Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-04

THE CoNDUcr OF THE CHICAGO MOB TOWARD SEN
| AToR DOUGLAS. We scarcely take up an indepen-
dent newspaper that does not contain unequivo
| cal expression of condemnation of the imam GUS
conduct of the Chicago rabble in refusing calm al
| and dispassonate hearing of the remarks of the
Hon. Stephen a. Douglas on the 18th inst. We have
| already 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
as ourselves, select the following which appears
in the New York Sunday Atlas Those who think
that Judge Douglas has teen politically killed at
Chicago will find some useful matters of precedent
in the observations of our contemporary:
We once saw General Jackson treated with gross
ndignity in the streets of Nashville Tennessee-we
afterwards knew him to be hooted and Missed in
Philadelphia-we once knew him to receive per-
sonal indgnity in the capital of the United States,
which was applauded by hundreds of thousands OF
his countrymen-and yet Gen. jackson was neither
damaged nor destroyed. He lived to receive popu-
lar laudaon at the hands of every class of his coun
trymen.
We once saw Henry Clay received, in the streets
of Lexington Kentucky, by the people with very
strong testimonials of disapprobation. We saw him
received by constituency, which had claimed him
as their own beloved idol with cold jeers and jbes,
and gestures of Reproductive saw him openly and
wantonly insulted in the highways and bY-ways for
voting into his pocket alton for services
rendered, to which they did not believe he was en-
titled and in the year, in the same city, and
very the place, on the anniversary of the
Fourth of July, saw him insulted by discomfort
ed constituency I ne lOSL SlSIlIOl AlS leupei
his sagacity, and became involved in "rough-and-
tumble fight in the streets of Lexington with
John S. Snead, halfblind man, who had at one
time been of his most sincere and ardent admir-
And yet Henry Clay was not politically killed
or damned.
We once saw Daniel Webster nsulted in State
street, Boston, and afterwards heard him Missed in
Faneu Hail. These acts ofaggresson and of popu-
lar contumely did not affect the ultimate fortunes OF
their recipient.
We saw Richard NJ. johnson, many years ago,
and at time when he not especially an AFFECT
man. though he did kill Tecumseh, nsulted at
public ball given in Woodord county, and afterwards
invited out of aball room, on the alleged ground
that he was dsreputable We afterwards saw and
heard him Kissed in the theatres of Washington
Baltimore, and Philadelphia and yet he never fall
tered or died. Far from it !; he lived to become one
gina had not found her " best blood" stirred up
against him in the year 1885, at Baltimore, he pro-
baby would have lived to reach the presidency of
the United States Popular clamor and abuse rarely
ever Injuries public man and statesman.
1.-The man who is above popular insult" says
old and very intelligent author lis never fit to
crown" The who is unworthy of popular
clamor, and cannot awaken popular feeling against
him. will rarely become of sufficient consequence to
entitle him to the consideration of candidate for
the presidency.
Whoever supposes that Mr.. Douglas will be " sill
enced," as the members of the Consistory of the
Dutch Reformed chuch would express themselves,
by the events that TRANSFERRED the other day at Chica
go, will be disappointed. He aoiU be heard at all
hazards if portion of the people of Illinois at
tempt to choke him off, there will be found another
portion who will listen to him: Somewhere he will
be heard.