The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-10-09
Gbs fslitiana 1enotrat.
From the Richmond fVa) South.
THE CONTEST IN ILLINOIS


The contest now waging in the State of iii.
nois, which is to result either in the triumph
or defeat Of no less n man than STEPHEN A
Douglas, for the Senate of the United States,
has attracted and is attracting no little atten-
ton IN every part Of the Union Seldom has q
local election been looked forward to with so
much interest, seldom have politicians in so
many different localities taken sides so strenu.
ously, and express Themselves so decidedly, in
favor OF one or the other of the opposing can.
didate. This arises from the high position
Judge DOUGLAS has maintained for years past
as one OF the leaders and brightest ornaments
OF the Democratic party his prominence as a
Presidential aspirant his detection from the
line of policy marked out by his party last win.
ter upon fundamental party measure, causing
doubts in the minds ofmnny as to the genuine.
ness and sincerity of his Democracy the dan.
gerous, radical aud incendiary principles of his
opponent and the immense effect the election
in Illinois is bound to exert upon the future con.
dition Of political parties at the North
DOUGLAS CANDIDACY.
That Judge DouGLAs would again bc a can
didatc for the seat he has filled for two terms,
no one ever doubted. Accordingly, when q
large and enthusiastic Democratic Convention.
composed of delegates from the whole State of
Illinois, met last June in Springfield, his course
was endorsed and he came before the people
as the representative of the Democracy of the
state, and the acknowledged exponent of its
principles. lie was not nominated it is true
the Democracy would not be guilty Of nom.
mating a candidate for the Senate bnt it was
understood that the ensuing Legislature would
be elected with view TO passing upon his claims
for the Senate.
LINCoLN's PLATFORM
BY the action Of the various Black Repub.
lican Conventions in the State of Illinois in
enunciatng the principles Of the party, (to
which LINCOLN stands fully committed as well
as by his own declarations he is pledged to car
ry out all the most dangeroIS-doctrines that
have ever been proclaimed by the most radical
of the old Abolition party He is opposed to
the acquisition Of any more slave territory. and
would vote against the admission of another
slave State he is in favor of the uncondition-
al repeal of the Fugitive slave Law he would
resist the decision of the Supreme Court in the
DRED ScorT case land, moreover, declares that
this Union cannot remain half slave and half
free, but must become wholly the one or the
other As he is a free.soler, the obvious in
ference is, that he expects to go on with his
warfare upon slavery until the public mind
rests in the belief that it is in the course of u-
innate extinction" TO quote the language of
his first speech after his nomination.
DOUGLAS PRINCIPLES.
On the other hand, Judge DOUGLAS accepts
the issue LINCOLN made for him before his re-
turn from Washington. He declares that he .
stands, where he always has stood upon the
broad platform ofthc National Democratic par
ty. He boasts that he defended the Fugitive
Slave biz before the people of Chicago, when
that city was in the power of an armed mob. .
He plants himself upon the popular-soyereign-
ty platform In reference TO the Territories, de-
clarlng that the question of slavery would not
influence his vote in the admission of new
States, but that he would vote for the admiss-
ion of State with or without slavery, as the
people saw fit to order it, provided the Terri.
tory had the requisite population He denoun.
;cs, with the utmost bitterness, the incendiary
warfare of LINCOLN and his party upon the in
'titutions of the South by which they expect
10 Abolitionizc the whole Union, asserting that
,his confedcracy will ever remain as our fathers
made it--part slave and part free, each State
toleratng or forbidding slavery, as its people
sec fit And he proclaims it as a fixed law of
'nr progress, that this country will go on, eX-
banding until it embraces all the North Amer
can Continent, and The Isles of the sea; and that
he people Of the acquired territory must have
he right to decide the question of slavery for
themselves.
DOUGLAS AND THE ADMINISTRATIONS.
The course of Judge Douglas upon the Le-
compton Constitution has been IL source Of deep
'egret to his political friends and has caused
the estrangement of many from him, as well as
The open hostility ofthe Administration. The
Washington Union is daily filled with TRADES
Of abuse and dcnunciation of the Illinois Sena
tor, and every oaiceholdcr in the State, who
lares assert his preference for DOUGLAS over
LINCOLN, is instantly removed. Anti-DoUGIAs
tickets are formed (or rather feeble attempts
at formation are made) in some of the counties
Of the State, and efforts are making by some
IN his own party to defeat him. in order that
LINCOLN may be elected. Yet notwithstand-
NC these things, Mr. DOUGLAS has aeper get ut-