The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-10-15

'.Dougias is trcacherous to the South He has
betrayed the South"
The louisville Democrat quotes the above SEN
fences aud remarks:
s'What docs Douglas owe the South He is
Commonly Supposed 70 be the Senator from iii
nois and never received Southern vote for any
office. The South has done him no favor, that she
should ask any from him."
This is the language of paper published in
Southern State, and that purports to be Southern
In its feelings and sentiments Although aware
that it was an advocate of tho pretensons OF
Douglas, and a defender of bis political heresies
the defiant tone of the above remarks somewhat
amazes ts. Does the South ask favor Of Mr..
Douglas when she asks him for her constitutions
rights Is it because the South has never done
him a favor, IN false assumption though it be, J
that she should be debarred from asking him to
deal honestly and fairly by herH
The Democrat is the organ Of Douglas in the
Northwest, and in speaking of him it is under
stood to speak by authority. In the above extract
then, Mr.. Douglas takes sectional position. He
will grant no favors to the Scuth-he owes her
nothing, for he has "never received Southern
vote for any office" Is this-supposing it to be
true-a valid reason why he should not grant
favors to the South even if she was in the situa-
ton to ask them or to need them, (which, thank
God is not the caseC Acting in the capacity Of
an American Senator, he distinctly announces
that he favors only those who favor him. By the
very rule of action which he has adopted, VIC
contend that he does owe the South something,
although he may not be honest enough to pay the
debt or acknowledge its justness. He has re-
ceived Southern votes for office, as every one
very well knows, and it is by the basest sort Of
dishonesty that he shrks the obligation. On the
sixteenth ballot for President in the Democratic
National Convention at Cincinnati, in 1856, he
received the votes of ten Southern States, while
the nominee received only six. On that ballot,
which next to the last taken, and at the close
of which he had his name Internationally with
drawn, he was supported by the delegations from
North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas
Florida and Texas-makiug seventy three votes
from the South while Mr.. Buchanan received
only forty-four Southern votes. Indeed, the vote
on that ballot, as well as that on many of the
preceding ones, established the fact that Mr.
Douglas was the choice of the South, at that time
for President.
What remarkable consistency does he present
in the sectional attitude which his organ has
placed him, compared with the one he maintained
in the Cincinnati Convention. What base ingrat-
Hude has he shown the South for her efforts to
raise him to the highest office in the nation. With
what shameless, indecent propriety docs his organ
now declare that "he owes the South nothing
that che has never received Southern vote for
any ot6ce"-that ''the South has done him no
favers, and should ask none of him." Neither
Mr. Douglas nor his sectional, Black Republican
organ need be at all apprehensive that the South
will solicit favors from him. Although she has
done him distinguished honor, yet she asks moth
ing Of him by way of Tecompense for that She
once expected Justice and honest treatment at his
hands, regardless of favors on one side or the
other; utshe expects nothing now butth choicest
epithets Of abuse and the outpourings of the
traitOrOus malignity of himself and his venal
miniOns.