Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1859-02-02

The warm admirers Of Mr.. Douglas must
certainly feel Somewhat "cbop fallen" At his
present humiliation Instead Of being gi-
ant. he has shown himself to be pigmy-one
that will brook an insult and has not the
courage 10 resent it--wbo will remain silent
when a fellow Senator, his peer In respecta
bility. tells him to his face. that his couriiy
language is only that used by the highway
man and bravo" When another Senator tells
him that what he says is "unfrue and he knors
n."--he bears the insults that make honorable
fight TO the knife and tamely swallows
them. The Gianfs courage ooEes cut at his
finger ends, and he quals before Southern
fire.
Indeed. we sympathire with Douglas. He
has fallen so far from his high estate that we
fear no political revolution will ever again be
able to renstate HIM. His star which shown so
brilliantly in our western skies but few days
ago, has about fiickered out" His herosm
is not Of that kind which laughs ct cold steel
his ohivalry shrinks before powder and ball,
and his bravery Is only that material which
falls trippingly from the tongue. He does not
like to fight. and hence. he submits to an in
dignity. All the honor he won in his bril-
liant Illinois campaign, he has sure dered as
a subdued rebel. He covers before the Pres-
dent and his Lecompton followers, snd asks
TO be again recognized member in good
standing in the Democratic fold 1t i
thought the President will graciously permit
him to again be called Democrat. That as
they have once ruled him out Of the party, and
then tri d 10 shoot him out, aud failed in both
cases TO get him out. it is shrcwdly suspected
he will be suffered to stay in. For fear he
might make blunder and wound the feelings
of the President if he continued TO deliver er
fempore speeches, he has resorted to carefully
writing them, aud then reading them in tone
inaudable TO those in the galleries. He seems
to be supplcatng Tor himself alone. and not
for those who went with him searching after
strange gods But Douglas humiliation i.
less complete by his difficulty with Fitch aud
Davis in the Senate, than is it by the manner
he endeavored to settle that difficulty. II re-
minds as very forcibly of the narrow escape
Sir Lueias o'Trigger met, in his encounter
with the inflammable Bob Acres.
When Sir Lucius called Bob poltroon, TIA at
! great warrior made avehemept noise, and wa.
on the point Of blowing the blackguard'-
brains out. did you call me coward; did
you say was coward. sir = roared Bob
No SIR replied the other, Il called You
e poltroon. aud you are poltroon sir" w
then" clustered Bob, "all have TO say sir
is that don't mind being called a poltroon
sirl''
T Douglas sends note demanding rctraciior
b Of the charge Of falsehood. Fitch replies. spe
: cifying the charge; if Douglas refers to tha
. thing. he (Fitch) relerates it. Douglas re-
joins, srplaining his Ora language. lie don
mind being called poltroon. sir
Poor Little Dugl' What a chivalrou
i, candidate for 1860.
+, Some years since. JEFF DAVIS undertook 4
: trsduce the soldier citizens OF Illinois; bu
4 fortunately there was at that time in the Hous
a Rrescniatiyc from that State who eramme,
~ the isult back in his own face, and made hir
), take the dose he had prepared for Others
Mr. Davis did moi relish a musket at ten PAGES
Now he has a different man from Bissell {
r deal with. and the men Of Illinois may pei
/, haps have ia blash for their State as disgrace
IN the person Of its Senator.
!, Poor Lille Dug--"how the great man lei
ssns to our view"