The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-01-08


RUNNING AFTER DoUGLAs.-Pcople
differ as to the particular spirit in which
they run after Mr.. Senator Douglas for
instance: Tile Baltimore Clipper runs
after him as follows, in its issue of yes.
tcrday;
" In his speech at the Gilmor House,
in this city, on Thursday night, Mr..
Douglas introduced his favorito hobby
of State Equality by the following
declaration:
We have been precipitatcl FOR THE LAST FOUR
YEARS into a fearful section i struggle in which
he North has been rallc,l against tho South, and
the south rallied against the North on this negro
question. What desire to know is whether there
is not common ground Of fundamental principles
under all our con!aon Institutions, upon which
Northern and Southern men stand together
as ehern, without their surreidcrng any .ht
which belongs to hem under the Constitution.
This is simply the re-asscrtion of
lamentable truth that has forced itself
upon the appreciation Of the whole nation.
For the last four years scctionalism has
ovcrriddcn every other political feeling.
1t burst upon the country like a fearful,
Notwithstanding storm, whose violence
shook to their very base the pillars of
the Republic, and whose mad fury drove
the Union itself to the almost verge of
dissolution.
This storm was coniurcd up at a time
when our political horizon was bright
and cloud css, when the howlings of the
demon of sectional agitation had been
silcnced by the patriotic efforts of those
who formed the compromises of 1850,
and when the Union was no longer dis
turbed by either the fierce threats of
Northern abolitionism or the hoarse
croakings Of Southern disunionists.-
Peace was everywhere throughout the
land, and Northern men and Southern
men stood together as brethren, when
the reckless ambition of a would-be prcsi-
dental aspirant summoned to his aid the
elements Of this fearful storm, that has
since spread its terrible blackness over
the whole length and breadth of the con-
federacy, and mcnaccd tho "ery existence
of our republican institutions.
1t was Stephen a. Douglas who raised
this tempest Of sectional agitation, which
he tried in vain to guide and to control.
1t was by his cunning continuance of the
Kansas Nebraska bill that the country
was prccipitated 8: into fearful sectional
struggle, in which the North has been
rallied against the South, and South has
been rallied against the North" 1t was
his hands that impiously removed the
letters with which the demon of sectional
agitation had been bound. 1t was his
insidious artfulness that wrought to
frenzy the fierce fanatacism of the North,
and the fre-eating disunon spirit of the
South.
But the spirits he had raised ADAM
doned him. The whirlwind of sectional
ism he had conjured up disdained his
puny efforts to control its COURSE
Another charioteer was selected to guide
the janus-faced car, in which he expected
to ride in triumph to the attainment of
the goal of his ambition, and he was
left defeated and chagrined by his ill
success, to contemplate the ruin he had
wrought. Now he comes before the
people of this country hypocritically
lamenting the widespread devastation
of the storm of sectional agitation which
he himself had raised, and protesting
desire to pour oil upon the troubled
waters, and restore to our Union the clad
sunshine of peace, and to re-establish
brotherly love between the sections and
the States. With the unblushing ehfron-
tory of a charlatan, he claims to have
discovered panacea for the wounds
which he himself wantonly inflicted, and
asks the gratitude of the people for
reminding them that return to the
great principles, that were the founda-