The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-04
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at the South, over those in other sections,
because it is Of the south that the Buchan-
antics and Insurrectionists pretend that he
has no strength. This pretence, like all the
other pretences of these opposing factions,
in regard to- DoUGLAs, we have already
shown to be false and unfounded.q ~ ebon
We present, this morning; ufurther ex'
tracts from Southern Democratic presses
showing that the DoucLAss spirit there is
warming up into a popular enthusiasm,
The Richmond, Va, Nesus, thus alludes to
DOUGLASS prospects: 1"''''
All the appearances indicate that the tri.
umph of Douglas at Charleston will be an easy
one. That the Northern delegates will vote
for him in solid phalanx, is now almost be-
yond doubt. Can he get support enough from
the South to overcome the obstacles OF tne
two thirds rule, and thus compel his nomina-
ton? This is the only question; and, IN our
Judgment, it is already answered in the affirma-
tive. True. some few, like Governor Wise, are
yet opposing him; but it is easy to see that
they will soon be captains without soldiers,
leaders without followers.
The Petersburg (Va.) Press says:
We see neither in the doctrine ITSELF nor in
the argument by which it is sustained, nor in
the political life of Stephen A. Douglas, the
smallest evidence of hostility to the South, her
institutions or her rights. We see in it no
marks of sectionalism or fanaticism. Nothing
of the sort. He advises no course of 'legisla-
tive prohibition against slavery. He does not,
with the Wimot Provisost insist on the duty
of prohibition. He claims for Southern men
the right to be heard in Territorial Legislatures,
as much as Northern men. He makes no dis
elimination between slave property and other
property, bringing all property, OF all kinds,
under the same general rule. whether or not
his doctrines would operate against the inter-
ests of tine North more than the South, is
question far too nicely balanced for hasty con
illusions.
The STATE Sentinel, Of Selma, Alabama,
says:
We have no hesitancy in saying that the Ma
tional Democracy of Alabama and of Dallas
county will, if Mr.. Douglas receives the nomina.
ton of the party at Charleston, support him, land
support him with good national feeling, be-
lieving that they are doing the best for the
country.
The Edgefeld Is. C) Advertiser, refer
ring to Senator DoUGLAs's contribution to
Harper's Magazine on the Territorial ques-
ton, says: ~ '4-
None will deny that he makes out a most
plausible defence of the cOnstitutlonallty OF
his doctrine. None, surely, will now so reck-
lessly hurl at his head the epithets OF treason
and selfish ambition, seeing that he has an
nounced the grounds of his belief like free.
man and patriot. For one, we adopt a
higher estimate of the fairness and independ'
ence of Senator Douglas than We have ever
before entertained. ...
The Rockville (Maryland) correspondent
of the Decatur Qlinois) Gazette, says:
So far as the "new tests are concerned,
which few of the ''fre-eaters" of the South
are advocating, j. e., Congressional legislation
for Territories and re-opening of the slave
trade, are looked upon here as ridiculous in
the extreme. l have travelled no little in this
State as we'll as Virginia, and have not seen the
first individual advocating these pernlcious
doctrines. Very little is said, as yet about the
candidate for the next Presidency; but every
where your distinguished Senator is regarded
as a prominent candidate. l find it almost
universally the case that the people are for
Douglas, while he is opposed by the politicians;
and should he be nominated, you may set 1t
down, Maryland will cast her electoral vote for
him. rs
The Baltimore (Md) Weekly Dispatch,
literary paper of great circulation, has run
up the name of STEPHEN A.. DOUGLAS Tor
the next President. .1
A Baltimore correspondent of the Chic
ago Times says that ROBERT j.. BRENT,
HENRY MAY, REvERDY JOHNSON, S. TEALE
WALLIS, and JARVIS SPENCER, men re-
nowned the country over for their great
ability and success as lawyers, are for
DOUGLAS. So is Ex-Gov. LOWE, of Mary
land, and the same class OF men in every
county in that little State, look upon him as
the most available as we'll as the ablest can
didate the Democracy can nominate. '1i
The New Orleans True Delta says: =.
The platform upon which the great Tribune
of America stands is, that the people are in all
portions of the Republic equal, and that the
rights of property are everywhere the same,
but he holds, as we hold, that it is the ihalien-
able and incontrovertible right of the people to
determine under all circumstances the charac.
ter of the institutions under which it may suit
them to live, and that no power can be invoked
constitutionally or legally to restrict, infringe
or DESTROY such right. That is the platform on
which Douglas stands-that is the principle he
will support; that is the ground he has taken,
and will never relinquish, whether the Presi.
dency be gained or forfeited thereby. There is
no mistaking the mamie has no concealments
about him. ... ! M. ~,
There are many able and good men at this
time whom the country. under ordinary circum.
stances, would cheerfully take up for the chief
magstracy; but these are critical times. This
is one of tll9se perilous conjunctures when fac
ton at home and perilous occurrences abroad
appeal to them to exercise a more than ordinary
circumspection in their choice. Besides, too,
they will not allow, as was seen during the llli.
nsis election, when Douglas was put upon his
mettle for political existence, their fayorite sons
to be set aside or cast down; and it is apparent
to the most stupid, that should Douglas not be
the candidate for the Presidency next year.
should political jugglers succeed in cheating
him out of the nomination-no man not sharing
his political sentiments and obtaining the sup:
port of his legion of friends, can hope for sue
cess before the country or be able to defeat the
Black Republican candidate, whoever he may
be. This is clear to every eye7and it is well
for those schemers who are now bounding on
their literary bloodhounds to worry him, to
bear it steadily in mind sI-7lA @.
A correspondent of the Memphis Crenn.)
Appeal, in speaking of the Presidential
ticket, says: Jlnog At.el
Douglas for the first Office has so nearly the
universal yoice--and which he has SO richly
earned by the able and self.sacrifcing manner
in which he threw himself into the breach, at
<lo 5..~...k. of the