Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-05-31
Mr.. Benjamin,s Speech--D0ug-
las doomed.

The telegraph states that one million
and half copies of the speech of Sena-
tor Benjamin, of Louisiana, were subscribed
for by Senators for circulation. The special
dispatch to the Tribune thus speaks of it.:
"Read and inwardly digest" If you can,
Mr.. Douglas Democrat:
The abIest, clearest, and most forcible
speech yet made against Mr.. Douglas, his
doctrine and position, was delivered by Mr..
BENJAMIN in the Senate 10 day. 1t was
free from all violence, and therefore the
more effective. Every proposition was
fairly stated, fortified by fact, and worked
to common conclusion, which put Mr..
Douglas in open rebellion to his party, and
in direct antagonism to the principles he
had heretofore avowed. He announced
one extraordinary fact which, though we'll
known before, had never been frankly ad-
mitted. ..---
Both wings or the Democracy agreed in
a caucus of the Senate in 1857, that each
should maintain its particular theory be-
fore the pubIic-one side sustaining Squat
ter Sovereignty, and the other, protection
to Slavery in the Territories, but pledging
themselves to abide by the decision of the
Supreme Court, whatever it might be.
This is the manner in which the people
North and South-have been deceived
into the support of the Democracy, by pro-
mitigating doctrines adapted to both, and
vat hostile IN each other
Mr.. Benjamin proved by the record what
question they agreed to submit to the
Court, and how it had been decided, read
ing from the opinion Of Justice Tanney to
sustain his argument. He said that up to
1857 he had always regarded Mr.. Douglas
as one of those Democrats North who
were entitled to the favor and affection of
the South, and he had so commended him
to the people of Louisiana. Since then
he had wandered of, and no longer de-
served the confidence which had been re-
posed in him, and was separated from the
South forever.
In reviewing the position of Messrs. Lin
coin and Douglas in the Illinois Canvass,
he said the former had consistently and
manfully maintained the principles which
he had then asserted and was rewarded by
his present distinction; while Mr.. Doug
las had been abandoned. In this connec-
tion he admitted, that after a careful ex-
animation of Mr.. Lincoln's speeches, be
was constrained to regard him as far more
conservative than he had been represented
to be.
One of the most effective points of his
speech was comparison of extracts from
Mr.. Lincoln's speeches with citations from
Mr.. Douglas article in Harper's Magazine,
TO demonstrate that the latter had used the
arguments and language of the former, to
vindicate his own position and justify him
self with the South.
Nothing so effective has been witnessed
for long time, and Mr.. Douglas presence
was alone wanting to make it overwhelm
ing.
Mr.. Pugh replied sharply, saying that
Mr.. Douglas friends would stand by him
at Baltimore till the 4th of March next, il
necessary, and that the Southern dele
gates who seeded has no right to return.
This and other demonstrations render Mr..
Douglass nomination at Baltimore almost
impossible, or valueless if accomplished by
bogus delegates from the South. Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and
the States which did secede, can never ac-
cept him in the presence of this opposition,
and his recent declaration against the COM
promise resolution they proposed; while
those who withdrew will run Southern
candidate if he forced by any combination.
In either event, Mr.. Lincoln's success is to
be promoted.