White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-08-09
8. Arnold Douglas Sketch.

NOPy AhO AOAOHAh6 AoOy
and truthful sketch Of one of the Demo
cratic candidates for the Presidency from
the Steubenville Herald: f.
Mr.. Douglas was born a Yankee-he
was a native of Vermont, where he in
herited the vigorous traits of the sons of
New England, but emigrated therefrom
early enough to avoid contracting many
of the Puritan virtues which add luster
to the character of that people. He To-
Gated in the West, where he found a
wide field for the exercise Of his natural
shrewdness anG indomnitable energy,
which were equal to almost any emer-
gency. He here directed his talents,
which were of no ordinary mold, to pol
itics. Success followed almost every eff
fort, and in early life he took position
among the most prominent leaders of the
Democratic party. He was a partisan
leader in the radical sense of the term,
and as INSCRIPTIONS as radical.
With limited education. less polish,
and no magnanimity towards his political
opponents, 1.-THE great only are msgnani-
nous, he possessed. in an eminent de-
gree, the identical ability that impressed
the popular mind-he was the man for
the indiscriminate crowd. Having to-
tai disregard Of dignity where his popu-
larity was in question. he became the
idol of that class Of people. particularly,
who regard democracy as synonymous
with vulgarity. This was the wave more
than all others upon which he arose to
popular distinction.
But Mr.. Douglas has, like many other
men seeking renown, "vaulting ambi-
tion," which seldom fails to overlap
ITSELF" He was fully aware of the fact
that the South controlled the Democratic
party, and that to secure the support Of
the Southern States was to secure the
nomination for the Presidency. To gain
that it was requisite that he should sub
serve the interests of the Shareholders,
slavebreeders and slevedrivers-to stul-
tify his convictions Of justice and hu-
nanity-to "crawl upon his belly and
eat dirt"
For his own selfish ends, Dir. Douglas
made these sacrifices, and soon became
the ''willing instrument" in the hands
of slavery, to do any act Of shameless
reckIessness that might DO demanded Of
him. He thersupon volunteered the re-
peal of the missouri Compromise"-a
compact sacred alike to the great spirits
Of the Wing and Democratic parties, the
consummation of which was the browning
act Of the political life of Henry Clay
opposition to the repeal Of which, Benton
desired inscribed upon his tombstone.
that his name may be thus commemoratsd
to posterity.
This compromise. BY which the peace
Of the country was maintained upon the
question of slavery, the most dangerous
Of all others to the perpetuity Of the I'm
ion, Mr.. Douglas set about to repeal
And, by his energy and tact, and through
the aid of the slsveholding interests,
backed by q venal Democratic Admin
istration, he succeeded. In doing so, it
was not his object to subject the country
to his Popular Sovereignty dodge-but
to aid in planting slavery in Territory
reserved by sacred compact to freedom
and, against the will of the people.
through the potency Of friendly lsgis-
lation."F $3.50 ..f.t
But, the rupture that followed the re-
peal Of the sacred COMPREHENSIVE dis
affection of parties and the revolution Of
political organisations, pending the pas
sage Of the Nebraska Act. convinced him
that be had made Q serious If not . ire
parable blundcr. The point had been
reached at which the North ceased TO en-
durs. Having satisfied himself upon this
point, histactics were soon decided upon.
Having deliberately betrayed the North
-jeopsrdizing the peace and perpetaity
of the Confederscy thsreby-he unhesita.
tiagly betrayed the South, and retrseed
his steps far enough TO swindle the PEG
pie, if possible, BY the dogma of Popu'
lar Sovsreignty-whieh. through lie &C
ton of the Supreme Court, is nothing
more than transparent Political fAllscy
LAS villainous Is it is transparent. ga
But be has fsiled-sigually fsiled-ex-
cept in arraying one section Of the Union
against the other-failed. except in SOW
ing the seeds Of discussion broadcast
And he has failed, moreover, in snoths