The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-02-24

Douglass AT Home.
We have seen repeated indefinite notices
Of the proceedings of the anti-Nebraska
meeting at Chicago, the home of the little
giant, author of the fraud bill, which is now
before Congress. We received yesterday
through the Chicago papers and other sour
ces, an abstract of the proceedings, not only
of that meeting, but of the doings Of call
ed meeting, gotten up by the friends Of Doug
lass TO counteract the influence Of the for
mer anti.Nebrassa demonstration. The pro-
ceedlngs say tina: the meeting itself"was the
largest in number and the most respectable
in character ever convened in the city. A
majority of the officers and the speakers
have always been identified with the branch
OF the party to which Senator Douglass be.
longs" At this meeting resolutions strong
ly condemning the principles Of the bill were
passed, and the speeches made by those who
have been the warmest supporters of Doug.
lass, denounced his "unholy ambition" and
emphatically rebuked him for his recreancy
to the freemen of the North. The proceed.
ings taking place in the very home of Doug
lass, it was thought necessary by his more es.
pecial devotees to do something to weak en-
the force of SO whitening rebuke. A meet
ing was announced, handbil widely crcu-
lated, calling upon the "freemen of Chica-
CO., the friends OF Douglass and his Nebras-
ka bill to assemble. The "Freemen" did
assemble in immense numbers, and organ z
ed. A committee was appointed to draft re.
solutions, who reported the Missouri Compro-
mise a nulity, and otherwise endorsing
Douglass and the Nebraska bill in full
Among others the following resolution was
reported:
RESOLVED, That knowing that the national
peace and tranquility will be the result of
the collaboration" of this mere geographic.
al line," we Qhis meeting) hereby instruct
our Senators and Representat, es in Con-
gress to vote for the Nebraska bill, and there
by terminate now and forever all agitation
and dangerous questions on the subject of
slavery.
This resolution called several sold line
Democrats TO the floor. One remarked that
che signed the cali at the previous meeting
because his heart impelled him to do so. He
had supported Douglass, but he could do il
Another took the stand and said that she too
was an old line Democrat. He was no,
changed now. If the act of 1920 was re.
pealed, it was gross fraud upon the people
ofthe United States. His personal relations
with Douglass were friendly, but he must op-
pose him here. 1t was not that he loved
Douglass less, but that he loved Rome more
He could not support the resolutions which
had been offered, and begged leave to offer ,
substitute for them"
Here the utmost confusion is repr esentet
to have prevailed, and the whole GROVE
shouted in phrenzy of delight. Here the
speaker offered as substitute for the above
resolutions, one endorsing those passed a
the previous anti-Nebraska meeting, which
was received with the greatest enthusiasm
and repeated cheers.
The President put the question on the orr
ginal resolutions, and they were rejected BY
an overwhelming majority. The amendment
endorsing the anti-N ebraska resolutions wa
adopted by the same overwhelming vote
The whole affair is said to have been miser
able defeat for its originators, and jus
though terrible rebuke for Douglass, coming
as it did, from his friends and his home.
These proceedings don't look much like II
lnois sustaining her once farorite, now recre
ant son. Unfortunately for this bill, it Wi
not bear to be discussed. 1t was never in
tended by its author that it should be discus:
ed. The friends of the bill in Congress in
tended to give it the "whip and spur" ar
pass it through without ceremony. But
has got out among the honest masses of tn
people, and its deformity is being exposed
The honest thinking people have unmaske
it, and discover
s.Monster of such frghtful mien,
That to be hated needs but TO be seen"
CO The most "subdued feature" Of Ey
ansvllle yesterday was the Enquirer. 1t hat
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