The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-21
0rss4 Dez1eEa1io Meeting &C 0urinxs
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The Natio-ef fs3--srrracy held q conysn-
ton IN Spa. 5.ss.s. On TUESDAY. for the pur.
pose OF nominating u candidate for Congress
Inc convention was large, and most Of the
principal Buchanan inen Of the State were
on hand, in high spirits, and breathing
threatening and slaughter against the Lit.
tie Dodger, rs they now call the great dem.
agougue Of Illinois.
Capt. j. L. Mcdonnell was nominated for
Congress, and a Platform of five resolutions
two commenting the President and three
co-demning Dougias--wasS adopted
i speeches were made by the sDld Ranger
Ex-Governor Reynolds, Mcdonnell the nom.
inee for Congress, Dr. I.eib, the Buchanan
Mail Agent, and by the US District At
torney Fitch, of Chicago
We make room for couple Of extracts
from fitch's speech, which was devoted to
"sklnning the slaughtered Giant lie
| said:
That proud confidence which the Demo
cratic party once placed in Douglas has been
broken; that deep abiding trust which they
reposed in him has been forfeited, and no
simulated penitence, no threatened ven
geance can restore it. Defeated or elected,
he can never again have an opportunity Of
betraying the confidence Of the Democratic
party.
Now why did Mr.. Douglas oppose that
admission I might tell you that it was be-
cause the Senator was q patriot, because he
was great man, because he was one of the
champions of the people, the only cavalier
sans peur sans reproche," in the Democrat
ic ranks; or any other of the handsome rea-
sons usually given by the Senator himself.
| But prefer telling you less eulogistic and
more truthful account.
The first great principle that underles'
the movement is the principle ofselEpreser-
| walton. Great laughter Douglas con-
ceived that his reelection depended on it
| His political necessities drove him into the
course. The growing free-soil sentiment of
Illinois must be conciliated or the State
would no longer require his services APP
plause. 1t was net that Kansas was to be
forced into the Union, but that Douglas was
likely. to be forced oat of the Senate. Pro
ionged laughter Not that popular sover
eighty in the territories was being violated
but that popular sovereignty in the State
was about to be enforced Continued laugh
ter. Not that the right of Kansas ito reg
ulate her domestic institutions in her own
way, subject only to the Federal Constitu-
ton, was to be overthrow, but that the
right OF Illinois to the same thing, unsubiec.
ted to the dictation of Stephen A. Douglas,
was to be enforced Cheers and laugh
ter
1t was not that the honorable senator low
ed the democracy less, but that he loved
Douglas more. He was erfectly willing to
make any reasonable sacrifice of his friends
or their means to sustain the party, but to
ask him to sacrifice his own personal inter
est was asking little too much even for the
Little Giant Great Cheers ltmay have
been very Roman and very immortal to stand
p.likesa brave and honorable man in de-
fence OF the party that had elevated him.
but it might have cost him his Senatorial
head, hence he preferred the discretion to
the yasor Of the deed Hit him again l.
Honor may have pricked him on, but if
honor should have pricked him off that was
the rub. Honor had no skill IN ballots-
Honor could not secure a vote therefore he
would none of it, Cheers.
And to this very natural and discreet
principle OF sefpreseryation, a private
pIque against Mr.. buchanan for having do
fcated him at Cincinnati and thus SHARED
MN a still greater defeat at the hands Of the
people, and refusing to appoint Mr.. |
Richardson to Cabinet Office {who by
the-bye, would have made a brilliant Cabi-
net ollicer) and you have the true intent |
and meaning of the anti-Lecompton fight in |
a nutshell. Cheers
10 advance his personal interests and too |
crafty his private chagrin, he hesitated not
to violate ms own principles, divide his own
friends and ally himself to men whose creed /
was the destruction of the Democratic party
and whose ultimate purpose was disunion.
Men whom he had often denounced IN terms
taat would be unjust if even now applied to
himself
Ihen aitershoWing that Douglas refused to
20 into the Democratic GAUGES last winter
and had opposed al the caucus nominations
and united with and counseled Republicans
IN measures to defeat the Administration
and the Democratic party of the country
Mr.. Fitch proceeded thus
Upon the bred Scott decision also we find
}ndge Douglas assuming the position at va
rance with thar of the Democratic party
1t the opening Of this campaign that decis
on was as sacred to him as a sacrament II
vas a great mountain light upon the consti.
utIonal relation OF slavery We fnd him at
chicago ridieulingthe idea ofappeaiins from
ne supreme Court to town meeting, ABLY
'ebutting Mr. Lincoln arguments in onno-
itIon to 1t, and Blowing in Difference to that
ieeision. But as the campaign progressed
IND the Free Soil pressure of Northern ILL.,
,ois began to be more felt, we find judge
DOUGLAS waxin. weaker every day IN his
lalf Barnum and half patriotic devotion to
ne Supreme Court, until finally at Free
'ort he made more iRsdious, cowardiy and
INJURIOUS attack upon that decision than Mr.
lincoln ever has or ever will be guilty Of
lie there states that whatever the Court NAV
ecide as to the abstract question of slavery
he people of a. Territory still have right.
ndermy Nebraska bill to practically nulify
by untriendly legislation. In other words
Notwithstanding the constitution protects
ne right to hold slayes in Territory. not
the Supreme Court--the high :
st tribunal known to the law-has in a
olemn decision, so interpreted that Consti d
1tlon, still Mr.. Douglas intimates to the
zee soil fanatics that they may by their CO.
mai legislation and local police regulations
eat that decision with contempt, and, in
chance OF the Constitution practically de. v
rive the STAKEHOLDER of all his rights. Mr..
lncoln, while respecting the decision adyo
ties its repeal Mr. Douglas desires to 4
ave 1t considered as dead letter upon the
atute book. 0ne would correct and amend
hat he considered as an error; the other :,
ould treat as mockery and a farce what :
processes to reverence A more wretehed
zee of demagoguism does not disgrace the
cord Of any public man. SO much for the
sertion Of Mr.. Douglas, that he differed &
ON the party on but one point o,
1t is true, gentlemen, on the ether hand
at that one point has been settled? 1t is =
obable that Kansas will present another
etition for redress of grievances in the s
fn Of Topeka Constitution, in which
ent the very gist of the Conference Bill =
i be brought in play. y
] lie provisions OF that bill will prohibit y,
r admission until she obtain tia ratio Of
Presentation heretofore required in every
Ter State.
The present Administration, and the en-
Q Democratic party Of all the States stand I
dyed TO maintain these provisions. There
Il then arise another conflict between tina
mocracy and the Abolition hardes SINH.
to the one waeed last winter Where II
] Senator Douglas then stand With or eur
inst the bill? Not having heard an ex- :, {