White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-01-28
DOUGLAS AND DEMOCRACY.

Mr. Douglas deserves the thanks Of the ma
ton. He has just rendered service to the coun-
try which settles conclusively his claim TO po-
sition among the yenerated patriots and philan-
thropists of the land. He has given US some
thing now to talk about. The Indian Mutiny
has become wearisome since the fall ofDelhi;
the Mormon trouble has not yet burst through
the crust Of uncertainty and become that fright
ful red flower of rebellion, which some predict,
and many fear it will be; the panic has become
panic stricken and fed. In fact all the old sen
sation events have become threadbare, and we
were beginning to find ourselves hungering for
a fresh novelty, when the physically dwarfsh,
but intellectually gigantic Senator from the
Sucker State magnanimously interposed TO res
cue Us from the listless apathy into which we
were relapsing for want of something to inter
est us. There are few spectacles more absorb
ingly interesting than conflict of great forces,
and when the Senator from Illinois stood up in
the Senate Chamber to demur to certain senti-
ments in the Presidents message, the eyes of
the nation instinctively turned to the spot to
witness the exertion of all that wonderful
strength the supposed possession Of which has
earned him the title Of the "Giant." Demoera-
cy is mighty force. Douglas is a mighty force.
The conflict of two such forces, therefore, was
spectacle which had something Of the fearful
sublimity which attached to one Of those gladi-
atorially death combats in the Coliseum where
with the old Romans were wont to regale them
selves.
The nlinoisan is putting forth all his powers.
Never before did his physical vigOr, his un-
daunted courage, and his wondrous controver-
sial abilities, shine forth more brilliantly than
in this mighty struggle. With admirable adroit-
ness he fortifes his position by quoting the
words of the President himself, thus forcing
those who shoot at him to shoot'through the per
son of poor Mr.. Buchanan. With unshrinking
holiness, he leaves no attack on himself, or his
position unreplied to, ever responding with
promptness and a power which makes him a
match for all his opponents.
witha spirit uncowed by the frowns Of Gu.
thority, or by the GOODNESS of former friends, he
sticks to his place in the party, tears to atoms
the pigmy Bglers and Greens detached to wor-
nv him. and merSilessly denounces the gang Of
hireling scribblers employed to create preju
dice against him throughout the country. His
work is beginning to tell. Already has a North
ern Democrat in the House led Oh in a speech
in opposition TO the President. Other Northern
Democrats are preparing to follow. and one
Southern Democrat (Mr. Jewett, Of Kentueky,)
has publicly avoSed his coincidence with the
Senator from Illinois.
nis little singular, that with all the noise
ereatedin the Senate by the Kansas question,
not single one Of the big guns Ofthe South has
yet spoken in opposition to Douglas. Bigler,
Northern Democrat, and Green, Missouri
Democrat, neither Of whom possess any inau-
ence, have spoken, indeed, but Hunter, Mason,
Tombs, Davis, SlideIl, Benjamin., and the grest
leaders Of the Southern Democracy, have been
wariIy silent Conscious that Douglas must III
timately triumph, they have disereetly avoided
placing themselves in an attitude that would in
voIve them in the coming defeat