The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-11-23
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FRIDAY MORNING. NOV. %, 1860.
The Presidential Election.

government, a Presidential candidate has
been elected from the great North West.
and what is more no'iraJle and significant,
by decisive majorities in Al the Northern
or Free States, against equally marked ma,
j,rities in all the Southern or Slave States
When We view the political history o.
the country, look at the action Of the
Southern Democrats and their Northern
allies. during the past four years, ne are
not at all astonished that the strongholds
Of the Democracy Of the FREE NoRTH-
that have heretofore been regarded as i'm
pregnable to tie enemy-should have
yielded in the @ irrepres-ib!e conflict" be
tween tie North and South Ia the Pre-
sidential campaign Of 1856, sectional pre-
i.dice and sectional feeling became so
much excited and alarmed, as to threaten
tue overthrow Of the Democratic party, and
destroy the peace and harmony of the
Union but the supposed triumph Of con
seryatism ly the election Of BCcHANAY
President, removed all alarm from the
minds Of the great mass Of the people
North and South-an his inaugural al
dress was received with rejoicing through
out the Nation
Had Congress ca-rel cut in good faith
the doctrines Of tie Democratic party, as
laid down in the Cincinnati Platform, and
as interpreted BY S1ErnES a. DOUGLAS,
We, today, would lie rejoicing in the
achievement ofano,her great victory Of the
National Democracy.
The South demanded tlat many conces
sions SHOULD be made to them, while they
would make none to the North.
The South asked that the President be
clothed with power to send an army into
Sonora and other Southern Provinces, on
the pretence Of atording protection to
emigrants through those districts, while It
denied the power Of the government to at
ford protection to naturaiized American
citizens from the grasp Of an European
Despotsm and this was peculiarly often
sivs to most of those intelligent citizens
who came from the German States, and
have heretofore acted with the Democrat
ic party.
The South asked the expenditure Of
Thirty Millions q DolLars to carry on
negotiations for the purchase Of Cuba, and
for as many millions more to establish a
protec5orate in Mexico, and at the same
time opposed an appropriation Of fer
huadred MougqnI dollars to be expended
in the completion and construction OF
Harbors on our Lakes for the protection
of the thousands of lives and millions o.
property which are annually riskei on
these inland seas Of the free North West.
This gave great offence to the people OF
the North aud lost tie Democratic party
many thousands Of votes
Tie South proclaimed the odious doc
trine ;hat the Constitution Of the United
States carries slavery into all oar Terr'.o
ries, and demanded that the government
should send its troops into Kansas to pro
tect slave property there and aid the slave
holders to force slave Constitution upon
that Territory against he known wishes Of
nine tenths of its people.
STEPHEN A. DoUGLAs-the representa-
tive man of the natiou-stood forth, and
with his giant force Of courage and intel>
lect, succe stu,Iy resisted this mad attempt
to subyert the well established principles
Of the government, and make the Consti
tuition a mere instrument to protect the
interests of the Southern portion of the
Union aud tor this lie was sustained by
nine tenths Of the people Of the Free States,
and appIauded by the Union loving men
OF the South and had lie then consented
TO have gone where the southern fire eat
ing politicians attempted 10 drive him
out Of the Democratic organization-he
would now be the President elect by the
choice Of the entire Electoral vote Of lie
Free States. He could not be tlatered or
driven to become The leader of a sectional
organization, bat adhered to the Democrat
10 party, whose principles protect the in
terests Of the whole country-aIike the
North and tie Southland when lie re
c4iyel the nomination Of tie Democracy
Of the nation for the Office Of President,
because the Convention that nominated
hun accepted his Interpretation Of the
Cincinnati Platform on the subject OF
slavery. and refused to interpo!ale the
odous doctrine that the Constitution car
ried slavery into all the Territories of the
government, the South seeded from the
Convention anil organized purely South
sfn party, and nominated a candidate for
The Presidency Who 10, cd the South bet
her than the Union" The Democratic
,ar'y became divided, and this division at
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