Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-09-07

. 70 ny
~ Hon. Howell Cobb, in his recent
speech at Atlanta, Georgia, was very severe
on Mr. Douglas, showing that his entire ca
rccr for the last four years was made up Of
deadly hostility to the South and to Southern
principles. But the Mobile Register seems to
look at the matter in a wholly different light.
1t says
BY the death, lately, of tho mother of
Judge Douglas wife, who was a Miss Martin
OF North Carolina, his two boys, his only
children, came into possession of large for
tune, consisting in plantation and slaves
This, added to his extensive Mississippi prop
crty, win make Mr., Douglas, in behalf of his
children, one of the largest slave-owncrs in
the South How a man who has twice Sc
lected southern lady for his wife, the whole
fortune Of whose children is dependent on
the perpetuity of our institutions who in his
public life has ever been the friend and, until
quite recently, the idol of the South, who is
almost the only Northern man of prominence
that has never uttered one word Of dislike.
much less hatred, to slavery-how such a man
can be represented as a worse enemy TO slave
ry than Lincoln passes our comprehension
DEMocRArrc MorroEs. -" We Polkcd
them in 1874; we Pierced them in s52 we
Buck,d them in 1856 we're Breck-ing now,
and our grave is Dug -
THE PART1Es.-The Republicans are in
faver of voting Slavery do0n in our new
Western Territories; the Broccnridge party
are in favor of voting it mp ; the Douglas par
ty don't care whether it is voted up or down,
and the Bcl-Eyerett party "don't know any
thing about nothing"
10 The Cincinnati GazeHe makes can
vass Of Indiana from data received, and sets
the State down as good for $4,000 majority
for Lincoln.
THE PRESIDENTIAL Election AND UN-
ION SAvERs,-The Presidential election turns
upon single fact If the Northern people
believe that the Southern people will dissolve
their connection with them should the Black
Republican party succeed in olectng Lincoln
TO the Presidency-Lincon will be defeated
Should they, on the contrary, believe that
Southern people will submit to Black Re
publican domination by the election of Lin
coin to the residency-Lincoln will be elect
ed. - Charleston Mercury
70 The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer denies
the report that Mr.. Seward intends to retire
from the Senate, at the close OF his present
term on the ith Of March next. We are glad
to hear it. The country can i'll spare the dis
tinguished statesman from the National Coun-
ellis.
IV Messrs lIazolhurst and Sanderson,
leading American politicians, who wero in tho
front Of the straight Fillmore movement in
Pennsylvania, $50, are now on the stump for
Col Curtin and Abraham Lincoln.
~ W, w. Danenhowcr, of Chicago, mem
Der of the Fillmore National Committee,
from Illinois in 1856 is now slumping for
Lincoln in Southern Illinois.
70 Prentice in his last Loaisviic journal
says
I'VE see that the Breckenridge men Of Ga.
have "a balloon man to 90 around with his ball
loon to their different meetings and make as
tensions by way Of attracting crowds.-Wo
presume that the league coalition fusion, be-
tween the disunion party and the balloon man
will be mutually advantageous and profitable.
Bach meeting Of the party will, no doubt let
off gas enough to initiate the balloon
Joseph b. Varnum, Jr., Of New York, hither-
to prominently identified with the American
, organization, has written letter announcing
@ his determination to vote for Lincoln and
K Hamlin.