The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-12-23
[From the Machias (Maine) Republican,

Douglas.
| The completeness Of the Republican triumph
, in the late elections, has been interrupted by
the success OF Douglas in Illinois. Many of
our brethren are congratulating themselves up
/ on the event, as rebuSe to the Administration.
| It may be rebuke to the Administration, but
it is omiuous to Republican progress and the
/ most dangerous Indication, we have yet seen,
that the old battered and crazy old poliicel or
ganization, called Democracy, is about to
obtain another lease of life. The administra-
! ton has for some time ceased to be in our way.
! II is poweress to resist the coming in of Sc
ward or VII ,hsoever the Republican candidate
may be. Really, it is not magEauimous for
such a great party az ours to join with the
powerful enimies of Mr.. Buchanan in destroy
ing the quiet of his nights, for we take i: the
success OF ant-Lec onpsonism can have no
other result Of Importance.
Mr.. Buchanan is of no further use to the
Shareholders. He is to be the next victim of
thei. treachery and ingratitude He can be no
longer used, as he was before to cheat wth.-
Douglas Is the man, for with him the Douglas
ties expect tn have the double satisfaction Of
furnishing the North, and of playing success
FIJI trick upon them. The Democracy are
never az happy as when they are cheating
somebody. Ever since their policy and prin-
ciples have been opp ,sed TO the convictions of
the Northern people, the thing to be obtained
for each new cam ,aisn has been, frat, new
trick. The late contest in Illinois interests
the whole country As disclosure of new
line of policy of the Democratic party.
We do not see that our friends at the West
have spared any pains TO prevent The catastro-
phe that has happened. They seemed to APP
preciate the great importance of defeating
Douglas They were never for one moment
imposed upon by his quasi hostility to the aa-
lninistration, nor by his fallacious promises Of
fair play in Kansas. They opposed him to the
knife, and fought him bravely at every point.
We never shared their sanguine hopes con-
cerning the event. Douglas had too many OF
the chances. Besides, he was in too desperate
position to b. beaten. With his energy, his
recklessness. his wealth, if success required
the buying of votes, the wholesale importation
CluZefS he WOuiu UOt UcSitdlc dl Tile dCuitNc-
ment. Indeed, we do not see why perfectly
Legitimate success did not lay within his reach.
Illinois is largely made up Of illiterate men,
emigrants from Southern States. Even in
New England, the proportion OF intelligent
voters is so large, as to make any specious
political deception dangerous and sometimes
fatal. But in Egypt, Illinois, rife with in
temperance, incidence, negro-hate, all as fruit
fnl Of democracy as hlth is OF disease, man
like Douglas has an incalculabe power. He
knows how to use all the epithets Of vulgar
prejudice, to bring out and coax, and latter a
depraved public sentiment, as though it were
the highest patriotism aud virtue. To believe
that popular audience in Illinois would pre-
fer Lincoln, with his fine moral fee lings, his
appreciation of the great principles that un-
derlie society and political novenants. his
clear candor and capacity for statesn.nship,
to Douglas with his brutal force, his thorough
contempt of reform, his ciownish talent for
! apiug the passions and red citing the views Of
Vulgar men, his capacity to avail himself of
the expediences OF Any situition in utter dis
regard of any personal consistency, Is to sup
pose the nilleniun to have come. Mime is
| fifty wears ahead Of Illinois in real civilization,
aud yet it would net be safe even here TO make
| an issue between two such men.
| TIE success Of Douglas is OF national inter-.
est because ii discloses how ,ae democratic
party, il sayacious, and il no new disasters
befall it, may perpetuate its power. We have
no doubt that the Shareholders will see the
path OF safety in the direction of apparant cons,
citation and compromise. Unless madpfss,
rules the hour, unless they really desye the
dissolution of the Union, they will Yfze with
av,iity this chance of hunbn, siuSfhe North
ern people. No doubt, showyof hostility
will be kept up between Bac1tnan and ,hS'
anti Lecomptonites. just to keet the party il
fit position to swiny into line after Jhe
Charleston Convention. Bat hereafter the
enemy is without, ami not within the White
House, and what is worse, s il too close tlii-
ance with Republ,canism itself, IN many Sta,es
20 be consistant with our safetyA
The overthrow Of the administrators in PENN
syivania, New Jersey and New YorA has been
effected by afliating together Repsbliespism
and anti -Lecomptonism. With Douglas W,
the Senate. and prospective candidate for
President, these fictitious advantages must be
lost. Forney holds the key Of Pennsylvania,
aud the Little Giant owns Forney. All these