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{OLE NO. 8692. - — PRESIDENCY. The und of the Political Conventions of 1960. 2 THE PRESIDENTIAL FIELD. ‘ect im Washington of the Baltixn.-r Nominations, ac. &e. i Smrmant Aentics nominations decided upon by both ‘sf Uedemocracy at Baltimore on Saturday last se the list of candidates for the chief magistracy he U-ion to be voted for in November next. © pohtical battle field, the belligerent parties, the ba- operations, and the great strategists and their sub- vs, who will conduct the fight for power and the . are now fully before the ‘public; and to make the still more clear to our readers, we publish the sdopted at each Convention and the candidates . with brief sketches of the services rendered am to big country. — _ ; }OUGLAS DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIO) FIRST IN CHARLESTON, APRIL 30, AND AFTER- WARDS IN BALTIMORE, JUNB 18. resident... svephen A. Douglas, of Tinois fee President, ,Bevjaamin Fitepatrick, of Alabama. we, the democracy of the Union, ff The A gti yer affirmation of declared as a ratic Convention at democratic rable to ved, The the enact! ve faithful execution of the F ncbaracter, subversive of the constit their efiect. SKETCHES OF THE CANDIDATES. STEPHEN ARNOLD DOCGLAS, OF ILLINOTS. ‘The subject of this paragraph was born in the town of ,m the State of Vermont, on the 234 of April, , and is now in the forty-eighth year of his age. His , Whose name he bears, was a native of Rensselaer y, in this State, where he was a practicing physi- . He died leaving two children, one of them the ihject of this notice, who was but two months old that time, Stephen Arnold Douglas, at the age of years, apprenticed Limself to learn the trade Fay cabinetmaker, at Milbury. At this trade he age. for two, years, and getting wearied of songht the means of procuring an educa- Ae was admitted as a pupil in the Canandaigua y, and entered upon a course of classical , and at the same time studied law with an attorney: that village, and while there evinced a fondness for itics. In 1833 he moved to linois, and for some time taught school in the village of Winchester, in that State. le engaged tn teaching school he still continued his stadies,amd was admitted to the bar in 184. In the following-year, at the age of twenty-two years, he was appointed State Attérney by tho Legislature, which office he resipned in 1896 to take his seat in the Legisiature. Ge was youngest member OF the House, but svon was fod for his industry in ve matters. The first it on of importance which he took in legislation was in bg the extension of the ‘wild cat” banking system; put thy majority was opposed to his views, and the ex- susion meagpre Was carried. He was in favor of a mea- \re putting the failroaasconmplotely in the power of the te. He subseqventiy held, for a short titac, the post wx ever of the Land Oillce at Springfield, Lliuois. By she became a prominent politiciaa, and ran for «28 in 1838, but was Deaton by five votes. He stamp- «ate for Van Buren for the Presidency in 1840. In +, 1840, be was elected Secretary of State, aid in * wing February was elected by the Legislature a of che Supreme Court. He was sabseqaentty twice tec a8 a member of Congress, but oaly 4 one term * 9 wag elected to the Unitod States Senate, in 1347. aember of the lower house he took strong ground Lhe -Mestton of oar Oregon boundary, aud b longed at at tome to the 64 40.party. He hii always Deen an ad »ternal improvements; favored the Mexicaa the Independent Treasury bill, and has al- . ed the powor of Congress on the question whip in the States; opposed the Wilmot Proviso, eased himeelf in favor of the extension of the Tine to the Pacific. Has always becn a frien to vetend measures bill. During Mr. Pierce's admin the Kansas-Nebraska bill came up. Mr was Chairman of the Senate Committee wn ‘the Dill came, and finally engineered the pas considerably before the pub the question of slavery in the Territ PITEPATRICK, OF ALABAMA. Mr. Fitzpatrick, the candidate for the Vice Presidency, born in Green county, Georgia, Jane 29, 1802. ite wo" Weft an orphan when very young, and (n 1815 re: vith an elder brother to the Mississippi Territory. ta the valley of the Alabamf river, near ithe cliy of Montgomery, Alabama, now sands i aS GOO AM edncation as new countries gene a =, stadied law, and was admitted to practice in Foy was soon afterward elected Stato Attorney eg eat caibe ‘watt 1829. On seoonat of declining Aken abandoned Lis profession, aad sotily! Ani county, dovoriog hie Ume tothe vi erent cf hie cetate and in quiet steady ume 1849. La Wo served at a democratic candidat for Pros, elector for the State at larg 1841 te wee for Governor and was ¢ wir fe in 1843. ln Novembe MS, be reewived om Governor the appointinent of United stat nakar q @ccasioned by the death of Diew H ein of 1848-9, ant te which’ was fali teria of 9 OG Torr itories, Mi her of Pi a grec. i vaner | ANTI-DOUGLAS DEMOCRATIC CONVEN. | vd Th ] } ION. 1, & C.y APRE, BO, THEN IN TT, AND APraRWARDS IN 4) Tar CAYDIDATR Jobe C. Beeokiariige, of K Josoph Lane, of Oror mn iene Pevebared Repotvert, That fora ado} Uo democratic ‘Shemaail te wiirased, whi Yoo Ploy a ofa Territory organiset by the United Bae havo an democratic do here- rans fn their power to the extent of their months at Princeton; studied law at the Transylvania Institute, and was admitted to the bar at Lexington, where fie practised his profession with success. During the war with Mexico he served im onc of the Kentucky re- gimente as Major, and whilst in that country made many warm friends amongst the officers of the army, and es- tablished an honorable reputation as a soldier and a gen- teman. His ing over, he returned to the prac- tice of law in Kentucky, where he soon made a name for Dingell at p bar renowned for the learning, eloquence ar... Acumen of ite thembers. In fdi he wall cleoted to ene State Legislature. In this new sphere be at 026) ca His style is compact, severe and logical, whilst his views on public questions are marked by solidity and breadth. These qualifications induced the party to eetect him as their candidate in 1851—a Congres- iv the State. His opponent was Gen. R. P. Letcher. Amoong bis numerous and brilliant speeches, that on the Nebraska bill, delivered March 23, 1834, may be instanced General Joe Lane, the candidate for Vice President, was born in North Carolif™, December 14, 1901. In his the Ohio, in Indiana, where his family continue to reside. In 1822 he was chosene member of the Legislature, eerv- ing in that capacity, with occasional intervals, until 1846. He supported General Jackson in 1824~'28-'2, Vau Buren in 1336-"40, und Polk in 1844, Bis coarse while in tho honor from the stain of repudiation. None but those who were residents of the State in that trying time can suf- ficiently éstimate his invaluable services on this important question. In the year 1846 be was a member of the State Senate, but resigned his seat when a call was made on Indiana to furnish volunteers for the Mexican war. He entered the army a8 a private, and, in « few months af. lerwards, was General, with Lene a succession of ie to which he no words—more himself with a mind than of their mere Lames. THE BLAOK REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, MELD IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, MAY 18, ‘THR CANDIDATES. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinola. Hannibal Harnlia, of Maine. For President.. Por Vice President ATPORM. Resolved, That we, the delegated representatives of the republican electors of the United States, in Convention as. sembled, in the discharge of the duty we owe Wo our con- we declara- 1, That years, has fully ihe organ)zation and and that the causes wi demand its peaceful 2. That the maintenance of the principles in the Declaration of ludependence and embodied in the federal const itution—That all men are created cauals that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inaliena- bie rights; that among these are Life, Liberty aad the pur- sult of happiness; that to secure these rights govoraments are in: (ituted among inen, deriving ae powers froma the consent of the governed’’—is essential to the pr.er- vation of oar can institutions, and that the feddent conntry that no republicsn member of Congress has ut- tered ar countenanced the threats of disunion made by democratic members, without Poy: from their political associates; and we denounce: there threats of disunion, in ah AD npn cooking 4 of their ascendency, as the vital principles of a free government, aid as an avowal of trea. sou, which ft is the imperative duty of an it peo- ple Bternly to rebuke and 4, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each control its own domestic institations according to its own judgment exciowively , is emsential to that balance of pow- ers on whieh the cal fabric depend; and we denounce the huwlers invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of ermmes, exceeded Our worst serviency {0 the exactions of a sectional futerost, as es cially vinced in its desperate oxartiotis to fored the in- | ea Lecompton constitation upon ovesbing ple of Kanaar; i conetraing the porsonal sition balan Master and servant to involve an anqualified ry feral In ita attempted enforcement everywhere, on and sea, through the interveation of Congress and of ral courts, of the extreme pretensions of a purely local intereet, aud in its general and unvarying abuse of power entrusted io it by a confiding poople. That the people Jastly view with alarn extravagance witeh vases ry de to right « federal government, that a ret accountability is tndlapenmadie. arrest the systematic plunder of the public treasury by favor st pyrtiva the recent startling developoments of fr: tons at the federal metropolis sirow that an entire change of administration i taperatively demand 7, That the new dogma that Constitution, of its owa force, carries slavery into any or all of tho Territories of the United States, is 4 dangorous political hoceay, at vari- = with the explicit provisions of thas instcument itqolf, wi on, aed and judicial it; is and subversive of the 8. That the normal y -h of thes f RS ONT Fejradliovn fathers, when they hind abolished slavery in all ont n., tional territory, ordained that “no poreoa should be a> 1 sg of Iife, iberty or property without dae progess of w,"’ it becomes our duty, by legislation, wh onaver aych Uaited States is ee eer hey a to maintain thie se og of the constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the aushority of Congress, of a Terri.otial Logivte: MORNING EDITION-MONDAY, vw UN ture, or of any individuals, to give leew evislenoe slavéry in any erritory of the Ub tet Stato. re 9. we brand the recent re yening of the Le aa? gures traffic. 10. That in the recent vetoes, by their federat fick of the Legislatures of Kansas Pernt ibe ‘nou-interven! govere!| io Kansas-Nebr aska bill, and nn ae tion and fraud involved therein. on. ‘That Kansas shold, of right, be ad- mitted as a State under the constitution reonnty formu oe ape | by her people, and accepted by the of Repgence tives. That, while providing revenue for the sapport of the general ihe poms So of ‘those i ba cy requires such au it of mn posts as to Secoer ¢ the develupement of the industrial interests of the whole country; and we commend that policy of na- tional exchanges Which secures to the working men Uberal wayee, to agriculture comneratiag prices, to m2- chanics and manufacturers an uate reward for their skill, labor and enterprise, and to the nation commercial Prosperity and in¢ependence. pce we protest against any eale or al to of the public Iands held by acttal settlers, and against any view of the free Nomeshind icy which re- the iectiors aa pengers or: 8 (he ES ity;and we nd the passage compete and satisfactory homestead measure which Re Bog need the House. an 4 _ renee party is copspet pe mae our naturalization laws, or an ion by which the rights of citizenship hitherto scomedest to ime migrants from foreign. lands shall be al or im- paired; and in favor ot ee a full and ee on fection to the rights of all classes of citizens, native or naturalized, both at home and abroad, 15. That appropriations by Congress for river and har- . bor improvements of a national character, for the fon and security of am meree, are authorized by the constitution, aud by the obligation of government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. 16. That ‘a railroad to the Pacific ocean 1 imperatively u : 5 demanded by the interest of the 3 that the federal pitiless ought to render fi and efti- cient aid in ite construction; and that, as there to, a daily overland mail should be, es tab- lished. ri our distinetive prin- Cae ny, hating ee iS Go operation of sl pth i however differivg om other questions, who ‘agree with us im their aftirmance and support, SKETCHES OF THE CANDIDATES. Afik HAM LINCOLN, OF TLTENOTS, Abraham Lincoln, the republican candidate for the Presi- dency in’ the campaign of 1860, is a native of Harden county, Kentucky. Me was born February 12,1909. Tis parcnts were born in Virginia, and were of very moderate circumstances, His paternal grandfather, Abrabam Lin- coln, emigrated from Rockingham county, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781-82, where, a year or two later, he was killed by Indians, His ancestors, who were reapec- table members of the Society of Friends, went to Virginia from Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Descendants from the same lineage still reside in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. Abraham Lincoln, the subject of this memoir, further removed from’ Kentucky to’ Spen- cer county, in Indiana, ia 1816. Mr. Lincoln re- ceived a limited education. In 1830 he removed to Tiinois, and passed the first year in Macon county, engaged in aogriculjural pursuits. He next went to New Salem, at that time in Sangamon county, now Che- nark county, where he remained about one year asa clerk in a store, About this time the Black Hawk war broke out, and on the call from the federal go- yenment for voluntesrs,a company waa raised in New Salem, and Lincoln was elected captain. He served during this memorable campaign. On his return to Mlinois, in 1832, he became a candidate for the State Legislature, but was defeated. The next three succeeding biennial clections he was elected to the Legislature by the whig party. Dur- ing his legislative term he stadied law, and subsequently engaged practically in the profession at Springfield; but his practice at the bar did not withdraw bis attention from polities, and for many years he was one of the Jeaders of the whiz party in Hlinois, and was on the elec- toral ticket in several Preshential campaigns. Ho was a disciple of Henry Clay, aod exerted himself in his behalf in 1844, by making a tour of Miinois and advocating Clay's election to the Presidency. He was elected to Congress in 1846, and served till 1849, While in Congress the Wilmot proviso warfare was in progre*s, and which disturbed the peace and harmony of the country, until it shook the foundation of the Unioa from {te centre to ite He voted forty-two thoes for the proviso. ive in eomnection with Seward, ¢ abolitionists in the azitatic can War, An voted agains ng 100 acres of land & the volunteers. ational Couvention of I8és, which he was a member, he advecated the nom). nation of General Taylor, and snstained the nomi- nation by a canvass of his own State. In 1862 he was efficient in his efforts for General Seott, and was consiiered by the whigs of Illinois and the North: west as ove of their leaders. From 1849 to 1864 Mr. Lincoin was engaged in the practice of his profession. In 1849 ho was a candidate before the Llinois Legisla. tore for United States Senator, prior to which he stuinped the State for the whigs. When tho Legislature met the democracy was in the majority, and General Shields, tho democratic candidate, waselected. In 1855 he was again the candidate of the whigs for United States Senator be. fore the Legislature chosen that year; but the democracy a majority, Lincoln was ons defeated, ant b, lan bull thé” democratic , elected. In ticket in Dlinow. incola’s name headed the Fremont electoral In 1858 it was the desire of the Tilinots ean State Committee to have Mr. Lincoln Douglas in the United States Senate, and to effect this bo stumped the State for the republicans; and it was during this campaign that Mr. Lincoln made the best political of his life, and from which the of the Chion will at once read his sentiments on the great quoe tions of the day, He is a tariff man; in favor of a pro- teetive policy; to the Dred Seott decision, urging as an especial reason for his position that it deprives the negro of the rights of that clavge in the coustiiution of the U d States which guars 2 citizene of each ‘State all the ri » privileges and immanities of the s¢- States. yy in Hitnots in 1868, when imeelf an adept apd nd a different and contradictory eet tm other coun- ties. Ho is nq ofator, statesman or legtstator, bat is 6 Tom Ford stam; classed among the stump speakers of thy P. Mr. Lintoin was comparatively unknown to the peopl Of this section of the Caion until daring the past winter, when he made a tour of the Middie and New Englan | States, delivering political stump spece! ie twenty tents per capvia admission. delivered a speceh io the Cooper Inetitate, which he evidently for the newspapers; but on tho night of the lecture he inter. | epersed ft With radical republican sentiments, fully as treasonable as Seward’s “irrepressible coniliet” doctrine. Ho reelized two hundred dollars from this lecture. Ho next visited Connecticut and stumped that State for the republic The fact of his charging an admission foe to his lectures—a thing unknown betore in our political he -—was the subject of comment among republi ono wae in several instances: reoetved the rebake whieh such political showmanship deserved, MANUAL HAMEEN, OF MACH Hannibal Hamlin, the candidate for Vice President, was born in Paris, Oxford county, Maine, August 27, 1809; is a lawyer by profession; was a member of the Maine Legislature from 1896 to 1840; was elected @ representative to the Twenty-cigtth Congress, und was re-elected to the Twenty-ninth Congress; was a member of the House of Representatives of the State Le- gislature in 1847, and elected to the United States Senate May 26, 1848, for four years, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the decease of John Fairfield. He was re-elected for six years July 25, 1851, and elected Governor of Maine Jan. 7, 1857, resicwing bis seat tn the Senate and aan inangurated Governor the same oy, ‘On the sixtenn of the same tmouth he was re-elected United States Sena- tor for six years, and resigned the office of Governor Febroary 20, 1857. He is now « United States Sonator for Maine, and a member of the Committes op Commerce and on the District of Columbia. Mr. Hamlin was for. therly a democrat, but prior to his ¢lection as Governor of Maine he changed his politics very suddenly in a speech jn the Senate on the Nebraska bill, and after that at- tached himself to the repeblionn party, and succeeded to the Governorship by the votes and support of that party. THE UNION CONSTITUTIONAL PARTY. VELD IN BALTIMORE, MD, May 10. He CANPIDATR, Por President........ Joby Bell, of Tennessee. Pir Vice President. .... ward Everett, of Massachusetts, Tie PLATFORM. ' the constitution and Mie enforcement of The Union, the laws. eRETCHES OF THE CANDIDATES. JON BTL, OF TRY Wes, ° Mr. Rell, the candidate for the Presidency, wae born near Nashville, Tennessee, February 18, 1797. He was dye son of @ farmer in moderate cireum- stances, who was, however, able to give him a good cationat Cumberlan’ Coflege, now Nashville Univer: » where Ne graduated fn 1916. He studied law, and was arimitted to the bar in 1816, and settled at Franklin,” Williamson county, Tenp., and wna elected to the State Senate in 1617. He soow saw his error in eutering so | Chairman of the Jot. ary Commitice of the Hows o 1860, 25, THE NEW YOR‘ HERALD. PRICE TWO CENTS. wenn Ts eal ; { end of that carly inte publielife, on) dectin. —me-eloctinn, aud Fx | ya wien pig Reg Md cA at the mextidom youre of Liv fe dev amet vo bivpre- Year. 1D AE” the "vacant Secrotaryship of State, a Retopney” aioe Miguel wos | made ee ne at hur pon Ng gas Poti Geandy, eon ot the poy von tS Sl | A Te paintatration, The conition of the pub- of Dennesiee, ad who lad he powy > Hpporkaf AB: | ite yuginess made them months of most severe labor row Jadhaow, en 2 ceniidatw for? ‘noeyaaiust | Among the jmrortant matters that demanded his con- faooonstys | ciderattou pewe relating to the Crescent City Stee Meio wade 1 %4)) finn? ee» latidaly and the Regotiations pertaining to elections be wupiitie’ member of ues woof Repre Yep es ne conehyded a international copyright con- sentatives for fimrtes: vears. He nie’ Congres a | yeu..c vb grout Beitaim, anda Consular Convention warms admirer of Br. Gov, aed" * opposed to} With } vance, an reviewed, ne whole subject of Coatral hs is relations vor the protective evatem,inesinst which ao iPummeimon | QO", 2 Stair aad Great Britain, aod Induced Congress RY A, in “ym im 1682. Syowequent Mvestigesians and duced him t, change bir opialane on the - was opposed io the appreyy ation of sum» by | government for roads ond eangle i Wo Sah ‘jm the case of vad ee military purpee the Pacific and in tywor of the polloy ™ proving the grent rivers ord lakedurbors, With 9 ts apparent admiratian fr Mr Calbown, Mir. Bel) « sod the South Carclima-doc(: ..o of mulliiostion, and wae xt» |, WHEL spoc'a) refereed w rhe question copneeted with that sahjes which might have ta be eon. sidered and Teperve’ ou. for ton yenry Ge was Chair mon of thé Gumiatics oo [dino sete, He way 9 favor of = United States Bunk, though he voted aguing the bill for its recharter in 1932, because, as it is allogod, he believed that the subject was brought up at that time— four years before the expiration of the old charter— merely to defeat General Jackson in the ensuing Pre- sidential clection, and because he waa afraid tho Presi- dent would veto the bill, which proved to be the case. ‘This refosal was one of the causes which led to the subsequent drench Detween bimeelf and President Jacksow and the democratic party, and finally to his ‘with the whigs. This change of party rela. Polk, afterwards President of the United States, who was the candidate of the administration and of the demo- cratic party. Mr. Bell was supported by the whigs and a portion of thg democratic party whs wore opposed to tn@ intended nomination of Martin Van Buren as sug+ ceasor to Gen. ‘Tho principal ground of Mr. Bell's ‘Van Buren was his strong disapproval of ibrpaem reenovala i [ E i : i fs af i a % : i Ay H Ht i Bea Hi fie Aire a | iN i fit i g & a Bee - Fi Feckk « gs (Sst ides presentatives, in 1836, Mr. alone, foe 1, fuvored their reception. 1888, when » # i A bl ‘ton's resolutions were int é i £5 a FEZ ta Eig? i i et SF a gs ri Ea gE By # HIE Siea a etl ip hi Z ; 2 : g 2 : ite DWARD KVEREVT, OF MAStacHUsErrs, Filward Everett, the Union candidate for Viee President, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, April 3, 1304. His father, the Rev. Oliver Everett, was the predecessor of President Kirkland as pastor of the New South Chureh in Boston, and was afterwards Judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in Norfolk county, Mase. Edward Everett en- tered Harvard College in 1807, at the early age of thirteen, and was gradvated in course in 1811, with the highest honors, in a class containing more than the average amount of ability. For some time after graduating he was employed u his Alma Mater as 4 tutor, at the same time pursuing his studies in divinity, the profession which he had selected. In 1812 he delivered @ spirited poem before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, on American poets, In 1813 he was settled as pastor over the Brattle street church in Boston, In 1814 he published several works on religious sabjecte, and in this year he was chosen Professor of Greek \iterature in Harvard College. With a view of qualifying hindself for the duties of his post, he entered upon an extended course of European stady and travel, leaving home in the spring of 1815, and passed two years at the famous University of Gottingen, engaged in the study of the German language and the branches of learning connected with this department. He passed the winter of 1917-18 at Paris, The next spring he again visited Londob, and passed afew wocks ‘at Cambridge and Oxford. In the aatumn of 1818 he ro- turned to the Continent, and divided tho winter betwoen Florence, Rome and Naples. In the spring of 1619 he made 4 short tour in Greeoe, returned home in the same year, and entered upon the duties of his professorship. During bis residence in Furope his course of stady em- braced the ancient classics, the modern languages, the history and principles of public aw as then professed in the German universities, and a comprehensive examina- tion of the existing political system of Barope. Stmalta- He also fovnd time to prepare and pab!ish a translation of “Buttman’s Greek Grammar.” Mr. Everett's public | il LF Hl fr : i sil th tf (li “i 1a i iy i z i t - l te a lt i hee 23 Fis a While Our Minister at England. Ss it Comrse was of the most dignified charact spring of 184° he wae ited to Al the commission to China, with a view to Mercia) relations with that which bonorabie ‘trast he was compelled to decline. Upon his retarn wo United States, in 1845, he was chosen President Vuiverelty; ‘bat’ bis impaired ieaith com. atx Ba FF j il 3 a eC a HT ty convention , rapteeing to in in exciutive Eee of Cua. fie pr was d clined by the United states, in a diplomatte note of ability & sy up 9s Me. Everett. Before feaving Pexsuent of 2 ir 4 Wie of Mane dus vt to the Senate of the fatted, Sates, took has ome comm« of the excoutive in March, 1853," and made an PLO EDeecd 2 American question. Such ‘iage uc eép-frur, be tell inte fall his in- ce ertytuur still in v is in- tallonon ‘ee and his latest efforts be meri .@ ve ith of his manhood, ae oars ago r: in it Jvarmed them at that perio’, THE PEOPLES’ CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESI- DENCY. Sam Houston has becn nominated for the Presidency by the Stato of Texas, and at various local moctings through- out the county. His platform is the record of his public life, which is rather too long for the columns of the SKETCHES OF THE MAN. Sam Houston was born on the 2d of March, 1793, near Lexington, Roxbridge county, Virginia. He lost his father when quite young, and his mo- ther removed with her family t the banks of the Tennessee river, at that time the limit of civili- zation. Here he received a limited education, and pasged several years among the Cherokee Indians. After Daving served for a time ag dlerk to a country trader, and kept a school, in 1813 he enlisted in the army, under General Jackson, in the war with the Creek Indians, He tenant, but s00n resigned his commission and commenced the study of law at Nashville. In June, 1818, after a few months of severe study, he was admitted to the bar; in October, 1819, he was elected District Attorney for David- son district; in 1821 he was elected Major General of Ten- nesseo; in 1823 he offered himself as a candidate for Con- gress, and was elected -withont opposition; in 1825 he was returned a second time to Congress, almost by acclamation, so well satisfied were his con- ‘stituents with his course in the House of Representa- serving two }, and removed to 400 miles: northwest of Little Rock. In 1882 he repaired to Wash- ington and laid before the President and most evidence of the conduct of the government agents in dealings with the Indians, the result was the dismissal of a large number of principals and ac- cessories. & subsequent visit to Texas, he was re- quested to be used in the canvass for a convention a constitution for Texas, prior to its admission int Union. He consented, and was ‘unanimously constitution was submitted to President Sant for approval, It was rejected, with ‘a demand for the Texans to give up their arms. They de- termined ia was ized, and Austin, the of the , was @} \- er-in-Chief, in which office he was shortly after succoedod by General He conducted the war with vigor, Houeton. and finally brought it to a successful termination the battle of San Jacinto, in April, 1836. In May, 1830, he signed a treaty acknowledging the inlep: of Texas, and in October of the same year he was inaugarated the first President of the republic. At the end of his term of office, a* the same person coukb-not be eon- atitutionally elected President twice in succession, he be- came a member of the Texas Co In 1841 ho was ght ervated to the Evenidential ir. During the whole that he held that office his lavorite policy was the ion of Texas to the United States, but he re- His whole public of an old fashioned Jackson demo- of the very few remaining vat ‘ters of “Old Hickory; his life has itic and heroic adventures, more re- markable than those which contributed so much in 1866 ity of Fremont. He has always been an champion of the Union and the peace of the Union. He is opposed to opening the slave traffic; and he now stands upon the broad Union platform of Mr. Bucha- nan’s administration, with a slight spread southward. THE INSURRECTIONARY PARTY. At the Convention of insurrectionary abolitionists of the John Brown genus, recently held in Boston, Gerrit Sinith was nominated as their candidate for the Presidency. ‘The platform of the party is tho total abolition of negro slavery from the Union. The Convention will reassemble shortly at North Elba, in this State, the residence of the surviving relatives of the late John Brown. THE VERY LATEST. Partmtonn, Juno 2, 1860. On account of Sunday intervening, many of the leading delegates from the Southern Stater, and also from the North, are still bore. ‘The nommations are the subject of general dincussion. The Southern men aro jubilant over their success In having 80 quickly and with such unanimity disposed of their,business, What cost the other Convention the labor of a week here, to say nothing of the time lost in Charles. ton, the seceders accomplished in a few hours. It was a masterly stroke to finish the basiness and send of to eévery State nominations on the same day 8 the nomination of Douglas and Fitz patrick. The withdrawal of the chairman, Caleb Cushing, from the theatre to the Maryland Iastitate, gave the coup de grace to the whole proceeding? Hone Convention had a greater number of delegates, the other had a greater number of States represented. ‘The one calls iteelf the Democratic National Convention, ‘and the other the National Democratic Convention. The Southern men who remained in the Douglas Con. vention to the last moment attribute the final catastrophe to two things:—First, the rascality of the Albany Regon- cy; and secondly, the conduct of the two bogus delegations from Alabama ai! Loujsiana forcing themselves into the Convention. Many reflect upoo Righagdson, of Dijgoie, and Dean Richmond—the one for not showing the tele- graphic despatch from Douglas, suggest ing his withdrawal from the contest, and the other for not showing bis letter to the same effect, till it was too late. It is a dolusion to think that the personal popalarity of Soulé can sustain Douglas in Louisiana against the general sentiment in New Orleans, Tho American party rule the roast, and in the State at large the regular democrats will certainly de- feat the oulé party, Nor is the name of Fitzpatrick popular, as be is likely to overthrow the regular demo cracy in Alabama, The name is Irivh, aud it tw aid the selection has more to do with the North than the South, Thad euppored before coming here that Douglas was popa Jar in this city, but the reverse is true, Lact evening the “midnight speeches from the Gilmor House attracted three for every one who listened to the orators at Reverdy Johneou's, and whenever an attempt was got up to raise cheers for Douglas they were drowned im groans, ‘The enthusianm on Breckinridge and Lane is. intenso. The general impression is that tills ticket will sweep every Southern State. The Dowlas leaders are evidently dis- appointed and only calculate on the North. They feel convinced that they cannot carry the South, and they are already talking of another convention which will anite the party, and nominate some strong man in place of Douglas, who can now retire without wounded honor, after having receiver @ nomination of some kind. Yesterday a gehtleman of Louisiana made two bete with Mr. Duncan, of Kentucky—one of a thousand dollars that Mr. Douglas will not carry the cleetoral voto of Tilinois, and nother of a thourand dollars that the Breekinridge ticket Will obtain a larger vote throughout the coantry than the Douglas ticket. Fuw, however, will hagafd the aseertion (hat either cam be elected by the people, and the alternative is obvious that either Lincoln will be elected, or the election will be thrown into Congress. The regular Louisiana delegation baye plenty of money” to spend on the election, belag worth among them thir- ‘teen millions of dollars. The Douglas Convention forgot to name the place of holding the Democratic Convention in 1864. Perhape they thought such a resolution would be superfl) us, aa there will probably be no democratic organi’ ‘on im ex~ istence by that time. The other Convent, ., however, have made provision for such a contingency, and named Philadelphia as the next place of meeting, which certainly does not look like a dissolution of the Union. It is expected Mr. Douglas will make a strong pro- slavery reply to the communication announcing his nomi- nation, in order to take the Southern breeze out of Breck- inridge’s sails; but the Southern men laugh at the ides that the nomination of Douglas is any nomination at all, Before the breaking up of the Convention his highest yote was 1603¢; but from that must be taken minorities wick were swallowed up by the unit rule, The exact votes for him, if heads were polled, would be 138—coneiderably eae than @ majority. ‘The nominations of both the Democratic and Secedera? Conventions were received well here by their respective friends, bit all the outside enthusiasm i for Douglas. ‘There was much excitement last night about the hotels. The nomination of the Seceding Convention was tendered to Mr. Guthrie's friends ag well as to Mr. Hunter’s, but both candidates declined. It is understood that Mr, Breckinridge will accept. ‘ A challenge bas been sent by adr. Smith, of California, to Mr. Nesbitt, of IMinojs, who was the delegate who de- clared in the Canvention fiuring Mr. Smith’s offensive re- marks, that if Mr. Cushing, the President, would not protect the members, they would protect themselves. A large number of persons went to Washington to-day, ‘both the friends of Breckinridge and of Douglas. Most of the New York delegation return to-night, ‘SPEECH OF PIERRE SOULE. When tho State of Louisiana was called, Hon. Pierre Soule roge and was received with enthusiastic cheers and extended to mo seems to rignify. man im Bole Seareptis fom wav eryiairg deverving these atop feling of gratitude fur. what kindness there was of wi we Was fh ese and ot aren diffidence that I attempt to ad- ; we had to be imitiatory of the nessed on this day, and spiracy which had been brood! past would break out on this occasion, and for the pur- which are obvious to every member. Sir, are in political life men who were once honored by popu- lar favor , and consider ey yey ee them an Snalienable property, and who cling to it as some! that can no longer be wrested from their hands; vollical fossil, 0 much encrusted in ofoe thes, there le heed any power that can extract them. (Applause, Trey. pf it the voice was clearly manifesting to glorious nation who was to be her next ruler, More than months before this Convention assembled the i i + z ge it A : i it di if THEE e E £ g. te: Fee Fa sz ie i g alt H : ' i it justice to suppose that they truly parted from de. cause of your having dechiod the question ot internal organization in @ manner that views. They may give this as a Lady meg op 2 may wee it as a cloak to cover desertion from party, but the truth cannot be disguised. Whether deluded or pot they are tools in Ure hands of intrigues, and their course Many of us wbo tere then the ropresentativen of th us who were ves South in the National Codciinn believing ourselves not 5 3 Hi was in earnest and cons! in their bp fought the S ghey creating the contingenc: cootemaietes, rights of the South, nad oppose i fy He ee fornia into the councils of the nation. That, at that time, ‘was to the South the great wrong, and the creating of 4 rot danger, because not only was ‘Cali- ia comil into = the = Unions with) =a Sire~It is said that they carr; Convention, the sympathies of the South. Believe it not. (Renewed applause.) Believe it not; and I have, in mg own experience of the past, certain strong reasons why 1 cannot bring my mind to the supposition that the South, under the present circumstances, can respond to that movement, and I will briefly lay ‘them before you. In when California was about being admitted jon, the South { iy TS est ze a Fa ah ial means dis. ‘What is the Abolition iste com the boa the ther hae ‘men claim intervention on Congress of slavery ta the Terrhorient Now, leak Suthers and elsewhere, are you serious; when the battle ie thue drawn—when the lines are thus drawn out—when the whole strength of the North is combined with the grert on the part of the to ex- clude slavery from Territories? Are you, &f the South, in earnest. when You ask to bubanit the pro. tection of your property to the ot sot a, “cuts “te Sopeag ‘en LJ Congress. ‘There is not a paper in : f# not weming with denunciations that Congresa hag became a rotten ban ‘that the majority in both houses ta in heart, to ail intents and pu to » tand yet Ubewe men who set up the p ton of being exclusive friends of Paya] the Sonth, ask that ths protection of ala, Shall be pat in the of that very power which if represented as being upoo ite (CONTINUED ON KIGHIH Pa@e ) . nT nell

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