The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-08-15
1uoson Correspondence.
HUDSON. August IL, 1860.

HUDSON. August IL, 1860.
Mr.. EpITnR:-ssIt ls natural for man
TO i ,ulge in the illusions of hope" but
this t,..is,n is not ersugh 10 account for
the high fantastic tricks" which Ste
) en- A. Douglas ia playin before the
country IN his tour through the Eastern
states.
Perhaps he is actuatcd bv the same
,, desperate mind that impels commander
| in war. when be sees the the tide OF attic
turning ;rresistibIy against him,
T., rusi, t., the head of his columns, rasnlv.
ed not to survive his eau g. Or perhaps
these -, alton. and receptions are merely
SO many stages instituted by consislerate
friends. to era luate his descent from the
high stat of hopeful cans!ilate for the
Presidency, to the humble condition OF an
obscure citizen.
If this latter hypothesis is the correct
one, liz fhuSt HhNo Soiio ffo1s hS"' ="
the bottom, when he gravelv and earnest
| w insists before his audiences t at Lin
| colin is not better entitled to their sutfra-
..sS because be split rails in his early life,
fqu he, Douglas, is, because he once
8aaa IesHe and bureaus. He really
! .scfss 4, .Alnk that il lie cen succeed in
rauvi.cine sLe pc. PIE that rail splitting is
| :. K a.ara suarit,r;ous than cabinet ma
k..u. Ne haze dsabused them of a
vulgar i,,pia ice, that now is an obstacle
| tu his success.
But as low as he has got, it seems to
me tina, he reaches the height of impu-
dence when he speaks of Lincoln as q
''clever fellow" ms if 1t was the best praise
''e could conscientiously give him. Does
Mr.. Douglas know that in the estimation
Ola large number of his fellow citizens. if
Abraham Linc,,ln IS only a clever fellow
then Stephen A Douglas is considerably
| ies. shan clever fellow fGr | affirm that
| The ineip ,rabla contest between the two
10 1858. a Contest that tried not only the
intellectual! abilities. but the state manlkc
qualities of each, Mr.. Lnco,n's superi,ri-
| ~ over his antagonist in beth these res.
poets, was clearly manifested; and that
this is the general sentiment of the intel
ligent portion of the community at large.
1t is reasonable to infer from the fact that
while large party asserts that result of
the Illinois campaign. the other side
scarcely denies it, but point to the other
result; ]. g.. Mr.. Douglas election to the
Senatorship by the legislature "a clever
fellow" Doubtless M. Douglas uses
the phrase in the ordinary Yankee sense.
to designate an easy, good natured accom-
m"dating chap. Well. Steve, in that
sense you are clever fellow too, rs you
proved when you withdrew your name
from the Cincinnati convention in 1856.
% let Mr.. Buchanan be- President, aud
as you again proved when by not with
lrawing your name from the Charleston
;a:tImore convention, you let in your
''e,er old neighbor. Abe L ncon.
T. c"ire to loca matters: an Irish child
.'i"d here ia;ely from M overdose q.
s'llske,, and an freshman died few
lays ago from the effects of gunshn;
w"and. which whisky had some agency
n producing, II is said.
The water III Lake st. Croix is getting
'"ry low-for this you WI conclude The
;sisil are NO. so much TO blame as other
.eorle. ***