Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-11-20
WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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Saturday noFaIae, kst. 70, 1858.


20 our miud, and seem to be better calculated
- cid The Little Giant in his impctuous and un-
scrupaous course towards the goal OF his
nmbiiion, than to produce any other effect
The censuruble means used 10 carry the
Illinois elections. and TO cot,tinue his place IN
'he Senate, are lost sight Of in the pluudits
over The apparently successful accomplishment
OF that end The tenor OF these articles are
very we'll calculated too, to throw dust into the
eyes Of some very good Republicans, aud modi-
y their repugnance to q man. whom VIC cannot
but look upon as the one most TO be dreaded by
every right minded man. Of any other leading
spirit now before the country--the one Of all
others, who would boggle the least at any
means to secure an end. His supreme SELFISH
ness, and total disregard of faith to any section
or fidelity TO any policy. with his personal in
huence and determined character, should place
him fairly and squarely before the Republican
party as he is, that they may give him the
widest possible berth The warfare between
him and Buchanan Is sufficiently inauguraied,
ald decided and bitter enough, we think, 10 be
safely left to its own conclusion, without let or
hiudrance. The following views on this sub
ject from the pen Of the very judicious editor
of the Cleveland Leader, commend themselves
TO our notions, and we adopt them in prefer.
ence TO an attempt at making our own mark
"From the exuItation OF the Douglas Demo.
Gratis one would suppose that they consider the
contest Of 1860 settled, and that the Little
Giant has only to march to Washington and
wait FOR Mr.. Buchanan 10 lay down the sceptre,
The gunpowder ovatiOns. however, have "A good
deal Of the prenatureDess Of the Atlantic Cable
explosions, aud the fact that Mr.. Douglas has
after truly gigantic effort obtained bare
majority Of the Legislature Of State that has
heretofore given him overwhelming endorse
ments, Is blazoned into an Importance Ear be.
yond its real import. To Mr.. Douglas person
ally, Il is proud triumph, for it was a hard
fought contest But how the Democracy as
party are to be benefited by it, is far from be-
ing clear. II has healed no divisions but has
rather widened those already existing between
the Sectional and the National Democracy.
With the apportionment decidedly in his "a
vOr Mr.. Douglas has secured the Legislature
may be reelected to the United States Senate,
but the popular verdict Of Illinois is against
him. Upon the State ticket and upon the Le-
gislative ticket the Republican majority is about
Eve thousand, aud upon the Congressional tick
ct it is some eight thousand. 1t is on such a
popular record that the exponent Of popular
sovereignty seeks to retain his place. But this
is not all. Says the Missouri Democrat, the
course Of Mr.. Douglas now shows that what
Morris said to Smith was true--'h he resolved
to oppose Leeompton in order to save himself
at home 1t was no patriotic outbreak, no ia
spired fash Of genius and courage; bat simple
calculation how best to hoodwiuk the people
Of Illinois The uuloosening, too, of tongues
since the election, proves what the Uuion inti-
mated was the fact, that prior to bis departure
from Washington he made bis peace with Iu-
c''anan, a only broke the bargain subsequently,
when he found that il would beat him TO be at
amity with the Administration. 1t was at Free
port that he put on the mask OF Free Soil, and
his peFsonatiOn was so good that many thou
sands voted for him, believing in the language
of the Missouri Republican that be was {" as
much an anti-slavery man as Mr.. Lincoln" We
thought then they would be cheated, we tbiLk
so still"
Mr. Douglas as Free SoiIer, can never be
the nominee at Charleston, and yet it is to
Charleston that both Mr.. Douglas and his friends
look for the consummation Of what they call
bis triumphs. And it is herein the necessity
arises that will involve him in a career Of equiv
ocaiion, Of shutting, Of contradiction, such as
we have predicted for him in the future. AL.
ready the South, the Enquirer, the Delta, and
the Republican, have begun manufacturing his
speeches into very passabIe Southern dontrines,
explaining away the little eccentricites OF the
canvass, as clectiOneering lodges, and anchoring
him safe and last alongside the slave extension
clauses Of the Dred Scott decision. From now,
too, until the National Convention meets, this
course will be continued by the nullifers-un-
der the vain and foolish hope that the people of
the free States will not detect bis backsliding
whilst the people Of the slave States are being
mustered Into his service But what are the
has very aptly said in late speech that it viii
be the duty heneeforth Of the friends Of freedom
to watch The indications which give evidence of
intent to betray the cause, and what he has said
Is only the expression Of pervadiug popular
thought. Mr. Douglass triumph now consists
10 nothing but the fact Of having saved himself
from ruin in the general wreck Of the pro-slavery
Democracy, and that BY taking free soil ground.
Let him be classed otherwise, but for a mo-
u'eut BY bis own action and be goes TO keep
Pierce, buchanan and the rest Of the great de-
feated company. To talk Of bis Presidential
chances, therefore, is idle. With Bright, sIideII,
Mason and the President 10 conStFain him TO
the utmost requirements Of the South, before
nominaiion,with popular defeat IN his own state,
running as an avoxsa ffeesOiIer TO start with. |
and With tie assurance that no other Democrat
ic leader can carry his own State for himself,
much less for Douglas, we think his prospects
not worth discussing. Much stress has been
laid heretofore upon the fact that Mr.. Douglas
had the popular heart This consolation IL now