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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
If Lincoln is EIeo ted Douglas will be Re-
anonEihIe

1t was known at Charleston and Baltimore that
neither the fifteen slave States the two Pacific
States would, under any circumstances, vote for
Douglas because they had satisfactory evidence of
his political regeneration and unsOundness con-
stitutional principles. No one expected that the
Northern States, which supported Fremont, would
give him their votes. WelEinformed men believed
he could carry neither Pennsylvania. Indiana, nor
Illinois. Hence it perfectly apparent that his
nomination would be equivalent to defeat of the
Democratic party of every State. On the other
hand it was well understood that the nomination of
an unobjectona0le Democrat would enable the par
ty to carry the fifteen Southern and two Pacific
States. and such others might have majarIty of
Democratic voters. Under these circumstances.
and with a full knowledge that he cannot be elect
ed, Douglas demanded nomination at the hands of
his partisans and pertinaciOusly insists upon con-
tinuing to be a candidate.
And why? Not that he can or expects TO be
elected but by creating division he multiphes the
chances of securing its defeat His only ground is
that of intentional destruction of the party from
whom he sought support. Because a majority of
the States refused to participate in his nomination
and support he is exerting all his power to de-
feat their candidate and to occasion the election of
the Black Republican candidate. Nowhere has he
said intImated that he preferred the election of
Breckenridge over Lincoln. He has only to say he
desires it, and to act consistently with such de-
sire, when the former will be elected and the latter
defeated. This he and his partisans know perfectly
well But his whole course and that of his friends
proves beyond dispute that he and they prefer the
election of Lincoln to that of thorough democrat.
he should remember that the responsibility rests
on him the Democracy will remember and hold
him to Washington Constitution.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Rlack Rspubllcan BLDG.


Here are a few extracts from HELPERS impend-
ing Crisis the ant-sIavey BEs' of the Irrepressi-
bles, indorsed by LovEJoY, WAsHBuRNE, KELLOGG
FAfNswoRTH, and F. P. BLAIR, Of Missouri, d 20
These are the sentiments of conservative Republic
cans:
Shareholders are nuisance"
at is our imperative business to abate NUS
ances,"
I'VE propose to extermlnate TINS catalogue lroiii
Eve believe. that THIEVES. are, as a general
rule. less amenable to the moral law than SLAVE
HOLDERS"
THAN COMMON MURDERERS"
ssSlaveholders and slavetraders are, as general
thing unfit to occupy any honorable station IL
lifen
at is our honest conviction that all the proslave-
ry shareholders, who are alone responsible for tne
continuance of the bareful institution among us
deserve 20 be AT ONCE REDUCED TO A PARALr
LEI WITH THE BASEST CRIMINALS THAT LIZ
FETTERED WITHIN THE CELLS OF OUR PUB
Lie PRISONS"
"Were it possible that the whole number e. e. Of
the slave hOlders) could be gathered together anc
transferred into four equal gangs Of licensed
| HS>ROBBERS RUFFIANS THIEVES and MUIR
DERERS, az society, feel assured, would suffer
less from their atrocities than it does now"
$50 il seems that the total number of actual slave
owners including their entire crew of cringng lick
spittles. against whom we have to contend, is bu
| three hundred and fOrty-seven thousand five hun
bred and twenty-five. Against this army for the de
| tense and propagation of slavery, WE THINK II
WILL BE AN EASY MATTER, Independent of the ne
qroeS oho in nine cases out of ten, 1oOd be deightet
Soih an opportunity to CUT THEIR MASTERS
| THR0ATE, and irihon excepting a single rec1ii
from either Of the free States, England, France or Ger
mann. TO MUSTER ONE AT LEAST THREE TIME
AS LARGE AND FAR MORE RESPECTABLE
FOR ITS UTTER EXTINCTION.
" But we are welded to one purpose. from whicl
no earthly power can ever divorce us. WE Arr
DETERMINED TO ABOLISH SLAVERY AT ALI
| HAZARDS-IN DEFIANCE OF ALL OPPOSITION
| OF WHATEVER NATURE WHICH 1T IS Posi-
BILE FOR SLAVEOCRATS TO BRING AGAINS'
U.s. OF this they may take due notice, and gover
themselves accordingly.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

J.E P. CowART.-Ths individual well known in
this county as a Protestant Methodist preacher,
who short time since, took negroes that did not
belong to him from Pike county and sold one of
them in Stewart county. Ga, has been arrested and
lodged in Lumpkin Jail to await his trial BY some
means it was ascertained here that COwart was in
Atlanta under the assumed name Of PresswOod.
whereupOn Mr.. Dickinson, OF Pike county, and Mr..
Way. of Stewart comply. TO n HON he had sold the
negro, started in pursuit of him. On reaching At
lanta. they learned that COwart had gone of with
some preachers to attend camp meeting in Cal
houn county, whittier they followed him. On arriv-
ing at the ground they found Cowart occupying the
pulpit preaching. As son as he concluded, he
was apprehended and was soon under way for the
scenes of his late rascality. We are informed that
after his arrest he pretended have fits. hoping to
pick a chance to escsp :, but it was no 60. Cowsrt
has relatives in this State of the highest respectable
ity with whom we deeply mpathize.-EtgauIa
(AIa.) Express
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Cattle Disease.

A very destructive epidemic is reported bya cor
respondent Of the Louisville Democrat as prevailing
among the cattle in Oldham county, Ky. The disease
is supposed to have been communicated by drove
from Texas The Emporia (Kansas) Be1os states
that from the same cause large number of cattle
have died IN that vicinity. 1t says:
Whatever the disease may be, Spanish fever
Murran. or what not-one thing is certain that it
was communicated to the cattle here by the droves
of Texas cattle passing through Their route from
the time they touched the Neosho. sixty miles below
here, nnt they arrived the Kaw river, may east
ly be tracked by the bodies of the hundreds Of
tie that have died from the disease they brought.
In no other part of the country has this disease
made its appearance except along the track of these
drOves. Vorious remedies have been tried. but
generally attended with good result and at least
nine out of every ten of the cattle taken with it
ha died and when the disease shall have its
course the proportion will be found to be still
greater. As near as we can learn. over three hun
dred cattle have died of this disease in the last
three weeks. in extent of country fifty miles
long. North and South and three miles in width
extending along the Neosho, VerdIgris, Eagle Creek
Cottonwood and Dow Greek. At a far average
valuation these cattle worth from eight to ten
thousand dollars The disease seems TO attack fret
and with the greatest malignty cattle of improve
Breeds though it is contagious among tame cattle,
seeming to be capable of communicating to the
Texas cattle to another and 20 tame CATTLE but
going no further.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
A Douglas EIectOr on the Protection of
SIar-nr.r In. IarrIlnrIas.

A Douglas EIectOr on the Protection OF
Slavery in the Territories.
In his speech at Augusta, Ca. on the LIST instant,
the Hon A. II. STEPHENS is reported in the Augusta
ConStitaaionaIist to have said:
"If we 60 to Congress with a request petition.
or demand, to pass law to protect slavery IN the
Territories why may not on the same principle, so
far as jurisdiction of the question is concerned the
apti-slavery men of the North, go before the same
body with their request, petition, or demand, and
ask that such law shall not be passed, or that one
of a contrary character shall be passed?
Mr.. STEPHENS answered this question, inhiS speech
in the House of Representatives, on the 9th of jan
uary, 1857, when, in arguing on this subject, he
said
To PROTECT PROPERTY IS THE DUTY OF THE GOVERN
MENT AND THE POWER TO THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE
POWER OR RIGHT TO DESTROY II and to protect may
he a rghfid subject Of legislation, consistent Goh the
constitution of the United States, but not to destroy IT,
The people in the territories have this right pow
er to regulate and protect, but not the other for
Congress, under the limitations OF the Constitution.
dld not have that to give them. There is no such
thing as neutrality-suspicious. political sovereignty
mean-in the people of the territories, either by
inherant right or by grant from Congress- in all
the departments of the General Government COM
bined This resides in the people of the separate
States pert of that residium of powers not del
egated by them in the Constitution.
The public domain belongs to the people of all the
States as a common property and so long it is I'M
der territorial government, should be subject only
to such needfu rules and regulations in its dispo
stiOn may be necessary for its free and equal use
and enjoyment by all alike, and for its COLOMBIA
tion and settlement by all alike, without any unjust
discrimination, either by Congress any territorial
government that may institute, until the number of
Inhabitants may justify their admission into the
Union as a State"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

BURNING OF PART OF THE CATHOLIC AsYIUN AT To-
LEDO THREE LIVES LosT.-The TOledO (OhiO) Blade
has the details OF the sad fire in Toledo of which the
telegraph has advised US. The fire broke out at II
o'clock night. in a wooden building. the upper
part of which was used as a dOrmItory. Twelve
persons were sleeping in it, ten Of whom were child
rem, and one of the sisters and servant woman
The inmates were forced tn escape from the dormer
windows One child was taken from The roof but
not until it had been badly burned. One Of the
Sisters was severely injured escaping from the
building Three persons were missing-the servant
and two children and the remains of two had been
found il the smOulderiDg ruins this morning.
The child which was burned so badly on the roof
is not expected TO live and the Sister who fell from
the building. it struck piece of tint er,
and has received injuries in the spine from which
it is thought she cannot recover She held 10 the
root, calling for help until the fl mes reached her
clothes, and then she let go her hOd and fell to the
ground. Thus. by this awful catastrophe five per-
probably have lost their lives three burned in
the buildidg and two fatally Injured.
Ali the remains of those burned were found-all
were lying the chimney, close together. The
bodies presented horrible sight, shrIveled crisped
and blackened into small piece of canker and
few bones
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Johu Beu on ,Le mexican war.

- II is said of Sciplo-not he that overcame Han
mbai, but ScipiO the destroyer of Carthsge-when
surveying the scene of carnage and desoaton
around him. and when he saw the wife Of Hannibal
arrayed in her richest apparel slowly ascending to
th' summit Of the temple which rose above the con-
migration, and there after stabbing her children,
precpitating herself into the burning elements be-
low, ne wept. but 1t was not over Carthage Rome
rose up 70 MS view. with her crimes and oppres-
slons, and he saw inscribed on the rolls of her I'm
ture history the sentence of eternal justice that she
too. must fall. '
Sir, if any should now desire to know nv noo-
opinion upon the proper mode of terminating this
war. say to them, make the best treaty with anv
existing government you can. If you must have
the territories OF New Mexico and California get a
cession of them if you cannot do that, came back
TO the Rio Grande to the boundary you claim title
to, and thus save your honor.
MY advice is stop the war Flee the country
as you would a city doomed to destruction by fire
from Heayen
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Not the Regular Nominee.

The Augusta ConstjtldiOnGIistS (the leading Doug
las organ in Georgia,) made the following candid
confession soon after the nomination of Douglas:
The BALANCE or THE " Two DS,-DougIas
in his nomination by the National Democratic Con.
vention, in receiving the entire vote of the Con.
vention-l94! votes-lacked just % votes of the
necessary two-thirds.
Certainly the ConstitttondkSts ought to be good
authority for the DOuglasites and 1t says Douglas
lacked Just u UOteS Of the necessary tlUOthds" to
make him the regular nominee. johnson was nomi.
mated BY the Douglas Executive Committee at Wash
ington after the Baltimore Convention had adjourn.
ed sine die; and of course not even Douglas wor-
shipper can be found crazy enough to call that a
regular nomination, if any nomination at all. SO
let the Douglasites cease their senseless gable
about their candidates being the regular nominees
There is not particle of truth in it, as shown by
one of their leading papers and the records OF the
CNnventinn.-N Onf1Omeru AduertiSer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Mr. PrE.sASr. Sen. 10 1851

MEssRS. EDrroRs: On the 4th inst l wrote you
concerning the Opposition flag here, and as find l
was misinformed as to the ftg's splitting. wish to
the matter right aud beg space in your columns
to state that what seemed to be a split was only
seemingly split and the Opposition are entitled to
the benefit of this correction as do not wish to do
them Or others any injustice.
The Democracy here going to run up a pole
and flag next week that will lay the Opposition all
in the shade, and we intend TO have good time Of
it and shall be glad to see you all out. B. II. HILLS
DUDLEY letter is hard nut for those BELL men to
crack who applauded MCCoNMco and GORDON in
their endorsement of Hill. as not disuniunist
Lay on the ticks thick and heavy for they deserve
il all. DEMOCRAT.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
ATE PAL e.
ana Chattanooga Rail-
road Company.

road Company.
sUPzrxTEsrENrs 0EFIcK,
ashyilie, Sept 1900
kssEyaER Trains viii Re between he Depot Of the
Nsshve nj ChzttznoOra Railroad and tie Pair Grunis
during ne Fsr week nenens Monday 0th INST on he
following sehedaIe to-R -,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Douglas VS.. Johnson.

DOUGLAS says State has no right to leave the
Union, but the right of revolution.
H.V. JOHNSON Gays the "right of peaceable seces-
sion must be maintained it is the only hope of the
South"
DOUGLAS says he will use the Federal troops to
coerce State.
JOHNSON says he would resist with all his might
the sttempt of the Government to coerce seeding
State.
Can an honest man vote for DOUGLAS and JOHNSON
holding they do sentiments Numerically opposed
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

DOUGLAS MEN HARD Up Last week was announced
the withdrawal Of Col James Patterson one OF the
electors OF the Union BelEverett party. Since then
we have received private letter giving an account
of effective speech in behalf of breckenridge ard
Lane, delivered by W. K Patterson enc OF the cleo
tors for the State at large on the Douglas ticket
Col Patterson was considered strong pillar of the
Disuniou, fOuglas party, but they @ere mistaken
in their So they 80 the! viii find themselves
much mistaken in votes they ere ia elecsors.
Little Rock lArlt.) True Deanocrat, sept. g..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Auotber Eafsehood.

\ friend writing us from NOlensville says re-
port is in circulation in that neghbOrhoOd that one
of the Propretors Of this paper stated thata portion
of Mr. HANcEY's Memphis speech was suppressed
because it would not do to publish. The report is
without the slightest particle of truth All of Mr..
YANcEV's Memphis speech has been published In our
paper.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
nneninR of tlne Unitea Slnte. Fnir.

CINCINNATI, Sept l2.-The National Exhibition was
opened to-day by an address from Professor Cary,
rendering the grounds in behalf of the citizens Of
Cincinnati to the United States Society. President
Wager responded.
The time of taking entries here has been extended,
AZ il was impossible TO receive them and the Exhi-
bition taken whole, surpasses any yet given by
the Society.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

The Bamer and the Patriot have rather queer
system of logic They insist that Col CEozIER Is q
Disunionlst because he said he would war on LIN
coins Administration from the first. The Banner
and PdtriOt have both been warning on the present
Administration all the while, therefore the Bonner
and Patriot are Dizunionists 1t is bad rule that
will not work both ways
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

Popular Sorereisnty and squatter sover-
eighty.
There is a very constant effort being made by
Certain clsss Of politicians to confound Squatter
Sovereignty and Popular Sovereignty. Sqnstter
Sovereignty is the doctrine that Territorial Legis-
lature can exclude or prohibit Slavery in Terrific
ry Popular Sovereignty is the doctrine that neither
a STATE nor Teitorial Legislature abolish or pro-
hibit Slavery in the State Territory but that il
can only be done by convention called to form or
change State Constitution.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

The BELL men are constantly bossting of what Mr.
RrrI. is going to do in the North at the November
election. If the BELL men have candidate for
Congress. or any Office in the State government in
any of the free States, it has escaped our observa
ionor recollection.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

LUDICRous.-An amusing error of the press oc-
Cured in the Springfield Republican recently, when
article about a by an eminent divine, got
mixed in with dog story in this funny way:
Rev. James Thompson. rector of st. Andrews
church. preached to large cOncourse of people on
Sunday last. This was his last sePm IN. In few
weeks he will bid farewell to his congregation and
his physicians advise him to cross the Atlantic. He
exhol ted his brethren and sisters and after the ex
piratiOn Of devout prayer, took within to cut up
some frantic freaks. He up Timothy street to
John, and down Benefit street to College. At this
stage of the proceedings, couple of boys seized
him. tied tin kettle his TAIL and he again started.
A great crowd collected, and for time there was
grand scene Of noise, running, and confusion. After
some trouble, he was shot by Jersey policeman.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

Hon. T. L. CIINGNAS.-The DoUeLAsTTEs claimed
that Mr. ClIXGxAN, of North Carolina, had recently
declared for DOUGLAS. We learn from the Raleigh,
Sit0dard that he made BRKcKNEIDGE speeches
Oxford on the 4th and Raleigh on the 9th.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
DEsCmIPrION.

Mr. Click about thirty Yeas @ about I've feet ten inches
kgn weighs as $50 ponds his apezo0 dark With
AdoWn when spoken to- he Ia. dark black and
scar resembling burn his face and shen toy be bad
thing e frcsy, and he Is yei little spotted the neck,
and his oce rather scu lar mostly the fsnine
der. and speaks alOw, ana has no education ataI
ss9tll-d7skpla r8. vWs
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

A WEDDING AT A DEATH BED-Mr. R. G. DEFINING,
of Harrisburg, who was injured on the Pennsylva-
MIA railroad on tie 9th inst, died the same night
The Harrisburg Telegraph says:
The deceased had for some time been betrothed to
an estmable young lady of this city, Miss Gray.
and both looked forward to a speed and happy
union When it was ascertained that Mr. Deaning
could not possibly survive. the mutual request Of
him and his betrothed, ard with the consent of the
parents of both, they were married, Rev. Mr.. Car
son performing the solemn and impressive ceremo-
ny by the bedside of the dying man. The BRIDE
groom passed from the altar to the tomb and the
devoted bride of hour changed her wedding gar
memts to the habiliments of mourning.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

MORE HEIP.-The Athens (Ala) Herald hereto
fore strong Douglas paper has hauled down its
flag and hoisted that OF Breckenridge and Lane.
Douglas friends in North Alsbema are growing
''ssnsIl by degrees and beautifully less" Roll on
the ball = BeRsfonte (Ald.) Era Sept lS
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

ANOTHER RUNoR CoRREcTED.-We are assured that
It is not true that Mr.. YANcEV threw locomotive
ac-oss the street at Hon. JERE CIEMoxs. of Hunts
Vile. We learn that the most amicaJle personal
relations exist between these distinguished gentle
mon
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
TRAVELLING IN THE UNITED STATES ONE HrsDR,

TRAVELLING IN THE UNITED STATES ONE HuSDRED
YEARS AGO. The ancient advertisement, Of which
we here give literal copy, is deserving of preser-
walton on account of the quaintness of the inn sigma
the peculiarly Of the spelling and diction the shift
ing" of the passengers which it announces and the
general idea it gives of the way in which travel
ing was performed in America at the time when it
was issued
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14

Any friend that may chance to see an attack upon
Mr. BELL, Mr.. EVERETT or the BELL EVERETT party in
DoUGLAs paper will please forward the article to
us, as we desire to place al such in our scrspbook
of literary curiosities.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Maine Election.

PORTLAND Sept. 1.-Two hundred and thirteen
towns give Washburn (Rep.) As, l4I; smart (Dem.)
IS 1925; Barnes (Whig) l24O. against. in the same
towns last year. Morrill, (Rep) 80 $50; Smith tDem)
3O,O54 The Republican majority is 1881 against
1916 last year in sn increased rate OF l45O9 There
IA Republican nett gain of 3.0G5. The aggregate
vote Of the State reaches 10000. about 10000 more
than lsst year The returns confirm in every res
pect our last nights estimate. All the Republican
members of Congress are elected. The RePubh-
cars are celebrating their victory in this city By
torehlight procession. iiiuminations' &c.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-14
Z, l. IOohI1'oj OII'I1I I1I11
W. II. HARRELI., Secretary.
The Supreme COnPt OF Ihe United states
and Judge Douglas.

The Supreme Court says: 1.-The right of property
IN slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed In the
constitution and that mo tribunal acting under
the authority of the United States, whether 1t be
legislative executive, judicial has right to draw
distinction or to deny to it the benefit of the pro-
visions and guarantees which have been provided
Tor the protection of private property" "And if
Congress itself cannot do this-if it is beyond the
power conferred upon the Federal Governments
could not authorize Territorial Government to ex-
ercise them. 1t could confer no power on any local
government, established by its authority TO violate
the principles Of the Constitution" The ONLY
power conferred is the power coupled with the
duty OF guarding and protecting the owner in his
right"
And now read what Judge Douglas says "The
people Of Territory can, by lawful means, ex-
cude slavery before it comes in as State" and
no matter what may be the decision Of the Supreme
Court that abstract question. still the right of
the people of the Territories to make a slave
Territory or free Territory. is perfect and com
peten