Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-06-15
Political Items.

ported Fillmore and Donelson in 1856, with
the single exception Of the Hunterdcn
Gazette, are now supporting Lincoln. Some
Of them as The Rashway Aasarjcaa, for
instance) repudiate certain portions of the
Chicago Platform, and really prefer Bell to
Lincoln but, being satisfied that there is
no chance for the election OF the former, are
determined to do nothing to prolong the
sham Democratic ascendency in the general
Government, they see no other course open
to them but the support Of Lincoln and
Hamin.
Too LARGE AN ALLowANcE.-T New
York Tribune, in reply to the Philadelphia
Journal, which paper supports the Union
saving Nominations of Baltimore, says:
alt knows that at least three fourths of all
the Opposition journals in Pennsylvania are
tor Lincoln and Hanlin.n
There are at least $50 Opposition journals
in Pennsylvania. and CT these, two, or at
most, three, support the Baltimore nomira-
tions. The Journal, to which the Tribune
ailades, can scarcely be claSsed, however. as
al "Opposition p" paper, as it generally
manages to play into the hands of the Dem
ocracy. Nevertheless, we count it as one of
the three.
The South is outdoing Seward in its devo-
ton to the ''irrepressible conflict" and high
er Law IDEAS At q late Religious Conven-
ton in South Carolina, when the question of
declaring slave marriages void came up, one
Col. John Phillips said after dou! ting tie
policy Of agitating the question, and whether
slave could make contract, that "He un
derstood thGt eohen the uoice Of God Is heard
1t oUerTides all human law, but he was not to
be persuaded that it is reasonable to force
the church into an antagonistic position to
The Fillmore papers East and West are
rallying to the support OF Lincoln and Ham
lin. The accessions of the Buffalo CONNER
cial Advertiser and Albany Statesmen have
already been mentioned. The Evansville
Journal thus speaks of itself and others:
The Vicennces Gazette, the New Albany
Tribune, the Fort Wayne Times, and the
Evansville Journal, all Fillmore papers in
1856, have come out heartily for Lincoln and
Hamlin. The Terre Haute Express, which
was Fillmore paper for short time in
1856, is now enthusiastically out for the PEG.
pies ticket. The Greencastle Banner, the
Seymour Times and the Rising Sun Visitor,
all Fillmore papers in 1859, will advocate
Lincoln. VIM. Fl. French, Esq, publisher
of the Jacksonville Republican,, is warm
Lincoln man, and Is going to make his paper
a Lincoln and Hamlin paper. So far as we
have seen, not one Opposition paper in Indi
ana has failed to hoist the Chicago ticket !!
This unanimity is unparalleled.
COMPLIMENT TO CARL SCHURz.-Tbe mag
nifcent speech, delivered by CARL SCHURz,
at the Republican Ratification meeting, is
highly commended everywhere. The Neo
York Tribune says;
'This is the season Of eloquence; but of all
the ten thousand political speeches which it
has lately been our duty to read, that of
Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin, made at Milwaukee
last Wednesday, is perhaps the most elo
quent and irspiring. We regret that we have
not room to copy it.
And the Albany Ecening Journal adds:
carl Schurz has recently made speech at
Milwaukee, which is pronounced by those
who heard and those who read it, to be the
very masterpiece of eloquence."
Us The Republicans of St. Louis have
had tremendous ratification meeting. More
than ten thousand were estimated to be pres
eut. Enthusiastic speeches were made by
Frank Blair and others. Mr.. Blair said:
SIN Itering upon the canvass of 1860, we
do SO with buoyant hopes. In holding the
first rat; Gcation meeting in favor Of the nom
ination of the Republican party, in slave
State, We take the lead of host of freemen
throughout the Union. We have indefinitely
more at stake in this contest than the people
of any other State. This you will admit We,
being il Missouri, have mission before US,
not only to prevent the extension of slavery
in the territories of the United States, but
we have to enfranchise Missouri. Applause,
and cries of well do it, too.'p"
saT The Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican under the date of May
30, says "The great Republican rati6ea ion
meeting on Monday night is the talk in all
circles. 1t was novel thing in
Washington, wonderful affair On slave soil,
md was complete success. The night was
air, the arrangements were perfect, the
speakers the best the party has in Congress
and the audience vast. Three thousand peo-
pie, most of them men, were gathered to
near what could be said in favor OF Lincoln
and Hamlin, and owing part to the arrange
nents Of mayor Barrel there was not the
slightest disturbance"
a@ Mr.. A. Cuthbert from Georgia, son
10 former United States Senator of that
State, has recently purchased and settled on
son. n. j., bringing with him five negroes, to
whom be had given liberty. They are the
last of seventy five emancipated by Mr.. Cuth
bert, the others having been sent to Liberia
through the Colonization Society
Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxville
1Vhig, recently visited Washington, and saw
Attorney General Black. He says: ave took
a god look at him, and we don't hesitate to
say, that in his countenance we see mingled
the virtues of the Wandering Jew and the
Impenitent Thief upon the Cross And, if
Attorney General Black is not william, he
Almighty does not write legible hand, and
this we are unwilling to conc ede!"
John Schneider, a German, was killed in
Mil gaukee, by falling on the railroad track,
Just in advance of a moving car, which passed
over his neck. He leaves wife and three
children.