, 1860-10-08

Hundreds Of people Republicans and Dem
ocra:s alike-are asking each oaher what
DJug'as is stumpipg the Lifted S:ates f,r:
waat all the fass and pother is about. No
body 12ec:s lin to be elected Not one Of
nj tho seorticg mtn who are trsg3lpg asd
bl1st* ring and betting in his train, will risk
a dollar on his election to the Presidency.
There ia an entire uronimity On that point
all sgreeing that whoever else nloy be d. feated,
he is sure to be. Why then is he travelling
from ta,occus 10 town meeting, repeating
his old speech wLerever be can obtain a. au-
dience? If be gals arv electoral votes, he
only helps to Eut Breckenridge in the
Presidential chair which is equiral-
ent to destroying nil cf his own chan
ces fer the oi1:e, whether four years or
forty yesrs heace. What then, ia it all about?
The apswer is plain. The sma!l.fy politi-
clans who have served him without reward
during tie past DOZEN years, are now uting
him as pack h1rss for themselves. 1astead
offshting his own way to the Presidency, be
il helping them to seats iu Congress-, and the
little crumbs Ct local cfli:es. He went to Ohio
II few days sr:ee, to aid his slippery friend
Sam. C-x, and three or four other candidates
for Congress- BE went 70 Indiana to te}p
Hendricks md the otler pso-slavery candidates
for sta,o officers, we'll knowing that the CON-
biua:ion which unites to elect them will fall
t. p:e:es like rore Of sand on the l0th Of
October, and that he (Douglas) will not stand
1he ghost Of 1 chanc5 Of receiving the
clEctaral vots ef that Stale, Ard finally We
find him advertised ct Madison, Wisconsin,
FIR tho sole purpose Of saving
few beggar1y c1unty cd6ces- 4 correspondent
make no nocopces1ment Of their purpose in bring
lug tier candldnte for the Presidency into the
arena Of their local politics. They proclaim
Justify that he lie coming to help them "bold
tee couu:y." They understand perfectly that
the state will hold itself just where it has been
since 1855, only more TO- But Douglas is to
make speech in Madison, to enable the Dem
oc1ats to elect sheriff, or what not, in Dane
"V 1o Aoa 6Vi41 ~ AV"R
city to mske sure tliog for somo unlucky
Register Ct Deeds Or Judge Of Probate. And
the probability is that The same success will at
tend him q: both places ss be met with in
Mime, where he added about GO per cent to
the Republican majority.
This is certainly evidence Of middle aged
man' in 1c3ucsd c:rc1 instances, AZ Carl
schurz observed. in bis recent Cooper Ins.i-
tue speech: $50 tls saddle Of tue 1ump
@nominatioa is put upon his back, and tie
"whole gbastiY pack Of oiIice.hunters jump
"upon it.. The apuEs are Put to the fauks-
"ths whip applied to the hack Of the pansirg,
"bleeding jade, and 50 the spectral ride goes,
"east and west, night and de5-aud may the
"s'eed 60 to perdition, if only the ridersreacl'
"the!r goal" 4 few days more, and the har'
rowiug spectacle will be withdrawn from pub
lie view. The man who ran FOR the Presidency
toenable other mca to be elected constab1es and
County Clerks, will have finished his race and
accomplished his ridiculous mission. Whether
Lincoln or Bretk Ii dge be elected President
and one cf .he1n must be-Douglas will have
carried his lead Of small candidates through
The scramble with better or worae success and
will himself be turned out to grass. That il
exactly what it ia IN about. ---