The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-15
DOUGLASINI 1850

The New York Herald has an article upon
the attitude Of certain Southern prints and
politicians, that is worthy Of attention, per-
baps, as evidencing that the Little Giant"
whether successful or defeated in Illinois,
is 10 be taken back into the Regular Fold
and, il may be. made the candidate OF the
Party in 1860:
The Illinois COnteSt-Mr. Douglas, the
Southern Fire Eaters and The Presidential
Sueeessioh-There is something very extra
ordinary and very significant IN the sympa-
thy which now prevails so extensively among
the Southern hTe-eaters IN behalf Of Mr..
Senator Douglas at this important crisis TO
himself and the Illinois democracy. The
Richmond Enquirer, the central oigsn Of
Governor Wise, has from the beginning OF
the Lecompion rupture sustained the rebel
lious Senator; but has surprised nobody, IN.
asmueh as Governor Wise, from the outset,
boldly aud without reserve has occupied
the same position rs Senator Douglas But
when We find the late iniracable and bel
lgerent organ Of the Southern anii-Doug-
las LecomptOn fre-eAters, the Richmond
South, and many of the leading oracles and
organs Of that faction, from Virginia 10 Mis-
sissipp, among the warmest in their express
sion of sympathy for the cause of"lhe Little
Giant" there is evidently new movement
afoot looking beyond the esigencies of
the present day and the existing adminisira-
ton.
To the Southern iire-eater, who breaches
the protection of slavery as the test question
fl. Il.
as the paramount duty of the government,
one would not suppose that there could DO
anything particularly attractive in the present
platform OF the Illinois Senator. The fire.
eater sticks to tie population restriction Of
the English Kansas bill; Mr.. Douglas boldly
repudiates it, and holds that when territory
has population enough for slave State, il
has sufficient population for free State
The irc-eatcr contends that under the bred
Scott decision, the local authorities OF n Ter
ritory cannot interfere to exclude or discour-
aye the institution of slavery, but are bound
TO protect il; while Mr.. Douglas maintains
that the bred Scott decision is n mere nb-
straction, and that "lhe people of n Territory
can, by lawful means, exclude slavery before
the Territory comes in rs State" How is
it, then, that We find such fire. eating organs
as the Richmond South and New Orleans
Delta, and such fire eating leaders ms TuOmbs,
Stephens aud Senator Brown, so fer
vently desiring the success Of Douglas, and
so earnestly hoping that he may thrash
the abolitlonist Bob Lincoln out Of his
boo,sl"
We answer that the steady conservative
general policy of Mr. Buchanan's administra
ton, and particularly the practical settlement
of the Kansas imbrogio, has left noting
upon the books for sectional agitotion-noth-
ing upon which the Southern fre-eaters can
raise a profitable niger excitement. Their
last experiment was upon the question of the
African slave trade; bu, here, single letter
from the Secretary Of the Treasury, rcciiing
the existing laws Of Congress, and the duties
of the Government in the premises, put an
end to the humbug. These Southern agita.
tors, therefore, are dropping these worn. out
scarecrows of secession, disunion, and
Southern confederacy in behalf of Southern
rights and Southern niggers, and are casting
about them in reference to the practical is
sues of the next Presidential election.
Mr.. Buchanan is not, and will not be, n
candidate for the succession and, starting
from this point the support of his admins
tration becomes secondary question, and
the control Of the Charleston Convention
the paramount issue with all the aspirants o.
the party for power and plumber. In this
view, as the Southern fire-enters, without re-
morse, east overheard Douglas and Pierce in
1856, and brought forward Mr.. Buchanan,
because he alone was their available man, so
we apprehend their present sympathy for
Douglas has reference to Northern footing
in 1860, without which the Charleston nom
nations must fall TO the ground. The de-
mocracy, it is presumed, have the Southern
States, with one or two exceptions, secure
against oil contingencies; but, with the with
drawal Of Mr.. Buchanan from the field Penn
sylvania will almost certainly be recOnqlered
by the opposition, and in this contingency
the South cannot afford to lose the vote Of
Illinois and the Douglas faction of the other
Western and Northern States.
Herein, we npprehend, lies tho secret of
this newborn sympathy of the Southern ul-
tras for Douglas and his cause in Illinois,
The issue between him and the administer.
ton they regard MS n tritilng affair, and the
administration itself MS but n temporary in
stilution which must be tolerated, but which
il is not necessary to recognise rs the law of
the party when expediency may point in m
other direction. Granted that Mr. Douglas
sill BE- 3"fanted in Illinois, the result of the
election will doubtless show that The restora.
ton of the State to the democracy will de.
pend upon his full restoration to the party
camp. Let this be done, and from the pres
cnt manifestations of Southern leaders and
organs, we may conclude that Mr.. Douglas
will be restored into line rs prominent, if not
the most conspicuous, democratic candidate
for the succession.
col These views, We apprchend, cover the cal
culatons of the Southern Douglas fire eaters
in reference TO 1860. Those uItras have dis.
covered at length that their disunion and Sc
cession hobbies will no longer serve their
without Northern balance Of
power they can no more elect President in
1860 than could have done il in 1856. And
thus, finding the key to all the ramifcntions
of this sympathy for Douglas, open and dis
guised, North and South, we can only await
tor more definite developments from the gen
eral results of our October and November
Northern elections.
~ Mr.. Moran, President of the Erie
Railroad, receives n salary Of $4,000 per an.
mum. The Erie road is almost hopeIessly
with debt, and some of its stock
holders think Mr.. Moran's wages too high.
Mr.. Moran says he is willing to resign, but
that he cant work for less than $4,000 per
nnnum. We like to see man place proper
estimate upon his available abilities.
cE- The Winchester Home Journal" |
sails babies "pestlerous little things, and |
nearly always making noise" Guess if he |
had "made the connection" with that phila. |
dolphin gal he'd change his opinion after
awhile Other peoples babies may be "pes.
Iiferous," ones own hardly ever are.