Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-28
WE don't consider Douglas late letter to DOrr


WE don't consider Douglas late letter to DOrr
MS very great document, taken per Sc. Taken,
however, along with the fact that Douglas has
been looking, for good while, towards the
White House, we do think it of some import
ance. Ofcourse, as many of our readers know,
the newspapers all over the country have been
wonderfully exercised, in the manufacturing of
conjectures Csome of them exceedingly contra
dictory. ones) as to the result this Dorr letter
will have upon Stephens chance for the success
sorship TO the Sage who now presides over our
political fortunes We think the letter amounts
to positive declaration that Stephen will go
into the Charleston on the I'd OF next
June. off" says the dapper little Anti-Le-
comptonite, the Democratic party shall do SO
and so, 'tas he has full faith they soiu then he
goes in. eff" however, they don't do so and SO,
which he "does not anticipate" then he don't
90 in. Thus stands the matter with Stephen,
according to his own very words. Now if he
is really sincere in all this (and everybody
knows that Stephen is too honest fellow to
say what he doesn't think then we may reason
ably conclude that so far as the individual 'litle
giant himself is concerned, he took his ante
prandial bitters, this morning, with the soiacing
anticipation Of a brush with such other fast
nags as may meet him the Charleston course.
He has the utmost faith that the Democracy
will do what is right, and he assures Mr.. Dorr,
in especial, and all mankind in general, that if
they do, he is in for chance in go. The idea
has never once crept through the shaggy hairs
of his terrible big head that his darling party
will repudiate those time-honorcd principles on
which tive" (meauing himself, with slight ref
erence to such of the members of the late ILL
nois Legislature as didn't vote for Abe Lincoln)
have achieved so many patriotic triumphs. If
they don't repudiate them, then look out for
Stephen.
If VIC were to make any further comments on
this first Epistle to Dorr, they might all he
summed up in this: S. A. Douglas is a man Of
principle-wholly and sOu1Iy of principle
s'Ah," said Sam Weller of his adored Pickwick,
'hc's angel if ever there vas yun," and we
guess that every person in or out Of Ameri-
ca, who has read the touching epistle to the
honored and potent Dorr, of Dubuque, Iowa,
is about ready to make the same exclamation of
Douglas We can fly off into the illimitable
sea of Imagination, and fancy death and ter
rOrs, how Douglas will stare at the. cnormities
of our fancy y that the Democratic party actu-
ally has repudiatcd those time honored Princi-
pies. All that the Apoolypic Stephen didn't
anticipate, has come to pass. Systematically
holding on to some shattered fragment of those
time-honored principles" and lying fiat on his
back, (for we couldn't even imagine him to be
standing under such circumstances with no
one near him save the affectionate Dorr, on
some barren reaf, whittier he has drifted, we
zee the dsconsolate and heart.broken Douglas
rending the air with lamentations, and making
the very sea of our fancy douby replete with
horrors "Me, miscrable!" we hear him ex-
claim. "Ye recreant Democrats. Ye have
done the business for the innocent and pure
principled little Dug Ye have brought him
to his milk, "a favorite expression,) and he's
'goner' at last
We draw on our Imagination, in this way, for
the only purpose of showing Douglas self-sacri-
ficing devotion to principle. Precious the
Presidential prize is in his eyes, he stands ready
to renounce his chances, unless the Democracy
continue to cleavc to their ancient and glorious
principles He goes even farther than this; for
he admits willingness to suffer all the miseries
we have Swallowed forth, rather than he will
give up single one Of them. Is there man,
in all America, that don't love Stephen for what
he thus frankly admits to Dorr? Curtus jump
ed into flaming gulf to win fame and immor-
tality, but our own bought tile Stephen is
ready to fling the chances of fame and inmor-
tality away, out Of pure love for Democratic
''tine- honored principles" Let US hope, how
ever, that better fate is reserved for him. Let
usanticipate, with him, that the Democrats won't
go to repudlating in that ugly way, and let US
have full faith Cor as full as we CAM that they
will adhere TO said principles, So may there he
clear sight for Stephen in 1860, and may the
Republicans have mercy on his soul
TuE ZOuaves, especially since the affair of
Palestro have become the lions of the day in
Italy, Their feats in the field, and even their