The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-07-27
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line NdSnNlllG DUHHcT AAO'i-' 49,
Gentry, Chas. Ready, Barclay Martin, and
Sterling R. Cockrill of Tennessee, have
abandoned Bell and Everett and declared
for Breckenridge and Lane.
A California correspondent of the New
York Courier and Enquirer says Mr.. LIZ
coin will receive thousands Of votes IN
that State, which would not have been
cast for any other Republican candidate.
Hon G. Denniston, a leading member of
the American party in New York and afew
years ago their candidate for Canal Com
missioner, has announced his intention to
support Lincoln and Hamlin in a speech at
Prattsburg.
The New York Journal Of Commerce, the
most influential Democratic paper in the
United States, says it is downright waste
of ammunition to vote for Douglas" 9th
ers are fast coming to the same conclusion.
The " True Democrat" is the title of a
Breckenridge and Lane paper that has just
started in Polo, Ogle County, Illinois.
Mr. Douglas in his speech in the L. S.
Senate, in May last, said: 4" Under this doc
trine of non-intervention the people of New
Mexico have converted a tract of FREE TER
RIToRY INTO SLAVE TERRITORY MORE THAN
FIVE TIMES THE SIZE OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK"
DR.. Thomas G. Staples, of Petts County,
Missouri, heretofore a strong pro slavery
man, has announced himself as the Republ-
can candidate for Congress in the Fifth Con-
gressional District of that State Republican,
ism must be fourshing where men volun-
tarily offer themselves as candidates. Mr.
Staples intends canvassing his district for
Lincoln and Hamlin.
The New York Tribune says that three
fourths of those in that city who supported
Mr.. Fillmore in 1856, utterly refuse to be
sold out by the Brookses to Douglas. Most
of the Fillmore men in New York are deci-
dedly for Lincoln.
a Douglas Democrat Of Davenport Iowa,
George f. Hubbell, after carefully survey
ing the whole field, is convinced that the
project of carrying enough Northern States
for Douglas TO throw the election into the
House, will only result in the election of
Joe Lane he tool of the Secessionists Mr..
Hubbell thinks the best way to defeat this
scheme is to go in strong for Lincoln, and
he has published a manifesto to that effect in
the Davenport papers.
Mr.. Douglas in his New Orleans speech
of 1858, uses the following language:
" SIaves are regarded as property, and are
PLACED on equal footing with all other prop
erty. Hence the owner of slaves-the same
as the owner of any other species of prop
erty-has a right TO remoVe to any Territory
and carry has property ruth him."
If so, has lie not the right to carry his
property into any of the States as well, and
hold it undisturbed If not, why not?
Thos. W. BARLEY Of Mansfield, the candi-
date of the Ohio Democracy last year for
Supreme Judge, and who was also dele
gate to the Charleston Convention has
taken the stump for Breckinridge and Lane.
Several gentlemen whose names were ap-
pended to the late BelI-Everett call for a
mass meeting in Cincinnati, have announced
that their names were so placed without
their consent.
The Winona (Mian.) Republican says
that Dr. Charles Bowen OF that State, has
announced his separation from the 'Squat-
terites - and declared his intention to 60 for
Lincoln. The Dr. thinks Douglas is but a
cats paw of the Southerners to throw the
elec ton into the House-whereby they can
retain their ascendency, and he isn't in for
that kind of an arrangement.