Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-04-11
SENATOR DOUGLAS AND THE
y.-.,. PR E:SlDENCY.


ial features in tho present contest for the
Presidency, that At least one prominent
candidate for that high Office has no sup
portess among disunionists Of any stripe,
North or South. Although at this moment
no ono in the Union is more talked Of for
the Presidency than Senator Douglas, still
he has the proud satisfaction Of knowing
that not . man, from ocean to ocean, or
from North to South, wishes or desires his
uom;n nation, except those who say with
General Jackson, "Ths Federal Union, i.
must and shall b. preserved"
Against Senator Douels:s, the Southern
a;sunion's.s, and the Northsr., disunionists,
wage their united and oitterest warfare
Yancsy, Of Alabama, and his Gre eating co.
adjutors, oppose him because they claim
chat his election and the adoption Of his
principles, will crush out the secession
movement at the South, and put of disu-
MON for years. and perhaps forever. The
Abolisionists Of the North. oppose him with
equal bitterness, for similar reasons. and be.
cause tho " irrepressible conflict" eau then
no longer be employed to madden the pas
sions and influence the prejudices in the
free States for popular sovereignty will
work out peaceful victory for free labor
and establish free institutions over every
foot Of land that now invites settlement
This overshadowing slavery question, which
now weighs down the country's hopes, will
be squelched out. The fire no longer fed by
the fuel Of paosion-of elimination and re-
crimination-will soon die out, and by
"minding each its own business" each Sec
zion II LEFT to follow the road to prosperity
which leads to free Institutions and the
Territories, settled by Northern men and
the enterprising poor, must ~ an inevitable
consequence become free States.
The men who stand BY the Constitution
- it was left to us BY the Revolutionary
iathsrs-none Of its compromises disregard.
ed, and nons Of it, provisions nullified-ar'
those who battle for Senator Douglas. Lii
supporters endorse no higher constitutions
law than the Constitution itself, and tolerate
no sectional slave code d"smas; but, con
tsat With the Constitution, are pledged Il
it, maintenance intast--not burrowing un
der it to undermine, or going above it 4
trample upon it.
Tho strength Of Mr.. Dougla.' position il
that extremes in both sections oppose him
thus conservative men will be led to his sup
port. and vast class Of young men, who's
hopes are conferred in tho national prospect.
ty, will also give him their support. Tn;
snrelenting bitterness Of the opposition t
bin, arouses an enthusiasm in his behalf
and with the earnest. intelligent sympath,
Of tho conservative classes, and the ardent
and zsalous devotion Of the Young men, his
success, It nominated for the Presidency. !,
. ioregone conclusion. The impreg"abl.
strength Of the great principle Of popula
sovereignty-"a principle as ancient Is ire
government itsslf"-with which bis nam
and future a.. indslibly linked, point to hin
~ "the man. for the present emergency
through whom the country may confidently
expect to be delivered from this embittsret
sectional quarrel growing out Of tho AFRO
CANT claims of the South and the North, 70
Congressional intervention.