St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-09-06
NUMBER 36
MR.. DOUGLAS sTUMPING TOUR.
WHAT HE fs AFTER.

Times, who is doubtless the editor o.
that half and half Douglas organ.
writes as follows from Newport in re-
gard to the purpose Of the Little Giant
in taking the stump. He doubtless
speaks by authority. Mr.. Douglas
himself cntcrtains no expectation of
being elected, and that he is running
for the sole purpose of beating the
Brcckinridgc faction. This, Of course,
he can accomplish, as Mr.. Van Buren,
defeated Cass in lS4s, by dividing
the Democratic vote. In this Tabor
Of love" Mr.. Douglas has tie lively
sympathies and hearty encouragement
of the Republican Party:
Mr.. Douglas departs tomorrow
morning for the State of Maine, Mrs.
d. remaining here until his return
He goes, believe, to look after the
political prospects of his party in that
quartcr,-stimuatcd thereto some
what, | apprchend, by the visit of Mr..
Seward observe that staunch
friend and adviser of the Little Giant,
\. d. Banks, Esq, of Virginia, on the
ground, and last night we had mo-
mcntary vision of the broad, compla-
cent face of George Sanders, who
dropped down at sunset and took lis
departure this morning. | guess they
came to hint to Mr.. Douglas that
visit to Maine Just now might not be
wholly thrown away. lie has gone
accordingly, to scatter a little Popu-
lar Sovereignty seed over the stony
places of that remote State: but
shall be greatly mistaken if it is not
speedily dcvourcd by thc.Rcpublican
fowls of the air, who are somewhat
abundant in that latitude this present
season.
After he returns from Maine, Judge
Douglas intends to visit the White
Sulphur Springs, and he will doubt
less take occasion to confer with the
people of the Old Dominion on the
subject of the coming election. un-
dcrstand that he is perfectly confident
of receiving twle as many v tc; as
Brcckinridge in that State, though he
comedies that it will be carried high
and dry 10y Bell and Everett, as will
also, in his opinion, Kentucky, Ten
nesscc, North Carolina, Maryland, Del
aware, and probably others of the
Southern States. Indeed, Mr.. Doug
las does not believe that Breckenridge
tl,rn, Of hn SAnthnr, C.nta,,
and thinks it altogether probable that
Mississippi and South Carolina will
be the only States which will give
him their electoral votes. The Union
feeling throughout the South he be-
Iicves to be much stronger than it is
generally y supposed to be by the poll
ticians Of the North, and when the is
sue is once made, as it will be in the
coming canvass, between the disunion-
lists and their opponents, he thinks the
whole race of conspirators will be
swept ont Of political existence. He
regards Brcckinridge as the actual
representative and instrument of the
disunion party. He is playing their
game and must share their fate. That
party embraces probably decided
majority of the politicians of the
Southern States, but is utterly loathed
and scorned by ninc-tcnths of the pco-
pie and when they come to under
stand thoroughly that the Breckin-
ridge party in the South is really the
disunion party, they will drive it's
leaders from power, and put upon
them 50 efftctually the brand of their
Indignation, that they will never re-
gain the asccndancy they have hither-
to enjoyed
Whatever, therefore, may be the
general result, Mr. Douglas regards it
as utterly impossible that Breckin-
ridge should receive electoral votes
enough to carry his name into the
House of Representatives, if there
should be no election by the people.
That point he considers certain, and
he intends to do everything in his
power to make it certain, if there is
any shadow of doubt about it now.
He cares nothing about his own per-
sonal success and comparatively lit
tie for the success of the Democratic
party, as it stands at present. But he
intends to crush out utterly and for
ever the Disunion Party, if it is in his
power to do so. And if Lincoln should
be elected President, and the conspira-
tors should attempt to put their seccs-
sion threats into execution, they will
find in DO part of the country more
rcsolutc and determined hostility than
from Judge Douglas aud his Southern
friends.
These are the views, l have reason
to believe, which govern the action of
Mr.. Douglas in this campaign and
they cannot fail, think, to modify
somewhat the harsh Judgment which
has in some quarters been pronounced
upon it. His principal aim is to
break down the Disunion Party. He
regards them as the enemies of the
country, and as certain to embroil it
in turmoil and confusion unless they
arc shorn of their power by the peo-
pie. do not believe he has any hope
of his own election, and am quite
sure that he would prefer Lincoln's
success to any result which should
carry Brcckinridge into the House as
one Of the three highest candidates,
and thus give the Senate chance OF
electing Lane. He has confined his
canvass thus far to those States which
are SO thoroughly Republican that hc
could not expect TO affect their vote.
lie does not hesitate openly and en-
phatlcally to dcnounce the attempted
coalition in Pennsylvania, aud he pro-
ceeds, in the course of week or two,
to Virginia, where he will throw down
the glove to the Disunionists, and open
campaign on their own ground. In
that part of his canvass |, for one,
most heartily wish him success.
| Yours, &c, o.