Southern shield., 1858-10-09
From the St. Louis Republican. Douglas and Lincoln.


 "There is no possible chance of the eec- ton of either Mir. Douglas or Mir. Lincoln. Neither will be elected, but some good Ma tional Democrat will be chosen" This IS the talk of the few gentlemen who have de- voted themselves to secure the defeat of Judge Douglas in his reelection to the Senate of the United States. Those who use this argument are not fools, and yet there is not discreet man in Illinois wEo will say that it is any other than fools argument-if itbe not that, it is the shallow contrivance of knave, who thinks the peo- pie can be hoodwinked by any shallow pre- text. There is no third party in this race. There is not the most remote chance that the little squad of disappointed Democrats who are making so much ado about the election, will be able to show a respectable force in any county in the State. There are but two parties in Illinois; ninety-fve out of every hundred of the Democrats in the State will vote for Representatives in favor of MT. Douglas, and no earthly power can change their determination. Iii time that the country should be undeceived in this matter. We tell the President, if he has any interest in knowing the state of popular feeling in Illinois-we tell Messrs. Slidell and Bright, who are understood to have set on this war in that State, and who are SUD- posed to be desrous of breaking down Douglas, in order to get him out of their way forGthe Presidency-we tell the Wash ington .Union-tiat the Third Party in llli- nois consists of broken down, sore-headed, fllibustering politicians, with as little prn- ciple as belongs tothe most reckless of such a class-place- men, some of whom ought never to have been put in place-place- hunters, who are even worse than those in place mendicant stump speakers, whose all of the future depends, not upon the pre- servation, but on the destruction of the Democratic party-and followers, who hope to pick up some crumb that may fall to their share in the event of the defeat of Douglas.
 We say there is no such thing as third party in Illinois; and if there be leaders, the masses have no confidence in, and will not trust them. If they are looked for in any considerable number anywhere, they cannot be found. We say now, in advance of the election, that every man who is elec- ted to the Senate or the House, will be either a Douglas Democrat or a Black Republican not a Democrat will be elected who will not stick to Douglas. We know that the third party hope to elect one or two men, who will serve as so much capital to enter the lists against the other candidates, but they have about as much chance of doing it as they have of getting on the comets tail and making good their location there. They have recently sought to deude the people with a story, that Messrs. Coffey, of Wash ington, and Martin, of White, elected as Democrats, were anti-Douglas men; but those Senators have put an end to the de- fusion, the one by declaring that he is for Douglas, '' first, last and all the time.'' and the other fatly contradicts the story. If Judge Douglas is defeated in his return to the Senate of the United States, it will be done by the Black Republicans, aided and assisted by the few malcontent Democrats, who, under the lead of Leib, Carpenter, Reynolds, Breese, Cook, and others, are striving to draw off few honest Democrats in each county, so as to give chance to the Black Re publican party to run in it's candidates. In some counties the majority is small either way, and such defection might give the Black Republicans a triumph: but we trust that the Democrats see the design, and will cast from them these false teachers; that, between this and the election, they will unite in one solid phalanx; and then, aided by the honest Wings and Americans, of whom there are hundreds in each county, that they will crush Black Republcanism. Reject the counsels of these political filli- busters, and, whether Douglas may have erred on one or two occasions or not, elect him, and the victory will be hailed as the greatest ever achieved on this continent; it will be the victory of the Union over sec tionalism-a triumph in which all honest men may rejoice, because 1t will have bro ken the backbone of the worst party that has appeared in this country.
 We'wish there were men about Mir. Buch- anan who had the nerve and the honest. if he takes any interest in this election, to tell him that the course which things are taking in Illinois seems better calculated to destroy the Democratic party than anything that could be devised by it's opponents; that it is time that this war upon Mir. Douglas should cease; that it should not have the seeming countenance of the Administration that if Mir. Slidell or Mir. Bright want to defeat Mr. Douglas. and to put him down with the people, in advance of the Charleston nomi- nation, that is a matter of their own, but they have no right to hazard the success of the Democratic party in 1860, by an unne- cessary and vindictive war upon Mir. Dou- glas, who has shown himself better Dem- ocrat, a greater statesman and more ar dent lover of the Union than either of them can ever hope to be. Put an end to this, Mir. President, as you can do, and then the Democratic party will be grand and glo- rious unit, but unless this be done it will be riven into pieces.