St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-10-25
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Does Douglas Cave ?

Mr.. EDITOR lis it true that Doug
las prefers Lincoln to Breckenridge I?
And is it true that he intcrfered to
prevent the coalition in Pennsylvania,
for the express purpose of securing
the election of Lincoln, and of defeat
ing Brcckinridge from being elected
by the House, as having one of the
three highest numbers on the list of
candidates! So say some Of the
newspaper correspondents who pro-
fess to know. That " friend y of Judge |
Douglas whom the Press and Tri- |
bunC'S correspondent keystone "
quotes, AYERS such to be the case.
There is great deal of mysticism
wrapped around Judge Douglas so
much so that think it utterly ont of
the question for any body to define
his position or programme, precisely, |
especially himself. keystone says
that that friend Of Douglas says that
he has not the rcmotcst idea of being |
elected himself, and, preferring Lin
coin to Breckenridge, is SO managing
as to give the former the prominence
with the people. And the prctcxt
given for that course is that Douglas
considers Breckenridge as heading the
band Of Disunonists.
Now no sane man, north or south,
will for moment believe, from his
record or from any thing that has ever
occurred in relation to Mr.. Brcckin-
ridge that he is Disunonist, or that
he would head the Disunion party.
Disunionists, it is true, may support
him, and will but that is one thing
and his Caroriag disunion is quite
another. think it must be clear to
every thinking mind that Douglas has
no such honest conviction. Concede
this point, and it remains for us to
account for the strange and apparent
ly untenablc ground occupied by
Judge Douglas in the present cam
paign. Itis suggested by his 'friend' ,
that he is accommodating elements at
this early hour for new and distinct
organization Of his own, and that i'll
view Of the Presidency in 1860. But
can it be that he is SO blind to the
events of the future and the signs
of the times as not to discern that
he, his great self, will be dead dead,
DEAD, and Douglasism q thing un-
known except as an item Of past his
tory? Is he SO insane as to fail of
seeing this )?
If he sees this, as he surely must,
and if he sees, also, as he must, that
his defeat is certain in the present
canvass, what can the man be fight
ing for in this great war Of words
and conflict Of principle he is waging
and pushing forward from Maine to
Georgia? 1t must be for something.
| say cmphatically, IL must be for some
hiag, and what that object is, forms
the subject Of our inquiry. We can
only arrive at q probable result by
the indications of his antccedents and
settled political creed. AS to the form
er, though it affords us rather blind
and meandering, zigzag path to fol,
low, we can, by noting his extreme
points and comparing his positions
opposing, arrive at central conclu-
sion Of fact. This will be his true
position. But as to his political creed
why, that is clear enough to any
one. He has out and out planted HIM
self Oh the extreme pro-slavery plat
form. He endorses the intervention
of the Court, and through that, of
Congress and erery other department of
Government, for the planting, and the
protection of Slavery in all the Terri,