Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03
Mir Douglas as Whipper.in for Lin.
 cOln

lore the people ot the South m new } rae-that of Lincoln's whipper.in. = ,. During his recent electioneering tour in | Virginia, heinformed the people that he , would aid the President against any sece-
 ding State. The Democracy of the South
 taught in the school of Jefferson and
 Madison, and accepting the resolutions ol
 '9S and '99 as their creed, believe in the
 right of State to secede, and that a
 State is to be the judge of the cause of se-
 cession. But Douglas, Haskin and the
 eighteen millions of the North think diff
 ierently. We have only to say to MT.
 Douglas that whenever he undertakes to
 co-erce as Lincoln's Lieutenant, the soy.
 ereign States of the South, ,the gallows of
 John Brown will be re-erecled, and he
 may find himself pendant therelrom. John Brown, says the Richmond En.
 quirer, begun the co,ercing process which
 MT. Douglas is 10 perfect under the Pres
 idency of Lincoln, and the people of Vir- |
 ginia have not forgot their handiwork in
 his execution. This doctrine of co-ercing sovereign States, though old and familiar al the North, Is new and unaccustomed ts the people of the South. The elder Floyd
 when Governor of Virginia, caused Gen. Jackson to know that Federal troops should not cross her borders except over the dead bodies of her sons. A similar spirit still anmates the people of the South, and MT. Douglas will find this new rule one of no little difficulty.
 MT. Douglas has fully and fairly, and we may say boldly and defantly procaim- ed his purpose. His own election he sees to be impossible. He knows he will not receive the electoral vote of single State. He has stumped New England and New York, not against the dominant and powerful party in these States. Against the Republican party he uttered no word of objection; but against his late associates of the Democratic party he leveled all the invectives which disappointment and Echagrin could invent. He came South to create divisions and discord, to break up the unity of the South; her only hope against the aggressions of the North. His speeches and candidacy are help to Lincoln, and he is the most efficient aid to Black Republication they could have selected. The future .Atd .de-canap of Lincoln has demonstrated the truth of| the remark that /" Squalter Sovereignty is a short cut to Black Repubhcanism."
 As a fitting rebuke to this infamous avowal of Mir Douglas, we present tol our readers the following protest, signed at the Virginia White Sulphur Springs by number of eminent citizens of the South, accidently assembled at that place
 "ApRoTEsr.
 The undersigned, citizens of the Southern States, accidently assembled at the White Sulphur Springs, have read with much sur prise the speech of Judge Douglas, recently | delivered at Norfolk, and being many of them too remote from their homes to take part in any public expression of opinion there, deem It due to themselves to make known in this manner their dissent from its doctrines.
 In this address, Mr. Douglas declares that | if the Southern States (not part but alp | shall secede from the Union, upon the inaugu- ration of Abraham Lincoln. it will be the duty of the President of the United States, who, in the case supposed, will be Lincoln, by arms to punish or subdue them, and that he will counsel him to do so and aid him to do so by all the means in his power.
 Now as there is large party at the North ayowing the most ilnplacable hostility to the institutions of the South whose candidate for the Presidency is MT. Lincoln, this decla- ration of MT. Douglas Is in eifectthat the election of man to the Presidency of the U. States, by the votes alone of one section, who Is pledged to use all the powers of the Govern ment for the destruction of the rights and property of the other section, would not jus 'ify the weaker in resistence but that if in such an event, the fifteen Southern States should assume to determine on the extent of their danger, and to quietly withdraw from it, he should regard their action as revolt, and as such to be punished with all the force of the Government Than this we can conceive of no doctrine more dangerous to the South. It confounds resistance to established law, by individuals which it would be the duty of the Chief Magistrate to punish, with the peace- able Secession of States from a compact no longer consistent with the interest or existence of it's constituents; but it treats the Union as a perpetual bond, exacting unconditional sub mission, forever, from weaker 10 stronger section. It strips the States of the chief at- tribute of sovereignty, to-wit: The right to determine when their existence is put to haz- 2 ard, as to the means necessary to their preser- yation, and afflIms that, while it is legitimate in the people of the North having control of q the General Government, through it, to infiet nron the States of the South whatever wrongs ? it may be consistent with their interest or feelings to impose, it would be treason in the people of the South to obey the orders of their States in opposition to Federal author ity. a
 Fraught with error as this doctrine IS, sub < . versiye of thatconstitutional theory, in which alone the rights of the States are to be found, 1t has, at this moment, and under the eiFeuln- a stances, bloody significance. The enemies ! of the South, in the Northern States, have se- i; lected Abraham Lincoln to lead them in the ' '' irrepressibe conflict" which he has pro- ! claimed. MT. Seward, the most distinguished counselor of Mir Lincoln, declares at Boston that the election of Lincoln Is sure-lhat with it the power of slavery will end, and that the "iIrepTessible conflicts will be