Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-09-26
Senator Douglas on Attorney General
Black.

The Enquirer's report of the speech of
Judge DOUGLAS, at Wooster, confirms our
dispatch as 10 the violence of the attack
made by the Senator upon the Attorney
General of the United States. We quote
from the EHquirer's report of the remarks of
the Senator:
After discussing at considerable length the
question of popular sovereignty and the
rights of the people of a Territory, Judge
Douglas took up the reply to his recent ar
ticle in Harper's Magazine which has been
attributed t" Judge Black, and asserted that
if be was the antbcr OF that reply that ii come
fran a man arho UrOte TO the Democrats Of ILLINOIS
10 support AbOiu,on,sts for Congress preference
10 the regular Democratic candidate.
Whether Judge Black was the author
not. the copy which he Judge Donglas) held
IN has hand came 10 the gentleman scho handed IL
10 INN an The cars. undr The frank Of that gentleman
Ii asserted that the article in Harper con-
tanned an assault on the Federal Courts; but
hte author of this reply, no matter who he
was, knesO that he uttered fdlsehood.
During the last years canvass in Illinois be
Judge Douglas) made one hundred and
thirty speeches. and in every one of them he
defended that Court What then could be-
lhOuht of man who would prostitute a
high flee to deceive the American people?
Whoever the author of that reply was. he
tcds base culumnidtor. He knetc Il scds tissue
of taLsehOods from beginning 10 end. 1t was a
talschood. and the writer knew it to be such,
that be Judge Douglas) had yer advoca-
ted the doctrine that private property uld
he cenhscated by any power on earth, exp
by due process Oi law. The author Of that
pamphlet asserts a double .fatsehood 1t was a
deliberate attempt to misrelrescnt his posi-
on, unworthy of any man who claimed
any respect for himself. 1t was msrepre-
scntatiOn made for the purpose of attacking
him. and weakening the force of the Demo-
cratic party.
He would not have noticed this attack bnt
that it was aimed at the friends of popular
sovereignty. II was intended to reach Jddg"
Rannpy, the noble standard bearer of the
Democratic party of Ohio; it was intended
for the gallant Becker, the candidate for
Governor in Minnesota; it was intended to
strike at the eloquent Dodge. who was lead
ing hosts in Iowa; it was "A stroke at the can
ddates of the Democracy throughout the
country, who stand on the same platform OF
popular sovereignty. When the author OF
that pamphlet attempted to strike at that
doctrine, he made a blow at the Democratic
party of the Northwest.
Judge Douglas quoted some further state
ments in the article of Judge Black, pro-
nOuHced them insido,ls fdLsehOOds pat forth null
FULLY and W,th bad intent.
Here, again, the bitterness of Judge Doug.
las toward the Administration, appears. He
knew perfectly well that Judge Blacks pam
phlet was in effect the joint product of the
President and his Cabinet. and he adviscdly
denominates them calumniators and liars.
Where is the Presidents organ in this city?
Has the Administration sunk so low. that it
cannot find even an office-holder to make al
apology for it GIN. Com.