Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-04-05
DOUGLAS Oh THE DEFAafERs.


ed as Judge Douglas Not only has his political
character been maIigned but the fOuIest aspersons
have been cast upon his private reputation as man.
Even ministers of the gospel have prostituted their
sacred desks with nvocations of wrath upon his
head He states, in recent speech that he receives
daily, letters expressing cxutaton at his domestic
bereavement and praying that other and weightier
calamites may Cypress him. s.
All this bitterness and maleyolence of attack Mr..
Douglas ascribes to certain address gotten up by
Senators Wade, Chase and Sumner, and extensively
circulated in all the abolition States IN which the
Nebraska bill is denounced "atrocious plot .
criminal betrayal of precious rights, -" the work
of servie demagogues," &C., &C.
He says that the first time he saw this address he
expected all the consequences that have occurred,
and that the only revenge he seeks is expose its
authors and leave them to bear as best they may
the just indignation of an honest community, when
the people discover how their symPathies and feelings
have been outraged, by making them the instruments
in performing such desperate acts,
Right WELL in his closing speech in the Senate on
the Nebraska bill, does he execute this work.
The following extracts will give the reader some
idea of the manner in which he discharges his self
imposed task
The Senator (Ir Wade) says, Also that he never
people of his State have acted in the manner which
l have referred. Sir, did he not say, in the same
document to which 1 have alluded, that was en-
gagged, with others, in criminal betrayal of pre-
cious rights" in "atrocious plot?" Did he not
say that and others guilty of &C medtated bad
faith ?" Are not these his exact words? Did he
not say that "servile demagogues might make the
people believe certain things, or attempt to do so?
Did he say everything calculated to produce and
bring upon my head all the insults to which / have
been subjected publicly and privately-not even ex
cepting the insulting letters which have received
from his constituents, rejoicing at my domestic be-
reavements and praying that other calamtes may
befal me? All these have resulted from the address.
l expected such consequences when / first it.
In he called upon the preachers of the Gospel to
prostitute the sacred desk in stimulating excuses
and then for fear that the people would not know
who it that to be insulted and illuminated,
he told them in postscript, that Mr.. Douglas was
the author of all this inquty, and that they ought
not to allow their rights to be made the hazard of
presidential game! After having used such lam
guage, he says he meant disrespect-he meant
nothing unkind! He was amazed that said in my
opening speech that there anything offensive in
this address and he could not suffer himself to
harsh epithets or to impugn gcntleman's motives!
No 4! not he! After having deliberately written all
these insults, impugning motive and character, and
calling u.lon our holy religion to sanctify the ca
umny, he could not think of losing his dignity by
bandying epithes, or using harsh and disrespectful
terms!
Sir, even In Boston L have been hung efhGy. i
may say that | expected it to occur even there for
the senator from Massachusetts, lives there. He
signed his name to that address; and for fear the
Boston abolitionsts would not know that it was he,
he signed it g Charles Sumner, senator from MassS-
chusetts" The first outrage IN Ohio, where the
address circulated under the signature of 1" Sal
mon P. Chase senator from Ohio" The next came
from Boston-the Boston, sir, which, under
the direction of the leaders, closed Fanuei Hall
to the immortal Webster in 1850 because of his sup
port of the compromise measures of that year which
all confess have restored peace and harmony to
a distracted country. Yes, sir Boston, so glo-
rous in her early history-Boston, around whose
many historical associations cling, to graft
fly the heart and cxat the pride of every American
could be led astray by abolition misrepresentation
far as to deny hearing to her great man,
who had shed much glory upon Massachusetts
and her Metropolis! | know that Boston now feels
Inundated and degraded by the act And, sir, lad
dressing himself to MIR. Sumner,] you will remem-
Der that when you came into the Senate and sought
opportunity to put forth your lncendarianism you
appealed to our of justice by the sentiment,
" Strike, but hear me first But when Mr.. Web
ster went back in 1850 to speak to his constituents
IN his own self-defence to tell the TRUTH and to
pose his slanderers, you would not hear him. but
you struck first!
Again, sir, even Boston, with her Fanueil Hall
consecrated to liberty, so far led astray by abo
litionisIn that when of her gallant sons gallant
by his glorious Deeds inheritng heroic revo-
lutonary name had given his life to his country up
the bloody field of Buena VISTA and when his
remains were brought nome, even that Boston, under
abolition guidance and abolition preaching denied
him decent burial, because he lost his life in vind
eating his country's honor upon the southern from
tier! Even the name of Lincoln, and the deeds of
Lincoln, could not secure for him decent interment
because abolitioniSm follows a patriot beyond the
grave. Applause in the galleries.
The Presiding Officer, mfr. Mason in the chair.]
Order must be preserved.
But, sir, the senator from Massachusetts CIr
Sumner) comes up with very bold 'front.' and denies
the right Of any man to put him defence for the
manner of his election. He says it is contrary to
his principles to engage in personal assaults If he
expects to avail himself of the benefit of such plea
he should act in accordance with his proessed prn
cipes and refrain from assauting the character and
impugnng the motives of better men than himself
Every body knows that he came here by coalition
combination between political parties holding oppo-
site and hostile opinions. But it is not my purpose
to go into the morality of the matters involved in
his election The public know the history of that
notorious coalition and have formed its Judgment
upon it. 1t will not do for the senator to say that
he was not party to it, or he thereby bctrays
seriousness of the immortality of the transaction, with
out acquitting himself of the responsibilities which
Justly attach to him. AS well might the receiver of
stolen goods deny any responsibility for the larceny
while Illustrating in the proceeds of the crime, as
the senator to avoid the consequences resulting from
the mode of his election, while he clings to the Office
| must be permitted to remind him of what he
tainly can never forget that when he arrived here
to take his seat for the first time, firmly
ators impressed with the conviction that he had been
elected by dishonorable and corrupt means there
were very few who, for long time, could deem it
consistent with personal honor to hold private inter-
course with him. So general that impression,
a person IN worthy of the association of gentlemen
Gradually however these injurious impression were