The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-09-14
DOUGLAS AT THE SOUTH.
HIS RECEPTION AT RALEIGH, RICHMOND,
AND STAUNTON.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM OF THE PEOPL
lspatch TO the Philadelphia Press.

GREAT ENTHUSIASM OF THE PEOPLE.
Special Dispatch to the Philadelphia Press
p ~ i.. RALEIGH, N. c., Aug. 81.
Judge Douglas arrived here yesterday
morning and was received by an immense
crowd. The delegates to the regular Dem>
ocratic State Convention were coming in in
numbers at the time be reached here. 1t
was As large and as respectable an assem-
blage OF the Democracy as has ever been
held 10 this State. Many of the leading
Democrats took part in it. A full Douglas
electoral ticket was nominated, and eloquent
speeches were made predicting its success.
The very idea of compromise with the
Breckenridge men was Indignantly rejected.
1t is the common opinion to-day that the
fight 10 North Carolina will presently be
narrowed down between Douglas and Bell,
and that the Breckinridge men will be
compelled to take their choice between the
two.
The Convention endorsed the Cincinnati
and Charleston platforms as presented and
passed by majority of both.
1t was beautiful day, and, after the
Convention, Judge Douglas addressed the
largest meeting ever held in Raleigh. At
four o'clock he commenced speaking from
the eastern portico of the Capitol. Hun.
dreds of ladies were present, giving life and
animation to the scene. He spoke nearly
two hours, celebrating all the points which
he made in Maine, New Hampshire, Con-
necticut and Rhode Island, and dweJt with
particular emphasis upon the argument
which be repeated at Norfolk few days
ago .... ......
The enthusiasm was unbounded, and when
he concluded hundreds of leading Democrats
crowded around him, saying that they had
been for Breckenridge in the morning, but
were now determined to support him to the
end.
Judge Douglas will speak at Richmond
on Friday evening, and will no doubt re-
spond to the violent attack upon him in the
Richmond Enquirer, threatening personal
Violence. The people of Richmond are a
gallant abd magnanimOus people, and 1
have no doubt the intimation of the organ
of Gov. Wise will secure larger and more
enthusiastic reception for the Little Giant
than if the threat had not been uttered.
His courage cOnfounds the Secessionists
and delights his own friends. and particular
ly the friends of Bell and Everett. Hun
dreds of these latter are now celebrating
whether they had not better take the ticket
advocated by Mr.. Dick-the gallant dele>
gate from North Carolina to the Charleston
and Baltimore Conventions. and who stood
by Douglas to the last-in preference to
their own.
am authorized to announce that after
Douglas has spoken at Richmond, and one
or two other points, resting day at Wash
ingtOn, he will proceed Immediately to
Pennsylvania, where he will address the
people at the following places At Harris
burg, on Friday, September Z; at Reading
on Saturday afternoon, September 8; at
Philadelphia, on the same evening; and will
pass from thence to Easton, where he will
speak on the 10th of September.
am also authorized to state that Scna-
tor Clingman is the warm and ardent friend
of Judge Douglas, will be found on the
stump in North Carolina until the Novern-
ber elections, and also that the great Dem.
ocratic State Convention held yesterday at
this place has encouraged Mr.. Holden, edi-
tor of the old Democratic State paper, the
Raleigh Standard, who will henceforth fight
the Douglas battle through without reser-
walton. .I I..Lis
1t is rumored here that on the arrival of
Mr.. Douglas at Richmond, Gov. Letcher,
of Virginia, will preside at the meeting, or
will take prominent part in his reception.
The blood is up. The only national party
in existence has received new vitality from
the visit of Douglas to the South.
The friends of Breckenridge are greatly
disappointed by the report that Mr.. Breck-
nrldge cannot be long held back, but that
he will insist upon withdrawing from the
canvass, inasmuch as Judge Douglas has
proved, in all his late speeches, his devotion
to the interests of the South, and that be
(B) cannot remain in the field simply to de-
feat the South in the election. xxx
A despatch to the New York Times gives
the following account of DOUGLAS progress
from Raleigh to Richmond:
RICHMOND, Va, August 3l.-From Ra-
leigh to Richmond, at every station Doug
las was met by large numbers of his friends.
At Weldon, N. c., be received quite an ova-
tion, and made a speech. McRae, one OF
the Douglas Electors, also ably addressed
the people here. At Petersburg Douglas
was taken in charge by reception commit.
tee, who accompanied him to Richmond,
where he was welcomed by an immense out
pouring of the people. He was placed in
an open barouche, and escorted by the citi,
zens, headed by band Of music, to the st.
Charles Hotel. '-
Tonight he addressed the people in the
capitol grounds, from stand erected by
the Washington Monument. His reception
here is said to have rivalled the celebrated