Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-09-30

hand in for nobler game
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From the Burlington Times.
The Washington Constitution has got out
reply to Judge Douglas Harper article
got by somebody who is either afraid or
ashamed to father it Montpelier Patriot
This won't do. Major The reply YOU so
grimy sneer at was written by Hon. Joromi-
all S. Black, the present democratic Attor-
ney General Of the United States, and Judge
Douglas knows il, and feels it, if you don't
The Patriot adds:
"The article in the Constitution consists of
a re-hash Of the old freoahng bosh against
the imprognabe position Of Douglas and will
prove nearly as destructive as handful Of
dried peas hurled against quarry of his ma
tive Vermont marble
TO hear Douglas "cus and swear at the
article spoken of, leads one to quite diff
lerent comparison from dried peas and quar-
Try Of marble rather sharp sticks and a thin
skin.
The Times is right. Douglas pitched in
to Black in speech at Wooster, Ohio, on
the 10th inst, after this fashion:
" Wooster, Sept. l6 49, 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 article in Harpers Magazine, which
has been attributed to Judge Black, and as
serted that if he was the author of that reply,
it came from man who wrote to the Demo
Gratis Of Illinois to support Aboitionists foi
| Congress in preference to the regular Demo-
cratic candidate
whether Judge Black was the author OF
not, the copy which he Judge Douglas held
in his hand came to the gentleman who hand
ed it to him in the cars under the frank of
that gentleman.
at is asserted that the article in Hapcr
contained an assault on the Federal court,
but the author of this reply, no matter who
he was, knew that he uttered a falsohood.
During tho last years canvass in Illinois,
he Judge Douglas made one hundred and
thirty speeches, and in every one of them he
defended that court. What, then, could be
thought of a man who would prostitute a
high Office to deceive the American people
Whoever the author of that reply was, he
is base calumniator. lie knew it was a It's
, sue os ialsehoods from beginning to end 1t
+ was a falsehood, and the writer knew it to be
such, that he Judge Douglas had ever adj
vocated the doctrine that private property
could be confscated by any power on earth
except by due process of law. The author
Z Of that pamphlet asserts a double ialsohood
1t was deliberate attempt to misrepresont
his position, unworthy Of any man who claim
ed any respect for himself 1t was misrcp,
rcscntatiou, made for the purpose of attack.
e ing him and weakening the force of the Dem
, ocratic party.
"IIe would not have noticed this attack
huI thot IL Z l,p e. 4
ular sovereignty 1t was intended to rcacl
o Judge Ranney, the noble standard bearer o
; the Democratic party of Ohio; it was intend
T ed for the gallant Becker, the candidate fo
=. Governor in Minnesota; it was intended t,
strike at the eloquent Dodge, who was leadiu,
the Democratic hosts in Iowa it was a strikt
!, at the candidates of the Democracy through
- out the country, who stand on the sam
+ platform of popular sovereignty. When th,
author of that pamphlet attempted to strik,
at that doctrine, he made blow at the en-
tire Democratic party of the Northwest.
y Judge Douglas quoted some further state
n ments in the article Of Judge Black. and pro
- nounccd them insidious falsehoods, put fortl
williully and with bad intent.
% Judge Douglas retired amidst the cheer
l. ing Of the crowds. the firing of cannon, anC
c the music Of some half-dozen bands.
c HE returned to town, and took the trail
= this evening for Washington, where he vii
remain until some time in October
Black may be a black-guard, but Dougla
is altogether blacker He could not hav
been more inccnsod with dozen forks stucl
in his back, the Salon witches were won
to amusc their victims Evidently, Dougla
feels Blacks assaults.