Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-06-08
Douglas and tlae solifh.

DOuSlaS ana the south.
The..Scriptures warn us to take heed TO oar.
selves when all men speak weil-of us. md
the friends of Mr.. DoualAs NAV. th. refoye
be excused for the strength Of the fai,h
which they evidently .repose in the star OF
their leader If to be yillfed is to be recon-.
mended to the protection of the higher now.
ers, the Senator from Illinois is iecidedl,
in the way of victory. A oetter-abused
man has not recently been known in our
public affairs. The fana les of New Eue.
land and the secessionists of the Gulf States.
agreeing in nothing else, agree in denounc1
ing the champion Of Popular Sovereignty,
At one of the Anti-Slavery meetings Which
took place in this City last week, Mr.. G.R.
RIsoN held up Mr.. DoUaLAs' bill for the
punishment OF conspiracy in one State against
the peace and rights Of other States. as the
last and most develish invea ton of Ameri.
can despotism. He called upon bis follow.
ers to meet this issue presented by the West.
ern Senator, in defence of Southern wicked.
ness and was Instantly answered by an en-.
thusiasitic female disciple, who leapsd up
in the aisle and cried out that if ''GARR,soy
would get bundle of JOHN BRowN's pikes.
she would help him cram them down Mr..
DOUGLAS throat, by way we suppose, Of
yndicatiDg that freedom Of speech which
Northern Abolitionism 50 vehemently de-
mands for every body who agrees with its
own notions. Almost at the same time Mr..
DAVIS of Mississippi, was setting forth in
the Senate the disloyalty Of Mr.. DOUGLAS.
in refusing the South its natural right Of
going wherever it liked and carrying tho
United States army with it. All that Mr..
YANcEY had said before Charleston to per.
suade the slavehoiding States that their on
ly safety lay in pursuing policy which
must lead them to choose between defeat in
the Union and civil war out of it, Mr.. DA-
Wis repeated at Washington, and so elected
the lllinoisian Senator from the South pre-.
cisely as Mr.. GARRISON had before cut him
Oft from the North. and if MIR. DAVIS and
MIR. YANcEY really represent the South. Mr..
DOUGLAS certainly occupies very lonely
snd lamentable position.
Upon this point, however, the Democratic
delegates who rallied around the standard
of popular sovereignty at Charleston till
they had succeeded in hope!essly disorg.n-
izlhg It's opponents. seemed to have enter.
tanned some serious doubts That Mr..
DOUGLAS himself shares their sceptieism his
speech yesterday. delivered in the Senate.
pretty plainly proves. In his speech, one
OF the most sharp. pointed clear and posi-.
tive in tone which the energetic Little Ci-
ant has ever delivered. Mr. DouoLAs dis
t'nctly declines to be consi .ered 40 q least
away, either by the North or by the South.
He disciplnes the ''Secessionists," With
twigs cut i'll tl.eir own copses aud arrays
formidable battery Of Southern speeches,
and resolutions. Of popular proclamntions
and legislative acts, to prove that the South
and the whole South, deliberately accepted
IN the person of Gen. CAss, aud in the plat
form upon which that statesman presented
himself as candidate for the Presidency,
those very doctrines of popular sovereignty,
for maintaining which nov as he maintain
ed them then, Mr.. DoUGLAs is charged With
treason to the South and to the Democracy.
The authorship Of these doctrines, as prao-
ticaliy applied in politics, IL firmly fixed by
DOUGLAS upon Gen CAss aud whether the
Democracy shall or shall not choose to con,-
pound its quarrels at Baltimore. i, will be
difficult IN the face of this speech for the
most exasperated Of disappointed partisans
to pretend that the disruption OF 1.-The par
ty' is to be charged to the account of the
Senator from Illinois. ---..u
MIR. DouaLAs might have traced his great
principle of Territorial policy, at least in
theory, to source more strictly Southern
and not less statesmanike than the brain of
MIR. BucHANANs Secretary of State. Ed
WARD LIVINGSTON. Of Louisiana, the pro-
foundesr jurist whom this country has vet
produced, pronounced this principle an ia
eyltable result in our political practice 81
the acquisition of Louisiana, more than for.
ty years ago. The progress of events has
vindicated the sagacity of the great lawyer,
and it is something more than astonishing
that Southern men should now be blind to
the fact that in the present condition Of our
country, they have absolutely no alternative
left them but between hostile legislation by
Congress over the Territories aud the arb.-
trament of the unfettered popular will in
those Territories upon Slavery, in common
with all other social institutions.
The Louisville Democrat, in an article
which we yesterday quoted, declares tn &
all Southern men are by no means blind 10
this fact. 1t rebukes the Charleston Ss-
cessionists" as delegates who wen. to tho
Convention, mot to make. but to defeat
y and AYERS that the people Of
the south are not prepared to call upon
Congress to give protection to specific
when il cannot and will not
How far the Louisville Democrat speaks for
the Southern people. we shall soon b. sbls
learn. 1t is sufficiently plain from Mr..
DOUGLAS speech of yesterday that neither
he nor his friends propose to recede an inch
from the position which they maintained .t
Charleston ~ Y Times.
E<T The Hon. Edward Everett in his let
ter to the Hon. Washington Hunt. accep-
ting the Union nomnstion for the Vice
Presidency, which was read at the Boston