The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-10
POLITICAL NE WIS.
The Prospects for Douglas Giorlo"s'
Everywhere.
A DOUGLAS and q DOUGLAS,
Louder the tumult grows, >,
God speed the man that fignts SO wen
Against thousand foes.
noucr,As IN HIS NATIVE STATE.

DOUGLAS IN HIS NATIVE STATE.
Judge Douglas arrived at Burlington,
VT. on the 3Oth of July. He was greeted
by large and enthusiastic collection of PEG.
pie, escorted by the Howard Guard, and
a large procession Of carriages and citizens.
He passed through the principal streets to
the Town Hall, where John G.. SAKE intro
duced Mr.. Douglas to the audience, some
5000 in number, and Mr.. Douglas respond
ed in short speech, expressive of his ap-
probation of the kind and honorable recep-
tion thus far given him in his native State.
Mr.. Douglas left for Montpelier the same
evening. At Fort Edward, Sandy Hill,
Glenn's Falls, and other places in New
York, Douglas was received by crowds of
people, who Aocked from great distances, to
pay their respects to the little giant.
LANE CRUSHED OUT AT HOME.
We have before us the Oregon Statesman,
of June 10, which gives the result of the
election of members of the Legislature of
that State, and the position of the members
in reference to Lane and Smith.
The Legislature stands-anti-Lane Dem
ocrats, 81 certain, one old line Wing, pretty
much Democrat, and intensely anti-Lane
and Smith; Republicans, IL; Lane 10
making in all SO, the number of members
composing both branches of the Assembly.
Smith cannot count more than five certain
for himself. Three of Lanes I6 are ready
to leave him at any time. Some of Lanes
l6 hold over from last years Senatorial
election. The whole number of votes for
member of Congress was 1882.
How emphatic has been the condemna-
ton of Lane by the Democracy of Oregon
He betrayed them, and they have repudiated
him.
THE NOMINATIONS IN CALIFORNIA.
By the last pony express, we have news
of the receipt of the Democratic nomina.
tons in California. The telegraphic des-
patch from San Francisco, says:
The news received by express, of double
Democratic nominations at Baltimore perpleXed
the Democrats more than ever. Party organs
hesitate to support either ticket, for fear the
other may prove the strong one. The Federal
officials nearly all support Breckenridge. Sa.
lutes have been fired Tor Douglas, and then
for Breckenridge, by the partizans of each. In
every principal town in the State, probabilities
favor the nomination of two electoral tickets
hx,f hof vxyn of fho rtu
ratification meeting called at San Francisco,
ex.Gov. Weller, Archibald G. Peachey, Gen.
Mcdowell and other State supporters of the
Administration, were announced as speakers.
The San Francisco Herald was the only
Democratic organ that gave support to Doug.
las the day after his nomination was rec eived;
but orders from the Custom House, where the
main support of the paper is derived, seem to
have forced it to silence for the present.
HOW WILL ALABAMA GO?
How will Alabama go?" is question
we are asked by correspondents almost every
day, says the Selma (Alabama) Sentinel.
1t replies
Why there is no more doabt of Alabama going
for Douglas and Johnson than there is of the
election taking place. In 1856 there were 75,-
29l votes cast for Presdent--46,739 for Buch-
anan and 1852 for Fillmore. AS the indica-
tons are now, Douglas will receive &c, 900, Bell
$4,000, Breckenridge about 1900.
GOV. wIsE-THE CONTEST SOUTH.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York 7smes--Republican-ina letter
dated July p, says:
The Mobile Register, edited by John Forsyth,
republishes Gov. Wise's letter of 1858, approx
ing of Douglas and his platform, during his
nth I ;pna fnr fho
deeply regretting his inability to leave Vir.
ginia long enough to go and help him to stump
Illinois. The appearance of this very emphatic
endorsement of Douglas, just now, is said
greatly to embarrass Gov. Wise. RumOr has,
for some days. represented him as preparing a
labOred prOnunciamentO, in favor OF Breckin
ridge. but he finds his record an ugly thing to
face under such circumstances.
Advices received from the friends of Doug
las from all portions Of Virginia, represent
greater strength for their candidate than had
been anticipated. He will undoubtedly poll
from twenty to thirty thousand votes in the
State. From present appearances the strife
between the two wings OF the Democracy will
throw most of the Southern States into the
hands of Bell and Everett. So bitter and un-
compromising has the feeling become among
the leaders, that they openly avow their pref
The Herald's correspondent, writing un-
der the same date says:
The Virginia friends of Douglas assert, with
the greatest degree of confidence, that Gov.
Wise has not authorized any person to declare
what his position will be in the present cam
paign, and they express their belief that, al.
though che is.a very cratic man, he will not
oppose Douglas, because most of his friends
are for Douglas. The friends of the latter as
sert that his vote will be between thirty and
forty thousand, and that Bell and Everett will,
consequently, carry the State handsomely.
Douglas friends quote Wse's letter addressed
to the Douglas Democratic Committee in Hill
nos in 1858 as an evidence of his friendship to
Douglas and his principles. In that letter he
said he could not express the emotions of his
bosom excited by the appeal of the Douglas
Democrats for aid in the warm contest they
were waging against apOlitionism that every
impulse prompted him to rush to their side;
that their position was grand one, and unex-
ampled. He alluded to Douglas in his contest
against Lincoln as the gallant leader" of the
Dem ocracy, firmly fronting the foe and bat
Ting to maintain conservative nationality
This letter, as a whole, is very rich.
STEALING FROM THE CLERKS.
Old Buchanan has ordered a second as.
sessment of $15 upon each of the Depart
ment clerks, to meet the expenses of the
Yancey Committee at Washington. This
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