Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-03-31
[From the NO. Courier.
Trouble in the Douglas Camp.

cCCultSd w uiStulD Tue serenity Ot tiicli
tempers. Perhaps it is the crushing
logic Of Curry Of Alabama, who, by his
recent mastery speech in the United
States House of Representatives, has
proven his right to be ranked among the
very irstof American orators and states
men. But we arc inclined to- believe
that the partizans Of MI. Douglas are
less troubled at the eloquent and uni
vcrsally commended effort of Mr.. Curry
than at the veay inconslccrate and un-
~seasonable disclosures Of the "vaga-
bond" Kellogg, Of Illinois. This latter
gentleman has made q clean breast of it.
He has told us Of a grand pow-wow,
which took place last summer between
sundry Of lis fellow ~vagabonds from the
Abolition ranks and other yagabonds
from the Squatter Sovereignty clique
how they put their wise heads together
and chalked out u nice little programme
for the future regulation of the affairs of
the country-how things went on swim
mingly for a time, the Abolitionists per-
forming their part Of the contract with
the zeal that usually marks their V
mcnts, when directed to the overthrow
of the Democratic party-how, when it
came to the turn Of the Squatter Sover-
eigns to rcciprocate the friendly Offices
Of their faithful! allies, the Squatter-Sov-
ereign-in-Ch Chief coolly told them he was
not yet rcady-and lastly, how this un-
seemly delay had given rise to a great
deal of just Indignation on the part of
Mr.. Kellogg's friends, as well as to these
pleasant revelations on the part of Mr..
Kellogg himself.
Uuquestionably it was very naughty in
Mr.. Kellogg to have told these ugly
tales-particularly at this time. He
should, at least, have waited for the &C
ton of the Charleston Convention. It
was unreasonable in him to have ex-
pectcd Mr.. Douglas to come out openly
against the great Democratic party,
while the faintest hope remained that he
might become it's chosen leader. And
had Mr.. Douglas miraculousIy succeeded
in engineering himself into the White
House through the %judicious silence of
his Black Republican friends, who knows
but that the very first man singled out
for some. distinguished mark of execu-
tive consideration might have been the
Honorable Mr.. Kellogg? He might have
rejoiced for four years in the dignities
and emolumcnts that hedge around the
post Of a cabinet officer; or, at least, he
would have been complimented with one
Of those fat foreign missions, which am
bilious NJ. C.,s, whose terms are about
to expire, arewont to regard with SO ar
dent a longing.
But Mr.. Kellogg is a d~isinterested
man. He is, in fact, a kind Of Black
Republican Curtius. not having hest
tated a moment to sacrifice his own po-
~litical life toswhat he deemed the well
fare Of his party. He may have acted
rasllly-perhaps foolishly; but there is
method in his madness. By his reso-
lutte exposure Of the harmless little Co
quetries that have been so long going
on between Mr.. Douglas and Greeley,
Wilson 4 Co., he has cut off the last
hope of the = Little Giant Of Illinois
ever regaining the confidence Of the
Democratic party.
1t is the full consciousness of this fact
that has produced the present commo-
ton among the Southern Douglasites.
They howl most piteously over the very
portions Of Kelloggg's speech which, in
the opinion 0 other people, combine in
in the highesgdegree entertainment and
information. They grow obstreperous
at the very mention Of Kellogg. In the
rawlings of their frenzy they forget their
manners, and call the good old Demo
Gratis who happen tosdissent from them,
by strange names. Their former inge-
NOUS, lively and complacent Boosting
has simmered down to a m%onotonous and
systematic Drag. Before the election Of
the various State delegations to the
Charleston Convention, the Douglas pa
pers were in the habit Of exercising
their prescience in preparing elaborate
numerical tables, showing thaes the nom
ination of their favoritez was a matter
that could not be avoided in the nature
OF things, and that therefore the hubbub
and balloting at Charleston would be a {
mere matter OF form. Since the election
OF delegates we hear no more of figures,
which are sometimes dangerous things
to handle. Arithmetic has been abruptly
abandoned, and the Muse is invoked as
a last resort. A modern Sappho has I
lnnocently supplied the strain, and now, t
VERY much on the principle according {
to which boys whistle in the dark, the t
Douglasites are Justify shouting, in a S
chorus of mutual comfort: {
douglas! Douglas gallant and trueln t
a. 8F a. Ii
sa~The Deta, in its review of g What !
the morning journals say" has the foil :