Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1859-03-11

S3.O0O-lookcd Ike the act oi one very deep
~ Interested in the human flesh market. HIS
frequent visits 10 his plantation-his toadyIne g
10 the slave Power in all his speeches there
his fillbustering propensity for Cuba-aud
his bitter and unrelentIng abuse of Republi-
cans and Abolitionists-all confirmed that
view Of his position. His labors seemed like
those OF one personally concerned for the up
building Of Slavery. The fact that he had
so many warm friends among the most ultra
Of the Slave lraternIty-men who desired 10
make him President-also indicated their be-
lief that he was perfectly reliable on that Ito
them) supreme issue.
/ That he was one of the many who early
backed out of Lecomptonism, only shows
that he was more sagaciouS than some others;
he saw that The Slavery battle on the plains
of Kansas was fought-and lost; and 10 save
from u'ua a"rihiio,.en IA tho Ne,tI,. hin, alf
and his party, he wisely turned square som
erSet. While this has aieuated many of his
Pro-Slayery friends, it conclIaied somewhat
the Anil-Slavcry element.
Only last winter the public remember a
sharp CORE Spondence between Douglas and
SIIdeil, concerning report-ai,rlbuted to
the latter-ihat Senator Douglas Slaves were
badly used-starved and maltrealed. Douglas
was indignant, not that he was charged with
having Slaves, but that he had misused them
and S!Idel alleged that he had circulated no
such report. The shortest way for Douglas
10 have refuted the SANDER would be by say
ing, 81 hare no !Shres, directly or i1diretih-
in my own or my family'S name-anG am not
responsible for The good or bad treatment of
any human being on cotton plantation but
this he did TO, do; he owned his responsible
tiles, but, with proper spirit, denied the charge
of cruelty or neglect.
So much-for the past. He is not Slave
holder, says "Squatter Sovereign" The
charge having lain against Douglas for years,
a denial at this late day, looks suspicious.
Are his friends fearful that completely with
Slavery, will destroy his hopes or is this the
harbnger of 4 new game of fraud-like that
of "Pok GndMe Tariff Of a. or "Buehanan
and Free Kdnsqs? 81 Is "Douglds and Free
Soif' to be the rallying cry in 1860
"Doughas not slare holder ~ (Ix THE
NonrH0 The mere say-so of man in
mask, is not evidence, and we mi ght demand
his "aulhority' in vain.
"Dougias ha, a fine cotton plantation ~ US
THE SourHD The South generally know who
their men are, and never take Northern
man unless they know him 10 be with them.
Now, the whole truth we understand to be
this: douglas plantation" was originally
the dowry Of his deceased Protestant wife,
and not of his present Catholic wife. 1t is
stated with positiveness that Douglas last fall
expended all his own private fortune in order
10 get that minority vote Of Illinois which
made him her U. S. Senator. There Is no
doubt of the law that his children by his first
marriage should have the property of their
mother technically secured 10 them, he being
their trustee or guardian, and managing the
estate for their benefit and so that his own or
second famlly's debts can not be satisfied
from that plantation. And thus it is that
Douglas is 10 be represented at the North as
"no slave holder and therefore Free Soiler
at heart and in interest; while, at the South,
his Large plantation" will be continually
pointed 10 as proof Of the strongest of ties
self-interest-to.' the GLORIOUS institution"
At the North, he will be pressed as "not him
self slave-h holder" while al the South it will
be claimed that he is the best possible friend of
the system. \ nice little irick-a pretty
play upon words-is it not, What petty
qubbling-what paltry jusging-to say that
a man is "no. himseya Shareholder" when
his ehiLiren's fortune is in a plantation =,
Who will enjoy that property more than he
who ,cields all its po,oer and influence and
whose might i, be should hey be called away
by death I
II "squalter Sovereign" is really enlisted
against the Slave Propaganda, and will not
vote for one of rhem-if he wants a man who
Is not either by his own person or by his chill
dren or any other heirs, or by his family or
business or social or political relations, inter
esfsd in slavery-If he wants one whom the
South will all say has no affinity whatever for
their peculiar institution--he will not be fool
ed by paper transfer of the Mississippi
plantation TO John Doe and Richard Roe.
Douglas choicest inferests--if he be a true
fa'her TO the offspring of his first love
are indissoluteiy bound up IN that slave plan
taion Let "Squatter Sovereign" procure,
from under Senator Douglas own hand
statement that he ntrer tcas and is not by SHIN
SELF his attorney, agent, or heirS-by those
who should be as near and dear as life ITSELF
or any others-in any way whatever interest.
ed in either offending or ptrpetuafiHg' human
siarery. but opposed thereto, and We will glad
ly publish it. We like to see all men cut
loose from the giant mother of crime and
of evil, and will not closely cross-quesiion
their motives or desgns...Come, "Squatler,"
get such denial from douglas HiusEIr."
Your denial, here-yourself myths not
conclusive. Get the sLittle Giant" 10 purge
himself completely. and we will copy it, and
see that any injustice done him shall be atom
ed for far as we can do So. Just nU,r,
such a denial uouH be rsry rgreeaJh 10 Hunter.
ShdeR, and other Southern aspirants for the
Presidency, but wormwood and gall TO the FL
libusters and Sidnarpers who dote upon
Dougias.-...But the North most probably will
cleo, the next President, anyhow, and even If
such a remuneration of Slavery by Douglas
should cause the South to drop him like a
hot potato, why, it would help him amazingly
at the North. where there are several Abo-
litionisis who might believe il. Bring out
such denial invisible friend "Squatrer." or
appropriate to yourself text abou, false
witness in attempting to palm off Douglas
as a sectional candidate ~