New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-11
DOUGI.AS.

Ia running over our files of exchange papers we
occasionally meet with newspaper little out of
date In this way We have fallen upon The Globe
containing Mr. Douglass speech, delivered some
days ago, in reply to that OF his colleague Mr.
Trumbull, upon Kansas and upon the two reports
on that subject presented from the Senate Terri
toral Committee. In cursorily examining this
speech, we were struck by the popularity which
marks all this Senators efforts, and which can
gated Saxon. To speak plainly, the speech is
simply an unbroken tissue OF lies whose symmetry
cannot be fully exhibited in any extracts, however
copious. Yet as We feel moved by its peruSal to
say something Of the author, we will quote few
of the gems of mepdacity which it contains by way
of text to our discourse. Our specimens would be
quite too yoluminOus were We to search the speech
through We thus content ourselves with extract
ing only seven of the lies which first meet our eye
They are as follows
l. The minority report suppre,ses the evidence
which concusvey disproves the truth OF the alega-
tion that Kansas was conquered"
g. my colleague asserts that those Territories would
have had the same right to come into the Union as
slave States under the Missouri Compromise as they
now have under the kansas-Ne braska act.'
3 In eleven election Districts out OF eighteen the
proceedings were fair and regular"
L. The Governor did 60 behind the returns and in
vtetgate the legality Of the proceedings at the polls,
lin these eleven districts.
s. Permit me to tell my colleague that this great
fact violence and Illegally in the election il met in
NY report and denied and disproved inconroyerbly.'
q. Ii was universally conceded by men OF all par
ties lin Kansas that majority of the members OF the
Legislature had been fairly and duly elected members
OF the Territory
:. The disturbances which have arisen in Kansas
have no connection with these two laws The bogus
statutes which refer to free voting and Slavery
These lies are very plump and square. Every
body who knows any thing about Kansas affairs,
ard the discussion thereon, knows them 10 be So
But they are only the landmarks and salient points
of this "great argument" II we should under
take 10 extract all the untruths that limited or
suggested, and above all TO convey true idea
OF the spirit of falsehood that peryades the en-
tire speech, permeatiDg and swelling it as water
does a sponge, We should have to print the whole
We are thus compelled TO do injustice the author
by not presenting him in full. Our extracts are
nothing better than specimen bricks of an edifce
of lies, fashioned with the industry of a genuine
lover OF biz work, and the skill Of long practced
artisan.
Indeed 10 characterize the author of this speech
needs the use of vocabulary not highly esteemed in
good society. A man of whom the devil might cb-
tain improving hints in bis own line we cannot be
dainty in speaking Of if We would do justice TO the
subject. Douglas has brains. So has his soOty
msjestv. So had Judas. So mad that other Arnold
who tried 10 sell out American Liberty before him.
But in the case Of the Illinois Senator, the brains
are coarse and unwashed. They are also in the
wong place. chronological system founded on
his BRAN would be only applicable TO Yahoos. His
is bulldog mentality, combination of the swine
herd and the Caliban. One may say he is capable.
SO he is. He can do certain things very well.
He can frame a foundation and build there
on as good superstructure of lies as any
other man: witness his u Report and It's defense,
from which We quote above. H. can backyard