Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-25
Douglas and Lecomptou.

The very extraordinary documents going
the rounds of the papers tending to prove
in the most positive manner Mr.. Douglas
completely in the Lecompton swindle, has
betrayed" that gentleman into the making
OF another speech, which may have the eff
feet to nail his ears to a pillory. Mr.. Green
B. Redman, who avows he knows Stephen
A Douglas, and has known him for sixteen
long years, is well acquainted with his hand
writing, saw the letter addressed to John
| (Candle-bo1) Calhoun, and knows it to be
Mr.. Douglas letter, is not man to be triAed
with. he is a gentleman-Nr. Douglas
compeer in every sense, except political posi-
ton, and unless the little giant faces the
music, there will be fight Not that it is
Of any great consequence what Stephen a.
Douglas says to any one, on any political
subject; because what he says to any one
can be most easily erased and forgotten by
him. If it is expedient for him to do SO; but then
Redman is of the chivalry order and possesses
that remarkable keen sense of honor peculiar
TO The people of the other side of Mason &
DixOn's Line alene, and not likely to be ap-
peased, short of stair stand up fght."-
The little giant had best step high, lest he
takes cold.
In regard to Mr.. Douglas character for
truth and veracity, it is undoubtedly as good
as that OF politicians in general-on his side
Of the House. 1t is sufficient to say of the
snail glant, as has been said of another noted
charlatan, OF the same qeHlls, and of the same
/ party, ut IS not desired or expected by his
supporters he should tell the truth on any
matters that will initiate against his success.
He is at full liberty to expel and install, to
bribe and to buy, TO intimidate the weak and
TO repay the venal. In such influences he
, and his friends have full faith. His record
shows The business undertaken, and the con-
ditiOn Of the Democratic party shows how
dubieusly it has been done. Stephen Arnold
Douglas has made nothing but bitter, bad
bargains for his party. He has shown a
wonderful talent for buying the wrong men,
and has so lnismanaged the trust confded to
him, that nothing remains of his party, but
faction, impOtent for good or evil. After
the 9Th Of next November, he will be the
great squeezed orange Of popular sovereignty ;
and Will be quite prepared to tell us who fat
tened upon his juices and then flung him
away. He, OF all living creatures, under
stands the sheer selhshness Of shareholders.
No public man Of his time has had such
chances of honest celebrity, and no such
man has played SO laundering a game. If
he could have been rescued by his better
genius from the slough of seltshness, and
delivered from the contamination of horde
of political gamblers, the world would have
been more disposed to pardon and a little
more inclined to pity that uneeasing grasp
at office, which has resulted in lamentable
expressions for his lack Of capacity, and his
lack of conscience"
The proof Of Mr.. Douglas mendacity upon
the Lecompton Constitution has time and
again been given, and it needed not this new
development from Kansas to render the tes-
timony irrefragible. The Congressional Globe
stares him in the face, and attests his action
in the Senate on the TOombs Bill, when as
Chairman Of the Committee on Territories
be, with his own hand, struck out of the Bill
"authOrizing the people Of Kansas to hold {
Convention and form a Constitution" th.
clause requiring It's submission to the people, ant
Uoted in silence for the Bill as aLteredl Ye
he now has the audacity and efrontery t
stand up before public meeting at Milwau
kee and deny he ever occupied the position
attributed TO him in the Calhoun correspond
ence, which formed the basis of the actisn o
his friends in the Kansas Legislature. Their
is nothing in his letter to Mr.. Calhoun incon
sistent with his action at the time in the q
5. Senate. If he opposed the submission be
fore the Senate, why did he desire his friend
in Kansas to pursue different course2 q
is either guilty Of falsehood in asserting tina
the statements Of his Kansas friends ar
false in every particular" or guilty c
monstrous duplicity in advising a contrar,
course to be pursued in Kansas to what b
was pursuing in Washington himself If h
did advise Calhoun to a contrary course il
Kansas to what he pursued at Washington
then his quarrel with the Administration wa
premeditated, and all his protestatiOns for th
dear people in the Territories is bosh, and h
is convicted of worse sins than any be eve
charged upon bis opponents.
1t was only the other day the Plain Dealel
in labOred article, attempted to show this
ar. Douglas action on the Toombs Bill wa
in perfect accordance with his popular sovel
eighty dogma, and amply guaranteed to th
: people the right to vote on the Constitution
/, Why, then, strike out the clause of submii
, slonf All such lodges to cover up NJ
Douglas inconsistencies and tergiversatior
are simply absurd.
The terrible scourglng Senator Trumbu
gave the Little Giant for his mendacity in a
: tering the Toombs Bill is not forgotten. Ser
ator T., during the Lincoln and Douglas a,
bate in Illinois, procured the original Toomt
Bill, and exhibited it to the people of Chieap
O WheR 800 persons sttested TO Mr.. Douols
Implicitly. The Short Boy attempted 10 COW,
ais disgrace at this time by denouncinc Ser
ltor Trumbull as a scoundrel, coward. &c :
BE made no formal or public denial of Il
grave charge at the time, because Trumbu
said he would "cram the truth down an
honest mans throat until be could not der
IS but now the matter comes up in a ne
phase and from another quarter, more dan
. aging than the first, and he is " betrayed in
4 speech" and openly denounces the charl
D as "false in every PARTICULAR !" What lea
sr for a great partyl A man 50 notoriousl
mendacious that no reliance can be placed Q
bis assertions. BRUTUS.