Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-12

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member Of the Democratic Party has occupied
since the days of jackson. True, the Lee
comptonites howl at him. but so do the Re.
publicans. What the Lecomptonites say
about him, can be found in the columns ofthc
Washington Union and its echoes in thi.
State. That the Republicans are opposed to
him is notorious. Yet, as a reminder Of the
fact, we may call attention TO the following
extract from a letter Of a Chicago correspon-
dent of the New York Post, a thorough Re
publican paper
The Little Giant is changed in no respect,
and rs the canvass grows warmer, the breach
widens and his actual position becomes more
clearly defined He is still an out and ont
pro slavery man. In one ofhis recent speech
es he stopped to read the dispatch announc-
ing Blair's defeat in St Louis, Us the over
throw of negro equality and all that sort of
stuff that forms the staple of Democratic Rhe
toric 1t is foregone conclusion, therefore,
that under no circumstances can the Repub-
! leans of Illinois show any favor to Mr.. Doug
las In fighting him they fight Democracy
in one of its worst forms. lis defeat will
open the West and North West TO us. His
success might give perpetuity to the old lease
that the Democratic party once held OF the
new States"
Now, let u see, for moment, what a Sou
thern Democratic correspondent Of the Geor-
gia Telegraph says about him:
at SO happens at a reading room in Ma
con, the Illinois State journal, "A sheet that is
the organ of the Black Republicans, is read
by me. Any one SO disposed can see that
paper on the round table Of the enterprising
Messrs. Winter. My blood has boiled whilst
reading in it articles assaing Mr. Douglas
'as pro slavery man "the champion OF the
Fugitive Slave Law" "the defender of the
bred Scott decision"
And can it be, that southern men are ocry
on the hounds unleashcd to hunt down this
bold defender of principles so dear and so Vi
tai to the South If it is to be done, we who
stand by Douglas, enter our protest for the
following reasons:
First, because Mr.. Douglas has again and
again imperiled his political fortunes, by de-
Tending measures essential to our peace and
security In the Senate and on the hustings
his potential voice has ever been pitched to
the key of the nstitution-whereve fana-
tcism has made its most desperate battles
there has his white plume been seen like the
impetuous Murats as he has led on the fierce
charge of the stalwart Democracy. Nor has |
he stopped to count the cost, or been checked .
one moment before bristlng dangers. After
he had so calamity sustained the fugitive
slave law in the Senate he returned to Chica
CO. The crazy Aboltionsts of that place
threatened to mob him if he dared attempt to
speak And did he quail? No. sir, not he.
lie bearded the infuriated pack and thunder
ed in their ears such defense of the fugitive
slave law as sent them back to their dens like
smtten conspirators. And now, whilst |
write, his clarion voice is lifted over the roll
ing praries of Illinois in triumphant vindica-
ton of the Fugitive slave law, the Dred
Scott decision" and the constitutional rights
of the slave States. In such fight, let SOU
thern men, if they will, pinion his arm and
hold back his battle axe. But for myself, |
shall shout if it comes out of the contest like
Coeur &c Lions streaming with the bloody
trophies of a signal victory. God save SOU
thern men from ingratitude, and may they be
spared from the sin of that people who sent
one beuefactor into banishment, and gave to
another the fatal hemlock."
Do the Lecompton organs ask US for names
instead of anonymous communications? We
have already given them. And to the names
of Toombs and Stephens, and Green, and
Hunter Ito say nothing of Wise and Foote,
and Walker and Stanton we may add those
of Mud Sill Hammond, himself who thinks
that South Carolina is the boundary of the
world, but knows we'll that she must stand, if |
she remain in the Union, upon those consti-
tutional rights of the South for which Mr.
Douglas is now coutending; of Pierre SOule
whose every breath is respiration for the
South, of Senator Brown, of Mississippi, no
less a champion of the EXTREMIST rights of the
South; and of such papers as the Richmond
Enquirer, Georgia Telegraph, Nashville Uni
on, Louisville Courier New Orleans Delta
and True Delta, st. Louis Republican, and
Augusta Constitutionalist. All these Demo
cratic leaders and papers endorse Stephen A.
Douglas as sound National Democrat The
most rabid Lecompton among them comedies
to him his right to have differed with the
President in the matter of the Lecompton
Constitution, but will not consent to the mad
ness and folly of denying that he is a great
leader in the Democratic party With the
endorsement of such men and such journals
in the South Douglas can well afford to let
the Washington Union bark on, as we'll as
the balance of the Lecompton pack. Demo-
crats who look to the future, will be cautious
how they attack the political character of Mr.
Douglas man who is the aclsno wledged
head of the Democracy in the North, and who
is so warmly endorsed as a Democrat in the
South, is not to be trihed with. 1t may be
very easy to put ones self in the path of the
Juggernaut but getting up again is different
matter
As to the authority of the Washington
Union to read Mr.. douglas out of the Demo
cratic party that may be best inferred from
the following facts stated by Mr.. Douglas in
his celebrated Freeport speech:
"The Washington Union, under that most
corrupt of all men, Cornelius Wendell. is ad
vocating Mr.. Lincolns claims to the Senate.
WeHdeH ,cas tie printer of the last Black Re.
publican House Of Representatives he was a
candidate 6gore the present Democratic House
6@ cas ignomiaiously kicked ont, and then he
took the money Which he had mule ont Of the
public printing By means Of tie Black Reppb-
ieans, bought the Washington Union, and is
nor publishing it IN the name Of the Demo
cratic party, and advocating Mr.. LjncOia's
election to tie Senate. Mr.. Lincoln, there
fore, considers any attack upon Wendell and
this corrupt gang as personal attack upon
him. Immense cheering and laughter. This
only proves what | have charged-that there