The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-09-20

| A correspondent of the "Chcago Tunes
| writing from Springfield, Ill.,, under date oi
Sept 7th, makes The following comments upon
the conduct Of the mob which insul,ed MIR
| Douglas aud u'raged the liberty of speech
8. We hope to have the pleasure of vou
compan. ;, anu just as many "f the democratic
, citizens OF Chicago as can be present. VI ORE
thing you may rest perfectly satisfied loa
shall hear Stephen A. Douglas, If he is aiiU.
and 1eu, and hear him from the beginning tt
the ending NJ has speech from A to z soithon
let or hindrance! Our people quiet, or
der loving and law-abding people, and how
ever much they may differ with man &C:
| count Of his principles the sentiments he
may utter, he is always permitted to speak
and listened 10 with respectful attention. No
| even the traitnrous and disunionist sentime Mt.
Of Cassios M. Clay could move our citizens
from their propriety in this respect 1t is true
| we objected TO the place OF his speaking, bu
not to the speech itself. The people here holt
/ to the doctrine that in this tree country every
citizen has a right to be heard. They believe
in the largest liberty OF speech and Of the
| press.
Believing thus. you may readily imagine the
surprise and Indignation with which the an-
nouncement that Senstor Douglas was not per-
| mitted to speak IN your city, was first received
| here. have been q citizen of this State fol
many years, and in times Of the highest polit
| cal excitement, have never seen anything
| equal to that Of last Saturday morning. A,
| FIRST tie news was scarcely credited, and 1t was
| set down as teIegraphic bomb-shell, causing
a little fright, but nothing more. But as the
ilzens gathered together in knots and com.
pared notes, and discussed the probability Of
,~h ,.,A tka Is.g,
appeals to the baser passions of the human
heart, contained in the columns Of the " Tri-
bune" and the {" Press" il became almost re-
duced to a certainty, that some such indignitv
had been offered Mr.. DaRylas But when the
cars came in, and we learned from the passen.
gers that the worst had not been told in the
telegraphic despatch, the indignation of the
people had no boun Is. Farmers, mechanics,
Laborers, merchants, bankers, Clerks, and
lawyers, doctors and preachers, all seemed to
be equally horri6ed and shocked, that in this
enlightened age, and in this free country, the
right Of freedom Of speech was dened-denied
for tho first time in the history of our State
denied and 10 whom! To an itinerant lee
turer-to travelling mountebank-to a wo-
mans rights lecturer-to q foreigner-to .
stranges-to a re revolutionist-to disunlonist--
to an aboltionist-a freesoiler or whig? no !
no !! thousand times no! but to an Illinois
United States Senator, and shame forever,
shame on Chicago, TO one o. their own citizens
Prosperous and growing Garden city OF the
West, there is guilt upon your face, spot
upon your brow, blush Of shame upon your
cheek. And like Lady Macbeth, you may cry
out, ou', damned spot" but it will not out
Once the honest pride Of our State, you are
now cespised and hooted at as degraded and
Jebased. You have violated every principle of
,d mr. ,Dri..tv X,,n have zen
violated principle that the widest and most
murderous Arab would respect-hospftalit
Y ou have trampled upoa and repudiated high
er and nobler and more patriotic principle still,
the freedom Of speech. You have permitted
your passions to get the better Of your judg-
ment, and you have been guilty of an outrage
upon the rights and privileges Of one Of cpr
most distinguished citizens, that every one
who was engaged in it will regret the longest
day he shall live. W
Fanaticism ard persecution always go hand
in hand, but, thank God, they are always short
lived. Truth is mighty and will prevail. The
people are always right, and when they rise in
their might and huri whitening rebuke upon
you, as they will do, as certain as there q
God above US, you will then see you have
missed ycur marx; you have boa ed down 10
strange gods; you have been led sstray by dis
unionss,s, traitors and demagogues, who have
used you and thrown you off You will then
learn that your fell design cruss and cry
down faithful and honest public servant has
most signaly failed, and you i'll also learn
when an indignant and outraged people shall
have spoken, that Chicago as. NOT Illinois, but on
the contrary very small portion Of it, at least
in sentmen on such an issue a. the one you
have presented. So much for Chicago, aud 90
much for her self-inAicled disgrace
In their mad efforts to insul, and cry down
Mr.. Douglas, they have raised army Of
friends in his behalf. and in favor Of his policy
and measures, that not even the e Tribune
and his ally the Press ever dreamed OF Is
q consequence Of their appeals to MAIDEN and
infuriate the pr"pl, of Chicago in advance Of
Mr.. Douglas speech Probably there 10 not
dis.rc, in the State, where Mr.. Douglas has
more warm friends than in this. II was in this
distric, that his early struggles for fame and
honor and posi,ion commenced, and here he is
well known and highly esteemed amongst men
Of all parties. Hence this indigni'y is felt the
keener."