The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-09-12
DAILY JOURNAL.
The indianapolis Douglass Demon.
StratiOn.


The indianapolis Douglass Demon
stratiOn.
The State Journal, in giving an account oil
this demonstration, which has been so long
before the public. says the assemblage wa:
not at all proportionable in members to the
immense Efforts to secure it. TIE procession
the Journal thinks worthy of the following
notice:
The procession that was get up, justice
compels Us to admit, was all exaggerated
"hzzle," ludcrous coming out at the least
possible end of the .'horn."-At half past
eleven, it passed down Washington street
marshaled by Major Buell., on a steed OF
great mettle, and gentleman in an uncom-
7 Portable blue coat and shiney cap, on an
animal of rather soberer disposition and all
told, it numbered the band, twelve boys and
seven men. The marshals really made rath-
er ludicrOus figure, heading such lilipu-
tian squad, but as they seemed intensely con =.
scious OF doing things with big auger, it as
as good to them as bigger display.
The Journal thus notices Mr. Douglass
speech: tDr .tG
II Douglas few minutes after one began,
and spoke about an hour and half, without
interruption, and without much effect. He
was frequently applauded, but he lacked
much OF the rabble-rousing point and pith
of his speech oil 1852. He said nothing that
hasn't been better said by men of less rep
utation. For point and directness, and tell
ing effect, il wasn't at all the equal of Mr.
10 Robinson's speech on the evening before
the slaveite Conventions; and in every ele-
ment OF power and ability he was surpassed
by DIR. Pugh, who is an excellent speaker
han lima L.
thread of his discourse, but the chief points
were these: The Nebraska Bill recognized
and established the principle O: popular
sovereignty" and that il allowed the terri
tories to determine the question ofslavery for
themselves. This point has been made and
exploded so often that il is not necessary to
do more here than suggest, that popular
sovereignty" bill, that lets one man make
Governors Judges and Secretaries, and lets
ID Congress fix the number Of the legislature
and the amount of their pay and def mes the
duties of the officers and furnishes the bulk OF
the laws, is, TO say the least, queer recog-
nation of tn principle. This point Dir.
Dou las didn't bother himself to elucidate.
lie next took up the assertion that the
Nebraska Bill established slavery in the ter
ritories, and refuted the same with a vigor
that was quite astounding considering the
that the Bill formally established slavery, but
only allowed it to enter where before il was
forbidden, Mr.. Douglas lost his labor This
view OF tie matter however, it didn't suit him
to take. La support OF his view, he read the
fourteenth section, which says, substantially,
'that it is the intent of this Bill not To leeis-
late slavery into the territories" and having
read II, he INDUCED la a few of the grossest
misrepresentation, that any man in any
position, high or low, ever attempted. He as
serted that no Anti-Nebraska paper ever pub
lished That section, or quoted it. and that no
speaker of that faith ever mentioned it, and
v that nothing more was necessary to shut
caviler's mouth than to quote it at him
Now we need hardly assure our readers that
nearly every Ant-Nebraska paper in the
State, has Published the ,ohoie Biu and that
the l4th section has had its full share of CON-
ment. man must be hopeless or reckless
who will confront an audience with such
mons,rous lie in his mouth. He must have
known better than q know Nothinpn
tosching that point.
He also noticed at lea 9Th the defeat OF his
attempt TO extend the Compromise OF 1920 to
the Pacific, and labored To convict the op-
ponenis OF his present netarious scheme, Of
Inconsistency in adhering to that Comprom-
Sc now. Ii didn seem to strike him that
Compromise, or law, applying to certain
specified territory, could be consistently
maintained in that, ard resisted in other ter
ritory. Towards the conclusion of his speech
he asserted that no Wing, Abotionist or
KnowNothing, pretended to wan, the res
toration of the Compromise line, and if there
was one in the crowd, he said he wanted his
name. Nobody answered, and since the
Chicago demonstration, he finds silence so
far preferable to any sort of expression, that
he must have been hugely pleased with the
sort of answer he got.
These are but fe of the points that &C.
cur to us, but we haven't space to notice
more now. Suffice it to say that his speech
was unworthy of his position, though thor
oughly consistent with his reputation. It
was the speech OF d-magogue, with few OF
the elements of the ability that statesman
should possess. AS an ad captandum cleo
pioneering effort il very good, but as the
speech of great man, and profound think
er, 1t was little better than contemplate.