St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-10-18

$Ssss6V NVUS!SSs AT last We Know WhQ
DH.ery il eood for. and Why ito extinction
u nslther possible nor desirable. Even tn,
black man, in his saderines,> will End ,
soothing consolation in the Judec's philos
ophy. When Sambo il Aoeyed dgWh
South, and the whip hoeratcs III back !sthe
benevolent Judge win ten IL, Door feilov
that be has eos: % BE whipped for Che sake
ofvarietJ; flAnghtsr1 Observation-Disclosures
in the sweet consciousness Of being whipped
Stof@a=yelI@grsas~psineiple Renewed
laughtcr.) Aud when the Judges bill has
passed, he has opened for you the prison
cells wherein he blandly invites you '.to
drag out your miserable lives, you will With
pride remember the Old. Roman proyerb,
''d'xe decoTxas ct patrta MORT; aud in
proving upon the 9text you viii oxclaim,
1T is sweet q die for. variety sake.,' !
This, then, is Judge Douglas philoso-
ply Of government; not IN idea OCCASION
ally dropped In q speech, but the great
original conception. This shallow, niddicu-
LOUIS, childish nonsense IS what, he, emphat-
ically proclaims to be the Fundamental doc
trine Of his whole political wisdon,!f Oh,
douglas Democrats, how proud you must
feel Of your greatest statesman alive! -
Permit me to offer you, in the name Of the
= Republican party, our siucerest congratu-
DOUGLAS "a ARRA1aNHD BEFORE rnE
. COUNTRY. .:.r T>.,: 80
If you look over the list Of those men
who, since the organization of the Repub-
lie, have been deemed worthy Of q vote for
the presidency, you will End not one among
them who has laid more insidious schemes
to subvcrt the principles Of the Constitu-
= ton; who did more to debauch tie con-
sciences Of the people, more to bring Amer
!can Craftsmanship into contempt than he.
No, l will not wrong Judge Douglas; there
was one-I mean Aaron Burrs He was a
n,vrc dangerous man, for. he united de-
PRAYED heart, and = far superior under
standing. s~., 49,.
But, as to Judge Douglas, here I stand
before tho great jury of the sovereign peo-
pic, and bring my bills of indictment.
l arrai4n him for having changed bis
position in regard to the Missouri restric-.
ton, time and again, accord ng to the in
terests OF Slavery. s'~E:@t nu.a III ,,..',s .
I arraien him for havirgSbroken that
plighted faith Of the people, by The repea.s
Of the compromise Of 1920. ...-~e x.',s
! arraign him for having upheld the
most atrocious violations. of the ballot box.
Is for having trampled uponsthss most ga.
cred rights Of the people OF Kansas, so long
IS the struggle between Freedom and Sla:
very was doubtful. -n.-> ;ps~,. - ; =
l arraign him for having committed a.
fraud upon the people BY forging and adul-
terating the principle Of popular sovereign
ty, and making it. the machine of Slavery
propagandism. 3 J u 2aol j.: T.: >. 49, .
arrign him for having repeatedly
made the attempt to disturb the system Of
constitutional checks and balances, by pla-
cling the war-naking power in the hands
Of the President. 49,, .4crxl>. I! q
/ arraign him; for having attempted by
his conspiracies, at; things more outrageous
than the Sedition Law Of 1898, to put the
; liberties Of speech and press at the mercy
ola political inquisition; and to make the
judicial persecution Of opinions a standard
SYSTEM OF policy. =, .,. .' . t .<, -.
-. I arraign him, lastly, for having attemp-
ted to pass of upon the people the doctrine
Of political philosophy, which is an insult
< to the popular understanding No, I beg
your pardon, do not arrrsign him for that,
Tor this is free country where everybody
. has right to make himself as ridiculous
as he p|eases, "subjcct only to the consti-
tuition Of the United States ILoud
laughter And yet I arraign him for that
also. tor protest that he he has no right
to make tho Republic ridiculous with nin,-
SELF 49,: 80 y '':... @~'-. : ..--.s'
Here is the charge. It is for the people
DOUGLAS AS A. CANDIDATE FOR: THE
PRESIDENCY. .....t :
Gentlemen, will you have patience
enough to listen to few remarks about
Douglas, ''thc presidential candidate?''-
Well, after these exploits he thought he
was fit to be Democratic candidate for
the Presidency, and so his name went be-
fore the Charleston Convention. But wor-
derful to tell, the whole. Southern Democ-
sacy seemed TO he against him; and hon.
cstly declare I think the slave power did
wrong. 1t might have found more alb
ject and less cxacting tool, but it could
hardly expect to find; a more, daring, reck-
less, aud unserupulous one. What was the
reason of their oppositiou? Was it the
Constitutional bubbles about which they
had been contending?>. The whole differ
cnee was merely imaginary. Was it that
the shareholders thought a man who had
betrayed bis own section Of the country
could not be relied upon in his promises to
be faithful to another? That was more
honorable than judieious 10 the slave power
governed by such feeling No, l think
Sha fv,,o ,,ooaon v;dolx, d;fEors from, III. .,,A