The register. (Monroe, La.) 185?-1861, 1860-09-06
). Evidently the Senator stands alone

flee. Evidently the Senator stands alone.-
Modern degeneracy has not reached him. 1t
was vulgarly supposed that Mr.. Douglas nomi-
nation was the result of ten years. earnest So
llcitatlon and intrigue, and admitted sale Of
political indulgences and post obits ;.an atten-
tive forgetfulness of former principles, and an
enthusiastic insincerity in future pledges, assis-
ted by lberali exhibition of Belmont and Brall-
ny. But this of course must be an error, which
IL is to be regretted, however, has become SC
popular and irradicable in the American mind
The only wonder u.s. how in these days Of Presi
DENTAL asprants, when so many bold bad men
are devoting all their unhallowed energies tc
the attainment Of that high honor, it should
! have been thrust upon SO unobtrusive, unosten.
| tatiousa gentleman as Mr. Douglas. Verify,
the Goods take care Of Cato"
The peculiar mode of selecting their candi-
date for the Vice-Fresldency is thus common
/. ded i'll the following strain:
This selection of Johnston is an apt ilIustra-
tion OF the much boastcd "regularity'' of The
Douglas ticket, and shows how far any 10y al
Democrat is bound by his Democratic tealty to
support such leaders. Ten or fifteen gentle
man urged by hunger and request Of friends''
met one night in the dining room of the Nation
al Hotel at Washington, when having disposed
the VicePresdency. As there were no aspirants
for honor of this post-prandial nomination, their
labor would have been light but for the difficult
ty Of finding any one,to even accept it when
proffered. Finally after vor acious and anx-
ious session, during which ever bone was pick
ed. and every name canvassed, they chose as
a dernier resort, Mr.. H. V. johnson. And now
this Dining Room Cacd idate-thus table d'hote
nominee-this ELAINE and impotent confusion,
to q cold supper and secret caucus, is pro-
claimed the only regular Democratic standard
bearer, to oppose whom is to dissolve the
Union.
Your Ex-Governor comes in for a good hit
on the score of his forty -thousand-votes-c
ing resolution:
Mr.. Miles Taylor and his colleagues object
also Of this majority report as too avague and
unsatisfactory" Fastidious and eXacting crit
les! They demanded something succnct. clear
and pointed-like the Wicklife resolution for
instance, five MacFlennre production to which
no human ingenuity ever give two meanings
or even-one.
The eloquent tribute to Yancey, which SEEM
ed to come from the heart of the fiery young
speaker, was received with loud applause.
1t was quite cheering and inspiring to hear
our gallant Southern Preux Chevalier, so
handsomely greeted in an extreme Northern
community. Here is what Mr.. Fitch said of
Yancey
). If the Douglasites have little argument, it
must be granted they have a desperate fecundi-
ty OF epithcts. One ofthe serious maledictions,
Douglas ticket and the actual sin of the Breck-
lnridge nomination, is the charge that we are
Yanceyites. That may or may not be offence
Let US see. The best reason adorned with the
highest eloquence;a courage to meet all corners
i'll the political field and skill to contound them;
eminence by universal concession foresight,
daring, devotion, irreproachable in private
life, reliant Adventures everywhere, means
simply VIM. L. Yancey.
These are trait admired by all men. With
the personal preference of Mr.. Yancey and his
| intense Southern affections, we have nothing
to do-and he who will has forgotten his own
business.
With Yanceys sincerity Douglas might be
trusted-with Yancey's attachments Douglas
would De an ornament to the .senate--with
4ancey'sagacity Douglas would not now occu-
Ply position which, while it detroys his mast
forever oblitcrates his hopes of the future.
| On the whole we have no partclar obiec-
ton to the title of" Yanceyites.''
In his vindcation of Breckenridge, Mr.. Fitch
thus refers TO the charge of ACKNOWLEDGMENT
against the gallant Kentuckian: ea
The last charge brought against Mr.. Brecl,-
inridge is that he affiliated with the Know
Nothings The charge originated in u letter
from MI. John Savage to Hon. Henry A.
Wise.
As il is not to be expected ofcourse that any
one of you ever heard of Mr.. Savage before
II may be as well to remark that his name
docs him great injustice. Hciis very harm
less; lnoflensive little gentleman, whom the
public has always treated with generous neg
lect: lie is the author ofone tragedy that was
ran1 and IamneI nd h,,1- II, II.
ned without being read. Mr.. Savage, it seems,
IS now worrying his tender intellect with pol
tics. 1t is The old story Of Penelope's suitors
Juggling at the bow Of Ulysses The entire
basis for the charge against Mr.. Breckinridge
is contained in q statement made by him in n
public speech, that he ''would rather vote for
one OF his own countrymen than foreigner,
all other things being equal" This is certain
~ very grave offence, considering that in
the very next sentence he denounced the Know
Nothing organization upon high moral and CON
stitutional grounds.
am afraid foreigner, one of Mr.. Savasc's
own class, an lrishman for instance wouldn't
vote for one of his countrymcn in preference
to anybody else, "all other things being equal.
or unequal. 1t mnstbe q mistake about their
ever doing such things. If that be Know
Nothingism then make of it.
There is much more in this speech which is
Delta and read by all Southerners, and by all
who have taste for wit, keen satire, and fine
rhetoric. Wehave only room for one more cx-
tract, in which Mr.. Douglass New ENGLAND
tour is admirably served up:
Where is Mr. Douglas now? Refreshing bis
recollection Of American history at the base
OF Bunker Hill, under the escort of that little
coterie of gentlemen who compose the Douglas
Democracy in Massachusetts, endeavoring
to gather some of the dust of Webster upon his
shoes, and trying like a dull tourist to grow
eloquent from Notwithstanding college
exercises from the wearisome elegance of classic
recitation by the inelegant WEAKNESS of his dis |
tinguished platitudes of selfgovernment
deserving to astonished Swans in the shades
of Harvard, the origin of squatter sovereign
ty, and watering all the schools' with his
endless repetitions on the great principle
nat underlies' and outlies all other principles
1t is not custom, believe. for Presidential nom
inees to advocate upon the stump their own
superior merits for that high Office