The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-10-04
Norm Again!


again" He now takes pleasure in eulogis
ing those men, whom, formerly, he oaly de-
lighted to villify.
Are you satisfied that Mr.. Douglas is a
genuine convert, and, if not, why do you
support him?
The Kentucky statesman, Henry Clay,
was the man against whom Mr.. Douglas
took special delight in venting his spleen. In
his speech at Carrolton, in 1914, Mr.. Doug
las said: 81 denounced him (Clay) in the
Congress Of the United States, and now
denounce him as trait0r-dn old black
hearted traitor-thc first American states
man who ever attempted TO sell lis country
for British gold'
Judge Woodson Of Illinois, the Wing can
didatc for Congress for the Sixth District, in
1874, and Mr.. Douglas opponent bears tcs-
timony to the manner in which Mr.. Douglas,
during that canvass, used to speak of Mr..
Clay, as follows:
at WAS HIS HABIT TO DENOUNCE
MR. CLAY for the part he took as Secretary
Of State under Mr.. Adams in the effort made
during that Administration 10 settle the dis
puted boundary between the United States
and Great Britain. | must in candor say
that I Do RECOLLECT THAT JUDGE
/ DOUGLAS USED, on that or some other
occasion during the canvass, SUBSTAN-
:, TALLY THE LANGUAGE ATTRIBU-
TED TO HIM in the first part of the para
graph first referred to-HE DENOUNCED
MR.. ChAY AS A TRAITOR TO HIS
COUNTRY, and as the only American states
man that had ever been willing to yield up
any of our territory on the Pacific, to which
be insisted we had perfect right, to Great
Britain. In my feeble manner | attempted
to vindcate the Wing party, and upset
the aspersons then so freely used by their
oponents against them, and particularly their
great chief and leader, Mr. Clay. | WAS
DEEPLY IMPRESSED AT THE TINE
WITH THE BITTERNESS OF THE AS
SAULT UPON MR. CLAY"
In further confederation ofthis testimony,
we quote from letter, written by w. c..
Morrau, Of Shclbyville, Ind. Mr.. Morrau
says:
"In 1853, was engaged in canvassing a
poitlCii VI liiitolS lOI MI. IlilCOlll, anu,
among other appointments. was posted to
speak at Jacksonville, beautiful city in
Morgan county. As Mr.. Douglas was, dur
ing the entire canvass, making every effort
in his power to win the old Wing vote to his
support, our friends in Jacksonville desired
me to remind this class of persons that. some
years before, Mr.. Douglas in speech from
the same stand on which was to speak that
night, had denounced Mr.. Clay in the most
venomous terms the Biingsgate vocabulary
could afford-AS A BLACK HEARTED
VILLAIN, TRAITOR, SCOUNDREL,
NJ U RDERER, DUELIST, GAMBLER,
BLACkLEG, AND SEDUCER Douglas
had behind him life-sized portrait Of CLAY,
THE BODY PAINTED IN DIFFERENT
COLORS, A PACK OF CARDS IN ONE
HAND AND A BIBLE IN THE OTIIEB {;
and every sentence containing an allusion to
Clay would be rounded off by turning to
the portrait, with demoniac grimace, on the
part Of Douglas.
As requested, referred to the matter in
my speech, that night, and was contradicted
at once by some one in the crowd, WHEN
AT LEAST FIFTY MEN IN THE AUDI
ENCE ROSE TO THEIR FEET AND
BORE TESTIMONY TO THE TRUTH
4 OF MY REMARKS"
The truth Of the above statement was at
first denied by Mr.. Douglas friends, but
they now, making virtue of necessity, adj
NIT that they are correct
Now turn over. In 1853, while Mr. Lin.
coin was "trotting Douglas through the
State" Of Illinois, Mr. D. in speaking of Hen
ry Clay said:
"W hen | stood beside the dcath-bed of
Mr. Clay, and heard him refer with feelings
and emotions of the deepest solcitude to the
welfare of the country, and saw that he look
ed upon the principle embodied in the great
compromise measures Of 1850, the principle
of the Nebraska bill, the doctrine of leaving
each State and Territory free to decide its in
situations for itself. as the only means by
which the peace of the country could be pre-
served and the Union perpetuated Ipledgea
him on that dedth-bed of his, that so long as
| lived, my energies should be devoted to the
vindication of that principle, and fhis fame
| gave the same pledge to the great expound-
er Of the Constitution, he who has been call.
ed the god-like Webster looked up to him
and Clay as a son would to a r''-Doug-
las speech at Bloc mington, JULY 18th, 1868.
Again: "iIenry Clay came back to the
Senate in 1S49, and saw that he must do
something to restore peace to the country.
The Union Wings and Union Democrats
welcomed him the moment he arrived, as the
man for the occasion. We believed that he,
Of all men on earth, had been preserved, by
Divine Providence, to guide US out of our
difficulties. Mr.. Douglas speech at AEton
Ill.,, Oct. 18th, 1858.
Old Line Clay Wings, what do you think
of this villainous demagogue? Will you
longer support a man, who, TO YOU, must
seem a very devil incarnate?
In his speech at Springfield, ILL.,, delivered
July 18th, 1858, Mr.. Douglas said:
81 will not recur to the scenes which took
place all over the country in 1854, when the
Nebraska Bill passed. | could then travel
from Boston to Chicago by the light of my
own efligies, in consequence of having stood
up for it."
Even granting that Mr.. Douglas tells the
truth did the people do wrong? If mob law
could ever be justified might not Douglas in
person have been justly substituted in the
place Of those effigies? What say you?
Senator Pugh calls Abraham Lincoln "a
tenth rate lawyer and stump speaker" Mr..
Pugh's candidate, Judge Douglas, passes and
Justly, as a very able man, but, if "a tenth