The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-10-07
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WV ~ oNioH ASti'S hNu VI tuV
Democratic community, Mes,rs. Toombs
and Stephens, backed by the larger num-
Der OF the Democratic papers. have clear
ly and uneqaivocally signifed their hos
tllity to the proscriptive policy Of the Ad-
ninistrBtion. In Louisiana a much more
striking state of public opinion is appar-
eut. The public press of New Orleans,
sustained by majority of the newspapers
OF the State, repudiate the rank intoler-
ance OF the Administration, and retsliate
the naledictions of the Washington Un-
ION. In Mississippi and Tennessee the
manifestations are numerous iD the same
directioD-not the least of which is the
speech of Hon. Henry S. Foote, we'll
known as one of the most stalwart advo-
Gates of the compromise measures of 1850
who, at Bolivar, Miss, took up the gaunt.
let for Douglas before an intelligent au-
dience, and advocated almost the entire
theory of the anti Lecompton Democracy
Of the North. But. perhaps, the two
most striking instances are those Of Ken
tueky and Missouri. In the first, the
Democratic press defantly array them
selves upon the side of Douglas in his
struggle in Illinois; while In the second,
both the Senators in Congress, \ one of
whow, it will be remen bered, Mr.. j. S.
Green, led the debate in advocacy of the
Lecompton and the English bills, in the
United States Senate, and with unsurpas-
sed ability and power contented against
Judge Douglass and all the Representa-
tiVes in Congress, with all tie national
papers to support them, have not only
proclaimed their earnest sympathy with
the great leader,of Illinois, but have 10
terms denounced the vituperative aud
scand dalous course Of the Washington T.
mon. So much for the aspect Of affairs
in the Southern States. Turn we now 20
the great Northwest. There the progress
of the principle has been still more tri-
umphaDt. There its footsteps have left
behind the tagging, limping, halting pol
icy of Lecontonism. In Minnesota, the
public sentiment is SO strong in support
of Judge Douglas, aud also in support Of
the principles he advocates, and tho.e
which are daily upheld in The Press, that
no man can be elevated to public position
who grovels upon the Lecoupton plat
form. In Michigan the Democratic State
Convention have been compelled to place
in nomination Hon. Charles E. Stuart,
that patriotic Senator in Congress, who.
with Douglas and Broderick, resisted the
the Vaccinations of the Federal power,
and contented to the last against its Le-
compton calamity. Every Democratic
candidate for Congress in Michigan takes
the same ground. In Iowa and Wiscon-
sin, notwithstanding the patronage that
has been openly exerted against the DEM
ocratic opinions and the Democratic or
ganization, there would not be the ghost
of a chance even to poll reasonable
democratic vote, If the democracy did not
proclaim their unalterable determination
to stand or fall upon the principles laid
down at Cincinnati, and the pledges of
1856. | leave glorious Illinois to speak
for herself. Upon her the eyes of the
whole Union arc now fixed with intense in
terest. Every man is reading and think
ing about the struggle now going on with
in her borders. But look at Ohio and to
Indiana. What do We see there! Pre-
cisely the same state of things, only more
strongly developed than that | have at.
tempted to depict 10 the other States Of
the free Northwest. English and Cox,
and Groesbeck and Pendleton, and all
who started out boldly against Lecomp-
ton and surrendered upon the English
bill as the great measure of peace. find
that their fnality is but a poisoned chal-
ice returned to their own lips. They
uow find that their only safety consists in
linging the draught from them, and in
dcnouncing publicly and before the world
the organ of this very Administration to
which they stand no less publicly COM
mitted, because of its war upon the very
man whom they deserted in the hour of
bis utmost need. So odious have the
inality and the organ become to these men
to the people, and to the Democratic pa
pers of Ohio, that if either Of the Le
compton Representatives, running for re-
election in Ohio should be rescued from
defear, 1t sciN only be because he has tran
scended has Republican competitor az Qp-
posing the two fag0rite institutions Of tie
present national AdminiStration-the Eng
ish bill and tie Washington UnaoH.
Leaving the West, we turn our gaze
upon "the Star of the East, and what
do we fpd in Mainel A democratic gain
of some three thousand votes at the late
election. in which uncommon fidelity and
energy we're displayed. But why this
gain! Because the Lecompton policy of
the Administration was accepted! Oh
no! But because t acas rejected, and BE-
cause cge,y de0Ocfattc candidate f0r Con-
sreSs IN that State placed himself enth1Sl-
iaaicalty upon tie eternal PrtnclPte Of
Popular Sovereignty, as adrOcated 6y
Broderick, amI Dougls, and Stuart. ond
tie gallant aRen who stood firm, first and
fast during the late exciting struggle in
Congress. The Washington Union boasts
/ of this gain, but crafty conceals the rea-