Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-09-29
The Straight Douglas Ticket.

Co., the supernumerarics has just been
played at Harrisburg and whatever doubt
once existed in the minds of the honest
yeomanry of Pennsylvania, relative to. the
concert of action between these would be
champions of popular sovereignty, and the
Black Republicans is now dispellcd.-
IIenceforth the Democratic party, freed )!
from the cumbrous clogs which have clung
to its skirts, will brcat frcer and move
with increased celerity, in the fulflment
of its mission, and will in the future as in /
the past triumph over the enemy, whether
arrayed in open honest hostility, or in
vested with the more insidiots and spe
eious garb of disorganiza,ion. .', ...
Judge Douglas las thts far been tolera-
ted rather than sanctioned by the Demo-
cratic party, mere through cxpedieHcy
than from any attachment to his peculiar
political dogmas Notwithstanding his
anteeedents, bad though they be, and bar
rem of aught to cohimcnd him to popular
favor, thousands of democrats we're willing
to compromise with the followers Of Mi.
Douglas, for the sole reason that they re-
} gard him as less Objectionable than Abram
Lincoln, and because they cherished the
, hope, that in the event of his election, his
official acts being under the censorship of
men of moderation, would be characterized
by fairness and impartialisy, would make
; his administration generally acceptable,
, and thus pave the way to the reestablishing
of that great party, which has through his
: agency become SO fcarfully disorganized.
Y His voluntary appearance in Pennsylvania,
in the capacity Of a stump orator, and his
unconstitutional surrender to John W.
; Forncy, place him wishout the pale of the
Democratic party, and utterly unworthy
of the peoples support. An ally of the
Black Republicans to them he sho'd ad-
, dress himself for sympathy, in the day of
# his calamity which draws apace; upon
the Democratic party he has not the shad-
II ow of claim.
!, Pennsylvania has been appealed to on
. more than one occasion to interpose her
influence, when our institutions were en-
= dangercd, and she has never faltercd when
y demonstration cf her devotion to the
:. Union was demanded. But does Mr..
c Douglas deserve her vote Does she owe
v him any debt of gratitude? ? Let his rec
d crd be the balance in which his claims
S upon this commonwealth are Weighed
G From the hour he made his debut upon that
IL stage on which he has been SO prominent
S an actor, he has been the most uncompro>
h missing, and persistent opponent Of her fa'
= vorite theory protection His arm has al
r. ways been ready to paralyse her energies,
IS and to blight the labor Of the operatives
in her work shops; her forges her fac,
tories and every industrial establishment,
in which the hard hand and the sweating
brow of toll, bore evidence, silcrt it IS
true, yet NO less omshalic, of the dcplora-
s bic extremity to which honest labor may,
c in country abounding in all the elements
y of wealth and greatness, be driven to PFC:
is cure bread, and yet he hypccritically prom
s. ises protection aye such protection as
e vultures give to lambs It's protective
s. policy includes himself and the squad oi
T. republican cohorts, who have linked their
d fortune to his. Pennsylvania is not Who'll
Is ly insane. She cannot be duped by pro.
nc tectionists of friendship to her interests
ne made by Stephen 4. Douglas. He ma.
le talk in his blandcst tones, of his devotion
j. to Pennsylvania his whole career as
II. statesman hurls the lie i'll his teeth, and ,
yell of undisguised execration follows from
he the honest Masses always ready to forgive
he the errors of an impulsivc statesman, bu
". " slow to restore TO their confidence hin
he who has basely deceived them. So mucl
for his claims upon Pennsylvania.
IN To the great West he has been no bcne
ry) factor. lie has opposed improvements +
a rivers and harbors; protested against tn
Ir. erection of lighthouses and bacons, an,
US identified himself among the opponents @
ot all legislation, in behalf of that section
re. and yet his followers represent the Yves
is. to be on fire for Douglas. The youngcs
ms of US may remember, when the prairie
No ''blazcd with the light of his burning effgy.
e. What act of his, since that time, has Gre
de ated such mighty revolution in his favor
art But the crowning glory of his Who'll
he senatorial career, the grand cOip de eto
20 by which he expected to ride into power
he is s'his repeal Of the Missouri Compromis'
ey a measure which for quarter of centur
IT, had been sanctioned, by the most cnligh
lie, ened and patriotic statesmen of the tim
he Whether that compromise was constitution