The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-01-01
From the Chicago Times.
Douglas az the South.


Below We publish an article from tho
Memphis Ledger Of the goth. We publish
it not with view to approve or endorse all
that it contains, hut simply to say that Mr..
Douglas will not ask nomination at the
hands of the Charleston convention. If, in
that body, his friends should present his
namo, aud he be nominated, he will not feel
at liberty to decline it; if his friends should
not present his name, then the nominee Of
the convention will receive his support
The use Of his name by any men or body Of
nen--as candidate for the Presto ency or
any other office, independent Of and hostile
to the nominations Of tue Democratic party
lis altogether unauthorized by Mr.. Doug
las. will never receive his sanction, and is
wholly repugnant to his wishes and desires.
We say this much with . full knowledge Of
its truth, and knowing that We express in
this particular his own sentiments. Any
exclusion Of delegates then to the Charles
ton convention, on the ground that such
men may be in favor Of the nomination Of
Mr.. Douglas, will not be defeat of Mr..
Douglas, bat can have no other effect than
the defeat of the nominee of that convention
and election Of q Black Republican Presi-
dent. We fear very mach that the exelu-
sion Of delegates from that conAenteon for
any such reason as Is giren, would have the
effect Of consigning the convention system
to general contempt, and eventually destroy
the unity and consequent strength which
has SO far rendered the Democratic party in
vincible.
The following is the article from the Men,
phis Led6rr: ..
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS OsrRAcIsED BY THE
DEMoCRAcY-We had conceived the course
.l. q
| in Illinois too low for contempt to spit upon.
| We have Tor months past denounced the
course of the Postmaster General, who base
" lent himself to the ignoble purposes and
| miserable ambition Of John Slidell, Is the
subject matter Of loathing and Of damning
infamy. When Slidell stated here in Men,
phis that the administration would use its
patronage everywhere to destroy Douglas.
we could hardly believe that he was the ora
Gle of Buchanan and Of his cabinet. When
he declared that Douglas should be driven
from the ranks of his party, because of his
difference from it on a defunct question, we
believed Siiieil dreamer or . Inadman.-
We never conceived i: possible that a com
bination could tie effected OF Democratic
Senators strong enough to perpetra,e so pit
iful an attempt to destroy the great rival of
Siidel for the succession as that by which
Mr.. Douglas has been removed from the
craftsmanship OF the Committee on Terrific.
res.
Yet everv prediction Of Slidell has been
literally verified. Aaron Brown has played
his miserable part of beheading petty post
masters; Cobb has slain his thousands. and
Jake Thompson has welded his little battle
axe in the land ofices,-al TO destroy the
friends Of Douglas. What an infamous set
i
placed in Office, who, for a mess Of po,tage,
would sell an Americans birthright to free
dom Of thought and opinion :, God deliver
US from that honesty attributed by this ad-
ministration to its appointees!
But now Douglas has been officially driv
en- from the Democrat party, to which he
/ has everywhere proclaimed his continued
adhesion, As Siidell decreed, SO have the
/ Democratic Senators, trucking to the be-
/ hests Of an administration which has beco me
the supple tool Of Slidell, obeyed, like the
veriest slaves. 1t is now the policy Of the
Democratic party, as represented by its
| members in the United States Senate and by
| the administration, to exclude Douglas from
! the Charleston convention. Every organ
! throughout the country IN the pay of men
| at Washiu ton will begin the defence oil the
| policy now proclaimed by their leader at the
! capital, ana the delegations to the contention
will soon be packed for the purpose of rid.
ding SIidell and Buchanan Of the preseHce
Of Douglas and his friends at Charleston.
What is to be the result Of all this. Doug
las men will go there. They Will present
themselves from this city, and from South,
West. and North. They will claim their
seats upon the floor of the convention. II
admitted, no man but Douglas can be nom
mated, at least, while the venerable two
thirds rule is enforced. If this be repealed
Douglas men will retire. and he will become
by acclamrtion the nominee Of the Ameri
can people; and the dirty intriguer, and thos'
like him, who have been dong the dirty
: work of the administration, will sink into
utter oblivion.
We are glad Slidell, who is the administra
,tien, has capped the climax Of his superla
tive folly and wickedness by removing Mr.
Douglas from the Craftsmanship Of the Com
mittee on Territories.