The Placer herald., 1860-10-13


had transpired in that great contest, of a
personal character. But | felt indignant
when | saw that he had made charge
against the Republicans WEIGH he knew to be
unjust, and which he declared to me he would
repeI if made in his presence. lie said that
"Lincoln had pressed him so hard he had to
take that position to sape Mmseb.."
TO this charge Mr. Douglas has never
made any reply. 1t has been brought 10y
one Of his peers in a public speech, but Mr..
Douglas mouth is closed aud nothing issues
theretrom but Sqnatter Sovereignty and the
'regular nominee"
But this is not all. 1t is charged in the
Washington Constitution that during the
pendenry of the Lecompton question Mr..
Douglas sent a message to f. i. Blair, Esq.
by Schuyler CoIfax, of Indiana, in substance
as follows: "1ell Blair to call and see me;
wish to give him James S. Green's place
III the United States Senate" and upon this
the following queries are propounded:
lst. Did Blair call on you in obedience to
the request?
2nd Did YOU not then and there, in your
own house, converse with Blair from nine
o'clock in the evening until after midnight;
and did you not, in substance state to Blair,
that you sympathised with him in his move.
ment for emancipation in Missouri, and
wished him success; that YOU desired to see
him in James S. Green's seat in the United
States Senate, and that you were ready to
unite your efforts with Blair's to that end
that you were as hostile to slavery as Blair
possibly could be, and that your whole Kan
L. Il. b. l,l h.,
first designed 10y you to surround the slave
with free States, and thus to crush out sla-
very; that in the legislation of the country
you had 10y icing regarded as Southern
man, been able to obtain for the North
many advantages over the South, the effect
of which the South did not see or compre.
hend.
Sd. If Blair or any other person has ever,
in substance, stated lha; the foregoing was
true or false, in whole or part, and if only
III part what part was true and what false?
Blair is Black Republican. The ConsH
tuition says the interroga,ories are submitted
by gentleman Of high standing, acknowl.
edged veracily and tried Democracy, who
Doug las never had any such interview with
Blair nothing was so simple as to deny it,
but up to last dates he was "re,icent.'
Still more: Our readers are already aware
that we heard Simultaneous of the coali,
ton between the Doug lastes and Black Re
publcans in Oregon and of the speech of
Arson Burlingame, Republican Congress-
man from Massachusetts, foreshadowing the
whole affair His words were
II also had private interview with Mr..
Doug las on the occasion Of his late visit TO
Boston. Mr.. Douglas then made use of the
this language; "Burlngame, | am elected
Senator for six years. | have got Joe Lanes
head h basket, and soon shall have Sl.dclrs
Brght's and Fitch's. Won't it be splen-
did sight, Burlingame, to see McDougal re-
turned from California Baker from Oregon,
and Douglas and Uncle Abe, all a, Wash
ington together-for the next President is
is to come flom Illinois"
Mr.. Douglas has never con;radcted the
statement. Upon this subject Mr.. Douglas
has also been annoyingIy "reticenl," and not
one word has yet escaped his lips Burln
games statement has been corroborated by
the coalition in Oregon.
Still more, and this time we are coming
nearer home and to a question which one of
our own citizens has been called upon to an.
swer. 1t appeared in the San Francisco
Herald, of Wednesday last in the form Of
a communication as follows:
Will you ask General Denver to say
whether he knows, or has any reason to be-
lieve, that Mr.. Douglas drew up, with his
own hands, the mode of submitting the
Kansas Constitution to the people for ap
prova or rejection, or whether he approved
of it! Also ask him whether Mr.. Douglas
object was not to keep the Topeka men from
the polls? Also whether he did not turn
completely round when he found Robert j.
Walker was becoming very popular and did
not adopt Squa'ter Sovereignty.
If it should turn out that MIR. Douglas
drew up with his own hands, the mode of
submitting the Iecompton Constitution,
and then turned around and fought it, Nj
colo Machiaveli, it will at once be admitted,
has been thrown completely in the shade by
tie duodecimo giant of our day and genera
ton. In this article we have furnished the
Douglas papers with material for articles
from now to the close of the campaign. To
let these matters pass in silence, won't do.
Above we have given the charges and the
witnesses. Let us hear the defense.
The VOTE OF VIRGINIA.-The Richmond
Enquirer says: The Democ' acy of Virginia,
in the present campaign, will poll larger
vote than in any previous canvass; and not
withsanding the detection of the Douglas
men in the State, the electoral vote of Vir-
gnia will be given to Breckenridge aud Lane
by majority over Douglas and Bell com
bned. From all quarters and sections OF
the State, from the Ohio to the Atlantic,
the most encouraging accounts have been re-