The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-09-04


| right Their platform is the platform of every
man of every party, and of any man of any princi-
Piles. 1t means, if it means anything, too much;
and reminds me of the clowns coat, who, after
putting it and wrapping it all around him, said
alt had too much fit" Their election, so far as
the great and main question is concerned, would
fix nothing and settle nothing. Certainly, SO far
as the claim of equal protection to property is
concerned, it settled it ALL it would be against
us and against the right. Their platform is sheer
humbug-a cheat-a political omnibus, which, in
attempting to carry everybody, will end in carry
ing nobody x And true and thought
full Southern men have too much at stake, and
ought to be too much in earnest to beat Lincoln
with Breckenridge and Lane, to stop by the way
side to parey or quarrel with the few who support
either of the two weaker tickets. If they won't
unite with us, we must push on to victory and
leave them to throw away their votes they
please ~
| ! How MUCH INTER EsT-What vast amount
of interest the opposition papers of this State
now taking in behalf of Mr. Douglas Nearly
every Bell paper in North Carolina is engaged in
complimenting Stephen A. Douglas and his friends.
We ask democrats to look at the course of these
oppositionists, and see if they cannot understand
the matter. Is it not for the purpose of dividing
has not been three months since every opposition
press in the State abused Mr. Douglas for being
worse than black republican, and denounced
every democrat who spoke favoraby of hnl Now
look at their game Will democrats suffer them
selves to be deceived by such inconsistency? We
hope not.
Here is what the Raleigh Register said in Au-
gust, 1859, about Mr. Douglas:
"What then is the conclusion? This, aud only
this-that every southern man, well every
northern man, who gives his support to Stephen
A Doug las, sanctions the doctrine that the Terri
torial Legislature may by 'unfrendly legislation"
prevent slavery from being Introduced Into the
Territories, Danish slavery from the Territories.
The Raleigh Star lard, Messrs Branch, Scales, and
others in North Carolina-James G. Jones and
others in Tennessee-ex-Se Foote and others
in Mississippi, and many more besides, are all
ready to support Stephen A. Douglass and are
therefore ready practically to assert that there is
no right of property in slaves; and if this-no mat
ter what it may be caAed, popular sovereignty
or what not-is not Blach republication, then
things equal to the same things unequal to
another-then there is no such thing as an axiom
attic truth-then maxms are humbugs, and COM
mon sense IA deIusion."
Bss- The Democracy of Virginia, in the pre-
sent campaign, will poll larger vote than in any
previous canvass; and Notwithstanding the defec-
ton of the Douglas men in the State, the electoral
vote of Virginia will be given to Breckenridge
and Lane by a majority over Douglas and Bell
combined. From all quarters and sections of the
State, from tie Ohio to the Atlantic, the most en-
couragng accounts have been received at this
office.
The true and gallant States Rights Wings of
Virginia are rallying to the support OF the Demo-
cratic party.--Riehmond Enquirer.
STATE SoLIcIToR.-David Coleman, Esq, has
been appointed State Solicitor for this Judicial
District, by Judge Osborne, to fill out the unexpir
ed time of Marcus Erwin Esq, who could not
hold the office and at the time that of State
Senator.-AMeuWe Ncws.
JUDGE DOUGLAS IN TowN.-Judge Douglas
arrived in Raleigh yesterday on the three O'Clock
train from Weldon. There quite number
of our citizens at the Depot, some attracted by
curiosity, and others with desire to honor the
man. Henry W Miller, Esq, in few appropriate
remarks welcomed him to the Old North State.
Mr. Douglas replied in few words, thanking the
citizens of Raleigh for their kind reception. His
voice was so low that we could not hear him dis
tnctly After the Judge had concluded his re-
marks, Henry W. Miller Esq. proposed three
cheers for the Hon. S. A. Douglas, to which about
dozen voices responded There was scarcely any
enthusiasm for Mr. Douglas, and the excitement
OccaSloned by his ARRIVAL was OF SNORT uurdtlou.-
Raleigh Press, 30th
Look OUT FOR THE lend OF THE WORLD. =
The Millerites commenced their religious services,
it is claimed, in North Wilbraham, Mass. The
sect now numbers $4,000 in the United States
and the Canadas, and they gather in camp meet
ing from nearly every State in the Union. A por-
ton of the brethren look FOR the Millennium be-
fore the last of March, 1861; others are confident
that the world will last ten years and two months
longer, while others predict universal overthrow
in about sixteen weeks.
LIBEL SUIT.-A correspondent of the Peters
burg Express, writing from Salisbury. C., says:
at has been rumored about our streets that one
of our most enterprising citizens has sued the
editor of the Greensboro Patriot for libel, laying
his damages at $4,000. The facts of the case,
as near as could learn, are follows:
During the struggle just before the election, to
defeat some of the candidates, the editor of the
Patriot published an article creating"
means of procuring votes. In his article he said
that Myers strychnime would be used pretty
freely" On this ground Mr. Myers has sued the
Patriot for the aforementioned damages. Hoy
the matter will end, [ leave to older and wiser
heads. Ifa suit is brought | will aequaint your
readers"