The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1859-09-07
GIGANTIC ENTERPRISE.


Der of Harpers' Nsc Magazine Senate
, StephenyA. Douglas, of Illinois, appear
as an extensive contributor. The Hal
pers New York printers) claim the copy
: right of the Little Giants gigantic essa.
upon slavery in the territories; hence w
may infer that they paid Stephen valua
Ible consideration, that the Senator ha
begun to write for pay, in short that tn
noisiest of all candidates for the Presi
dency has become political pamphletcer
a monthly penny-a-liner.
This is new dodge. Not being ;
dodger or familiar with lodges we are
unable to render an opinion as to whether
it is good dodge or bad one, sharp Oh
fat weak or strong. But it is new
Never before in the history of American
politics was a prominent politician (no1
to say Statesman) known to make use Of
such vehicle for the conveyance of his
impressions, views and resolves. Harpel
has always seemed to us to be dedicated
to cheap engravings, fashion plates, com
ical pictures of very dreary and uncomical
subjects, stories which nobody of the pre-,
sent generation expects to see the last OF,
! improbable anecdotes of impossible chill
dren, Joe Millerisms in a new dress and
stale wit in grotesque forms Of express
sion.
4 By catering to the tastes of the idle,
the curious and the puerile the Magazine
has obtaineda wide circulation-the pro-
Iprietors say about one hundred andtwen-
ty thousand monthly numbers. We may
assume one.half that number as about the
actual circulation according to the usual
allowance made for exaggeration. The
Little Giant then has,Sby what we may as
sumo asa moderate compensation paid to
the Harpers, obtained for his essay the pos
sibility of its being read by great many
people. The wenknown anti-slavery tone
of the Magazine has given it wide cir
culaticn in the North where the Giant tries
TO be most gigantic.
T Douglasism has been thrust upon the
reading public in every possible way al
ready. The Giant seems endowed with
the faculty of STANDARDIZATION and
whenever we look in Northern journals
we are sure to see the portrait of the
dumpy and stumpy Senator He has, in
short, become bore to the whole politi.
cal world. Almost every body is sick
and tired Of hearing his name. Four-fifths
Of all the talk about Presidential candi-
dates has been of Douglas. With the zeal
characteristic ofparasites the journalistic.
subsidies of Douglas are perpetually
examining Douglasisms down the threats
Of victimized readers. They are poured
out in an everlasting namby-pamby
stream, and, as if these scribblers had not
done their tasks we'll, the prolific Senator
takes up the contributors quill and in.
flicts seventeen tedious pages on the
readers Of Harper. 4
When we come to examine this ponder
GUS document we find it to be amere hash
up prepared from his speeches in the,
Senate. He was resolved that even
ladies and children should not escape
from the inaiction of his political views.
He wants the Northern people of all ages
and sexes to know what exertions he has
made to prove that squatter majority
in territory have full power over the
rights of the minority Of
shareholders. He wants to innoculate the
rising generation with the disease Of
squatter sovereignty. He wants to show
to Black Republicans that his is the only
practicable scheme for expelling slavery
from territory while it still remains
territory. He wishes, in opposition to
Lincoln and Seward, to prove that these
States can co-exist while part free and
part slave and he proves how this may be
done if emigrantsto the territories from
half the States will simply surrender to
the migrants from the other half a few
of their most valuable Constitutional
rights.
1t is custom to compare rights which
rest upon the Constitution to granite rest
ing upon primeyal rocks but so potent
is the breath of one little giant that he
can blow them all away at Whit.
Courts, precedents, historical deductions,
clauses of the fundamental federal law,
are nothing in his path If they accord
with his creed they are put into it if
they do not they are remorselessly re-