The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-12-12
Spuey Letter Supposed 60 have been Written
ca the Mother Of Douglas.

The Bloomington Pantagreph publishes the
ioIo~ins letter, supposed TO have been sent to
Douglass mother by his special reporter and cor.
respondent:
MONI6OnERY, Ala, Nov 10.
DEAR MADAM: have not telegraphed to YOU
since your son left the North in disgust, The
great and decisive election day mas passed, and
the returns show that every State he visited in
bis electiOneering tour has given him tremen-
dous fire in the rear" He did not get as many
votes in those States as reported for him en-
.husastic admirers at his many meetings. He
usde hasty run through his own dear State
Illinois, and found il was lost to him and mig
gerism forever, and, in his anger, cursed them
IL Is Republicans, and then took keen scoot"
South. Aud, too-wOuld YOU think it? though
be advocated all the rights the South claimed,
carry negroes into the territories and hold
them as slaves, but few came out, and that out
Of curiosity, but they paid no attention to his
harrangue that he let off at his stopping places,
md with winks aud murmurs intimatcd to him
that he might as well go back North where they
knew he was not wanted. And when he arriv-
ed q, Montgomery, Ala, he was met with a
brisk battery Of rotten eggs, till he was yellOwed
al over, and most ignobly perfumed. He was
sufully indignant at the "pack of pro slavery
hounds" and swOre enough to do him for some
time
Several years ago in a southern tour he dis
covered that he liked niggers better than crOc.
odiles," and if il were left to him to choose, he
sould "prefer the niger all the time" In
Rhode leland last summer, he found out that he
liked clans better than niggers;" but down
here he has just made the discovery that he does
not like rotten eggs, and has concluded to come
hack North rather quietly and lay in his stock
a provisions for Salt River. We have "pre-
servsd our spirits" so there is no danger of
poiling, il We do not have too much to do with
nsten eggs.
Your son thinks the North owed him spite,
and meant to show him slight in voting agsins;
him. But tell him it N ust have been out of
kindness and desire to please him For he
told you North in his speeches, 81 say to you
Who know me, that the Presidency has no charms
iOr me-" The people took him at his word and
to accommodate, they voted against him. Like
the negro praying for death, he found he could
not say word in Jest, but that he was taken in
earnest.
We have not teleSrsphed respecting our ex-
reme Southern trip, it has been SO Notifying.
iour wandering son says he would like to know
VIA: doctrines would suit the people, for he has
TIED all that have come up since the commence
nent OF his career, and is now turned out to
rass. like Nebuchadnezzar lie has been for
te Missouri Compromise, and tore it down.
De has contended that the Constitution did not
aIow slavery to be carried into the Territories,
md yet justified the establishing of slavery in
Kansas; ne was both for and against the LIE.
COMPTON Constitution; for free trade, and pro.
set've tariff for revenue; for river and harbor
nprovements, and that the people should make
ae improvements by levying tonnage duties
e has been opposed to decisions Of the Supreme
Vosrt and now breaches entire submission to
proslavery DEGREES, he reviled Henry Clay
While living, and tried TO rob him of his mantle
WEN dead; he tried to bring about a dissolu.
acn OF the Territory Of Utah, the only place
Were his doctrine of popular sovereignty is tru.
popular and triumphant. As a mans being
seooed South has always been taken by Douglas
"a hs party as irrefragable evidence that he wa.
= !, Aoolitionist, he is now proved also to be an
leodtlonist; he is now proved also to be an Alb
~.onist BY this recent mobbing. He started to
IN 70 the White House, and the people have
"'pped him of up Salt River.