Daily national Democrat., 1860-08-17
Daily National Democrat.
ST. LOUIS CORRESPONDENCE,
ST.. LOUIS. July ODD. 1866

we had the thermometer stood at qS, but the
hottest day this year was yeateyday-l06 in
the shade-eight degrees warmer than the
warmest day last year. A good rain now
would cool off the atmosphere and do a great
deal Of good to the corn crop The potato
crop this year will be a large one-larger
than we have had for five or six years, and
the corn crop is far beyond that of many pre-
vious years The wheat has been pretty
fair crop in some portions Of the West, being
pretty generally thin on the ground but the
grain is large aud full, and take it all in all
turns out fair average crop.
Ia political matters have some little tc
cay in this AID for the life of me cannot tell
where to begin. In Illinois the cause Of
Douglas goes bravely on, and his friends are
doing battle with a good will and making
every effort to carry the State for the Little
Giant" do not believe there is anything
practical in the fuss which the opponents OF
Douglas have kicked up about their "doc-
trjne' as regards slavery in the Territories.
There was no reason for the fuss, and the sole
cause of 1T is the antipathy of Buchanan to
Douglas and the envious ambition of rivals.
Who believes that hereafter, when Terri
tory, with sufficient population, applies for
admission, she will have her suit rejected be-
cause she recognizes slavery as one of her
institutions? Or who believes that when n
Territory, with such population, applies,
she will be rejected or admitted any the
sooner becauseshe does not recognize slavery Z?
Nobody. Who believes that, in Territory
where the people are inclined to have slaves,
any person will find any trouble in carry ying
slaves thither and holding them there And
who believes that even should Il man carry
slaves to Territory where the people are
disinclined to have slaves, that man cannot
have his right fairly and fully tested by the
legal tribunals Of the Union, which, may
add here, have been by express provisions of
law laid open to suits for determining such
questions? Or who believes that, where a
man finds the people of y Territory much
nyerse to slavery, he Will attempt to take
slave to it? Ionswer again, nobody There
is, therefore, nothing in all this hubbub-
there is no decent reason for it,
Besides the Douglas men are as sound as
the Breckinridge on the doctrine itself,
about which all this needless fuss and pother
IS raised. The Douglas men want the Terri
tory to exercise no rights which it cannot
exercise under the Constitution Of the United
States. If the Supreme Court-the final
arbiter-decides the law to be as the Breck-
iuridge men declare it is. very good. The
Douglas men abide the decision of the Su-
preme Court
Why, then, this rejection of Douglas, unless
for the reasons of personal pique and rival
eumities have mentioned No Breckenridge
lnan can give another reason. There is not
there never has been-any good reason for
this Democratic opposition to Douglas. But
there are many reasons why all Democra is
should join heartily in his support.
lst. lie has done great service to the party
is one Of the ablest men in the party; and
one of the ablest men in the land.
I'd. lie has never uttered any "heresy" in
which Buchanan, Breckenridge, Lane, Cobb,
Mason, Hunter Bayard, Benjamin, and Geo.
W. Jones did not fully share The proof Of
this proposition is as clear as the sun at cloud.
less midday. If he was wrong, they were
wrong They claim that the Supreme Court
has decided against it, lie says that if SO,
lac submits for he never wanted TO give to a
Territory what it could not claim under the
Constitution as expounded by the highest ju-
dical tribunal of the nation.
3D. Three times he has been prominently
before the party at their National Conveu-
tions, and though receiving the strongest sup
port next to the required majority, grace
fully and nobly yielded his pretentions to the
claims of others, though he might by stand
ing out, have defeated them.
On occasion of this third presentation be-
fore the great Democratic assembly he was
entitled to the nomination, He was entitled
to it for the considerations above stated, and
he was entitled to it by the condition Of par
ties at this time in the country Let Us look
n moment at that condition There were the
Republicans boasting, not without some rea-
son, of their ability to carry the election let
the Democrats nominate whom they might.
That party was the party to be met. How
could it he met except by cordial union
among the Democrats upon their strongest
Il. ., 90, ,.,t,s
| answer, Stephen A. Douglas. He had such
friends SO numerous and ardent in Illinois
aud Indiana, not to say anything of Ohio and
Iowa. lie had such strength and prospects
of support in the great "pivotal" States ofth(
East that there was in the party ranks nc
other man who could be relied upon with
half the trust in a successful issue which hi:
nomination would have inspired | say un-
hesitatingly, that as the parties stood nobody
but Douglas could have been elected by tn,
Democrats. Nobody but he could draw
around him such body ofenthusiastic friend
or draw SO largely from the body of out
siders
Judge Douglas was regularly nominated
while the Boilers, who have set up Breckin-
ridge. are seeding faction. There was, II
the Convention which nominated Douglas
and which made his nomination unanimous
more than hoo thirds of the electoral vote o
the country. No plea of this kind can be SET
up for the Boilers candidate. The most tina
his leading counsel-the Old Public Function
ary-can say for Breckinridge is, chat if th'