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man holding tho doctrines laid down IN the
Harper Magazi eessay. He said the South must
have protection from Congress for slavery in the
Territories lie made one point in his speech
that attracted attention. He said that If the
Convention nominated nuy Northern De,aocrLt
for President. the Southern delegates would
Withdraw in body unless the Convention re-
to Federal slave codo for the protection Of
Slavery in the Territories. The Cincinnati
platform would not be received unless its 1nean-
ing Was clearly defined. and the candidate non,-
mated on it sone Southern man such rs Stc-
phens, Hunter, Slidei or Dasis-some rtprtstat-
"safe platform in himself" squatter Soyer-
eighty advocales could not be nominated. The
South would ucver support Douglas or any
man holding his dangerous doctrines. lie de-
fe5ded The Lceompton Constitution and de-
nounce4 Douglas for oPpeslngh it, n1.tsns sna an
10 refuse. TO admit kausas. into tho
Union until she lad complied with a}l
the requirements Of the English bill. tie
affirmed with great emphasis that the election
Of d Republican President would be- sufficient
for the South to withdraw from the Union. and
none, he said, but fanatical fool ulllsttempt
TO prevent her. .,:
,Douglasis is too much cowea to reply inlme.
diately to- the assault Of lyerson- Green will
also attack him to-day,
heard last night that the President had up
,ptinted Sidney Breese, one Of the Judges of our
trict Of Illinois, rice Pine, removed. Iran Nye,
Snowhook, Mngill and dozen others who l.ave
been applicants, feel very much "cut up" about
this singular appointment. They are swearing
worse than "our army in Flanders" Iunder-
stand that Judge Breese had applied to Old
Buck for an Office, telling him that he would re-
sign his 81 ,sou 4 year Judgeship whenever he
could get Que that would pay better The Mar
shalship is worth from eight to len thousand .
year, aud there were SO many applicants for it
that the President could not choose between
them, and concluded that the best thing lie
could do was to give his old friend Brecse 4
bone to pick.
Cook has been triumphansly sustained on all
the counts alleged against him. The President
eaye the whole case his personal nrestigation.
he says TINT lsnac is u prosecuted man, d faith-
iul officer, aud first rate National Democrat.
He has given HorotioI King and others to under
stand. that it f"they don't let his friend Isaac,
ot Chlcago, alone, he will cut every one oftheir
d---d heads of, smack md smooth" The old
fellow sworc 1oundly ut the persecution, and
harassn'ent to which Cook had been subjected.
The lntter told the President that if be permit
ted those hounds in the Department to devil
him any more under the icstig CATION Of Douglas;
lie would throw up the Office aud 20 over to
The Black Republican party, as his 1ricnd Col.
Lcib had done, and then what would become Of
|, the Spartan band Of National Democrats in 1li-
:nois ! Buck brought down decanter Of an
cient Mouongahela,p pure and genuine, badc Isaac
drink, 60 home aud attend to his Office aud the
National Democracy, and to fear no harm while
he had command in the White House.
Senator bright, Of Indiana, started for In
dianapolis yesterday morning, to see it lie could
head off the Douglasites at The State Conven-
tion which meets on Wednesday. Fitch is just
from Indiana and reports that the Douglasites
tyitl hnyH c0ntr01 nf tho Convention that fhet.
secured delegates from many counties By iraudu-
lent means, md that the party will be complete
ly demoraiized and divided, if that faction gets
| the upper hanl in the Iloosicr State. Fitcl,
thinks that Bright can do nothing TO prevent
the advocates of Squatter Sovereignty from,
packing tue: delegation to Charleston ayainst
! the National Democrats, as they have managed
| to get a mejority Of the Convention, and will
| carry matters with high hand. He predicts
| that tue Republicans will sweep Indiana next
full by an immense majority, us the" Natlonals'
would rather tue State suou1d fall into the
hands Of their natural opponents than that the
'Nutionnts' should DO ruled uua tyranized oyer
| by bogus Democrats of the Squattcr Sovereign
| t. School, The Hard and SOFT Shell war tha:
ragged for several years in New York, is abou,
to be waged 10 Hoosierdom. Five Of the dele.
gates elected from Congressional Districts iu
Ohio arc unfavorable to Douglas, and viii ep.
pose making popular sovereignty platform.
The weather here is soft, wet, 1nurky and
sloppy. The co1dest day this winter the Ther
mometer stood si1 degrees above zero.
| Cu1cAGo.