Red Wing sentinel., 1860-11-14
SEN ATOR DOUGLAS.

OtuCc LilC llulC ;Ol OcIIVTHt JdCkSCJl
there has beennoo man on the stage
politics who has been 50
persistcnly slandered as Stephen a.
Douglas. We remember some OF the
vindictivness Old Hickory was as.
sailed with. His cstimable mother was
pronounced a prostitute, his pure and
accomplished wife an adulteress.-
Himself was called q murderer and it,
was boldly proclaimed to be in proof
that he had designs upon the liberties
Of his country-ssm military despotism''
being the beam idle of the Hero of
New Orleans! These charges have
passed away and those under thirty
years of age can have but little re-
collection Of the intensity of hate with
which Jackson was pursued. He beat
calumny at last and coward-like it
lay at his feet and licks the wounds its
fangs had made. In five years after
the grave had closed over his body,
the breath of detraction had turned
to greatfnl incense. Now, as then,
the opponents Of correct policy de-
pends upon vituperation in tho ab~
sence Of argument, There is nothing
too bad to be sald Of Douglas. The
vcriest smatterer Of q little village dips
his pen in the bittercst gall furnished
by the shops Of Republican commit
tees and marks Mr.. Douglas as the
basest man alive. Tho policy is not
new. 1t began when Moses was on
the mount seeking the good of his peo-
pie ; it eliminated in the cruciixiion
of the Great Nazarine. The purer
the subject marked for victimization
the more relentless the hate which
envenoms his foes. Small men, the
jackalls of the party, have no chance
in debate with an intellectual giant
they find an escape for their envy and
prospect of trifing official reward in
the ndulgence ftheir spleen towards
a man so immcasurably their super
ior.
We arc glad that there are among
the political foes Of Mr.. Douglas
men who have to high sense of
honor to ma!ign him. In the Boston
zraveler an able, fair, Republican pa.
per We find the following: after stating
Tin lass he won the greatest political
victory known in our history" the
the 7raveler proceeds:
Thus he has had eighteen years Of
Senatorial life conferred upon him,
and six years Representative, besides
having held half dozen other office,
though he is now only forty seven
years old. Should he be elected Pres
i'lcnt his Congressional career will
have been exactly eighteen years,
fourteen years of which will belong to
his senatorial history. It is seldom
that the life of any man presents so
much success, in so short a time, as
we find in the twenty six years that
have passed away since his majority
was completed. AS general thing
this success has not been undeserved;
if we look at the Intellectual side oil
things, Mr.. Douglas has broba-
bly, no intellectual superior among
the statesmen and politicians oil
the United States. Ills speeches
and writings arc strong, clear, pre-
else and logical. lie has participated
in all the great Congressional debates
Of the last seventeen years, not to
speak ofhis enormous labors con the
stunp," and in conventions and eau
cnscs. Rar ely has it been his lot
to he beaten. lie was more than a
match for Webster in 1850, when that
i lustrions man had warm contest
with him.
AMERICAN Va BElr'sll DIPLOMACY.
It's noticeblc fact and gratifying to
American pride Of country that the
Diplomatic representatives of the
United States negotiated favorable
treaties with China by the mere force