The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-10-28

shown by the following from the Lexington

Star:
JUDGE DoUGLAs.-This distinguished gentle
man has been very harshly assailed by the On
position, aided by a few Democratic politicians
and editors, who never had any great respect
for party organization, unless they could con.
troll it and appropriate it to their own selfish
ends These are the men who undertake ia
declare that Judge Douglas is no better thar
Seward, that the South cannot and ought not
to repOse the slightest confidence in him, and
some of them declare they will not support
him if he shall receive the Charleston nomina.
ton. These imputations are grossly unjust
towOrds Douglas. These men know that he
has never stood with Seward on his platform
relating to Slavery, that when Seward was
assailing the South through his Rochester and
other speeches, Judge Douglas was defending
those speeches. They know if Judge Douglas
was President the institutions and rights of the
South would be as safe in his hands as in the
hands of those who are announcing their pur.
pose not to support him in case he is nom.
mated.
Judge Douglas is not our choice for the
Presidency, but if he shall receive the Charles.
ton nomination he will be sustained by us,
cordially. We are for party organization, and
when our political friends meet in Convention,
compare opinions and select the candidates,
we shall, in the discharge of the duty which we
owe to our party, give the nominee our active
and energetic support.
The Paulding (kississippD Clarion de.
clares its belief that DOUGLAS is willing to
do practical justice to the South" and a
correspondent of the same paper says:
To say the least of Mr.. Douglas, he is bold
statesman, an honest man. He is consistent
in all his views. and as anxious to secure con.
stitutional right for Mississippi as he is for ILL
nOis. He is a national statesman, o uniOn.lOv.
ing man, and eminently qualified to serve the
people as Chief Magistrate of this our great and
glorious country. 1t seems to me that South
ern men who are at present opposed to Mr..
Presidency, are str liking g headstrong" at the
interests of the South and her institutions.
The New Orleans Crescent, in speaking Of
Mr.. FORSYTH, editor of the Mobile Regis
ter, says:
We merely like the common 'horse sense. +"
as they say in Mississippi, he has displayed.
That is all. We desire that Seward, OF more
odious AbOlitiOnist, should be defeated in 1860
He desires the same thing. We believe that
there is but one man living who can accom-
plish the end aimed at. He, irdubitab bly,, is
of the same opinion. We prefer Douglas to
Seward or any Of his crew. He, like true
sensible Southr on, takes the same view of the
case.
In addition, we will venture the prophecy
that, before the Charleston Convention meets
the sound ''horse sense" of the Southern people
will bring their leading politicians to theil
knees-in case tho contingency happens tC
which we have beforehand that men will be
chosen to represent them in the National Con
vention who will prefer moderate man to ar
INSCRIPTIONS Aboltionist.
The Richmond (Va.) Wing, a virulen,
Opposition paper, bitterly opposed to Sena
tor DOUGLAS, nevertheless predicts bis
nomination by the Charleston Convention
The New Orleans True Delta says:
InSouth Carolina, in Georgia, in Alabama
in Mississippi, among the fiercest and least
scrupulous assailants of the fidelity manliness
dependence and reliability of Stephen A.
Douglas, the conviction is rapidly gaining
strength that either the great Illinois statesman
must be the choice of the next National Con.
vention at Charleston, or man occupying pre-
cisely similar ground, and standing upon the
popular sovereignty platform of that distin
guished gentleman. And if another person be
selected over Judge Douglas, in sill human prob
ability he will be ingloriously defeated, mas
much as he will be deficient in the great talents
high political character and wide spread popu.
laIity which create such halo around the per.
son of this indomitable defender of popular
rights and republican government
The Vest Tennessee Wing, published at
Bolivar in that State, in its issue of the
18th inst, says:
every one who will read Judge Pearson's
letter, which appears in tO-day's paper, will
irresistibly be driven to the conclusion that
Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, is the soundest
national man now living. Standing as he
does prominently between the two extremes
North and South. he is certainly the most
available man in the great Democratic party
of the country for the ace of 1860. Tennessee
honors him, and the United States will honor
him. Read Judge Pearson's letter."
The Richmond (Virginia) Examiner, the
leading organ Of the Virginia Democracy
said, on the 14th inst.
"Now, we have already intimated that it is
our purpose to support the nominee of the
Charleston Convention, against all corners, If
the two-thirds rule is adhered to and the Gin
cinnati Platform re.adopted. We shall, to pre-
serve the harmony of the Democratic party
and to save the Union from the terrible conse
quences of the triumph of the Black Republic
cans, support Judge Douglas, if he is nomi.
mated. We stand prepared to make any sac.
diabolical, incendiary, lawless, fanatical party
of which Seward, Greeley, Lincoln, Sumner
and Banks are the leaders"
The Mobile (Alabama) Register says:
"DouGLAs IN MISSISSIPPI - The Marion
(Missfssippi) Observer pretends to be incredu.
lous about our announcing that the Chickasa.
hay Advertiser was among our friends, and in.
sinuates that the talented editor of that paper,
Mr.. NJ. B. Smith, has either purposely led US in
error. or else stands the sole Ajax among
the Mississippi press who is willing to do jus.
tice to Mr.. Douglas. Now that paper should
have known better. Besides the extracts we
have already quoted. from such Mississippi
papers as the Lauderdale Meridian, the Pick
ems Republican and others, our this weeks
weekly will come to the Observer with another
goodly array of respectable names. that prove
that our friend Smith, however deserving. il
not without competitors for the honor of de-
Tending the cause Of Justice
A large number of the most Influential
journals of Alabama give DOUGLAS an ear.
nest and enthusiastic support. The Mobile
Register is active and open in the advocacy
of his nomination. The Tuscaloosa Monte,
avows its perfect willingness to take him q.
a candidate, and the Selma Sentinel quotes
the words OF Senator ZoLL1CoFFER of Ten
nessee, BENJAMIN of Louisiana, FITzPAT
RICK of Alabama, BROWN of Mississippi
STEPHENS and ToomBs Of Georgia, the Ian
guage of the Constitution, of the message
of Presidents, Polk, PIERCE and BUCHAN
AN tho snoaches of RAYARn 0RR Eonn ON.