Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-11-20

| DOtl fronts OF Wnlcn were decorated Win some
four hundred variegated lanterns suspended
from the balconies Lake street was densely
thronged, and the crowd was SO noisy that it
was difficult to speak or hear. The Tribune
gives the speech of Senator Douglas verbatim,
and as everybody will desire to read what the
Little Giant" says in the hour of his triumph,
we copy it.
SPEECH OF Mr.. DOUGLAS.
Ny FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS return
to you my heartfelt thanks for this magnificent
demonstration.
The Democracy of Illinois have achieved
noble victory over the combined forces of Abo-
| litionism and its allies. (Here the tumult was
renewed and the speaker suspended his remarks
for moment.) You have right to be proud
of this glorious triumph. 1t is the triumph of
the Constitution over faction; it is the triumph
of the principle of self government over con-
| gressional interference and Executive dictatlon.
| ("Good, good" and cheers)
Four months ago | opened the canvass in
speech from this balcony to uncounted thon'
sands; now appear before you to receive the
| congratulations of as many more thousands,
rejoicing in the great triumph. (Here the tu-
mutt arose again, and Judge Douglas, turn
ing to DR.. McVickar, said, There is no use in
| trying to speak to such a crowd) After a
pause he proceeded: While it is right and prop
er that we should rejoice at the success of
these sound, constitutional principles, which
will bring peace and harmony to the republic,
let US bear in mind that We should bear our
victory in moderation, and in enjoying our tri
umph remember justice. With the result of
this election let all the asperities and the heat
/ ed feeling, and the angry passions that have
| been aroused, with it be buried forever. Zap
pause) 1t is neither Just nor magnanimOus
to rejoice over a fallen fee. Let US teach our
political opponents that while we have tri-
umphed over them, the victory is for their good
as well as ours. (Cheers and cries of " hear,
hear, order, silence.'D When we put sound
Just and constitutional principles into practical
operation in this Government, the Republi-
/ cans may enjoy the blessings which follow as
well as Democrats. Hence, while it is just
that all should rejoice in this triumph, we should
be magnanimous, and kind and generous to-
wards those with whom we have differed in
opinion. (''Good, good" and applause,) Let
US bear in mind that while we are divided into
political parties, separated from each other by
antagonistic principles, yet are all citizens of
common republic-we all revere the gories of
our past history-we all trust that our posteri-
ty will share a common destiny in the blessings
of republican government in all time to come.
| (APplause)
This Union, under our glorious Constitution,
is the greatest legacy that divine Providence
has ever conferred upon free people. Let
that Constitution be administered as our fathers
made it; let that glorious bond of union bind
| these States together foTeveI-each State main
tanning its sovereign right to dispose of its own
internal affairs and regulate its own domestic
To s7ait itself I OF
that great principle of Popular Sovereignty
| which underlies all our republican institutions
be carried out in good faith in States and Ter
rtories alike. [Applause.l Let Illinois regu-
late her own affairs to suit heTself-mOuld her
own institutions according to her own wishes,
d then mind her own business, and let every
other State do the same thing, and then we will
have peace and harmony among the different
States of this Union. Let US discard forever
that fatal heresy which tells US that this Union
divided into free and slave States as our fathers
made it, cannot endure; let that fatal heresy
which says that these States must all become
free or all become sIave-must be all the one
thing or all the other, be banished forever.
[Cheers.
On the contrary, let the great principle of
Popular Sovereignty-tbat great principle of
State rights and State sovereignty prevail,
which declares the right of the people of each
Stataand each Territory, TO man9Ue its owp af-
fairs IN Its own way, subject only to the Con-
stitution of the United States [Cheers.l When |
that principle shall be recognized and obeyed by
the American people North and South, there |
will be peace and harmony and fraternity among |
the States of the Confederacy; but so long as
that monstrous political heresv shall prevail |
that the North must combine against the South |
to abolish Slavery everywhere, and that the |
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lish it everywhere-that there must be section. |
al strife between the South and the North for
the ascendancy, so long there will be dIscord |
and hatred between the different sections of the
Union [Applause.l
That great question has been distinctly sub
mitted to the people Of Illinois in the recent
election, and, thank God, the principles of the
Constitution and the Union have triumphed.-
Illinois now stands, as she ever has Stood faith
full to the Constitution and the Union. Illinois
now stands, as she ever has stood, immovably
upon Democratic principles, and maintaining
tine Democratic organization. [Cheers.l Every
other free State in this Union, at some time,
has wheeled out of line, except glorious Hi
nois [Cheers] From the day that Illinois en-
tered this confederacy, up to this time, she has
cast her vote for the Democratic candidates for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency, in every
succeeding election; and yet you have been
told that the only State that never did fail to
stand by the Democratic party and the Demo-
cratic organization, and vote for the Democratic
Presidents, is now to be read out of the Demo
cratic party by those States that have all gone
Abolition. [Cheers.l
'[Here Alderman Denny Coughlin addressed
some incoherent words to the speaker, amid
great noise of mingled yells, cheers aud cries of
. ordeT," which interrupted the speech few
As the confusion subsided, Mr. Douglas con
.inued:-
When the dark cloud of fanaticism gathered
in the East rolled over the New England States,
spread over New York, completely overwhelmed |
Pennsylvania, swept over Ohio and Indiana,
reached the Wabash River, the gallant, united +
Democracy of Illinois turned back the tide and
Kept the flag of the Constitution and the Union
ioating over glorious Illinois. [Applause.l-
This is victory never to be forgotten, for it is
The triumph of the Union Constitutional men
over fanateism and disunion. Loud cheers
When all sectional parties unite against the
Federal Constitution aud the Union, all national
men, whether Wings or Democrats, or by what
aver other name they may be called, should
mite to maintain the Constitution, preserve the
Union, and turn back tie dark and fatal cloud T
If sectional strife. r
Illinois now occupies that glorious, proudpo-
tion of having checked the tide. Illinois now T
s greeted all over the Union-Nor orth and South, :
East and West-as the only State that has not +,
,een overwhelmed in the recent elections Zap. $
,lause.l To what cause do the Democracy owe ?
his triumph 1t is due to fidelity to principle =
n Illinois the true principles of popular sove- (
eighty have triumphed [Applause.l In Illinois
he Cincinnati platform has been strictly car g
led out in Illinois the Democratic organiza- (
ion has been maintained in Illinois there have al
,een no new tests interpOlated into the Demo
ratio platform. Loud cbeers.l In Illinois
Democrats have never been prescribed because
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