Nebraska advertiser., 1858-10-28
Keen III RefOre one PeOnIe.

important principle of the democratic
party. Whilst many have departed, finch
ed, and most cowardly fed before the en-
envy, this man has displayed no want of
that courage which enters into the com
position of a great and wise statesman.
Last session of Congress, when Kansas
appeared for admission into the Union,
and the President recommended her ad-
mission on the ground of e~xpediency, ig-
noring the principle of allowing the peO-
pie of Kansas to receive or reject the
Constitution under which they were to be
organized as a State, Judge Douglas
stepped forward in v~indication of princi-
pie, and in opposition at that time to al
most the whole of the democratic party
headed by the President. The entire
land was made to echo with yituperations
and curses poured out on the head of Mr.
Douglas. His motive was misconstrued,
adesign of no good to the country and
especially to the party of which he was a
member was the general Interpretation
North and South. The Administration
had sent forth 10 the nation its we'll d.
gested and carefully written views, and
the expectation was that all democrats
would swallow them as the claw and Cos
pel'' of the party but should any one
fail to bow with all submission, he or they
must be handled as traitors, and banished
from the "good g%races" of the President
and his policy party.
At attempt was repeatedly made to
"read men" out of the democratic party.
Douglas commended for principle-for the
Cincinnati platform, embracing the Kan
sas-Nebraska Act. Every blow struck
had its effect; his language plain, but ac-
~companied with that power and force
which has seldom fallen from the lips OF
E man inr'this or any other age. All over
the land it was shouted, Douglas is OPP
posing the democratic party, he has gone
t oUer to the republicans. Some said it is
, no more than was expected of such a
man. Little did his calumniators dream
that his course was destined to meet with
} the approval of the conservative people in
all the sections Of the Union, and thai
, ere long the democratic party, north and
south, east and west, would unite in say.
ing that the "little giant was and is Of
the "true metal" He came to the rescue
in the right time, and the cause of princi.
, pie and democracy is saved from impend.
ing ship-wreck.
The accusations made by almost every
democratic paper in the land ag aims
Judge Douglas are fresh in the memo.
ries of the American people. He wa.
unhesitatingly pointed at as a traitor, a.
an enemy more hostile than the most ia.
natlcalsand unscrupulous abolitionist, ant
the individual who ventured the intima
i, ton that Douglas was taking the course
marked out blythe Kansas Nebraska Act
. was denOminated a renegade aud desti
: tute of the "true faith"
But the stable has]turned, and demo.
Gratis everywhere are locking to the ole
platform laid down in 1856. DougIa:
has retrieved and placed upon a firm
foundation the principle of popular SOY
ereignty. 0dious constitutions may be
dispensed with by the vote of the people
Congress shall not force laws upon a Stat
or Territory, but the inhabitants thereo
shall be left free, without any e~xtraneou
influences whatever, TO frame and adoE
such laws as they in their wisdom ma
deem applicable. This is all that is G
has been commended for by Mr.. Dougla:
He thought Kansas should be allowed t
decide for herself, that her citizens ha
sufficient intelligence to know their ow
!. business, and if left alone no appreher
sion need be entertained but what sh
would adopt just such a Constitution q
! she wanted.
20 Judge Douglas fought in open battl
70 for that plan of admitting Kansas into th
!, Union. 1t was not "policy" with hir
n but principle. Although the whole Den
ocratic Administration was arrayed ae
ainst him, he did not surrender an inch {
ground, but renewed with increased V
= gor his mastery efforts in behalf of priI
of ciple, the democratic party and the Uniol
y. and to this end he is still found directin
~ his giant-like powers. We hope most a
: IDENTIFY, for the sake of the democrat
party, that he may come off victoriou:
" thereby demolishing the last vestige
he the h~ydra-headed sectional monster
republicanism and neg~ro-equality.
lot Hon. ]. S. MoRrON, Secretary of tn
nd Territorv has o,,r tbanLs For