The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-16
Our Illinois Correspondence.

The Election of Mr.. DOuglas-HoW Brought
About-Some Of the Secret Influences Wma. H.
Sescard in Partnership soith Observation-Disclosures
isiration Patronage dmmany Hall in IAi-
nois- What Douglas Intends to DO, dc.
Long ere this can reach you you win have learn
ed of the election of Mr.. Douglas to the United
States Senate, by the Legislature, which assembled
here on Monday last. The vote in joint convention
stood, Douglas "a, Lincoln 46-all the members be-
ing present and voting. This result was, Of course,
expected, though much curiosity has been mani
tested to know how few members of the Senate,
holding over from last term, might decide to vote
Several of these were undoubtedly at heart admin
istration men, but the Douglas pressure was so
great that they were obliged to succumb. One Sc
nator, only two hours before the election, in the
Senate, defined his position to be- that che was and
always had been democrat, and Buchanan de-
mocrat, and that he approved Of the course pur-
seed by Mr.. Buchanan and still, when his name
was called in the election ballot, with pale lips and
trembling voice, he answered Douglas" The
night before election the Dougastes held caucus,
In which several members advocated the adoption
Of the following resolutions
Whereas O division has for some time existed in the
ranks Of the democracy Of this State TO the danger Of the
of the party and the welfare Of the country and
Whereas the Of such division no longer exists
therefore,
Resolved, That we re-airm adherence to the princ
pies of the Cincinnati PLATFORM and pledge ourselves to
support the present administration.
Resolved, That sustain the decision Of the Supreme
Court Of the United States in the bred Scott case in all its
logical conclusions and that consider the constitution
OF the United States imperative and sufficient for the
protection persons and property in the common Terri
tories.
Resolved, That we will abide by the decision of the
Charleston Convention in $780, and that we will support
its President and Vice President, and that
We do not and will not recognize any man democrat
who will not do the same.
These resolutions created stir among the imme-
date friends of Douglas, very much like that pro-
duced in the Tammany camp last fall when Mr..
May introduced his resolution there denouncing the
course OF Mr.. Douglas, and followed by very much
the same result-members foamed and chafed, and
o Committee. Mr.. Douglas was in con-
sequence elected without a platform, though
resolutions endorsing him in streng terms, and de-
nouncing Mr. Buchanan in quite as strong, had
been prepared, and would have been submitted but
for the introduction of the preceding-the Douglas
men concluding it was best to hurry up the election
before such as doubted "when and how the world
was made for Cesar" could form breach in their
ranks. No sooner, however, was Douglas elected
than the cloven foot appeared, and those personal
friends of his who are supposed to speak from
authority announced their determination to fight
the administration to the last inch, and to support
Mr.. Douglas under all circumstances, whether he
supported the principles of tho democratic party
not, and whether he was endorsed or denounced by
the Charleston convention. Inc ChcagO IuteS
(Mr. Douglas home organ) in the same number that
announced the result of the election, threw of the
guise of adherence to the democratic party as no
longer necessary, and made an open and unmis-
takeabe attack upon the President and his support
ers, abiding to many of them by name and in o
manner far from creditable to the writer. The
speeches here in honor of the "great event" were
filed with laudations of the Little Giant" from
which one might conclude the latchet of whose
shoes Washington would have been scarcely
worthy to loose. The procession was headed by q
banner, having for its motto:-