Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-20

r-Many of Mr.. DOUGLAS friends in tho
North affect to believe, that had he been elected
that the present troubles in the South would
not have happened. The lotion of the South
'ern delegations 10 the Charleston and Baltimore
Conventions, the vote received by Mr. DOUGLAS
in the South must convince every reasonable
mind that that gentleman, or his doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty over slavery, however in
sincerely held, or however accompanied by
adroit negations of its practical efficiency, it may
have been, was regarded as a dangerous heresy
all over the South. His personal character was
even more obnoxious and open to Southern
odium than that of Mr.. LINCOLN. The result of
the election, while it shows the great siren 9Th
of Mr.. DOUGLAS al the North, proves, also, his
enormous weakness at the South. His entire
vote in the fifteen States is but l65, 900, and no
less than 10000, even of that-or more than
one-third-is in the single State Of Missouri,
which is steadily gravitating towards an eman-
eipation State. His vote at the North is over a
million and a quarter. He received three tenths
of the popular vote of the country-while Mr..
LINCOLN received four-tenths, and the remaining
three-tenths, were divided between Messrs.
BRECKENRIDGE and BELL.
The extremely small vote of Mr.. Douglas
at the South, indicates the profound dislrust
and dislike felt for him and his doctrines in
that section of the country. He had the ad-
vantage, too, Of a full electoral ticket in every
State, as well as of ardent personal and politi-
cal friends, and presses to advocate his claims
not one of which advantages was enjoyed by
Mr.. Lincoln, save in five of the border States.
Yet, with all these means of operating upon the
public mind, and with his OWE personal advo-
cacy of his claims, Mr.. Douglas only gets the
pitiful vote of 5000 from the entire people of
the South, outside of Missouri.
In the face of these facts and figures, can any
one believe that the election of Mr.. Douglas
would have been quietly acquicsced in by
the South? Would the endorsement, which
his election would have established, of the prin-
ciple of popular prohibition of Slavery in the
Territories-ofth the utter, absolute denial of Fed
eral protection to the institution, which was
made the cornerstone of Mr.. Douglass political
system, have operated to reassure the disturbed
and agitated state of the Southern mind? Would
the Cotton States, already profoundly penetrated
with the sentiment of disloyalty to the Union,
have meekly submitted to an admins tration
elected with next TO none of their help? An
administration, too, whose head had threat
ened them in advance. in his Norfolk speech,
with the punishment of treason if they made
any trouble?
No, Messrs. Douglasites, it is not the election
of Mr.. Lincoln which has brought commercial
panic and political disaster upon the nation,
and you know it. They are the effect of causes
which lie much further back, and they would
have as certainly ensued upon the election of
your candidate as upon that of the candidate
OF the Republicans. The Republicans are no
more accountable fol the Southern tornado, or
the financial storm, than they are responsible
for the obliquity of the earth's axis. The Re-
publicans didn't make slavery, nor did they
create the sentimen mt of hostility TO its extension.
That sentiment is lodged and rooted in the
breasts of seven:tenths of the American people
These are the facts; and they who
don't like them, are at liberty to exclalm, with
the lncredulous Frenchman in the story, $50
much the worse for the ~factsI'