The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-10-22
POLITICAL.
JUDGE DOUGLAS AND LFrnMprnN.

JUDGE DOUGLAS AND LECoMProN.
Mr.. Douglas, at Milwaukee, denied in the most
positive manner that he the author of the Le
compton Constitution. He said:
can Abolition newspaper has just been placed in nv
hands, containing what purpOrs to be correspondent,
between Breckiurdge committee in Kansas and certain
citizens of that territory have of knowing
whether this correspondence is genuine or fictitious
have looked over the names attached to it, and recog
nze no one as personal acquaintance In this CORES
pondence am distinctly charged with being the author
OF the Lecompton Constitution. Great Laughter dc
not blame you for laughing at that statement. Renewed
aughter If there is any statement earth that ought
to seem udicrous and aughabe it is charge that kind
but nevertheless the charge is distinctly made that
only devised the LecompOn Constitution but that it
submitted to me, and that approved it, together with
The plan of submitting the slavery clause desire to saw
TO you emphatcaly that it is in every particular
never saw the Lecompton Constitution until after it had
been adopted in Kansas by the Convention and sent 70
the President of the United States for accepancp
saw the schedule by which the slavery clause was sinh
milted until after was forwarded to the States for pub
caton never heard nor conceived nor dreamed tha
any man on earth ever thought of such scheme I make
these statements distinctly without equvocation or men
tai reservation appeal to God, in the presence of high
heaven and this audience that the charge is false care
not who made it. Tremendous applause"
lie then goes oD to aver that from beginning to
end he was opposed to the Lecompton Constitution,
and particularly to the schedule for submission.-
Gov Walkers policy had his approval throughout.
Mr. Douglas repeats that he never wrote a letter
to Calhoun approving the Lecompton Constitution
or any part OF it, and he defes the publication of
any Wora OF MS which may be fairly construed to
that end On the other hand, We have a circular
OF Breckinridge Committee of Kansas, in which
they adduce the evidence of seven or eight citizens
an Democrats some of whom swear that they saw
the letter, and others that Calhoun often acknowI-
euged the receipt of such letter.
LEGISLATIVE ELECTION.
RICHMOND, Oct. 20.-Mr. Nelson, Breckinridpe
Democrat to-day elected to the House OF Re-
presentatives of this State, from Fluvana county,
by GA majority.
GEORGIA pOTITrCr
AUGUSTA, Oct. 2l.-There are active measures in
progress to concentrate the vote of Georgia on one
ticket. An Executive Committee has invited the
Douglasites and friends of Mr.. Bell to fraterniza-
movement.
FUSION IN. PENNsYLvANIA-THE STRAIGHT DOUGLAS
TICKET wITHDRAwN-THE READING TICKET EN-
DORsED.
Last evening the Douglas Straight Committee
held an adjourned and final session al the Girard
House. Thirty delegates were present General
A. Il. Roumtort presided. The following resolu.
tiOns were adopted
That this committee does hereby withdraw the
electoral ticket heretofore appointed and published
by its order and direction.
That regarding, as We have from the first-bOth
on account of the regularity of their nomination
and the clear consistency of the platform upon
which they stand with that adopted by the READING
State Conventlon--Douglas and Johnson to be sole
" entitled to receive the democratic electoral vote
or pennsylvania, we are not permitted to doubt
That vote will be given to them by the electors
now lett in nomination, in of success-and es-
pecialy as the history of the country in the past
Las never except in a single case, shown failure
on the part of any elector chosen by the peo-
pie to cast his vote according to the instructions
the convention appointing them.
That thus believing, we deem it proper under ex-
isting circumstances, for the harmony of the de-
mocratlc party OF Pennsylvania, to recommend to
the united democracy of the State the electoral
ticket as it was originally formed at Reading in
March last-now wholly free from questionable
pledges and committals.- Press, Oct. 49,
MR.. DOUGLAS AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. Louis, Oct. l9.-Mr. Douglas arrived here at
haf-past seven O'Clock to night in the packet City
ot Alton He was received by a large crowd of
his political admirers, and he is now addressing
them from the Court House steps. lie will leave
for Jefferson City tomorrow morning.