The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-23
From the Putsburg Daily Union.
THE CONDUCT OF THE CHICAGO MOB TOWARD
SENATOR DOUGLAS.

We scarcely take up independent newspaper that does
contain unequyocl expression of condemnation
of the infamous conduct of the Chicago rabble in refusing
calm and dspassionate hearing of the remarks of the
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas the 18th inst We have al
ready uttered views in regard to the brutal behavior
of this mob; and from among the many journals which
look upon the affair in the same light ourselves
lec the following which appears in the New York Sunday
Atlas Those who think that Judge Douglas has been po
ltcay killed Chicago will find useful matters of
precedent in the observations of our contemporary
We once saw General jackson treated with gross indg-
nifty in the streets of Nashville Tennesseewe afterwards
knew him to be hooted and Kissed in Philadelphinwe
knew him to receive personal ndignity in the cap
tai of the United States which appauded by hundreds
of thousands OF his eountrymen-and yet Gen Jackson
neither damaged nor destroyed He lived to receive
popular audaon Mt the hands of every class of his coun
trymen.
We Henry Clay received, in the streets OF Lex
ngton, Kentucky by the people with very strong tes-
monals of disapprobation. We saw him received by
constituency, which had claimed him their beloved
IDOL with cold jeers and ibes and gestures of reproac
him openly and wanonly insnlted in the high
pensation for services rendered to which they did be-
eve he was entitled and in the same year. in the same
city, and very the place. the anniversary Of
the Fourth of July, him insued by discontinued
constituency till he lost sight of his temper and his sa
gacity and became involved in rough-and-tumbe fight
in the streets of Lexington with John Sncad halfbind
who had at time been Of his most sincere and
ardent admirers And yet Henry Clay was not politically
killed or damned.
We Daniel Webster insnlted in State street,
Boston, and afterwards heard him Missed in Faneuil Hail.
These acts of aggression and of popular contumey did not
affect the ultimate fortunes of their recipient
We saw Richard NJ. Johnson, many years ago. and at
time when he not especially abjec man, though he
did kill Tecumseh nsulted at public ball given in Wood
ford county and afterwards invited out Of ball ROOM
the alleged ground that he disreputabe We after
wards and heard him Missed in the theatres Of Wash
ingon Baltimore and Philadelphia and yet he fall
tered died Far from it he lived to become of the
most popular in the Union; and if Virginia had not
found her "best blood stirred up against him In the year
1885, at Baltimore he probably would have lived to reach
the presidency of the United States Popular campr and
abuse rarely ever Injuries public and statesman
The man who is above popular insult says old and
very intelligent author lis fit crown" The
man who is unworthy of popular clamor, and cannot
awaken popular feeling against him. will rarely become Of
sufficient consequence ene him the consideration Of
candidate for the presidency.
Whoever supposes that Mr.. Douglas will be 'silenced
the members Of the Consisory Of the Dutch Reformed
church would express themselves by the events that trans
pred the other day Chicago will be disappointed He
W be heard at all hazards il one portion OF the people OF
Illinois attempt TO choke him Off there will be found an
other portion who win listen to him. Somewhere he will
be heard.