The Nevada journal., 1858-12-10
THE CHANcEs.-Smee the result Of

THE CHANGES. the result OF
the recent election in Illinois has been
made known, our brethren Of the quill
have commenced their representations
for 1860. 1t is all rig ght-we intend to
have our share it. 1t is said that Dou-
glas bids fair to be the nominee of the
Charleston convention. Some are SO
bold as to say he has clear track be-
fore him for the Presidency in 1861
We can't see it.
The recent victory in his own State
gives him wonderful prestige we ad-
nit. But the success of Douglas for
the next Presidency is predicted upon
the supposition that the contest will be
between Douglas and Seward, or Doug
las and some other Republican. The
prediction may be a safe one on that
supposition. The uncertainty mostly
lies in the basis assumed, It is doubt
full if the contest will be narrowed down
between two candidates 1t is safe to
assume that no rice, cotton or sugar
raising State viii support Republican,
but not safe to presume that these states
will support Douglas in 1860. Douglas
announced in his Freeport speech the
doctrine of power existing in the peo-
pie of a territory to prohibit slavery
therein if they chose-a doctrine at va
rance with the southern construction of
the Dred Scott decision-a doctrine
which the South will resist as an en-
croaehment upon their rights-rights
belonging to them, as they will insist,
as joint owners with the North in the
national domain-rights secured to them
by the sanction of the highest tribunal
of the Union.
The Dred Scott decision is acknowl-
edged to recognise the right of the
Shareholder to go into any territory with
his property. The South may peril
i.ently ask, of what good is this right if
it is to be taken from her citizens at the
option of fact:ous few. There is am
pie ground for an argument on the ques-
ton: How, if the Constitution carries
slavery with it into a territory. las the
Dred Scott decision declares) can a few
residents of the territory, abrogate the
highest law of the land ! on which to
marshall southern party in 1860, out
side ofthe Douglasites and Republicans
The truth is, however, much the South
may have sympathised with Douglas in
his contest with a Republican, she has
no real love for him after all. Her SYM
pathies were for the least of two evils
for her. The doctrine of the Freeport
speech is distasteful to the South and
will not be swallowed. The dose is re-
PEELED by some of her leading states
men. The press, in the interest of the
administration, not only in the Atlantic
States, but here, repudiate the doctrine,
as an innovation upon the Cincinnati
platform and a reputation of the Dred
Scott decision on the most vital point
Hence we prognosticate that Douglas
has no dead thing" for the next Presi-
dency. Those who see differently must
make considerable reckoning upon
the supple politics of the little giant
fashioning themselves SO as to suit the
South-a business for which we do not
deny his qualifications but doubt an eff.
feet beneficial to himself AS the polit-
ical horizon now looks the contest in
1860 will be triangular one. The
Republicans are sure to take the field.
The intangible motto of Popular Sow
ereignty will be the cry word of anoth-
er party and a third promises to be
the natural offspring Of our bachelor
President and his administration, enter
tanning another view of Popular Sow
ereignty and using it as catch-word
before the people, So we guess.
DR.. DUsTIN.- We see by a paper