Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-02
Judge Douglas Again.

| OuuSo UUuSldS AS dlns
Ii southern men have lost every other
clue by which to distinguish Douglas as a
Democrat, and true friend of the South,
there is still left one great and infallible
witness which will ever testify for him, and
this is the calumny, abuse, vituperation and
meanness with which he is assailed by the
abolition press of the North. Far, how
ever, from injuring him, these malicious
attacks will be his salvation, both North
and South They are the very pulsations
by which we may judge Of the political
state of his mind. We need no other as
surance Of his fidelity to the slave party and
of his total adherence of abolition doctrine,
than the following paragraph from the
Press and Tribune, the Niger organ of H.
linois, whose columns daily TEEN with such
stuff:
Those who have watched the course of
Senator Douglas during the last few months
cannot have failed to remark the somewhat
singular fact that the same ultra pro-slavery
newspapers of the South which said very
hard things about him while he was bat
Ting the Administration in assumed defence
of the "Great principle of Popular Sow
reignty," are now equally vociferous for
him in his contest with Mr.. Lincoln,
though he is more boisterously in favor of
Popular Sovereignty than ever Have the
South, the Delta and other kindred prints
at last opened their eyes to the wondrous
beauty and wisdom of that ''great princi-
ple'' as explained by him during the last
session of Congress, and so turned bot
tie holders of the ''Little Giant in his
hopeful encounter with ''Long Abe" or
has the Senator's subsequent championship
of the bred Scott decision made Popular
Sovereignty more palatable to them? We
may suppose this, or we may assume on
much stronger grounds of probability, that
the disunion organs referred to have all
along known their man thoroughly, and
opposed him IN the first instance simply in
order that he might have better opportu-
nifty to conciliate the anti slavery portion of
his constituents, and thus secure his re-
election to the Senate. At all events, if
they did misapprehend his position and
purpose for a few weeks during the pen
dency Of the discussion of the Kansas ques-
ton in Congress, they no longer doubt that
he, by nature, instinct, aspiration and po-
litical association, is the man to lead the
vanguard of Slavery Propaganism in the
future, as he has in the past, with the sin
| ole SEEMING execution named
The class of Southern politicians whose
views are represented by the journals in
question do not ask for more ultra and
inscriptions champion of their cause than
Mr.. Douglas, even while shouting himself
hoarse in pretended defence of such a SOW
reignty Of the people as might, if honestly
conceded to them, and there were no bred
Scott decisions in the way, convert every
new Territory that may be organized here
after into free State. The mere decep-
tive cant of the man passes with them for
the foul breath it is, while his positive con-
| cessions to the Slave Power satisfy them
fully, as they would have satisfied his and
their great exemplar, John G. Calhoun
They would act very foolish if they were to
continue quarrel with Mr. Douglas for
getting up a Popular Sovereignty thunder
that may tell with good effect on portion
of the credulous Suckers, and cannot by
any possibility do them any harm. "What
care we,' they must think if they do not
say, "cor what this buncombe defamation,
when he denies the power of Congress to
keep Slavery out Of Territories, and goes in
for the bred Scott decision that forces it
into every one Of them, and denies their
people the right to say yea or nay on the
subject till they are organized as States
1t is little vexatious, to be sure, that we
have lost Kansas, but we cannot find in our
hearts to blame Mr.. Douglas. He did
everything that man could do to secure the
prize to us until the rebels became strong
enough to defy both us and the Govern
ment, and the little diversion for his own
personal benefit last winter, is abundantly
offset by the prospect he holds out to us
for the future. The bred Scott decision
of which he the champion carries slavery
into all the territories that may be formed
within the present boundaries of the Union,
or carved out of Mexico, or whatever coun-
try or island that may hereafter be annexed |
to it by his other fillibustering aid, and it
will be a wonder if We do not fasten it per-
manently upon enough Of them to continue
the predominance Of the South in the
Government.
Thus stand the argument in the minds
Of the slavery -propagandist and disunion-
lists Of the South. AS between them and
Douglas there is no fault to be found with
their reasoning. He is working with them
to common end-an end, too, that will be
attained unless the best wisdom and virtue
Of the nation shall strenuously oppose its
GRAND BANQUET AND BALL AT THE Ex-
CHANGE AND BALLARD HOUSE are in
formed that there will be grand Banquet
and Ball at the Exchange and Ballard
House, on Friday, the Goth of October,
11nHar the ausnicas Of the TTnitad Stotoc onI