Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-10-27
Correspondence Of the RehmJnd soaih
The Douglai Campaign in Illinois,
Sr. LOUIS, September 10, lSJ

Sr. LOUIS, September 10, lS0S.
The contest now waging in the State OF H.
linos, which is to result either in the triumph
or defeat OF no less man than Stephen A.
Douglas for the Senate OF the United States,
has attracted and is attracting no little alten-
tion in every part OF the Union, Seldom has
a local election been looked forward TO with so
much interest," seldom have politicians in so
many different localities taken sides so siren.
uonsly, and expressed themselves so decidedly
in favor of one or the other of the opposing
candidates. This arises from the high position
Judge Douglas has maintained for years past
as one Of the leaders and brightest ornaments
of the Democratic party; his prominence as
President asplrant; his detection from the line
Of policy. policy marked out by his party last
winter upon fundamental party measure caus-
ing doubts in the minds of many as TO the gen.
uineness and sincerely of his Democracy; the
dangerous, radical and incendinry principles Of
his opponent; and the immense effect the elec-
ture condition of political parties at the North.
DOUGLAS, CANDIDACY.
That Judge Douglas would again be can
didate for the seat he has filled for two terms,
no one doubted Accordingly when a large
and enthusiastic Democratic Convention, coui
posed of delegates from the whole State of IL
linois met last June in Springfield, his course
was endorsed, and he came before the people
as the representative of the Democracy Of the
State, and the acknowledged exponent OF its
principles. He was not nominated, it is true
the Democracy would not be guilty of nom
mating a candidate for the Senate; but 1t was
understood that the ensuing Legislature would
be elected with view to passing upon his
claims for the Senate.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND HOW HE CAME TO BE
CANDIDATE.
Abraham Lincoln, Of Illinois, has long been
known as prominent Whig politician IN that
State. He managed to get into Congress in
1916, and, like Tom Corwn, distinguished
himself bv taking sides with the MeiXcans in
the war against the Uniied States. When par
ties we've thrown into temporary state Of
chaos, after the passage of the Kansas. Nebras-
Ka act, Lincoln, together with other bank
rupt politicians, entered into league for the
purpose of raising up an Abolition or Repub-
i,can party in opposition to the Democracy
the offices. in the. event of success, TO be dis
tribuied among the faithful, with an equitable
regard for the former political status. The
offices of the Legislature (Speader, Clerk, &c.,
were to be given to the Aboltioniss proper;
Lincoln in return for his exertions in decoying
the Wings into the new party, was to be made
United States Senator, and Lyman Trumbull,
prominent Democrat, as a reward for per-
forming the like office in regard TO Democrats,
was to be elected TO Congress from the Alton
District and TO succeed Douglas in the Senate
next spring. The new party succeeded in
electing majority of the Legislature, but
when they come to carry out their bargain
with reference to Senator, although Lincoln
was their nominee, his friend Trumbull, by
wire.working, succeeded in getting himself
elected, and thus Lincoln was cheated by "con-
sorting with rogues," according to his friend
J. M. Mathenys account,) and left at home,
without any reward for betrayng his party
But, when another Senator in the progress of
time, had to be elected, Lincoln, afraid to trust
himself again in the hands of his political
friends, who had formerly betrayed him clinch-
ed the matter by making the Black RepubIi-
can Convention at Springfield, last summer,
declare unanimously, that he was their sfrst,
and only choice" for Senator, in place of
Judge Douglas. Thus was he put forward,
and nGN he, Trumbull and Matheny, (who
warned him against consorting with rogues,)
are travelling over the State together, abusing
Douglas. These facts have been stated by
Judge Douglas from every stump, and have
never been contradicted; so they are unGoubt-
edly true, and show up the corruption of the
Black Republican party and the infamous
bargains they make to secure the spos of Of
flee.
LINcoLN's PLATFORM.
By the action of the various Black Repub-
iican Conventions in the State of Illinois, in
enunciating the prime Piles Of the party ITO which
Lincoln stands fully committed,) as well as by
his own declarations he is pledged to carry out
all the most dangerous doctrines that have ever
been proclaimed by the most radical Of the
old Abolition party. He is opposed to the ac.
QUESTION OF any more slave territory, and would
vote against the admission of another slave
State: he is in favor Of the unconditional re.
peal of the fugitive slave law; he would resist
the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dreo
Scott case; and, moreover, declares that this
Union cannot remain half slave and half free
but must become wholly the one or the other
As he is Freesoier, the obvious inference is
that he expects to go on with his warfare upor
slavery "until the public mind rests in the be
lief that it is in the course,of ultimate extinc.
tion," to quote the languagt6f his first speect
after his nomination.
DOUGLAS PRINCIPLES.
On the other hand, Judge Douglas accepts
the issne Lincoln made for him before his re
turn from Washington. He declares that b,
stands where he always has stood, upon the
broad platform OF the National Democratic