Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-12-31
THE Detection of Douglas.

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THE Detection of Douglas"
! Under this title the Richmond South, of
the 18th inst, devotes a column of denun-
citation to Stephen A. Douglas, Of Illinois,
The article opens as follows:
1--WE are no longer allowed to entertain a
doubt OF Senator Douglas determination to
abandon the democracy and enlist IN the SER
vice of the black republican party. In his
speech Of last Wednesday, he not only re-
preached the President with the utterance
Of radical and essential error in the mes
sage, but distinctly declared himself the
champion of black republican interests in
the Kansas controversy. or course this a
postacy was greeted with unaffected ap-
piause of the party 10 which the Senator
from Illinois so suddenly transfers his alle-
gience. Seward and Hale bore the most
conspicuous part in the ceremony of iniia-
ton, but all pandemonium welcomed the lost
spirit with an energetic grasp of friendship,
friendship, while hallelujahs resound from
every anli-savery paper in the hireing
! states. ... ..a
"We cannot affect Indifference at the
treachery of Senator Douglas. He was a
l politician Of considerable promise. Asso-
citation with southern gentlemen had smooth
ed down the rugged vulgarliies of his early
education, ,and he had come to be quite de-
cent and well-behaved person."
In replying to this the Philadelphia Press
takes up the cudgels, and thus attempts tc
show, on the conorary, that Stephen A
Douglas has ever been one of the most de.
voted friends and supporters of the South
l! says:
/, "When Stephen A. Douglas is traduced
after this fashion by southern democrats, i
E is time for national democrats to pause. He
has been most distinguished and fearless
chieftain of the constitution Of twenty long
0 years. He has never felt an aspiration thai
was not for his whole country. HIS caree,
is crowdea wiM u,ctorieS iron for and in ht
name Of the south. His reply to John Quin'
cy Adams, on the boundary of Texas; his ar
o gument in favor of General Jackson's resist
ance of the civil law in New Orleans; hi,
eloquent support of the annexation of Tex
: as, and of the war that followed it; his mas
|, terly and self-sacrfcing championship of th'
fugitive slave law; his defiant and triumph
y ant attack upon the fanatics Of Chicago whel
they attempted to drive him from his owl
home because he had stood up for the south
h his early support Of the Missouri line; hi
:, subsequent and brilliant campaign in favo
$, of popular sovereignty, in the face of the de
! dunciations Of northern pulpits and presses
if these make up a record of bright deed
ga which ought 10 be forever remembered b
i the southern people, and which, we have n
in doubt, are remembered by the masses
n that portion of the Union. They are utter
re ly trampled under foot, however, by tn
10 newspaper called The South, the me
/. ment he dares 10 stand forth for the sam
y guards and projections to the will of
majority in Kansas, which the presel
idols Of that paper insisted upon ic
California. And when, in wor,
he demands that his own pledges, and II
pledges Of the southern democrats, mst
during the discussion of the Kansas bill
1854 and 1856, shall be redeemed, he is d.
Il nounced as an abnlitInnist, and the associa
= of black republicans" and reminded
"ths rugged uulgaritiss Of his early educ
MO tOn."