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

how an1ch eiser art shou thar thy lsokslS
Ieannot hslp compl eyena the risk q oss
inn charged with An alliance, this over candid re-
spubfcah upon the entire truth Of his statemen.L
III ID rare pleasure to be- able to 80 unreservedy
endorse q fepnbican sentiment Hit 'en again
asThe reelection Of Senator Douglas will benefit the
republican party, land viii give Douglas seat in
her councils Beautiful democrats these. whom
Douglas would foist upon the party very Mrelia.
Bile democratic" After all, they would doubtless
render unto the democracy the only real service in
their power. They would traduce her. 1t is re-
ireshing to hear senator, in the face OF these
overt palpsble facts, thunder forth his anathemas
upon an invisible, indeinable secret alliance exist
ing somewhere, somehow with somebody to promote
the republican ticket There is degree CT dlstn.
guished assurance and matcniess lntreP'a.y ~.
ace genius of efontery in the charge that EFFORTS
ones admiration. [Cheers and cries of "Ihats So ]
It is even doubtful whether, had it not been for
Judge Douglas, we would have had any republican
party at ALL 1t was born in his repeal of the Mis-
sour; Compromise, nourished by the turmo's OF the
Kansas-Nebraska bill, and finally rescued at the
point of death by his late anti Lecompton rebellion
But for Stephen A. Douglas the republicans would
have been bankrupt concern to day, without cap''
tai enough to carry them through a summers cam
pagn.
But for Mr. Douglas Kansas, the theatre of the
rump parliament of Topeka-the object OF Henry
Ward Beecher's political prayers and Horace Gree.
in place, politicians into treason, shed blood in
Washington, lavished money in Massachusetts,. sent
dues into Canada, governors into disgrace, and eve
rything into Observation-Disclosures the great bunkum
fund of republicanism, would have been thrown for
ever from the political arena, and its dismal shreks
senced for all time to come. Great Laughter. J.
Where would republicans be to-day but for Kansas?
Where would Kansas be but for Douglas?
Senator Douglas cries peace, peace: and charges
with attempting to break up the democratic par
ty by defeating him. Waving for moment the
strange probability of the democratic party, even
without Senator Douglas, let examine who it is
that has done the most towards breaking up the
party.
In 1854, when Mr.. Douglas introduced his Ne
braska BILL you all remember the desperate charac-
ter of that debate and the Phyrran victory won by
the democracy. Many staunch and able democrats
ventured to differ with Mr.. Douglas on the policy
and principles of this bill. Some Of the leading
politicians of this State did so. For these men Mr.
Douglas had no leniency. He was no advocate then
of that latitude of opinion-that catholic charity to
error-that generous forgiveness of heresy OF which
he is now such an eloquent and interested champion
1t was not for men then 10 rebel against democrat
ic Congress or a democratic organzation-it was
not for men then to rebel against democratic ad
ministraton and its leading measures. All such
men were denounced by Mr.. Douglas himself as
traitors II any expressed the slightest reverence
for a compromise " canonized in the hearts of the
American people" or the slightest irreverence for
the stump speech in the belly of the Kansas bill,
off went his head with the accuracy Of the guil|o-
tine. And now, if even handed justice returns this
chalice to the senator's lips he has no one to blame
but himself That's so-great cheers.l
The fight of 81 upon this issue, in which the de-
mocracy were defeated in every northern State, was
the btterest and most perilous it encountered
In that contest of the Oldest leaders and proud
est in:ellects of democracy were stricken down. and
~. &c <ho md 1Cct
forever.
We consoled ourselves, hover with the belief that
we were fighting for great prnciple-a practical
principle plain and infexble, which it was the
pleasure of Judge Douglas to christen 'squatter
sovereignty" and popular sovereignty" and the
right Of the people to govern themselves, and
dozen other winning paraphrases, but which were
really only the doctrine OF the Nicholson letter
the non-nteIvention of Congress in State and terri
torial legislatures During the searching analysis
which that principle underwent throughout that
memorable canvass, there was not one point hetter
understood, both North and South, by republicans
and by democrats, than that the principle of con-
gressiona non-ntervention extended as perfectly to
the manner and form of territorial legislation as
to its essence and substance. During all that Ella
borate discussion it was not for a moment doubted
that the people of Kansas had as clear right to
egislate to the form of executing their laws to
the passing of the laws themselves that they had
unquestionable control of the n,otlus operandi
of the enactments as they had over the nature of
the enactments themselves. One of the greatest
objections urged by the republicans against the
Kansas bill that the pro-savery men sought
through Missouri invasons fraudulent returns, and
executive influence, to elect pro slavery conven
tion and fasten upon the new State pro-slavery
constitution; to which the invariable answer Of
Douglas and the democracy was, that the election
laws were fair, and that they should be rigidly en-
forced-let the boosted majority Of the free State
vote, like loyal citizens, and prevent such result.
You all familiar with the history of that strug-
gle-wth its bloodshed, civil war, and rebellion.
Every opportunity was offered the abolitionsts to
vote; every argument was used to induce them to
accept them. Never were people so entreated to
do their duty; never were a people coaxed to
preserve their lights and exercise their power
Governor Walker became profuse and lachrymose
in his proclamations; Gov. Stanton sentimentally
patriotic in his appeals; Mr.. Douglas threatened
and forewarned; the Times ridculed and argued
All to purpose; the rebellious faction continued
in its reasonable course to the last moment. LIE.
compton adopted There was nothing in the
records of Kansas-not document that could be
nsIdered by Congress the President authori-
tative-that showed even a technical objection to
that instrument; and if there was any one demo.
cart more than another who, by his speeches, argu-
ments, votes, and conduct pledged in favor OF
Leccmpton, it Senator Douglas. [Cries of true,
true
The announcement that the senator intended to
oppose the admission of Kansas under that consti.
tuition, took the nation ana the democratic party by
surprise. 1t was at first vehemently denied, then
reluctantly credited up to the very moment of his
political suicide in the Senate on the 9th of Decem.
Der. Democrats could not believe that Douglas would
far stufy himself that, after leading the van he
would in the very heat of the battle so ngloriously
desert They could not believe that, at a crisis
when the integrity and very existence of the demo.
cratic DartV dpDende0 fnnu the mai Ona1
administration in position in which it had been
placed by Douglas himself he would seishly and
shamefully turn his batteries upon his old friends
and strike hands with the enemy.
That proud confidence which the democratic par.
ty once placed in Douglas has been broken; that
been forfeited, and simulated peni!ence no threat
ened vengeance can restore II Defea or elected