, 1860-09-26
a3rras Tribttt1t.
WEDNESDAY, 6EPTEMBER &c. 1860.
nnx1f:LAS ENTHUSIASM.

DECAY OF DOUGLAS ENTlAos'A'"'
Il !, blconipg painfully evident to 1hu
n,,r,.a;tc lcadcra in the West, that tho pres
.n,s and uamo Of Douglas no longer excite
A.. t,,ror Of tho masses Of tho Democracy
that lie spell is broker. the prestige gone,
and that the remainder Of the canvass, 50 tur
az his candidacy is concerned, will more re-
xamule \ funeral march than the triumphant
uroe1css Of popular leader. The fact that
Mr.. Do6Elas ssanpcd both Vermont and
Mains before the recent elections in those
e:ates-that his friends ;wero sa1guine Of H.
ducirg the Republican rnsiority IN the former
and Of oleo.iag The Democratic State Ticket
and thrso Democratic Members Of Congress
IN tho latter, that Douglas men, Bfeck'n-
ridge men, aad such Bell-Eserett men rs were
williog to fuse with tleis lile'lqng enemies,
all voted ri THO Democratic rominess-snd
that under fill ttcee favorable circumstances,
tie Republican msjorities were largely in
creased III both S:n:cs, aud rot single Dim.
o:ra1ic Congrsssmaa elected, Ecfm 10 have
Brought even The Dous'ai leaders in tic
Tes,c:n S.a'es 10 1ealzs The utter hopeless
ncas Of the struggle in which they are en-
gsgsd, aad t. give to their attempted dem1n-
s.ra:ious on]y lila: kind Of life and animation
which galreuism inparts to deiunct organ
ism. And while the lenders arc thus dis
h5artcn.d by the display o: Douglas weak
mesa il the VERY acctioas whcrs he was SUP"
POSED to 10 et.engss1 the masses Of tho
nartv elsewhere arc seeing more and more
Clearly every Jay that his candidacy is
sham and deceoIior--that his staying in tho
1eld il 70. tue result Of any expectation Of
beirg el:cted, hu: merely ruse to defeat an
election ty the people, and to throw the coz
test into Csna7css-and thus being convinced
that the struggle is really between Lincoln,
or Tho oae hard, and ether breckenridge CT
Lase, On ths other, they are everywhere
growing rebellio,s, aad manifestirg d'sposl'
ton t. exercise their own cEoice between the
men f,cu whom the selection nust he made.
A ro;ablc illustrator Of this fac: has just o.
c,,r,ed in this Stale, in the case Of the fraak'
lin County Democrat heretofore Douglas or"
Gan AID Mr, Fiauuegar. Douglas candidate ior
Prosecuting Attorney in JOHN Logan's ID. ~
d;.,rict-,he former by substituting the names
ofL:ncoln and Haulim for those oF Douglas and
1onnron. ard .hs latter ty dcc1ar;nghis in!en-
ton to vote for Mr. L ncoln in preference to
<ir;,r q ro,o indirectly for Breckenridge
o.1are. It is because Ct the general prerc-
1enca Of the belief tha: Douglas is simply
thrustins himself into the canrass a.: De- :
duck to ret votes for the disuEior Candidates,
that his progress westward ellclts 70 little en-
thnsiau, AID fails a. eignaly TO cal out tie
;nue,se crowds thst were expected It was
this that brought OILY gone two or three
thousard people 70 R:chest*r, less number
tn nrE.1o, sud abcut the same number to
Cleveland, 10 listen to the th1ead.bara dseary
.,eech O. nor-iIterreotiou and Supreme
Cour. Sovereignty, that had been instrumental
iamuking so many Republicans in 'ermct'
ard Maize. Il is this that will make hls
mee,ircs il 1ndiaIa and Illinois, in every
tainr but tie machinery and ciap.Ia2 Of hlt
1ulez5ers, failures also, and it is from ttis
cause tint the vote for Lircolu AID Hanlsn
I'll, be sgelled By many thousands in each q
the Northwestern States beyond former Re
nublicar nai:ri,ies. Tho Instincts Of the peo'
Ma are hos1ils to all Slams, and none tho less