DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
GENERAL JO. LANE,
Or OREGON.
‘•The Constitution and the equality of State
—these are the symbols of everlasting union
Let these be the rallying cries of the people.’
Breckinridge.
“Instead of breaking up the Union, we in
tend to strengthen and to lengthen H.-Breck
INRIDGE.”
“I am an American citizen—a Kentuckian—
who never did an act or cherished a though
that was not full of devotion to the ConstitU'
tlon and the Union.”—Breckinridge.
“We know no section as distinct from tb<
other; we know the Constitution and vth<
States under it, and their rights as guaranteed
under that instrument.”—Joseph Lane.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONNL EX. COMMITTEE.
The following named gentlemen compos*
this Committee :
How. I. I. Stf.vf.ns, of Oregon, Chairman,
Hon. R. W. Johnson, of Arkansas.
Hon. JelFersun Davis, of Mississippi.
Hon. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana.
Hon. Thowas 8. Florence,of Pennsylvania,
Hon. Geo. W. Hughes, of Maryland.
Hon. John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky.
Hon. John R. Thompson, of New Jersey.
Hon. A. B. Meek, of Alabama.
Augustus Schell, Esq, of New York.
Isaac A. Wright, Esq, of Massachusetts.
Hon. Jas. G. Berret, of Washington. D. C.
Wm. Flinn. Esq., of Washington, D. C.
Walter Lenox, Esq., of Washington, D. C.
M. W. Cluskev, Memphis, Tenn., Sec’ry.
G. W. Brigg, of Wash’ton, D. C., Trea’ek.
All communications nuuuiu uc auuicoacu to
Hon. Isaac I. Stevens, Chairman, of Wash
ington, D. C. Rooms of the Committee at
No. 28. 4{ street.
National Democratic Platform.
Reported at Charles on by a Ma
jority ot he Committee, and
unan mously adopted at Bal
timore.
Resolved, That the platform adopted by
the Democratic party at Cincinnati be affirm
ed. with the following explanatory resolutions:
1st. That the government of a territory, or
ganized by an act of Congress, is provisional
and temporary, and, during its existence, all
citizens of the United States have an equal
right to settle with their property in the Ter
ritory without their rights either of person or
property being destroyed or impaired by con
gressional or territorial legislation.
2d. That it is the duty of the Federal Gov
ernment in all its departments to protect, when
necessary, the rights of persons and property
in the Territories, and wherever else its cou
stititional authority extends.
2d. That when the settlers in a Territory,
having an adequate population, form a State
constitution, the right of sovereignty commen
ces. and being consummated by admission into
the Union, they stand on an equal footing with
the people of other States—and the State thus
organized ought to be admitted into the Fed
eral Union, whether its constitution prohibits
or recognizes the institution of slavery.
4th. That the Democratic party are in favor
of the acquisition of the Island of Cuba on
such terms as shall be honorable to ourselves
and just to Spain, at the earliest practicable
moment.
5th. That the enactments of State Legisla
tures to defeat the faithful execution of the fu
gitive slave law arc hostile in character, sub
versive of the constitution, and revolutionary
in their effect.
6th. That the Democracy of the United
States recognize it as the imperative duty of
this government to protect the naturalized cit
izen in all his rights, whether at home or in
foreign lands, to the same extent as its native
born citizens.
Whereas, one of the greatest necessities of
the age, in a political, commercial, postal and
military point of view, is a speedy commum
canon ueiween lue ruciuc auu Anannc coasts ,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Democratic party do
hereby pledge themselves to use every means
in their power to secure the passage of some
bill to the extent of the constitutional author
ity of Congress for the construction of a Pa
cific railroad from the Mississippi river to the
Pacific ocean, at the earliest practicable mo
ment.
KEEP IT BEFOIIE THE PEOPLE 1
To show thoroughly Mr. Douglas is com
mitted against the decision of the Supreme
Court, on the question involving the powers
of a Territorial Legislature, we publish below
in parallel columns their respective views on
this subject:
“ The right of pro-' “ The people of a
perty in a slave is dis ^Territory can, by law
tinctly and expressedlylful means, exclude sla
affinned in the Consti-lvery before it comes in
tution,” and that “ nolas a State and “no
tribunal acting underimatter what may be
the authority of the|the decision of theSu
United States, whetherpreme Court on that
it be legislative, exe-iabstract question, still
cutive, or judicial, hasthe right of the people
a right to draw a dis-jof the Territories to
tinction or to deny to it make a slave Territory
the benefit of the pro-lor a free Territory is
visions and guarantees,'perfectfand complete.”
which have been pro- [S. A. Douglas,
vided for the protection,
of private property.”;
“And if Congress it-i
self cannot do this—if;
it is beyond the power'
conferred on the Feder-:
al Government-it could;
not authorize a Terri-i
torial Government to'
exercise them. It could'
confer no power on any
local Government, es
tablished by its author-:
ity, to violate thcprin-:
ciples of the Constitu-'
tion.” “The only pow
er conferred is the pow-;
er coupled with the du-,
ty of guarding and pro
tecting the owner in
his right.” [Supreme
Court, U. S.
“The assumption that the inhabitant of a
Territory have the right of self-government is
unfounded, unconstitutional, without example,
and contrary to the entire practice of the Gov
ernment from its commencement to the pres
ent time.” JOHN C. CALHOUN.
“It has been advanced that these people,
while a Territory, have a right to do any
thing and everything that belongs to the rights
of man. I cannot conceive that they have.
»•••«•»••
“We have always gone upon the ground that
these Territorial Governments were in a state
of pupilage, under the protection or patron
age of the General Government. The Terri
torial Legislature has a constitution prescrib
ed by Congress. They have no power not
given by that Congress They must act with
in the limits of the constitution granted them
by Congress, or else their acts become void.
Ihe people under the Territorial Governments
are not a sovereignty; they do not constitute
a sovereignty, and do not possess any of the
rights incident to sovereignty. They are, if
you so please to denominate it, in a state of
inchoate government and sovereignty. If we
will consider this question upon the ground of
our practice during the last half century, I
think we will find one way of disposing of it.
It is our duty to provide for the people of the
Teriitory a government to keep the peace, to
secure their property, to assign to them a
subordinate legislative authority; to assign to
them a subordinate judicial authority; to see
that the protection of their persons and the
security of their property are all regularly
provided for; and to maintain them in that
state until they grow into sufficient import
ance, in point of population, to be admitted
into the Union as a State upon the same foot
ing wilh (he original States. It seems tome
that this is all our duty. I shall most readily
concur in anything which lends to the per
formance of that duty. But I cannot go into
any general discussion about the rights of the
people while under the Territorial Govern
ment, and do more than they are permitted to
do by that constitution which creates a gov
ernment over them.”
DANIEL WEBSTER.
So that in regard to slave property, as in
regard to any other properly recognised and
guarded by the Constitution, it is the duty,
according to the Supreme Court, of all the
i courts of the country, to protect and guard it
by their decision whenever the question is
1 brought before them. To which I only add,
that the judicial decisions in favor must be
sustained. (Applause.)
If present remedies arc inadequate to sus
tain these decisions, I would have nothing
more done. I, with many other public men
in the country, believe they are adequate. If
they are not—if they cannot be enforced for
want of the proper legislation to enforce them,
sufficient legislation must be passed, or our
Government is a failure. ( Applause.)—[John
C. Breckinridge at Frankfort.
Gentlemen, I see no escape from this con
clusion.
Henry Clay on Slavery in thf. Terri
tories—In 1S37, Henry Clay, then Senator of
the United States, introduced the following
resolutions into the Senate :
Resolved, That any attempt of Congress to
prohibit slavery in the Territories of the Uni
ted States would create a serious alarm and
just apprehensions, would be a violation of
good faith toward the inhabitants of such Ter
ritory who have removed thereto with their
slaves, and because, when such Territory shall
be admitted into the Union as a State thf.
PEOPLE THEREOF SHALL BF. ENTITLED TO DE
CIDE THAT qUESTION EXCLUSIVELY FOR THEM
SELVES.
ABOLISHING SLAVERY IN THE STATES THE
REAL OBJECT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Admit that abolition in the States is what
all men ought to strive for, and it is clear
that a large majority are not prepared for this,
and the practical question is this—shall we
politically attempt what will certainly involve
us in defeat and failure? or shall we not
rather attempt that which a majority are
ripe for, and thus, by our consequent triumph,
INVITE THAT MAJORITY TOGO FUR
THER? Shall we insist on having all the
possible eggs now, or be content to await their
appearance day by day? The latter seems to
us the only rational, sensible course. We
care not HOW FAST Messrs. Birney & Co.
may rifeen public sentiment in the North
for emancipation; WE WILL AID THEM
to the best of our ability; but we will not re
fuse the good now within our reach of defer
ence to that which is as yet unattainable. Mr.
Birney’s “ultimatum” may be just what he
sees tit; we nave not proposed to modify or
meddle with it. We only ask that he shall not
interdict and prevent the doing of some good
at once, merely because he would like to do
more good, as WE SHALL ALSO, WHEN
EVER IT SHALL HAVE BECOME PRAC
TICABLE.— [New York Tribune, July 28th,
1854.
J. C. MORRILL, EDITOR.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS:
WEDNESDAY,....SEPT. 5, 1860.
(E5F* “Keep it before the People, that
Douglas cannot get a Single State in
the Union, and that he is running sim
ply to divide the Democracy, and to pre
vent the election of a Democratic Presi
dent 1”
TO OUR PATRONS.
We have now been engaged in the pub
lication of the “Des Arc Citizen” near six
years. On the 30th of September 1854
we embarked in our enterprise when the
town contained less than one hundred souls.
We have pursued “ the even tenor of our
way,” and at all times have advocated the
political principles which we defined in
our prospeclus, dated August 1st, 1854,
two months before the Citizen made its
appearance, which was as follows:
inn V> 1 A W. r, 11 Will 11 I •; v U.'O Oil 1UI/UOUI u»
governmental policy, both State and National,
without reference to the peculiar views of
cliques or factions, but guided by an earnest
desire to secure the “greatest good to the great
est number,” will fearlessly maintain those
principles which have ever tended to leave
(where it properly belongs,) all power in the
hands of the people. In a word, the manage
ment of the Citizen will be Democratic and
at the same time independent and tear
less.”
We have supported and adhered to those
positions which would redound lo the ben
efit of the town, regardless of individual
advantage or preferment.
22= We have a considerable amouut
due us upon our books, and if those who
owe us will come forward and pay up, we
will be enabled to enlarge our paper and
compete with those who are about to es
tablish a new paper in Des Arc.
We have no fault to find with those who
are about to compete with us for the pa
tronage of the public, and look to the De
mocracy of Prairie and adjacent counties
to hold up our hands in supporting and
maintaining Democratic principles.
We learn that the edict has gone forth
that we aie to be “ crushed out." But this
expression, certainly, must emanate from
a prejudiced few, and not from the mass
of our political opponents, as we have ever
entertained a different opinion of honora
ble warfare in politics.
gte)" We call upon the Democracy to
aid us in extending our circulation and
placing the Citizen in the hands of every
Democrat in Prairie county especially.
Bell and Everett Paper in Des
Arc.—The friends of Bell and Everett
have resolved lo establish a newspaper in
Des Arc. It is to be called the '‘Des Arc
Union”—W. H. Riiea, editor. Mr.
Rhea, we learn, is now in St. Louis, pur
chasing the necessary material for the es
tablishment. The first number of the new
paper will be issued in a few weeks.
Governor’s Election.—All the coun
ties in the State have been heard from of
ficially with the exception of Chicot. Rec
tors majority is 1959.
Congressional Election.—The of
ficial returns give Hindman in the First
District a majority of 10,352. In the Se
cond District Gantt’s majority, officially,
is 3,562.
Col. Hindman and Um. Thomason
1 at Dr.s Arc.—These two gentlemen ad
dressed the people of our town and adja
cent country on Monday last. The audi
| ence was large, and composed of as atten
tive and intelligent a class of people as can
be found in the Stain.
Col. Hindman led off in a speech of
one and a hall hours, in which he more
than sustained his well established char
acter as an orator and a statesman. He
showed that from the very beginning of
our present federal system of government
there have been but two perfectly distinct
and radically different parties, one of
which believed and maintained that we
were simply an aggregation of as many
distinct nations as there are States, with a
sort of joint attorneyship at Washington
to transact certain specified sorts of busi
ness, and the other of which believed and
maintained that we were a single nation,
with an elective chief at Washington —
that Congress was a sovereign parliament,
and that State boundaries were a mere
convenient division of the realm for local
purposes. He showed that in the days of
old John Adams, when the latter of these
two ideas had full sway, the entire Eng
lish system of thought and practice was
inaugurated and forced down the reluctant
throats of the Democrats of that period
The Alien and Sedition laws were passed
i by the federal party. These were times that
! Congress used to wait on the President in
a body, and the President, dressed in a
ridiculous sort of court dress, used to give
them a most gracious reception.
Col. H. showed that all these things
have passed away through the combined
efforts of the Democracy of the countryj
The Whigs succeeded the Federalists, but
alCough they only comprehended the “na
tional” idea of our system, they never ful
ly carried out the intense snobbery of their
predecessors. The Know-Nothings suc
ceeded the Whigs in their “Union-at-any
price” twaddle, but they departed still fur
thei from the silk-stocking respectability
of their defunct political ancestors. Col.
H. showed clearly and conclusively that
meanwhile opposed to them all, in every
ll,„ rrvan t 11 omneroen nl iiiutio nviot
, 0 — J -J- -
ed, and always insisted that the cardinal
idea of our system was formed on State
rights, and not on Congressional powers—
that our government was distributed over
ull the States, each in its own capital, and
did not lie, except for a few specified pur
poses, at Washington. He fastened upon
the Bell and Everett party that they were
adhering to the principles of Federalism
as exhibited in the early days of the Re
public. So far as Mr. Bell is concerned,
he proved the following facts inconteslibly
John Bell voted in 1836 to receive abolition
petitions, and was the only Southerner who
did.
John Bell voted against the repeal of the odi
ous Missouri Compromise, when the South
was unanimously in favor of it.
John Bell voted against the admission of
Kansas as a slave State, when the mass of the
1 South thought its rejection cause for the disso
lution of the Union.
John Bell favored the admission of Califor
nia under Squatter Sovereignty, against the
wish of the South.
John Bell favored the abolition of slavery
in the District or Columbia, as is shown upon
Congressional record.
He is charged with saying that he would
sooner coalesce with the Black Republicans
than see this Union dissolved.
We have thus given but a glimpse at
the positions occupied by the gallant and
unflinching champion of the Bkeckin
n t rvn Orv/4 I . i xr f
Gen. Thomason, in his rejoinder, ac
knowledged the superiority of Col. Hind
man over him. His speech, throughout,
was made up by reading extracts from the
speeches of distinguished men, many of
which the audience had previously read
for themselves, and the General’s failure
to apply his long extracts caused the first
portion of his hour and a half to fall tedi
ously upon the ears of his hearers. The
only points he made, worthy of notice, was
a furious and unpardonable onslaught upon
the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of
’98 and '99, and a vociferous praise of
Stephen A. Douglas, which caused the
Bellites and Douglasites to join in a mot
ley unison in praise of their candidates
In truth, several gentlemen who took their
seats during his speech, enquired, “who is
that defending Douglas so fiercely ?”
After Col. Thomason had consumed his
time, Col. Hindman occupied a half hour,
and Gen. Thomason occupied less than
his half hour in reply.
The Democracy throughout the State
may rest assured that the triumph of Col.
Hindman was complete. Gen. Thoma
son was driveu to the wall repeatedly,
while the Democratic standard was glori
ously held aloft by the invincible and gal
lant Hindman.
The reported duel between Col. |
Gantt and Dr. Mitchell is all bosh.—
The difficulty between them has been am
icably adjusted.
-♦
Can't go it.—We suggest that it is
hardly treating Mr. Bell with their usual
courtesy for so many of his opposition
friends to be spending their time and tal
ents in electioneering for Mr. Douglas.—
A good Democrat informs us that he was
pressed on all sides by some Bell men to
go for Mr. Douglas. He says he saw
their trick, and gave them the cold shoul
der, for, said he, “ when they got me to
go for Douglas they thought I wouid be
half-way for Mr. Bell, and then, as I was
so near them, I would then take the other
step. But let them hold; for I am for
Breckinridge and Lane against any and
all sorts of opposing elements.”—[Wheel
ing Union.
The Latest Epistle from J. H. Quisen
berry, Esq.
Des Arc, Sept. 4, 1860.
Editor or the Des Arc Citizen:—:Sir
in your issue just before the election for Re
presentative of Prairie County, you informei
your readers that, were 1 to be elected Repre
sentative, I would be in favor of John C
Breckinridge for President, and if beat, 1
would be in favor of John Bell. As you have
proved to be a tame prophet, with your permis
sion, I will tell your readers who I am foranc
the reasons, in as much as you have sprung
the question, and created some considerable
anxiety on the subject, I presume you wil
give this space in your paper, that I may set
myself right. When I took the stump al
Clear Lake the nominations for President bj
the Democratic party were not known here
I took the position that I would be in favor ol
any man (of good Southern principles) in thf
field that could beat Lincoln, the Black Re
publican. Since that time I have been pro
curing reliable information from every quar
ter in ray power, and after weighing every
thing, I find that Stephen A. Douglas is mos
likely to be able to effect that object; all th<
information I am in possession of, go to shovi
that he is the nominee of the National Demo
cratic party assembled at Baltimore according
to previous notice and by over a two-thirc
vote declared the standard bearer of the Na
tional Democratic party. Please tell you
readers that Stephen A. Douglas stands nov
where he did in 1848, and on every occasioi
since, relative to non-intervention or popula
sovereignty, or squatter sovereignty, and tha
the Democratic party, North, South, East an<
West, was with him up to 1856, if not up t<
the date of the Charleston Convention. Ye
sir, with him on those great and importan
questionsnow threatening the dissolution of tb:
Democratic party and the union, even Jno. C
Breckinridge, Jos. Lane and President Btich
anan, and great Democratic leaders was vvitl
him. Tell the people that Stephen A. Don
glas has always been true to the Constitution
al rights of the South, and was a leadingspir
it in the passage of the fugitive slave law
that he is the author of the Kansas Nebrask:
act, and repeal of the Missouri compromise
restrictions, whereby the principle of non
intervention was fully established, as the set
tied policy of our country, to which all Dem
ocrats North and South indorsed. Tell tin
people that Senator Brown made a propositioi
in the Senate last winter for the protection o
slavryy in Kansas by Congress, and only thre
voted for it, and because the same principb
was not admitted in the Democratic piatforn
at the Charleston Convention, many of thos
who refused to vote for it in the Senate, with
drew from the Convention and created a divi
sion in the ranks of the Democratic party,
am opposed to wire-working, office-controlling
dictating-county-caucnses as practiced; con
trolling the will of the people, but not oppoS
ed to a great, fair National Convention. I an
in favor of Stephen A. Douglas because he i
a National Democratic candidate chosen a
the standard bearer of the National Demo
cratic party through their delegates assemble:
in Democratic Convention at Baltimore, be
cause he is a consistent, conservative unioi
man, for equal rights, for standing firm by th
Constitution and preserving the union, bring
ing about peace, quietude and happiness in ou
country. It is to be hoped that all good unioi
Democrats will vote for Douglas, as well a
those conscientious as to voting for nominee
of the Democratic party ; friends of Stephei
A. Douglas need not mind to be frowned a
whilst they have the consolation to know the;
are ri^ui, uiuj i>y cue i/uiisucutjui.
the union of the Slates, and principles of sel
Government, as well as the true Democrat!'
party. J. H. QUISENBERRY.
The above is the last known emanatioi
from the brain of Q. He accuses us o
being “ a lame prophet.” We never pro
phesied as regards him, except in refer
ence to the five times he has been a can
didate in Prairie county, (three times fo
Sheriff and twice for Representative) ant
in every instance we prophesied he woult
be defeated, which proved literally true
During the recent canvass we expresset
the opinion that should Mr. Quisenberr;
be elected (of which there was no proba
bilily) he would vote for Breckinridge ant
Lane, if defeated he would go for Bell &
Everett. How far we missed our gues
our readers can judge by the above article
Q. boasted throughout the recent canvas
that he voted for Mr. Buchanan, ant
was a consistent Democrat. How man}
votes would he have received in the coun
ty, hud the people known his Douglas pro
clivities? The Douglas and Bell men an
cheek-by-jowl in Arkansas, and as then
is said to be but one step from the sublitm
to the ridiculous, so there is but one ste|
between the Bell and Douglas men inou
Qtota A bu c pnruln&pnnrlorl tn llio r 1 rl i
ulous in politics. Declared himself fo
Buchanan when he was for Douglas. C
consistency ! But anything to delude th<
Democracy and catch their votes. Op
poses conventions, and then favors them
Get thee gone political satan. The peoph
have consigned you to the shades of poli
tical oblivion, there may you remain r
warning to all men “who won’t tote fair’
in politics.
Q. has read us quite a homily in the
above article in reference to Stephen A
Douglas. We give him the following
hoping that it will not interfere with tht
regularity of his meals:
Stephen A. Douglas dodged the vote or
the compromise measures of 1850.
Stephen A. Douglas voted for the Wit
mot Proviso.
Stephen A. Douglas was a competitoi
for the Cincinnati nomination in 1856, and
being defeated by Buchanan, bolted aftei
the election, and made war on his parly
friends in the Senate of the United States,
and on his successful competitor, the Dem
ocratic President.
Stephen A. Douglas, when Kansas ask
ed to be admitted into the Union as a slave
Stale, stood up in the Senate with Hale,
Seward, Sumner, Wilson, and all the othei
Abolition Senators, and said “Keep her
out; don’t admit Kansas as a slave Stale.’1
While Buchanan, the Democratic Pre
sident, urged to have Kansas admitted os
a State and thereby settle the trouble about
slavery in that Territory, Stephen A. Dou
glas made this the pretext for opposition
tea Democratic Administration, and threw
himself with the Abolitionists against tbe
Democratic party during all of President
Buchanan’s Administration.
Stephen A. Douglas thought Squatter
Sovereignly a more certain means to ex
clude slavery than the 1Vimot Proviso;
that he sought to engraft it on the Cincin
nati platform by a strained construction,
and was not willing to give it up when the
Supreme Court decided against him ; that
he said "It matters not how the Supreme
Court decides the abstract question.”
When Lincoln, the Black Republican
competitor of Stephen A. Douglas, pressed
him at Freeport, and he saw Freesoiland
Senatorial honors on one side, and true
Democracy and defeat on the other, he
bent the supple hinges of his knees to
Freesoil, and turned his back on true De
mocracy, and said:
“The people of a Territory can, by law
ful means, exclude slavery from their lim
its prior to the formation of a State Con
stitution.”
The effect and purpose of Stephen A.
Douglas’ Squatter Sovereignty is to give
the Territories to the Northern States, and
take from the Southern people an equal
participation in the emigration to and set
tlement thereof.
Stephen A. Douglas says, by his Squat
ter Sovereignty, to the Northern people,
‘‘make me President, and I will give you
control of the Territories and enable you
to exclude the Southern people from any
[ part or lot therein.”
' The purpose of Stephen A. Douglas is
to barter away the equal and just rights of
the South to the people of the North, and
the consideration he expects is the Presi
dency.
HR. BRECKINRIDGE’S “TIPPECA
NOE SPEECH.”
The National Intelligencer makes a
candid and open avowal in reference to
the flimsy charge brought against Major
Breckinridge by the Opposition press, in
1 grateful contrast with the slalant Bellever
! ite organs in this latitude. The declara
, tions and opinions of such a courteous and
1 loyal opponent as the Intelligencer un
’ doubtcdly is, carry with them great weight
and influence, and for this reason we call
! the attention of our readers to the follow
ing statement:
! Several of our subscribers and correspon
. dents in the Southern States have requested us
’ to furnish the authentic report of a speech de
[ livered by Mr. Breckinridge, during the Pre
sidential campaign of 1850, at Tippecanoe, in
, the State of Indiana. In this speech Mr.
, Breckinridge was charged at the time (and the
’ charge has naturally been revived at the pre
. sent day) with the utterance of opinions syro
, bolizing closely with those of the Northern
j j Democracy in their devotion to “Ponular-Sov
! | ereignty” as an expedient for the settlement
, of the slavery question in the Territories.—
I Rebutting also the allegation that the Demo
I! eratic party was Sectional and Southern in its
leanings, Mr. Breckinridge was represented to
’■ have said at the same lime that “be belonged
I I to no party which favored the extension of
j slavery.”
The Intelligencer then proceeds to say
' that fragmentary citations and garbled ex
tracts, torn from their natural and logical
connexion, may be made to answer the
ends of an unscrupulous party warfare,
but rarely serves the cause of truth and
I fair-dealing. Candidly admitting that no
I authentic report of the Tippecanoe speech
had ever been furnished to the press, the
I Intelligencer refers to the statement lately
made in our paper, and copies at length
not only the language reported by Gen.
Miles, but the letter written to that gentle
man in 1856, by Major Breckinridge. It
then concludes with the following exceed
ingly important admissions :
It will thus be seen that Mr. Breckinridge,
in his Tippecanoe speech, was not called spe
cifically to treat on that form of the “Terri
torial question” which relates to the “protec
tion” of slavery as distinguished from its es
tablishment or prohibition. Denying the pow
er of the Genearl Government either to estab
lish or abolish slavery in the Territories, he
doubtless left in abeyance any expression of
opinion with regard to the manner in which
the inhabitants of a Territory, during their
Territorial condition, could regulate this sub
ject in their own way, “under the forms of the
Constitution 5” though it cannot be doubted
that his private opinion was coincident with
that avowed by Mr. Buchanan when, alluding
to the differences that early obtained on this
subject among the adherents of Popular-Sov
ereignty, he slated in his inaugural address
1 that “he had ever been of the opinion” that
, the PEOPLE COULD DEFINITE!? DECIDE THE
QUESTION OF S! AVERY ONLY IN PROCEEDING
, to form a State Constitut ion.
It is so seldom that we see in these days
I of political degeneracy partisan presses
i doing justice to their opponents that we
place, with pleasure, on record the conclu
I sive opinion of the National Intelligencer.
Fully convinced that it will produce the
[effect of a bomb-shell upon the Bellever
ite camn in manV sections nf ihe Stale
we would not be astonished if our adver
saries seek, by other equally “weak in
ventions,” to lessen its force.—[N. O.
Courier.
--
Douglas in New England.—The
j Philadelphia Pennsylvanian thus refers to
Mr. Douglas’ visit to New England,
where, since his nomination, he has de
livered more than a dozen speeches:
In the North, and particularly in New
England, the hot-bed of Abolitionism, and
reeking with infidelity, Judge Douglas
has been received with unusual honor, (?)
j —with huzzas, speeches, clam-bakes and
gunpowder in unlimited quantities. He
has been welcomed by large assemblages
of Abolitionists, simply as a Democratic
<1 is organizer. In the charming town ol
Worcester, in Wilson-loving, Sumner
loving, Garrison-loving, Washington-hat
| ing, Webster-hating Massachusetts—in
the town of Worcester, where the people,
a year or two ago, murdered a Deputy
; United States Marshal, in cold blood, for
having, a week before, arrested, as it was
his sworn duty to do, a runaway negro,
and where, we are informed, there are
| UOW two negroes in the Common Council,
was perfectly jubilant over the man whom
these fanatics recognize as the head and
front of Democratic disorganization. The
rail-splitting Abolitionists, the intellectual
infidels, the friends and admirers of the
“martyred" (hung) John Brown, thus
manifest how fully they have placed their
hopes in the disorganizing Judge Douglas.
They depend on him to elect Lincoln. They
j fete ana hurra over him in all New Eng
; land, as the hope of Lincoln. We do not
jest_it is sober, serious truth. JJougias
peculiar friends openly asserts (see tor
ney’s Press of yesterday) that they pre
fer either Bell or Lincoln to Major Breck- I
inridge. It is a great mistake to suppose
that Forney does not truly represent Judge
Douglas'views. He unquestionably echoes
the wishes and defines the policy of Dou- '
glasism.
-.
The Charleston Nominations.—
There were niue gentlemen before the
National Democratic Convention at
Charleston for the Presidential nomination,
viz: Messrs. Hunter, Guthrie, Douglas, .
Dickinson, Lane, Toucey, Davis, John
son, of Tennessee, and Pearce, of Mary
land. Since the Baltimore nomination
they have declared their preferences, as
follows:
For Major Breckinridge.
1. Hon. R. H. T. Hunter.
2. General Joseph Lane.
3. Hon. James Guthrie.
4. Hon. Andrew Johnson.
5. Col. Jefferson Davis.
6. Hon. Isaac Toucey.
7. Hon. James A. Pearce.
8. Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson.
For Judge Douglas.
1. Hon. Stephen A. Douglas.
Of the gentlemen prominently mention
ed in connection with the Democratic nom
ination, but who were not voted for at
Charleston, nearly every one has express
ed a preference for Breckinridge and
Lane. Among them are ex-Governor
Wise, ex-Speaker Orr, Senator Ham
mond, ex-President Pierce, Senator Sli
dell, Secretary Thompson, Senator Bright,
Hon. Howell Cobb and Senator Bayard.
MArtniEO:
In Caroline township, on the 30th ult., at
the residence of the bride’s mother, by Eider
Wm. Lewis, Mr. Wm. H. Lemmon- of Travis
county, Texas, to Miss Sarah Jane Davis.
XSIED e
Last evening, after a short illness, Mr. John
W. Wallace, in the 30th year of his age.
The deceased had been a resident of Dos Arc
during the past eighteen months, and was high
ly respected for his kindness and sociability,
lie was a native of Nashville, Tenn.
cw His funeral will take place this even
ing from his late residence, coiner of Erwin
and Thornhill streets. Services by Rev. Dr.
T. Sanders.
In Des" Arc, on the 28th ult., Caldwell
O’Brien, aged 1 year 7 monts and 14 days.
F. M. ROBINSON.. J. BRANCH.
Bobinson 4* Branch,
(Successors to G. W. Vaden,)
WHOLES ALE & RETAIL
DEALERS IN
Groceries and Produce,
ALSO — RECEIVING, FORWARD
ING AND COMMISSION MER
CHANTS,
septb] Des Arc, Arkansas.
Wholesale Dry Goods,
WE are now prepared to supply Mer
chants with their stocks of Fall and
Winter Goods, at prices which will bea^
favorable comparison with bills purchased at
any other market. Our Clothing was manu
factured especially for our trade. Our goods
are an rresn anu new anu we can anu win
make it to the interest of Retail Merchants to
deal with us.
SOUTHWORTH, NANCE & CO.,
163 Main St., Webster Block,
sep5-tf Memphis, Tennessee.
NOTICE
TS HEREBY GIVEN, that I will as Execu
tor of the Estate of George A. H. Smait,
deceased, made application at the October
term A. D. 1860, of the Probate Court of
Prairie county for an order to the follow
ing real estate, as the property of said George
A. H. Smart, for a division among the heirs,
to-wit: The S { of the N E J of sec. 34 in
township 5 north, range 7 west, containing
80 acres. Also, the N W \ of the S E J of
sec. 34 town 5 north, range 7 west, 40 acres.
JAMES SMART, Executor.
September 5, 1860.-lm
Notice
TS HEREBY GIVEN, that I will as
L Administratrix of the Estate of D. C.
Booth, deceased, apply to the October term
A. I), i860, of the Probate Court of Prairie
county, for an order to sell the following de
scribed real estate as the property of D. C.
Booth, deceased, to pay the debts of said es
tate, to-wit: The Northwest part of lot No.
2, in Block 26 in the town of Des Arc, being
12 feet front on Buena street, and 30 feet
deep. A. J. BOOTH,
Sept, 5, 1860.-4t. Administratrix.
Regular New Orleans, White
aud I.ittle Red River Packet,
SHOE-WHEEL 8TEAMER,
H. S. EATON,.Master.
THIS fine freight and
passenger packet having been
furnished with cotton guards, and otherwise
repaired, will enter the'trade soon after the
first of October, to continue during the season
as a semi-monthly packet. sep5-tf
(J^”“Prairie Democrat” copy.
To all Whom it May Concern.
NOTICE is hereby given that, at a sale of
“lands forfeited for taxes,” made in Feb
ruary, a. d. 1860, by William R. Miller, Au
..C A _ » 1 v.r
Martin, at public auction, purchased the fol
lowing tracts of land, to-wit: The west half
of southwest quarter of section thirteen, con
taining fifty-five and eighty-three hundredths
(55 83-100) acres, and paid therefor four dol
lars and seventy-two cents ($4 72). Also the
west half of the southeast quarter of section
thirteen, containing seventy-two and eighty
seven hundreths (72 87-100) acres, for fifteen
dollars and ninety-five cents ($15 95). Also,
west half of southwest quarter of section
twelve, containing one hundred and five and
four hundredths (105 4-100} acres, for eight
dollars and fifty-two cents ($8 52)—all said
land being in township seven north of the base
line, in range four west of the fifth principal
meridian. Also, at said sale, W. T. High
purchased north half of the northwest quarter
of section thirteen, in same township and
range as above, containing forty-six and forty
nine hundredths (46 49-100) acres, for four
dollars and twelve cents ($4 12): and said
Auditor, on the 13th day of February, a. d.
1860, executed and delivered to snid Joseph
W. Martin a deed, conveying to him all the
right, title, interest and estate of the former
owner and of the State of Arkansas in and to
the tirst three tracts above named, and on same
day executed and delivered to said W. T. High
a similar deed for last named tract of land,
which tract was afterwards conveyed by said
High to said Martin. Now, therefore, ait per
sons who can set up any right to said land so
purchased, by reason of any informality, ir
regularity or illegality connected with such
sales hereinbefore set forth, arehereby called
upon to show cause, at a term of the Circuit
Court of Jackson county in said State, to be
begun and holden on the second Monday after
the fourth Monday in May, A. d. 1861 at the
court house in the town of Jacksonport in said
county, why said sale should not be confirm
ed, pursuant to a petition to be by me then
filed on the chancery side of said court.
sep5 6w JOSEPH W. MARTIN.
. mn.K. w. vyiCKS. r t
**• L. K0Cf
Nock, Wicks, & Co
COTTON FACTORS.
.AND.
Commission Merchants
iVIIOLESALEUitOCERs
AND DEAL EDS IN
foreign <?r Domestic Liquors, Cigars,^
ALSO AGENTS FOR
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri Tobacco
AND AGENTS FOR
ffiaysville Cotton Yarns, Twine, 4C
No. 511 M**in St., bet 3d & 4^
LOUISVILLE. KY. ’
sep5-tf
R. C. McCarley & Co.,
DEALERS IN
staple and Fancy
READY-MADE CLOTHING, HATS,
Cups Boot-. Shoes. Hardware,
Queensware, &c.,&c.,
IP e s 'Ire, 'M r ka ns as.
sep5 tf
A. VVHIPPI.E. ARCH REID. H. O. HUPlsi^
PLANING MILL,
-AND—
Lusaina® Yiisi,
SASH, DOORS AND BLINDS.
WE have recently built a large addition to
our Plaining Mill, and fitted up our
manufacturing department with all the m0
dern machinery for the manufacture of Sash.
Doors, Blinds, Moulding, Mantels, Door and
Window Frames, Casings, Cornice, Brackets,
Newel Posts, Turning and Scroll Work, of
every style. We have on hand a large slock
of Lumber of all kinds, Flooring, White Pine
and Poplar W'ealher-boarding, Sheeting Shin
gles, Fencing, and a large lot of Cedar Posts.
Our manufacturing department is under the
supervision of an experienced foreman, andwe
flatter ourselves that as to price, quality, style
and durability we can compete with any aimi
lar establishment in the United States. Or
ders promptly filled.
WHIPPLE, REID & CO.
Planing Mill, near the Bayou on Madison
Street, Memphis, Term.
Sept. 5, 1860—ly.
"auction sale’
OF
Fall and Winter Goods!!
1 WILL commence AUCTION SALES the
middle or last of September, 1860. Due
notice will be given. A general assortment
of Dry Goods, Negro and Plantation Goods,
Negro Brogans and Boots, and Boots and Shoes
of almost all kinds, Negro Linseys, Cotton
Stripes, Kerseys, Osnaburg3, Jeans, Cotton
ades, Blankets, Ready Made Clothing, Hats
anil Bonnets, aauuicry. carpenters- aim rial,
tation Tools. Straw Cutters, Nails, Castings,
China ami Glass Ware. Also, a general as
sortment of Hardware, Books and Stationery,
Tobacco, Tinware, &c., &c.
J. H. QUISRNBERRY,
Auction, Commission arid Real Estate Ag’t.
Des Arc, Ark., Aug. 29, 18G0-3t
S' Best Route.
J PERSONS traveling Eastwad from D'!
Arc, will find it to their interest after
traveling about ten miles, to take the left
hand where the road forks anil cro<s Cache
river at the Upper Ferry, which is the oldest
and best road, and Ferry clear of causeway anil
mud. They can get Ferried at half price an!
will get printed instructions to travel towardi
Memphis, which will save trouble and ex
pense. Plenty corn and fodder. Attentive
ferrymen always at hand.
GEORGE W. MAYBERRY, ,
aug29-tf. Proprietory
HARRISON & SWEYER,
DENTISTS.
HAVING permanently located
Des Arc, are prepared to open
<~UUCLjHLFate in all the branches of DeHtH
try, Including continuous Gum Work.
'August 29, 1800—tf.
JUST RECEIVED”~
McLaren ^jackson,
nes Arc, Arkansas.
8 DOZEN silk, cassimere anil soft fur Hat*
assorted. Also, 1\ gross Garrett’s snua;
Turpentine in bottles; Quinine and Smith’*
Tonic; Star Candles; SodaJ Starch ; Brim
stone: Bar Soap, &c., &c.
Ang. 22, 1860.
FARM FOR SALE.
Containing 440 Acres,
40 ACRES
UNDER FENCE.
rpHE UNDERSIGNED will offer at public
4 sale,
On Monday, the 15th Occober Next.
On the premises, 3( miles south of Des Arc,
(if not sold soon at private sale,) his fine tract
of land. 440 acres, with 40 acres under fence
There is on the promises a good double log
house, well finished, and conveniently arrang
ed ; also a good smoke-house, negro cabin,
stable, and other out-houses. A good well ot
water, convenient to the residence. A young
orchard of Peach and Plum trees. Thestoct,
consisting of cattle and hogs, will also be sols
on the same day, together with a yoke of oxen
and wagon. ,
This land is situated within one m'[?°
Want’s Steam Saw and Grist Mill, on Wm-e
river.
Terms.—One-third cash on the 1st Januarfi
18GI—balance in one and two years; purefl
asers giving bond and approved security tor
the first payment, at which time possess!0
the land for the last two payments.
au22-tf JOSEPH EVANS.
G. m’laREN.S. N. JACKSON.
McLaren & jacksoN,
[Successors to G. Sc J. McLaren Sc Co.]
dealers in
Staple aut> iimen 0rj] (8>aoH
Ready-Made Clothing, Hats & Caps,
Bonnets, Boots & Shoes,
HARDWARE & C U TL ER V,
B 0 OK is, STJl TI ONER Y, &e.,
-ALSO— _
RECEIVING, FORWARDING ARP
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Aug. 221 DES ABC. ARKANSAS.
•'irtesiun IfVH.
T1HE MAYOR and Aldermen of tW
[ town of Des Arc, having made an appr ^
priation, and appointed llie undersignW ^
committee to contract for boring an Arte.
Well in said town, solicit propositions rr
all competent persons to bore and comp
said well at as early a day as possible.
JOHN JACKSON.
au22-3t J. H. QUI8ENBERR*._
noticTe.
ALL persons indebted to me for the P“
chase of property in Des Arc, must ® A
prompt pavmeiifs. „ . ,*•
feblitf S. P. CATLtn.