The Nevada Democrat., 1859-05-25
..Tho HOUR and the Man. >,

In late number of the Philadelphia Press
we find a communication said to have been
written by the scholar and poet, John G. SAKE.
He says:
Do you suppose that you, admirer and cham
pion as you are of the "Little Giant OF the
West" are fully cognizant Of his immense
popularity with the democracy Of the north
western and Atlantic States? For the last six
months have been travelling among the people
of these sections, and can assure you there is
a depth of enthusiasm ip the heart of the demo-
cratic masses, which needs only fitting occa-
sion to burst forth in such a storm as shall
astonish the wire pulers at Washington and
elsewhere, who, in their plotting and counter
plotting forget that the people "still live" and
may be heard one of these days, to the utter
dismay of the cabals. In Illinois, in Indiana,
in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Ohio, in New
York, and New Jersey, and in each of the New
England States, conversing freely with demo-
Gratis. in the cars, by their firesides, in their
warehouses and workshops-in all places where
men utter their benedictions and maledictions,
without reserve, have heard but one voice
touching "the hour and the man." a voice
which proclaims Stephen A. Douglas the cham
pion of the people and the peoples sovereignty;
the hope, and the sole hope, of the democratic
party of the Union. For time, the spirit Of
which / speak was simply profound admira-
tion of the man; admiration for his extraordi-
nary abilities as q legislator and above all
admiration of the jacksonville pluck and Prov
ess which carried him triumphantly through
the great struggle of which the battle ground
was Illinois, while the issue, manifold and in
expressibly important, were the concern of all
true patriots in every State of the Union. But
recently another feeling has blended with the
popular enthusiasm-a conviction, which daily
increases, that only be can safely bear the
democratic standard in the next Presidential
campaign. The power which sought to crush
the foremost man in the ranks of the democracy
signally failed of success; but more ignobly
still. risking everything in this infamous cru
sade, it has distracted and well nigh destroyed
the democratic party. 1t is in this great emer
gency that the people, hopeless of aid from an
administration which cannot so much as say e
ITSELF would fain save party on which rests
the hope of the Union. What other man is
equal to the work of gathering again the scat
tered hosts of the national democratic party ?
This is the question on the lips of nine demo-
Gratis in ten in all the States have named. l
hear but one man mentioned as sufficient for
this great emergency. Am Caesar dm nullus-
Douglas or q black republican for the next
President Of the United States. Politicians
may scheme as they will, but the alternative
is inevitable. | know that the would be War
wicks, larger and less, are not without potency
to make or mar a plot; but let them take heed
to their ways. Not many months hence they
will witness storm of enthusiasm for the man
of the people, especially among the democrats
of the western and eastern States, which will
drive them and their schemes as chaff before
the wind.