The register. (Monroe, La.) 185?-1861, 1860-08-09
Political.

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The Wig Gays that the man who would do
hberateIysutter fuch sentence ms that deliv-
cred by Dr. Bard. in Lis late speech in this city.
that Mr.. Soule would "address Us ofthis city
some time during the present canvass. proyt-
ded our people would permit him 10 talk trca.
son in thcir preeen.e, deserves coat Of tar
and feathers" We think the editor OF u
Wing Is more harsh than parliamentary In his
allusion to DR.. Bard. We dislike tosee ed.
tors indulging in such severity Of language IN
their criticisms Of the speeches Of public men,
It sounds ugly-it looks forbidding thereis
no music in the sound of such notes-none
whatever. Therefore we always endeayor to
confne ourself TO the rules of editorial propn-
ETY. and courtesy. We trust, however. that We
may be pardoned If we should say, that the
Souther man who would deliberately argue
that a miserable territorial legislatnre, COM
posed ola few miserable purchased vagabonds
sent out from Abolitioudom by the agency Of
some .Emigrant Aid Society,"" has the right
and the power to exclude the property ofSouth-
ern men from their limits, deserves the witl~
ering indignation Of every honest southerner
in the land-a whip Of scorpions ifyou like the
term better. D- ..N-
If Mr.. soule holds this opinion, these 70.
marks apply to him. If any man in the South
holds them, he will please consider himself
particularly alluded to by US in the foregoing
remarks. There is something go alhorrent in
the proposition that the property Of Southern
"a ha drsv Crox,o torr; kors ,,yso I,
were purchased by the common blood and
treasure of the whole country, by a handful
Of squatters, that we Can speak of it only In
terms of nnmeasured contempt. Such doc
trincs are treason to the South, fatal to her
best interests and may be regarded in no other
light than an open warfare against the princf.
pies which underlie all free governments.
sqnatter Sovereignty is worse than the Will
mot Proviso-it is short cut to all the ends
CT Black Republicanism, and to be repudiated,
loathed and scorned by the men Of the South
it is only necessary for It to be fully under.
stood Vicks1urg Sun, -
HENRY CLAWS. Son FOR DREcKISn1DcE.-1n
response 10 "a letter inviting him TO attend
ratification meeting, Mr.. Clay sent the follow
ing letter:
LEXINGTON, July Is, 1860.
| GENTLEMEN: have received your favor,
asking II e to come to Mt. Sterling Oh the 18th,
and address our fellow-citizens in behalf Of
Breckenridge and Lane.
It would afford me great pleasure to meet
our friends Of Montgomery. but II previous en-
gagemeut will prevent my doing SO OH the oc-
casion NAMED. caunot conceive how any por-
ton of the Democracy of Kentucky can fail to
give their support TO Breckenridge, the man Of
our own State, and standing upon the very
principles enunciatcd by our State convention
of the 9Th of January last besides. my MUD
is very clear upon the point that democratic
votes cast for any other candidate must inure
in the first place to The benefit of Bell aud
Everett, and finally to that of Lincoln.
| Hoping that you may have large and har-
monious meeting, ] am, very respectfully, your
obedicnt servant, JAMES 3. CLAY.
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