Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-25
The Senatorial Contest in Illinois.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Post.
CuIc.oo Ana o. 1883

The Senatorial Contest i'm Illinois.
- Correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Post.
CHICAGO, Aug. "a, 1858.
Letters from various parts of the State in
dictate an improving and encouraging state Of
things Everywhere the Republicans are in
high spirits political prospects are not only
doing as well as could BE- expected, but as
we'll as could be desired. The Congressional
and local tickets are put in nomination, and
the line of battle having been formed, fire.
quent engagements take place. The position
Of Mr.. Lincoln, his splendid conduct of the
campaign, the bold charges of Mr.. Trumbull
upon the enemy, and the constant presenta-
ton of the issues involved, both by the press
and on the stump-these all are having great
effect. Old party differences are settled, old
lines of demarkation are obliter ated or
smoothed over, the occasions OF strife are re-
moved and the door is kept wide open tor
the arrival and reception of recruits. The
question is not asked, Under what king las:
year ?" or "For what king in 1860 2" but
only Are you faithful and sincere in your
present opposition to Democracy, and to this
great struggle for the preservation Unpopular
rights and the restoration of national policy
to that course which was dictated by the
sagacity of our fathers ?" Every effort is
made, in reason, to narrow the field Of per-
sonal difference, and to bring all to one point,
presenting fully and fairly the really live is
sues of the campaign. TO redeem Illinois,
and thus drive home the entering wedge for
the Presidential campaign Of 1860, is the
prevailing wish of all who desire the defeat
of Douglas, and the rebuke of the pernicious
and vacillating policy which he has illustra-
1 fad md ,f ,r,L., oh 10 80, f1o
Senator Bright of Indiana, spent Sunday
in this city on his return from ST. Paul.
Douglas and Bright are as fond of each 9TH
err as the devil is of holy water The former
| thinks the latter cheated him in the Cincin-
natl Convention, and thereby deprived the
| Northwest of President; and SO when
Bright came with doubtful certificate to the
United States Senate, Douglas waxed virtu-
Gus, and cited the Iowa Sc against his ad-
mission. Hence an affection for each other
that is decidedly " in horn" Bright had
consultation Of friends here, and as result,
has gone on to Washington to aid the Presi-
dent in keeping up his ill feeling towards
Douglas. Very little outside aid is required
| in this matter, as Buchanan is not inclined to
mildness but it is best to cOunteract the
representations OF the mixed commission
which went from here last week in order to
induce the President to relent. Meantime,
the Buchanan men here are as furious as ever,
and show no sign ofrelenting towards Doug
las. They will have none of him or his
friends, unless he withdraws from the canvass
aud that he will not do 1t is war to the
knife and Douglas must 90 to the wall for
having dared to differ with his master The
Buchanan men have named Judge Brcese as
their candidate for the Senate of the United
States, and he will take the STUMP directly.
They have new paper here, the Herald, ed
tied by Mr.. Pine, which is ably aud boldly
carrying on the war, and serving up savory
Administration comtits, while it blazes away
at Douglas in a most perplexing and discon-
solate style.
gave you in my last specimen of Doug
las honesty in the Justification of those res
olutions imputed to Lincoln. Another equal
ly dishonest and dastardly evidence of the
shifts to which he and his friends resort, is
furnished to the Times of yester lay. That
paper which is the organ, has given LncOn's
Ottawa speech at length. but altered and mu-
tilated so that there is no sense in it. Whole
passages have been so changed that they seem
the weak effusionS of an immature scdOolboy
or the incOherent utterances Of an Obscured
mind Sometimes the language is directly
opposite to what he did utter but the whole
thing is made ridiculous, vapid and unmean-
ing. 1t is altogether a shameful instance of
the dlshonorable warfare practiced by the
Douglasltes ; and it is said that the Little
Giant himself, and two of his retainers, spent
Sunday in making these alterations. Douglas
is accompanied by a reporter and correspond
ent, who send glaring accounts of his speech
eS to the Chicago Times and the ST. Louis
Republican, and he imported another man to
follow Lincoln about and send misrepresenta-
tons and garbled and foolish reports to the
I'imee of his speeches. This game was partly
foiled by the Press and Tribune, which has a
reporter with Lincoln. Till you compare Lin
coins Ottawa speech with the Times report
Of it, you can hardly credit the despicable ma
ture of these alterations The game is to
keep the little Giant always on the pedestal
and to belittle and ridicule his adversary, who
is too honest and sincere either, on the one
hand, to stoop to this sort of warfare, or on
the other, thanks TO his real ability and the
warm estimate of the people OF Illinois, to be
injured by it, when employed by Douglas.
Further indications show that the old
Wing and American vote is inclining to Lin
coin. The Louisville Journal has published
bis speeches and those of Trumbull, and has
spoken favorably of them. This journal has
an extensive circulation in central and south
| ern Illinois.