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

ielaborats xe6osts Of bio liz, b. made III,
following statements; and Douglas Demo.
e1ats ! claim your special a't*ntion.--
Listen ~ - ~ - go go sa'z'so's es+'
- 1T is . part Of The history e this eoun.
try, that under this doctrines Of non inter.
vention-this doctrine that you ere plessed
TO call Squatter Sovereigntv--the PEOPLE
lof New Mexico have introduced, and pro
teeted Slavery into the whole Of that; Ter.
|r;tory, under the doctrine they! have con.
, verted q tract Of Free Territory into Slave
Territory, more than Eve times the size of
the State Of New York. ~ Under this doc
trine Slavery has been extended not only
up 10 $50 30, but up to 88e, giving you !
degree and : half more of Slave Territory
than you ever claimed. '.% ~ '-'..s'
sn - -. sWhateyer inch Of free ter
ritory has been converted in slave territory
on the American continent since the Rev
olution, except in New Mexico and Vir-
9inia, under the principle Of inen-interven-
ton affirmed At sCharleston2a Fit be true
that this principle Of n.intervention hi.
protected Slavery in that comparatively
Northern and cold region, where >oa did
not expect 1t to 60, cannot you trust the
same principle further South, when, sou
come to acquire additional Territory from
Mexico? Will not the same principle
protect in the Northern States Of Mexico
when they are acquired, since they are now
surrounded by Slave Territory?'' .....,.
g Oh, Douglas men, hat a lesson is this
Did You not tell rs that when the Nebras-
Ia bill was enacted, that this law was the
most efficient way Of introducing free labor
intothe Territories |? Have you not most
solemnly assured us every day since 1854,
that the principle of Popular Sovereignty
Is exponndcd By Mr: Douglas, wouu; d most
certainly save al the territories from the
grasp OF slavery1 And now .lcok there =
Your. own paster and prophet, acknowl-
T edges and boasts Of it that this same prin-
ciple gave to Slavery ,nc and one half de-
xrees OF latitude more than it ever claimed,
and that since the organization Of tie
American Republic not square foot Of
free Territory vas ever converted into
slave Territory, but BY the same measure
"u.VA W represented ~ ~ 40 IAS cal
est, most reliable engine Of free labor! Your
own master and prophet tells you in your
own faces, and in the face Of all mankind
and in the face of posterity, that you have
been lying most. atrociously-lyings every
day for the last six years This was 4un-
kind it; not, Douglasites from the
-s::i 800: 49, Ia 80. .,..,; d
+. No; am not joking. It. was terribly
unkiad. snAll he said was most certainly,
most undoubtedly, most uncontroveftably
true; but ]. declare that if he had the least
regard for the feelings Of his friends the
least sympathy for them in: their awkward
endorsements he ought to have been
the last on earth to make that statement.
Did be know that you had supported him
and, made friends for him on the false
pretence that his great principle worked
the extension of Slavery from the Yer:i-
tories? Did he not know that you had
pledged your honor-had staked your
character, for truth and yerscity upon that
pretense? He knew it we'll. He had en-
couraged you ii doing so; and, after you
have compromised yourself for him, day
after day, in the eyes Of the whole world,
he turns and gives you nost: uncerimopi-
ously the lie. Oh that was ungenerous!-
II was mean-vcry mean-unspeakably
mean. If your self.sacrifcing friendship
had awakened the least echo. in the heart,
he ought to have been the. last man TO- do
50. But, the heart seems to be 80 filed
with caloused sel6shness- destitute OF
the generous impulses Of human nature:
that it. bis friends like Broderick, die for
him, he coldly disowns them; aud if they
lie for him, he promptly puts them to
shame. And for what? For the purpose
Of retrieving the lost favor Of the South ;
regaining the Lost smiles; of;:the Slave
Power, to be sacrificed to them. f., Was that
the reward you had deserved at his
hands e. 4".5 $. : I'D 'sa: ~" >n'''' i :
j., =. Look at it again. See, he stands before
the STAKEHOLDER in the Senate Of the United
States, busy bargaining aw.y your honor
| for their tavors. 44'',Vho has ever served
you more faithfully than I with my great
priuc,pls?" he asks the n. "Why not let
my friends in the Moth preach up that
principle a. the pioneer of Freedom ?yoThe
fools, perhaps, believing in what they sly,
but We know better. Do you rot see the
result T.: Why not permit me the innocent
joke Of bamboozling the people ofths North
into believing that IA the great champion
Of Freedom?" y All, Douglas men, what a
sight IS this! He has prostituted you, and
nov proclaims your disgrace How do you
like the attitude in which he has placed
you? eTqllow do you like the pillory to
which, with bis own han i, he inailed your
ears! And you are willing 70 stand there
stand there quietly in the eyes Of man
kinl!y DO sou not sometimes hear u,
|satnest voice within You, speaking'sof Z
eH-fapect and the natural dignity of man!
poaa 4 never tell you I that the. ttairest