The Nevada journal., 1859-01-07
Friday Morning, January 9TH 1859.

ttile sluCc, WHcH manly Oi ouI CutcIupU-
rarics were exulting over the prospects Of
Douglas for the next Presidency, we
took occasion to differ with them on the
aspect of affairs To us the chances of
success TO Mr.. Douglas did not look too
promising. We, unlike our confreres, saw
little indication of the Lecompton wing
If the Democracy sideling to the support
If Douglas. As the views Of the emf
nent men of the South begin to be made
known TO us, our views of the question
Lccome the more confirmed
In Senator Douglas Alton speech he
took the opportunity to strengthen him
self by quoting the remarks of Jeff Da-
vis, said to have been made in Bangor,
Maine, and which were supposed to be
confrmatiory of the position assumed by
Douglas in his Freeport speech, relative
ia the power of the people of Territory
over slavery. Doubtless by bringing
Davis to his aid Douglas derived con-
siderable power to carry him through
the Illinois election, from the stripe of
men given to Jefferson Davis way of
thinking. The quotation was timely,
Mr.. Davis, now that the battle is over.
and after returning to his own Mississip-
pi, denies, first, having made the remarks
imputed to him at Bangor, and, second,
having made them them at all. Mr..
Davis makes clear distinction between
the right to destroy and the right to pro
tcct. Mr. Douglas in his Freeport
speech. claims to the people of a Terri
tory the right to destroy OF prohibit
slavery there if they please. Mr.. Davis
says all property needs protection from
the society in which it is held. This
necessity does not confer the right to
destroy. but rather creates an obligation
to protect" He says, also. concerning
Douglas, the difference between him and
the Republicans, and his own relations
to both as follows:
Il consider him (Douglas) as having
recanted the better opinions announced
by him in 1854, and that cannot be
compelled to choose befereen men, one of
mhom asserts the poacey Of Congress to de-
prize as eta constitutional right, and tie
0ther only denies the pOarer Of Congress in
order IL tramsferHtO tie Territorial Leg
islature Neither the ono nor the other
has any authority to sit iu Judgment on
our rights under the Constitution.
Betuecn such positions Mississippi can
not hare a preference, because she cOnnot
recognise anything tolerable an either Of
them.
Thus it will be seen, that far from
becoming an ally Of Douglas in any
sense of the word. Davis is his open and
undisguised political enemy, and may
be said to carry with him the sentiment
of a large portion of the South Mr..
Davis goes far in an opposite direction
to that imputed to him at Alton, by
Douglas. After uttering the above, de-
claring he and lis fellow citizens of
Mississippi can make no choice between
Republican who believes in the con-
stitutional power of Congress to exclude
slavery from Territory, and one like
Douglas who would give the authority
to Territorial Legislature, Davis goes
on to say if an Abolition President
should be elected either by the House
or the people. it would then become a
question for the people of Mississippi
whether they would remain in the Union.
He gives his own opinion on that point
to be, that such an election would be a
species of revolution by which the pur-
poses of the government would be de-
stroyed, and the observance of its mere
forms entitled to no respect. and then
comes the true Mississippi argument-a
suggestion that the State have an ar
mory filled with shot and she'll, and
other traps of war.
We all know what is meant by the
term Abolitionist in the mouth Of such
as Jefferson Davis. With him Seward
is an Abolitionist, and according to a
fair inference, there is no difference with
Davis between Seward and Douglas
lone Of whom asserts the power of Con-
gress to DEPRIVE us of a constitutional
right, and the other only denies the
power of Congress in order to transfer it
to the Territorial Legislature"
This sufficiently demonstrates the po-
sition of Jefferson Davis towards Judge
Douglas. He knows no difference be
tween the "little giant" and a Republi-
can, or Abolitionist Therefore we may
expect those shot and shell are designed
for the terror of Douglas if he does not