Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-22

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thrown, but that the right Of Illitos q the paie
thing, Unsolicited 10 tie dictation Of Nj Dot
was to BE enforced fCheers and laughterl ~
1T Was not that the honorable senator loved the
democracy hess, hut that he loved Douglas more
sfe ~sss perfectly willing to make any reasonable
sacrifice Of his friends OF Their means TO sustain the
party, but ask him to sacri6ce his own personal
interest was asking little too much even for the
Little Giant Grest cheers.] 1t may have been
very Roman and very immortal to stand up like
brave and honorable man, but it might have cost
him bis senatorial head hence he preferred the dis
erection to the valor of the deed. Hit him again.
Honor may have pricked him on, but if honor should
have pricked him of-that was the rub Honor
had no skill for ballots. Honor could not secure
vote; therefore he would none of it. Loud cheers.]
Add to this very natural and discreet principle
of selEpreservation, private piqne against Mr.. Blu.
chanan for having defeated him at Cincinnati and
thus spared him still greater defeat at the hands Of
the people, and refusing to appoint Mr.. Richardson
to cabinet Office (who, blythe by, would have made
a brilliant cabinet of6cerD and you have the true
intent and meaning" of the anti Lecompton fight in
a nut shell. Laughter and cheers.
To advance his personal interests and crafty his
private chagrin he hesiated not to violate his own
principles divide his own friends and ally himself to
men whose creed was the destruction of the demo-
cratic party and whose ultimate purpose was dis
union-lnen whom he had often denounced in terms
that would be unjust if even applied to himself
The result of Douglass disaffecton was to embar-
the ADMINISTRATION, clog the wheels of govern
ment renew the slavery agitation, continue the Nam
imbrogio embitter the sectional enmities, divide
and distract the noble old democratic party that has
so often delighted to honor him and what was his
reward? His studied snphistries torn limb from
limb by the merciess logic of Toombs; his elaborate
ictions crushed beneath the unanswerable facts Of
Green and Bigler; his adj captandum defamation
scornfully unmasked by the analysis of Brown and
Bright his ulcouth vtuperations contemptuousy
alloA hu tho mol sho1 ms n
the quick retort of Pugh; he yet had the consola-
ton of falling back into the chivarous bosom O. the
elegant Broderick, amid the coincidence of Seward.
the sympathies of Wade, and the anxious attentions
of his afectionate colleague. He sounded the very
bass string of humility, and was sufficiently lauded
by the New York Tribune to have killed dozen
honest democrats. Mr. Douglas, however, denies
that he joined the republicans but claims that they
came to his platform. If they did the distance
short and the descent so easy that that F"l.
statnn republican Hale, 70 whom "eight yards Of
uneven ground is three score and ten mile foot"
found difficulty in travelling it, "Fdcile descensus
acerni."
The Judge in his opening speech at Chicago,
spoke of his bold, determined, and triumphant
battle" against Lecompton, for which very hand
some piece of self-g lorification he frequently
complimented, that his modesty took fright and We
find him at Bloomington stating that he docs not
wish to be understood as claiming any special merit
for the course he has pursued on this question"
The correctness of this opinion is only equaicd by
its novelty. Whatever may be thought of the resi-.
due of the senator's speech think the public will
fully sustain him upon this point. lie does not in
deed deserve any special credit for the he has
pursued on this question, and for that very reason
the national democracy here opposed to his re,
election Mr.. Douglas lost iaurels enough last win
ter and it is proposed, as we'll for his own sake
as for the democratic party, to deprive him of the
power hereafter to betray our cause, nlalign our
leaders, attack our national administration, and yet
reflect no especial credit " either upon himself
his State. Senator Douglas has once betrayed the
party in an hour of great peril, and we have no as.
surance that he may not DO so again in the event OF
his re-ecction-betrayed it upon a fimsy pretext,
thepretext of demagogue, for no one new better
than Senator Douglas that there nothing in the
Kansas bill requiring submission of the constitu-
ton to the people, and the only clause that by i'm
plicatOn could have borne such q construction was
in the original Toombs draught, and was stricken
out by Judge Douglas himself. Senator Trumbul
has charged this upon Senator Douglas with great
truth and severity, to which that honorable gentle
man merely answers that Mr. Trumtull is - era
ven hearted wretch, and should have his chop
ped off," Verify, here are "some high thoughts
sealed in heart of courtesy" To say nothing OF
the char acter Of the argument how chasely and ell
egantly the senator expresses It, That allusion to
chopping off ears is worthy of the young and gifted
Broderck. No ordinary plebeian like MIR. Lin, on
or Mr. Trumbull could ever have reached the digni-
fled severity of this satire. 1t fushes with pride
to reflect that he is the citizen Of State represented
in the senatorial councils by accomplished a gen.
teman.
But there is no escaping this charge 1t is upon
record-a part of the legislative history Of this
public--and the tears of the Archangel, though
fallen one could not blot it out. Even the magnfi
powers Of assertion aud great bravery of denial
which characterize Judge Douglas, cannot prevail
against it. The national democracy do not blame
Mr. Douglas for the act itself. lie did right in str-
king it out. They do blame him, however, for charg
ing the President and Congress with att, mpting to
violate acause that he himself had prevented from
being in the bill.
The friends of Mr. Douglas state that he differed
with the administration and the democracy only on
one question, and that question has been settled
In the first place, is true that the Senator differed
with us only one question? 1t is notorious fact
that Mr.. Douglas bolted every cancus nomination Of
the democratic senators last winter, III defiance of
the first principles of party organization. 1t is
equally we'll known that he opposed, bitterly and
personally, almost every nomination made by the
President during that period. He did these things
upon the same ground that the republican senators
did-simply because they were democratic nomi-
nees, and whose confirmation involved no principle
or no policy, but was merely a common courtesy to
national administration. Among others, we find
him Indignantly opposing the confirmation Of Ma
Court; man for many years the ndomtable lead
er of the democracy of Maine, eminent alike as a
lawyer and a democrats man who filled with COM
handing ability the post Of Attorney General in Mr.
Folks cabinet; who, subsequently, as commissioner
to Mexico, framed the treaty whereby We gained
California and the golden coast of the Pacific,
cheers and whose legal qualifications for the posi-
ton were unreservedly endorsed by Chief Justice
fancy. This gentleman, who, as jurist, is iacom-
parably his SUPERIOR was opposed by Judge Douglas
on the pretext Of his unfness, when in truth, the
objection lay in bis being the democratic appontee
of democratic President.
Upon the bred Scott decision, also, we find Judge
Douglas assuming position at variance with that of
the democratic party. At the opening of this cam
pagn that decision sacred to him as sacra.