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sPEECH OF SENATOR DOUGLAS.

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SPEECH OF SENATOR DOUGLAS.
We have had the speech Of Senator DoUsLAs
which appears on tbs outside Of this morning'I
paper, laid aside for publication for severs
days. Matter more important, or more inter
esting 10 our readers has hitherto crowded i
1t out We take it fer granted that most o
our readers feel a certain curiosity to see thr
position noF occupied by the Illinois Senator
II their interest extends no farther. Thu
speech was delivered to very large crowd o.
the Senator's immediate constituents, who as
senbled on his arrival at Chicago, to give bin
a welcome home. He, therefore, takes coca.
sI6a to glorify himself exceedingly, as the
champion Of popular sovereignty, and to boast
loudly that the passage Of the Conference Bill
was a triumph FOR himself sRd his faction, al
though he is obliged to state that be entertain
ed certain objections to it which precladsd bis
support. In all this, Senator DOUGLAS
manifesls q disposition to make him
self a triumphant champion, which the
history Of the late legislation Of Congress does
net sustain. It is notorious to the country
that the measure upon which Mr.. DOUGLAS set
bis heart was defeated in the Senate. Il is
also notorious that the supporters Of Mr..
DOUGLAS favorite messure-the CRITTENDEE-
MONTGOMERY substitute-exhauste their most
bitter snsthemas against the anti-Lee0mptou
Democrats who gave in their adherence to the
conference bill. Mr.. DOUGLAS could not him
IL If g. - 81 --ns - -l--- r--m-ra ~
Chicago aud claims that the passage Of this
same measure was an anti-Lecompton triumph,
although the entire anti-LecOmPton party
Black Republican, Southern Americans and
DoUsLAs Democrats a body, with the sx-
certion Of Dir. ESGLIsH and sfew others-0p-
posed it with all the ability and tactics at their
COMM nd This does not look entirely consis-
tent in Mr.. DOUGLAS, bat if he is satisfied with
the settlement, it does not behOove.Us TO com
plain at bis {" sober second thought"
We only comment On the evident attempt at
self-glOri6caiion, among bis friends and neigh
bors, when the Senator, whilst at Washington,
carefully abstained from participating in the
glory Of the achievement, and left the excIu-
siFs honor Of the action to the Lecompton
men Of Congress. We also think il worthy Of
especial comnsnt that the Illinois Senator
should postpone his slf-giorihcation until be
was surrounded by a vast crowd Of bis fol-
lowers and supporters, when it was uniVer-
sally understood at Washington that be was
disappointed and defeated in his reckless and
iRdecorous fOray against the Administration,
and when it was generally understood that be
felt little inclined to Perpstuate the contest.
Be this as it may, however, We can forgive
much to a man, who has been 60 sorsly cha
griue6, as Dir. DoUsLAs has been in his late
ambitious projects, and who, IL another part of
The same speech has proven that be is ready TO
break . lance with his mischisvous dsma-
goguical competitor, for a seat in the o S.
Senate, DIR. LINcoLE, IN the vindication Of the
fundamental principles Of our Government As
between Mr.. LIxcoLE, the demsgoguieal Black
Republican candidate, and Judge DOUeLAs,
with the sound principles which be proclsims
at Chicago, and which be has hitherto pro-
claimed, we are always for the latter gentle
man, though we must say, that at the last SEES
sion Of Congress, Judge DOUGLAS, from his
known position in the Democratic party, was
more powerful for mischief on the particular
OF the Kansas settlement than ten
L1EcOuss, with openly proclaimed Odious doc
could have been. DOUGLAS boldly
throws down the gauntlet to LIScoLN, however,
and with q powerful array Of logic and CON-
mon sense, Tefutes and overthroWs the mis-
chisrous and reasonable sentiments that be
Froelaims.
For this reason, his influence viii be ~saluts-
tsry in correcting public sentiment and IN
placing the seal Of public Odium upon the
foreheadoe the Black Republican ~dsmagOgue-
He proclsims In this connection, the true
Constitutional doctrine, and no Southern man
can find the least fault with bis ayoEed Opin.
ions and the bold and manly manner in which
they are proclaimed, to say nothing Of the
close logic BY which they are sustained. With
such healthful and sound principles ingrsinsd
into bis mental system, Judge DoUeLAs cannot
permanently pursue a herstlcal course, esPe-
ciaIly when be finds that, BY 90 doing, he for
feits the esteem and confidence Of that consti-
t~utionsl party, which has hitherto delighted to
honor him. We would have been giadto see him
q little more modest and humble in his ~Treten-
sions. Il would have better accorded with
bis position. The Democracy Of the South will
al least require q stnl further probation, before
they can trust him fully, though they may
even low prefer him 10 bis Black Republican
competitor. But they trust more to the germs
Of sound principle in which be has been indoc-
trinated, AID for which be has heretofore been
honored By them, and not to his recent cratic
and unaeeountsbls wanderiBgs from the true
faith. UBdsr 10 circumstances can a South
srn nan indoTse the reasonable and disuniCD
sentiments Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ButSouth-
ern men will require, sso, that Judge DoUe-
Las should not only preach the true doctrine at
hone, but that be should be careful, too, to
practice it when he gets to Washington, and
to keep himself as far apart from contact and
political sfhliation with such men as LISooLE
and WILSON as be is widely separated from
them in political opinion and constitutional
doctrine.