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DRUGGIST,
IM, - -.a n » a
| APOTIIECArtY,
) ALSO, DEALER IN
PStati onery, Perfumery,
FANCY ART3CI.ES, &.C.,
Lane & Watts’ old stand, Buena Vista street.
©ns .LiEisSj aibiso
f£y Fine Wines, Brandies, &c., for Me
dicinal purposes, always on hand.
(|y Physicians prescriptions are accurately
compounded of the best articles that can be
procured. janl8-tf.
C. A. JlJDSO\,
^JARPENTER AND JOINER, Also,
Dealer in Sash, Doors, Mantles, WTindow
and Door Frames, &c.
23?* Shop coi ner of Erwin and Park streets.
TIES ARC, ARKANSAS.
V B.—Coffins made to order, on short
i notice. feb22:ly.
B. B. JOHETSOH,
BOGGY AND CARRIAGE
Mamifaotnror,
Hickory Plain, Arli.,
Will make and repair Buggies
and Carriages, &c., to order. Or
ders respectfully solicited.
iiy All orders will be readily attended to,
all new work warranted twelve months. I re
turn my thanks to the public for past favors,
ami hope to receive a liberal patronage in the
future. nov23-tf.
JTs. lYIMlKSOV.
SADDLE, BRIDLE
-A N D —
Harness sVfannfacturer,
DES AUC, ARKANSAS.
RESPECTFULLY informs fev--,
the citizens of Prairie and
adjacent counties, that he has on hand, <T,.n 1M0
and is prepared to manufacture to order,
Saddles, Bridles, Martingales, Buggy,
Carriage and Hack Harness,
As well as every other description of work
usually done in such establishments.
fy Shop on Lyon street, back of Frith &
Jackson’s store. jan21-ly.
bTjcK SMITH I JYG~~
Wagon and Buggy Making.
MARTIN SHETTER,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
THANKFUL to the JCK
I people for their past fa-f( jj
vors,respectfully announces v v
that he has opened a shop at T. V. Lee’s old
stand, on Park street, where he is prepared to
do all kinds of worn in the above line.
C5?“Biack3mitlnng, wagon and buggy build
ing, wheelbarrows, repairing, &.C., done on
short notice.
(i5P“Horse-shoeing done promptly,
feb 18-tf
JOHN IMcNAM E E,
T .11 i o a,
Des Arc, Arkansas.
SHOP ON BUENA VISTA STREET—
opposite the “Nucleus House”—where he
[s prepared to execute all kinds of work in
nis line of business, in a neat and fashionable
fltyle.
jluly 27, 1859.—[tf]
wm7 greensl ade,
•Merchant Tailor,
Des Arc, Ark.,
SHOP on Buena Vista street, one door West
^ of the Post office. All work executed in
a heat and fashionable style.
feb29-ly.
Jordan bodemeh,
SHAVING, hair-cutting,
hair-dressing SALOON.
SHAMPOOING and hair-dying,
DUENA VISTA Street, south-side, two
77 Jo°rs east of CT. & J. McLaren’?, Des
■*r*t Arkansas. janll-tf.
L tiAJtUJo.
DR. J. W. BURNEY, P„y„«Ax 7n
Surgeon, West Point, Arkansas. Offe
his professional services to the citizens of tl
town and adjacent country. [auglo tf
TVRS. mRDSONG & TUCKER, Res
I | J DENT PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS AND A:
, coucheurs, having formed a co-partnershi
' offer their professional services to the cit
zens of Des Arc and surrounding country.
From their long experience in their profe
i 9*Qn they hope to share a libera] patronage.
!S^"ParticuIar attention given to all chn
nic diseases of females.
Office—Buena Vista street, first room u
stairs in Perry & Jackson’s new building.
augl5 tf J
J. BLANTON, M. D. JNO. R. BLANTON, M. 1
DR. J. BLANTON & SON.. Physician
and Surgeons. (f5?” Office and res
dence, Centre Point, Prairie county, Arkai
9a9>__ Ca'ig8 ly
T. SANDERS. ' " J. L. NF.F.l
r\ RS. SANDERS & NEEL. Resident Phj
* ' sicians, Des Arc, Ark., having formed
partnership in the practice of their professior
tender a continuation of their services to th
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent countrj
Office —up stairs, corner of Buena Vista an
Woodruff streets. my26-tf
DR. H. ARMISTEAD having permanent
ly located at Des Arc, offers his pro
fessional services to the citizens of the tow
and adjacent country.
Office on Lyon street, Martin & Simp
son’s Law Office. [march21-0m
Dr. WM. BETOELL will continue thi
Practice of Medicine in Des Arc am
vicinity. From his long experience in hi:
profession, and having resided in Arkansa:
during the past fifteen years, he hopes t<
receive a share of the public patronage.
Office at Balsiv’s Drug Store. Resi.
dence near the forks of the Little Rock and
Searcy roads, first, house on the South side oi
the road, entering the town. mar21-ly.
J. J. LANE.. H. CHAMBERS.
DRR. LANE & CHAMBERShavingform
ed a partnership in the practice ol
their profession, tender their services to the
citizens of Des Arc and adjacent country.
From their experience they hope to share
at least a portion of the patronage of the
public.
•33T Office on Buena Vista street, at Bai.s
ly’s Drug Store. feblrtf
DR. N. L. RAGLAND,having located at
the residence of R. B. Trezevant.
(formerly B. B. Allens place.) 2\ miles from
Wattcnsaw Landing, offers his professional
services to the public.
(gg* Particular attention given to dcseases
of women and children. jan 1-ly,
TUI. YV. F. YVALSH, having located ai
IJ Des Arc, offers his Professional Ser
vices tG the public. Calls promptly at
tended to. may29,1858-ly*
SW. SORRELLS, M. D., Physician and
• Surgeon, Brownsville, Ark. Office—At
Lightfoot’s Drug Store, Main st. je2-tf
J NO. JAY WILKINS, Attorney at Law.
and Solicitor in Chancery; Oakland
Grove, Prairie Co., Arkansas. Will give
prompt attention to all land matters, the
cflUection of claims which may be entrusted
toni's care, and the practice of his profession
fenerally in the counties of Prairie, Pulaski,
ope. Perry, White, Monroe, Conway, Jeffer
son, Yell and Jackson. augl5 tf.
j) T. SIMPSON, Attorney at Law. Des
Arc, Arkansas. Will practice in Prai
rie, White, Arkansas, Monroe, Jackson, and
the adjoining counties. Office on Lyon street,
jy 18,I860"
S. W. WILLIAMS. J. W. MARTIN.
WILLIAMS & MARTIN, Attorneys
at Law, Little Rock, Ark. Will
practice in the counties of Pulaski, Prairie,
Perry, Yeli, Pope, Conway, White, Jackson,
Monroe, Arkansas, Jefferson, Hot Springs and
Saline, and in the Supreme and Federal Courts,
at Little Rock. jy 18, 1860.
rjl J. WOODSON, Attorney at Law,
| . Des Arc, Arkdnsas, will practice in the
Fifth Judicial Ciicuit, and the counties of
White, Jackson and Monroe.
*,* All business entrusted to his e&re will
be promptly attended to. inay5-ly.
AW. McNEILL, Attorney at Law, Des
• Arc, Arkansas, practices in the courts
of Prairie and adjacent counties. g3?”Office,
corner of Erwin and Lyon streets. [apll.
El W. DOUGLASS, Attorney at Law,
J • Brownsville, Arkansas, will promptly
attend to all business entrusted to him, in
Prairie. Arkansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jack
son and White counties.
*„* Prompt attention given to the collection
of all elaims entrusted to his care. apr28
B. D. TURNER..WM. T. JONES.
'BURNER & JONES, Attorneys at
Law, Brownsville, Arkansas. Will at
tend promptly to all business entrusted to
them. jan4-tf.
rg8 R. LAWRENCE, Attorney at
* * Law, Des Arc, Arkansas. Will Prac
tice in the Counties of Prairie, Arkansas,
. T .. ~ 1. url.lfn .. tul Ct LVc .. r. ; O
Prompt attention given to all business entrust
ed to his care. Office corner of Walton and
Woodruff Streets. jan4-tf.
Q H. HEMPSTEAD, Attorney at Law,
Little Rock, Arkansas. Office on Mark
ham street. janll-tf.
R. S. GANTT. W. J. BRONAUGH.
ri ANTT & BRONAUGH, Attorneys
VT AT Law, Brownsville. Arkansas. Will
attend promptly to any business confided to
them. septl4 tf
TB. KENT, Attorney at Law, Des Arc.
• Arkansas, will practice in the courts of
Prairie, White, Monroe, Arkansas, St. Fran
cis, Jackson, and Independence counties. All
business intrusted to his care shall meet with
prompt attention. (Jr^” Office on Lyon
street. [jun8-tf
T E. GATEWOOD, Attorney at
(} , Law, Des Arc, Prairie county, Arkansas.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie. Ar
kansas, Monroe, St. Francis, Jackson, White,
Conway, and Pope. Will investigate Land
Titles, and act as General Land Agent.
Prompt attention given to all business entrust
ed to him.
Office—First door up stairs, one dooi
East of John Jackson & Co.’s, Store.
febl3-tf. 9
J. L. H0LL0WELL.. D. JACOWAY
HOLLOWELL & JACOWAY, At
torneys at Law, Dardanellc, Arkansas
Will practice in the counties of Yell, Perry
Saline, Pulaski, Prairie, Conway and Pope.
je26-tf
JACOB T. MORRILL, Attorney at
Law, Notary Public, and Justice oh
the Peace, Clarington, (Sualish,) Monroe
County, Ohio. (jul27-tf.
; DBS ARC CITIZEN
J~ c- MORRILL, EDITOR.
°ES ARC, ARKANSAS:
WEDNESDAY.OCTOBER 3. 1860.
p Mr. Bell’s Chances.
The New York Journal of Commerce.
_ confessedly one of the most dignified and
s reliable papers in the country, has the fol
- lowing statement in regard to the strength
of Bell and Everett at the North :
“Bell and Everett at the North_
- A Southern editor asks us to give a listof the
a Bell and Everett papers in the non-slavehold
, ing States. It is out of our power to do so ;
b hut the number is very small. To the best ol
our knowledge and belief, the Boston “ Cou
1 r'er” is the only one in New England. In the
* State of New York are the New York “ Ex
press” of this city, the Ontario “Repository,”
- and, probably, a few others. There are, also,
. we presume, two or three in New Jersey. As
i at present advised, we should say there are
not above a dozen in the non-slaveholding
. States. The strength of the party is at the
South; but as there in every State the Bell
party is smaller than the Democratic party,
; and in most of the States smaller than the
I Breckinridge party, it would seem to be the
1 part of wisdom for them to unite with l he
1 iatter ; and so defeat Lincoln, which is their
principal aim, as it should be of all national
men.
“ There is not the slightest probability that
Bell and Everett will get an electoral vote
North of IVlason and Dixon’s line, unless by
co-operating with other parties, as in the case
of New Jersey, where three Bell men are on
the Democratic ticket.
“If the “Express” or any other Bell and
Everett paper will publish a list of the papers
of its class in the non-slaveholding States we
shall be happy to copy it.”
While t is true as the Journal says,
“the strength of Mr. Bell’s party is in the
South,” yet even here it is inconsiderable
and utterly impotent for good. Mr. Bell
has never been a favorite with the mass
of Southern 'Whigs, and is incapable of
exciting enthusiasm under any circum
stances. Already defection to his cause
exists among the Whigs of Virginia, Geor
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, and formidable
accessions to Breckinridge have been made
HPl. • . -__„ _
ticeable in Alabama. In this State the
Montgomery Mail for twenty years the
organ of the Opposition is giving Mr.
Breckinridge a cordial support. Judge A.
F. Hopkins and Hon. W. P. Chilton, both
life-long Whigs—both having held the
highest judicial station in the gift of the
people, and both men of national reputa
tion, are actively engaged in the canvass
for Breckinridge. Hon. James Abercom
bie, Hon. S. P. Rice, Hon. Thomas. J.
Judge and Hon. B. M. Woolsy, all of
whom have frequently been the recipients
of the suffrages of the Opposition for Con
gressional honors, have abandoned Bell
and are now enthusiastically for Breckin
ridge. In Mississippi a similar slate of
things exists; many of the ablest Whigs
of the State have taken position for Breck
inridge. Col. Geo. H. Young of Colum
bus, a man of great ability and influence
and an active Whig, has abandoned Bell
and Everett and now supports Breckin
ridge and Lane. The same is true of
Gen. P. B. Starke and Hon. A. M. West,
both members of the State Senate. Col.
II. II. Purdom, a Whig member of the
House from Hinds county is also for
for Breckinridge. Col. Charles D. Fon
taine, the opposition candidate for Gover
nor in 1S55 and Gen. Clarke, a Whig
candidate for Congress in 1857, are also
for the Democratic candidate. In Geor
gia there has been equally as great a stam
pede from Bell and concentration upon
Breckinridge.
The questions which now agitate the
country and threatens the disruption of the
Union, present no points of difference for
the division of the people of the Soutli
into Whigs and Democrats. No longer
are the bank, internal improvements, tariff',
&c., the shibboleths of party. Issues of
far greater importance now demand of
every patriot the harmony and unity of the
South. The South united will strengthen
the arms of the Northern conservatives
and enable them to defeat the enemies of
the Union. But discord and division at
the South paralyzes the arm of the Union
men at the North and encourages the ef- ^
forts of the Black Republicans.
That there is no chance for Bell is evi
dent to every man; but when the same
condition of affairs existed in 1856, wt
were told that Filmore’s chances were su ,
perior to Buchanan’s. The result is knowi!
to the people of the South, and from i
they may form a judgment upon the pre \
sent canvass. The only chance that Join |
Bell has militates in favor of Lincoln.—
His friends present the South as dividei
between a semi-Abolitionist and a true
sound, conservative Democrat; and this .
division encourages the hopes and spurs
the eneigies of Abolitionists to accomplish t
a victory, believing that a people who di
vide into parties, and choose between Bellj
land Breckinridge, will naer be able tc
, unite in resistance to any agression. VVe
know that the Bell men of f^ie South are
true and sound in their deration and at
tachment to their section; hut,this knowl
edge does not exist among th^Abolition
ists of the North. They knoJfiVIr. Bell's
votes infovor of the reception olAbolilion
petitions; they know his deductions in
favor of the Abolition of slave* in the
District of Columbia—they kmW what
would hive been the operation of his in
iquitousamendment to the Ilomestfed bill,
and seeing that all these measures Militate
I against ihe interests and instituiion&f the
South, anil that their author is supported
by a portion of the Southern people, Vhey
naturally conclude that the supported of
Mr. Beil are semi-Abolit.on, as the pln
ciples of Mr. Bell are more than se^i
Abolition. The error of this conclusLi
on the part of the people of the Noi^i
will become apparent too late to save ll*
Union. Under the belief that they havl
allies among the Bell men of the South’
the Northern Abolitionists in power will
push tbeir aggressions until Bell men and
Breckinridge men, and men of all parties
by one common consent, will rise in re
sistance to the Federal Government. Lei
this erroneous impression be dispelled ai
once before it accomplishes the mischief,
To do this, let the Whigs of the Soutl
abandon Bell and unite with their Demo
craticfellow citizens in harmonizing the
South,
An Interesting Document.
The announcement hy Mr. Douglas ai
Petersburgh and Norfolk, that he would
treat those who attempt to dissolve the
Union on the account of the election ol
Lincoln, as Jackson treated the nullifiers
in 1332, has induced some of our Geor
gia cotemporaries to republish a letter ad
dressed by Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, tc
a committee of gentlemen at Augusta,
Ga., in the' year I8-5U A perusal"of the
Iptfpr will slintu flint
les without gloves those, who, like Mr.
Douglas, maintain that the right of seces
ion is merely a right of revolution. Can
the ticket with such a head and tail mis
lead a sufficient number of the Democracy
of tire South to give a single Stale to the
opposition. In the following ettrnct he
affirms the right of secession and denoun
cesMr. Douglas’ idea of co-etch" a sov
ereign Slate :
‘•The contest in which the people of Geor
gia in common with her sister glareholding
Staes are engaged, is one of vilil impor
tant. It involves the destiny of the South,
ant' the federative character of oir system
of (overnment. It is waged upon the right
of i State peaceably to secede 'rom the
Urion. The Gubernatorial candidite of the
Sothern Rights party maintains tie affirma
tiv, and the candidate of the tnibmission
paty the negative of this great mcstion.—
Ttj one, that the right necessarly results
frcn the reserved sovereignty of die States
an the nature of the confederacy; and the
otter, that it exists only as a rig’lt of revo
liiton. The former insists that tie General
Gverpmen has no right to co-ercen seceding
Stte ; and the latter, that such seeding State
mat depend, for the maintenance if its posi
tin, ‘‘upon the stout hearts and string arms of
a rec people.” The one, unhesititingly and
btdly avows that if a Southern Stste were to
scede, he would not obey a requistion by the
Fdeial Government made upon him as the
Eet.utive of Georgia, for troops o force her
bck into the Union; and the otherdeclares he
“'Ould convene the Legislature o' the State,
ail recommend them to call a eaivention of
tli people ” to instruct him in an emergency
invhicu the impulses of the trie Southern
hert should be a sufficient guide. The great
isse then, 1 repeat, is the i igtt of a State
toseccde from the Union, andthe correl
ate absence of any right, on he part of
tli Federal Government to foue such a
Stte back into the Union. It cainot be eva
rid by THE SENSELESS CLAMOR
O’ UNION ! THIS GLORIOUS UNION!
Te integrity of the Uuion is not assailed by
tfe Southern Rights party in Oorgia. Its
tne friends arc those who inslstupon main
tjiiing the rights resulting froa the sover
efnty of the States. Its real enemies are
tv..... .nl,n i'~~ _ _ .1—i v ...
try,” level their destructive artllery against
it strongest outposts, by couuseing suiiimis
s>n to aggression, INJUSTICE.nd ROBBE
Rf, because, like ‘-a wolf in sheet’s clothing,”
tby come under the H YPOCRI'ISCAL GARB
O' COMPROMISE. Then let avigilant peo
pe look well to the true and oily issue in
vlved in the pending campaign—the right of
aSUte peaceably to secede i’roa the Union.
In the next extract that wi present he
fisumes that the signs of the iines render
. probable that, at no distint day, this
ight of secession will assunn a form and
nagnitude of practical impoimice :
Whoever observes the signsof the times
:annot fail to see that the RUliT OF SE
CESSION will probably, at iO distant day,
ASSUME THE FORM AND UGN1TUDE
)F PRACTICAL IftlPORTiNCE. The
South is a permanent minority n our Federal
legislature. The tone of Nortlnn fanaticism
ibates not in its frenzy and insolence. It
iresses on rapidly to the consummation of its
iiabolical designs. And whatcheck has the
South upon its progress? Hav we any under
he established rules of parlimentary law ?
Can we expect any justice at te hands of the
iresent Freeseil Executive an; his Cabinet?
Can we effect anything by ammenband ap
ieals to the reason of our NCATHERN OP
PRESSORS? CAN WE OTA IN SHEL
PF.lt UNDER THE BROAf SHIELD OF
PUE CONSTITUTION? .O! All these
,re as impotent as pack threa to restrain an
RREPRESSIBLE AND FANATICAL MA
ORITV.
-How many a man, by trowing himself
o the ground in despair, crusts and destroys ,
orever a thousand flowers of lope that were ,
-eady to spring up and gladde all bis path- ]
vay. I
The Coalition.
“THE PATRIOTIC NAT.OVA L UNION DEMOCRAT!
HAVE CO OPERATED WITH US MOST MANFUL
EV, AND WE MUST HEREAFTER CONSIDEI
THEM AS BRETHREN.”
The reader will at once recognize tin
above ns an extract from Gen. Combs’ let
tor to Prentice. The “patriotic Nationa
! Union Democracy” referred to are tin
Douglas men of Kentucky. Squatter Sov
ereignty may consider itself honored by
such an affiliation, but every sound Demo
crat will regard himself as disgraced by
the association.
The name of the party of which Gen.
Combs deserves to be recognized as chief,
can never be so changed as to conceal the
malignancy of that party to the Democra
cy of the old State-Rights school. There
is, however, no expedient, no contrivance,
no unworthy artifice to which it will not
have recourse to decoy unsuspecting Do
tnocrais from the love of cherished duty.
It succeeded, for a time, so well with vows
administered in dark lodges, that it is ex
ceedingly hopeful of the alluring prospects
ipresented by Squatter Sovereignty. It may
Wrap the unthinking and enlist the dis
affected, but they will both flee from it
'V>en they find out the blunder they have
cqnmitted, as good men flee from the de
mValizing influence of bad men.
Ve appeal to every Democrat who is a
Democrat in anything but name, to pause
before lie takes the leap into resurrected
Kuon-Nothingism. Douglasism is lead
ing nVny in the South blind-foldedly thi
ther, tyiile it is leading as large a number
in likelpianner, into the vortex of Black
Republicanism in the North.
The \)emocratic party, with John C.
BreckimVlge as its standard-bearer, occu
pies preckely the same position it did
in 1800, yitb Mr. Jefferson at its head.
It adheres rig idly to first principles—to the
Constitution, in the letter and spirit in
which it "Vs adopted. It can coalesce
. i. _ r. i i • . ...
TfTnT-uv mv'vmih wrm.ii a mi a uf-tiTU Si 1^ 111
est violatioulpf any of the provisions of
that invaluable boon to an infant country
It abhors resuscitated Know-Nothingism
in the slave Suites |ust as much as it ab
hors rampant fjee-soilism in the non-slave
Lolding Stales. It will not soil the hem
of its garmentsWith either.
Is there a Douglas man in the Union,
who has not Kri»w Nothing or Republi
|can proclivities, who will not be shocked
at the expression of Combs that he is in
debted to “the National Union Democra
cy” for making him ‘'the instrument of po
litical redemption”—(hat is the resurrec
tion of buried Know-Nothingism.
In the memorable political contest of
55-56, tens of thousands of well intention
ed Democrats were decoyed, by the novel
ty of the thing, into the dark recesses of
Know-Nothingism. As manfully as in
dignantly did they emerge from the pesti
lential caverns which they had been indu
ced, by stealthy means, to penetrate.—
When the followers of Douglas in the
slaveholding Slates discover, ns they can
not fail to do after reading the letter of
Combs, that they are practically in alli
ance with their old arch enemy, they will
loose not a moment in escaping from the
meshes so artfully prepared for them. If
the letter of Gen. Coombs is a correct in
dicator, the candidacy of Douglas will be
as much loathed in the South us was that
of Martin Van Buren in 1818. A united
Southern Democracy, aroused to a sense
of common danger, will manifest its un
qualified condemnation of it. Nor do we I
believe that it will bo in better favor with
the true Northern Democracy. It will
occasion us no astonishment, whatever, if
it does not receive the vole of a solitary
elector, North or South.
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Mr. Douglas in Virginia.
The Richmond Enquirer has the fol
lowing notice of Mr. Douglas’ speech in
Richmond:
Indeed, the “demonstration’’ was even a
worse failure than the speech.' And as to the
speech, it is enough to say that Mr. Douglas
made a very great blunder in speaking at all.
Nowhere else are the people so well accustom
ed to good stump oratory as in Virginia. No
where else is stump speaking so constantly,
carefully and critically cultivated. Nowhere
else are the rank and die so thoroughly inform
ed in matters of political fact and theory. A
political candidate for any office appearing be
fore a Virginia audience with a piping voice,
anawkwaid manner and a prosy speech, is
already half damned in their estimation. Arid
a candidate for the State Legislature who
would commit one-half the blunders in rela
tion to well known political facts which Mr.
Douglas committed on Friday night, would be
severely taken to task, on the spot, by a ma
jority of his audience. When a Presidential
L'andfidate informs an intelligent audience in
Virginia that they voted for squatter sover
eignty in 1848 and 1856, and when hundreds
jf Ins audience know that the Virginia reso
lutions and addiess of 1848 denounced the
loctrine is unmeasured terms—and even re
fused to support any candidate known to be
:omraitted to it—and that a similar repudia
ion was even printed on our electoral ticket
n 1.856, such a state of things can only serve
o disgust every intelligent listener. No won
ler, then, that a number of our substantial
litUens who went to the capitol grounds dis- ■
msed to vote for Douglas, left wdth open ex-1 ,
iressions of contempt for the candidate. 11
Mr Douglas as Whipper-in for Lin
■ . coin
Mr. Douglas has recently appeared he
fore the people of the South in a nee
rule—that of Lincoln’s whipper-in.—
During his recent electioneering tour ir
Virginia, he informed the people that lu
would aid the President against any sere
ding State. The Democracy of the South
tnught in the school of Jefferson am
Madison, and accepting the resolutions o
’9S and '99 as their creed, believe in tlx
right of a State to secede, and that s
State is to be the judge of the cause of se'
cession. But Douglas, Haskin and the
eighteen millions of the Nortli think dif.
ferently. We have only to say to Mr
Douglas that whenever he undertakes tc
co-crce ns Lincoln’s Lieutenant, the sov.
ervign States of the South, the gallows ol
John Brown will he re-erocted, and he
may find himself pendant therefrom.
John Brown, says the Richmond En
quirer, begun the co ercing process which
Mr. Douglas is to perfect under the Pres
idency of Lincoln, and the people of Vir
ginia have not forgot their handiwork in
his execution. This doctrine of co-ercing
sovereign States, though old and familiar
at the North, is new and unaccustomed u
the people of the South. The elder Floyd,
when Governor of Virginia, caused Geu.
Jackson to know that Federal troops
should not cross her borders except over
the dead bodies of her sons. A similar
spirit still animates tho people of the
South, and Mr. Douglas will find this new
rule one of no little difficulty.
Mr. Douglas has fully and fairly, and
we may say boldly and defiantly proclaim
ed his purpose. His own election he
sees to bo impossible. He knows he will
not receive the electoral vote of a single
State. He has stumped New England
and New York, not against lire dominant
and powerful party in these States. Against
the Republican.pony be utte.red._jio .word
of objection; but against his late associates
ol the Democratic party lie leveled nil
the invectives which disappointment and
chagrin could invent, lie came South
to create divisions and discord, to break
up the unity of the South; her only hope
against tire aggressions of the North. His
speeches and candidacy are a help to
Lincoln, and he is the most efficient
aid to Black Republicanism they could
have selected. The future Jlid-de-canvp
of Lincoln has demonstrated the truth of
the remark that “ Squatter Sovereignty
is a short cut to Black Republicanism.”
As a fitting rebuke to this iufatnons
avowal of Mr. Douglas, we p-eseut to
our readers the following protest, signed
at the Virginia White Sulphur Springs
by a number of eminent citizens of the
South, accidently assembled at that place:
“a protest.
Tlie undersigned, citizens of the Southern
States, accidently assembled at the White
Sulphur Springs, have read with much sur
prise the speech of Judge Douglas, recently
delivered at Norfolk, and being many of them
too remote from their homes to take part in
any public expression of opinion there, deem
it due to themselves to make known in this
manner their dissent from its doctrines.
In this address, Mr, Douglas declares that
if tlie Southern States (not a part but all)
shall secede from the Union, upon the inaugu
ration of Abraham Lincoln, it will be tlie
duty of the President of the United States,
who, in tlie case supposed, will be Lincoln,
by arms to punish or subdue tbern, and that he
will counsel him to do so and aid him to do so
by all the means in his power.
Now as there is a large party at the North
avowing the most implacable hostility to the
institutions of the South; whose candidate
for the Presidency is Mr. Lincoln, this decla
ration of Mr. Douglas is in cifect—that the
election of a man to the Presidency of the U.
States, by the votes alone of one section, who
is pledged to use all the powers of the Govern
ment for the destruction of the rights and
property of the other section, would not jus
'ify the weaker in resistance, but that if in such
n., in.. .. ..i.....i.i
assume to determine on the extent of tlieir
danger, and to quietly withdraw from it, he
should regard their action as revolt, and as
such to be punished with all the force of the
Government. Than this we can conceive of
no doctrine more dangerous to the South. It
confounds resistance to established law, by
individuals which it would be the duty of the
Chief Magistrate to punish, with the peace
able Secession of States from a compact no
longer consistent with tho interest or existence
of its constituents; but it treats the Union as
a perpetual bond, exacting unconditional sub
mission, forever, from a weaker to a stronger ,
sectiou. it sti ips the States of the chief at- ;
tribute of sovereignty, to-wit: The right to I
determine when their existence is put to haz- :
ard, as to the means necessary to their preser- 1
vatlou,and allium that, while it is legitimate 1
in the people of tho North having control of 1
the Ueneial Government, through it, to inflict j
upon the States of the Sou'll whatever wrongs 1
it may be con ditent with their interest or
feelings to impose, it would be treason in the 1
people of the South to ouey the orders of
their States in opposition to Federal author
ity. . ... a
Fraught with error as this doctrine is, sub
versivc of thatcoiistitutional theory, in which
alone the rights of the States are to be fouud, v
it fias, at this moni -nt, and under the circum- a
stances, a bloody significance. The enemies i
of the South, in tile Nortnern States, have se- •
lected Abraham Lincoln to lead them in the 1
irrepressible conflict,” which he has p o- '
claimed. Mr. Seward, the most distinguished
.•ounselor of Mr. Lincoln, declares at Boston
hat the election of Lincoln is sure—that
with it the power of slavery will end, and
liat the “ ii repressible conflict” will be
tressed to its infamous and bloody close.
Ai such a moment the proclamation of such !
eu irnents by Judge Douglas, (coming imme- I [
liately after Seward’s Boston speech,) uttered •
lere at the South, aud addressed to tho citi- J a
zona of n State whose Executive declared ter
General Jackson, that Federal troops should
only cross her borders over the bodies of her
■ sons—-by a man from the North, from the
, neighborhood of Lincoln himself, a candidate
for the Presidency, volunteering his counsel to
Lincoln, and, in the event of his election, his
aid to wage war upon our people and to elay
them in battle as rebels, or hang them in cold
blood as traitors, if they shall render obtdi
ence to State rather than Federal authority,
is repugnant to every sense of right, and
, merits from the people of the South, the
severest rebuke. Such a rebuke, we sincerely
, hope, will be given the doctrine and iU author'
at the November elections.
James Lyons, Richmond city.
John Perkins, Louisiana.
Allen 3 Izard, South Carotin*.
H It finrgwyn, North Carolina.
H li Runnels, Texas.
Edward Haile, Florida.
T> W Spratt, South Carolina.
John Cunningham, do
H V Barksdale, Virginia.
George R Drummond, Virginia,
John Miars, do
E C 'Thomas, do
J G Keilts, South Carolina,
A R Illakey, Virginia.
John C Griffin, do
A 1) Henegan, South Carolina.
Charles Irby, do
V M F, Funt, do
JDantler, do
W Eilerington, do
Phillip Howerton, Virginia.
William H Terril, Bath co., Va.
N F Borve, Virginia.
Robert or Taylor, Virginia.
George M Bates, do
John W Street, do
W A Street, do
H B Tomlin. do
Wm. Polk, Louisiana.
W E Johnson, South Carolina,
John Prosser Tabb, Virginia.
Mini's W Fisher, ito
Belaud Noel, Mississippi.
Langdon Chores, South Carolina,
Wm C Bee, South Carolina.
Wharton J Green, North Carolina#
Edward O Satchell, Virginia.
George F Wilkins, do
A Saltmarsh, Alabama.
Jos A Graves, Virginia.
Thomas B Lynch, South Carolina#
Wm R Peck, Louisiana.
J A Riddick, (^Virginia.
W A Selden, do
John A Selden, do
G B Sungeltary, North Carolina.
"The Impending Crisis.”
Under tlie above eruptian the Lynchburg
Republican lias the following sensible view
of 1 hn Mnvnsu ia nn
[•original Douglas man, and wo commend
liis patriotic suggestions to the attentive
perusal of all Douglas men :
To cry over spilt milk Is a whim, barely ex
cusable iu a prattling child j but when Indulg
ed by adults and sensible men, it is an inexcu
sable and disgusting folly and weakness. Tba
faults which have been committed are irreme
diable now, and we consult neither the duty
of patriots or statesmen when We stop tor
criminate and recriminate amongst ourselves
as to the causes ami agencies which precipi
tated our present disasters upon us. The na
ked question now presented for the solution of
every Democrat Is: shall Virginia be lost or
saved to Democracy iu the pending contest?
Shall the glorious flag of our party continue
to wave in unbroken triumph over our soil, or
be permitted to trail iu the dust of disgraceful
defeat! For ourselves, we hesitate not to say
that Virginia must not be lost, that she must
and shall be saved. And we call upon the
“Spartan band” of Democracy in Lynchburg,
witli whom, shoulder to shoulder, we have
fought an hundred battles—and we call upon ,
that noble army of Democratic friends in •'W
the surrounding country, who bare so ofren
sent up their triumphant greetings on the day
of battle—we invoke them to gird on their ar
mor and march to the affray. Especially do
we call upon the friends of Judge Douglas to
abandon that distinguished gentleman. Did
Judge Douglas stand the least chance to carry
the State—did we not know that ha is not as
strong by far in Virginia as Mr. Breckinridge,
we would not make this appeal. On the con
trary, if we believed he was aa strong as
Breckinridge, we declare here that we would
lling his llag to the breeze ami fight for him
to tile close of the Campaign with aa mucb
zeal as we expect to battle for our present
ticket. But no candid man will pretend to
say that such is the case. No man thinks that
there is a ghost of a chance to carry the 8tute
for any one but Breckinridge and Lane or Bell
and Everett.
A vote for Douglas, therefore, in the present
aspect of affairs, is a vote for the Opposition.
It can do Douglas no good,and will do Breck
inridge harm. It will weaken our cause,
without improving, in the least that of Mr,
Douglas. Wliy,then, in the name of patriotism,
should any Democrat cling to the fortunes of
Judge Douglas? Every Democrat at the
North ought to vote l'or him, because there be
is strong and lias the best chance of success.
But here, iu Virginia, he has no chance, end
every Democrat ought to vote to secure the
State for Breckinridge and Lane, or, for that
it may be, under jane of the lesolutions of the
Charlottesville Convention, that the vote of
Virginia may be cast for Douglas, even though
Breckinridge electors may he chosen. Is not
bis fair and patriotic? Does any Douglas
Democrat want the vote of Virginia thrown
iwny? Do not ali of their: want it cast in the
lest'way to defeat Lincoln ? Why, then, vote
or electors who confessedly stand not a ghost
if a chance to carry the State?
When we resume our editorial duties (in a
’ew days) we think we shall be able to con
duce every reasonable Douglas Democrat in
Virginia that every consideration of duty and
latriotism requires him to sustain the flag we
ustaiu. in the meantime, we think the sim
ile fact that our life-long enemies, the Whigs,
.re shouting their notes of anticipated victory
n our ears, flaunting their flags in our face,
nd laughing in their sleeves at our suicidal
i vision, is sufficient to arouse the ancient fire
f every Democrat, and make us all a band of
rothers.
Once more to the breach, then, Democrats,
ear friends, once more!
There have been endless disputes
bout the distinction between pride and
unity. One fact is sufficient to show the
astnesa of the diffeieuce. Many men
re almost pleased to be called proud.—
fou can call no man vain without insult
ng him. Another surely sufficient dis
iuetion is, that the former is one of the
mncipal guardians of women, and that
he latter is oue of their most frequent be
rayers.
-A man who assisted to empty several
lottles of wine, afterwards took a walk, in®
aveinents were quite icy, and he exclaimed :
Y'-e-r-y singular, whenever watei freezes, it
lwaya free4e* with the fl-ijq>ery aide up.