, or its State Central Committees, has cOuuseed
Massachusetts not 10 take this action and protested
against 1t. The Republican party Of the great North
West be in culted with such proscnptlve
beresy. Michigan again washes her hands Of it. She
is for political equality and proscrptve dogmas,
she has ever been.
The Cincinnafi Gazette says that the talk about
Guthrie for the next Presidency has nearly died ont in
Kentucky. Yice-President Breckenridge is now the
cry.
The Washington correspondent of The Ohio STATE
Journal says that a Republican having proposed to
Crittcnden thatthc Republicans should make himther
candidate, lie replied: 81 could not carry single
Southern State as y0urcandidate-and how many could
You carry North with me for your candidate 7 The
party would sink in Slave State, and should
sink the party in the Free States. No, Sir II IL not
your policy to take up Southern slayeholderl'
The Montreal Pays says it is runored in Mon
trcal tbat important notifications are TO be made in
the Cabinet, and that the two Premers have sent in
their resignation.
The following call, which is signed by ex.Juige
Spaiuius, the Hon d. r. Iideni ex-rnember Of Con- !
efe'', ". 30" upward of 800 others, appears in the
Cleveland, (O.) papers:
that 'Cts be iresrvea BY esa'sie', sigiaaee,
deemed nperant thar general Mass Co'sn,iu o the foes OF
Slavery De.po and the friends Of State and Individual
Rights be h. ID III convenient Psce ON The Western Reserve
without unnecessary delay
t"ushaat he sSid Vc.tem serve, a. well !. al obr who
are in symPahy with Us IN op.tion - despite ulrPaon
the 2ith day Of May, instant, at II O'Clock
The Gubernatorial canvass in Tennessee CON-
menced on the I'd, at Nashville. Mes.rs irris the
Democratic and Neiherland, the Opposition candi-
date, spoke. Democratic papers say that Harris to-
tally squabasbed Neutrality-suspicious. papers that
Netherland did not leave Harris leg to stand on.
Col. Netherland said, among other things Wky this
perpetual talk about Slavery ;" This Col. Neither
land is the gentleman who gently noticed in
The TRIBUNE some months ago for hugging of
his negroes achurch menber so numerically behind
the church Sunday.
Mr.. Letcher, the Democratic candidate for Gov.
Of Virginia, writes, the 9TH inst that he has
expectation of being able again to enter the
VASE, LIE is It'll suffering from his throat lie pre-
pairing an address to the people, which he hopes to
Issue in lew Gays
The Opposition in the Fifth District of Tennessee
have nominated Col. Robert Hatton, for Congress.
The Opposition in the IX,h Congressional District
of Kentucky have nominated Lubin G. Moore for Con.
gress. Among the resolutions adopted was the follow.
iDg
Reetd, That COngTs has the Constitutional power sud
whneSsr become, necessary 70 the security OF slave yop-,
in the Territories sb ud tie protect the owner
Of such property in the enjoy neui Of his rights.
John Z. Mason, the present Democratic member, !
declines reelection The Hon. Thomas b. Stevenson |
Of Maysvile il spoken of as the Democratic nominee.
Vermont journals assert that 'there is deep
laid scheme foot to return sntAdMinistration del
egates from Vermont TO the Charleston Convention.
Mr. Wilbur T. Stone, who has had charge Of the
editorial department of The EraasciHe Enquirer IA
Democratic journaD for the last eight months, has