Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1858-11-27
CORRESPON
Grand PRAIRIE, Ill, Nov. s, 1858.

"a 80 ljAlIdtS lilC CiCItitl vi IibFCItGS
Of Douglas mcn i'll the House and also
to the Senate. In the House the Doug
~Issites claim q majority Of six; in the
Senate, three; amajprity Of nine on joint
ballot. This viii. Of course, secure the
election Of Stephen A. Douglas to the
u. S. Senate. | cannot say that 1 feel
particularly rejoiced at his success. Ol
the nine members Of Congress five Dem
ocrats and four Republicans are elected
"a gain Of one Congressman for the
Dcmocrats-in the Alton District. l am
| not positive as to the particular wing OF
the Democracy to which the tive who
| are elected belong, but presume that
they are Donglasites. The Democratic
State officers are elected by a majority
Of about 5000.
| am willing to conccde to Mr.. Doug
las due credit for the good he has done,
but cannot find in his course a the late
canvass any evidence that his votes or
his speeches in the last Congress were
founded on principle. He had an indi-
vidual purpose to accomplish. The game
which Mr.. Douglas is at present playing
in politics, so far from promising sue
cess, is only calculated to consign him
to merited obscurity and contempt. The
Democracy of the country see through
his cunning and inpudent scheme Of
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT through its III
~strumentality, and will resent it with
the profound disgust and scorn which it
deserves. He is playing a deep game
for the Presidency in 1860. This calcu-
lation furnishes a key to the course he
took and is now pursuing in connection
with the Kansas question. 1t was with
this view and to this end that Mr.. Doug
las made the movement which he did in
opposition to the admission of Kansas
under the Lecompton Constitution. He
succeeded in making a formidable de-
lection from the Democratic party on
this question, and with it has establish
-
ed the more Northern platform to
which he resolved that the Democracy
should advance, and from which he e1-
poets to ascend to the Presidential chair,
He entered the late canvass flushed with
confidence and embroidered by the par
tial success which had attended his en-.
terprise. He succeeded in defeating the
admission of Kansas in Congress, and
has rallied an Anti-Lecompton party
comprising a good portion of the De
mocracy of the Northwest. Having Sc.
cured this advantage, he has taken an.
other step Northward and declared in
favor of admitting Kansas at the mex
session of Congress, when she shall ap
ply with a free State Constitution, after
having voted down the Lecompton Con
stitution. He will probably succeed ii
accomplishing this measure, and thus
having secured a strong footing for his
new Democratic platform and his owl
personal %pretensions at the North, he
will present himself to the South and tt
the Democratic Convention at Charles
ton with a demand for a capitulatioI
under the alternative of a concession t.
his terms or certain defeat in the cleo
ton of 1860. Such is evidently the pro
gramme upon which Mr.. Douglas is pro
ceeding and has shaped his political
course in connectionwith the vital ues
tons of the day
Now this is all a very fine and Gun
ningiy devised scheme Of Mr.. DIS. He
will, however, | am inclined to think
findthat he has been reckoning without
his host. IF defeat in the next Presi
dental election is to be the consequence
Of their refusal to surrender to the inso.
! 1 @# J, #E &. $4## =.
lent dictation Of this traitor, he will fine
that the Democracy of the South hole
him IN utter contempt and ~loathing, and
would not touch him with a forty-foot
pole as their candidate for the Pres:
dency, nor will they hesitate to accep,
that consequence rather than the alter:
native Of a triumph which would be
equally as fatal TO their interests, and
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