The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-06-01
The Metropolitan Press ON Douglas
Great Speech.

The speech of Judge Douglas eDgrosses
the entire conversation of the politicians.
Many of his most bitter opponents regard it
as unanswerable, and not few have come
out openly in his favor, among whom may
be classed Judge Terry of Maryland and Jer-
ry Clemens of Tennessee. 1t was undoubt-
eddy the greatest speech of his life, and the
general impression is that it will make him
the next President. His feeling illusions
to Clay and Crittenden brought down
rounds of applause from the galleries, and
the presiding officer was obliged to an.
nounce that if repeated he would order the
galleries to be cleared. His denunciation
OF Yancey and disunion was especially severe
and is regarded as fully justifable.
Douglas friends consider his vindication
OF popular sovereignty perfect, and his ex>
pose of the secessionists annihilating.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Mr. Douglas speech is reckoned uncom-
monty good. 1t was insolent and more
compact and forcible than usual He stood
up to his position, and was bold and defiant
and aggravating toward the seceders.
He was very emphatic in claiming for
himself and his supporters that they were
the Democratic party, and all others were
boilers. He claimed the position and hon.
ors of conqueror on holly contested field
and demanded submission from the defeated.
1t was speech calculated to widen the
existing breach in the Democratic party,
and was evidently designed to hold his fol.
lowers in the coming Baltimore convention
closely up to their work. 1t produced an
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From the Evening Post.
Mr.. Douglas speech is regarded by his
friends as the most able and overwhelming
one of his life. The intense feeling of the
people in the quarrel which came to head
at Charleston is evidenced by the immense
crowd of people who came together yester-
day morning long before Mr.. Douglas rose
to speak. 1t is the same to-day. The tre-
mendous force of the argument yesterday
which was to show that the southern democ-
rocy have for years been fully committed to
the non-intervention doctrine created much
confusion among the southern senator's.
Jefferson Davis was cross, and disliked the
broadside poured upon him. Clingman, of
North Carolina, seemed full of delight at
the argument, while Toombs seemed to feel
no particular interest in the debate, one way
Or the other. 1t is useless for the south to
deny that the point which MIR. Douglas
makes tells against them. All they can do
is to admit that they have found out popu-
lar sovereignty is a humbug, and that they
are going to quit the delusion. The less
they say about consistency the better.
From tine N. Y. Times.
The Scripture warn US to take heed to
ourselves when all men speak we'll of US !;
and the friends of Mr.. Douglas may, there
fore, be excused for the strength of the faith
which they evidently repose in the star Of
their leader. 1t to be vilifed is to be re-
commended to the protection of the higher
powers, the Senator of Illinois is decidedly
in the way of victory. A better abused
man has not recently been known in our
public affairs. The fanatics of New Eng
land and the secessonists OF the Gulf States
agreeing in nothing else, agree in denounc.
ing the champion of Popular Sovereignty.
At one of the anti-slavery meetings which
took place in this city last week, Mr.. Gar
risen held up Mr.. Douglas bill for the pun>
ishment of conspiracy in one State against
the peace and rights of other States, as the
last and most devilish invention of Ameri.
can despotism. He called upon his follow
ers to meet this issue presented by the
Western Senator, in defence of Southern
wickedness and was instantly answered by
an enthusiastic female disciple, who leaped
up in the aisle and cried out that if Gear
rison would get bundle of John Browns
pixies, she would help him cram them down
Mr.. Douglas throat" by way, we suppose,
of indicating that freedom of speech which
Northern Abolitionism so vehemently de-
mands for everybody who agrees with its
own bottoms. 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 the United
States army with it. All that Mr.. Yancey
had said at Charleston to persuade the
slaveholding States that their only safety
lay in pursuing policy which must lead
them to choose between defeat in the Union
and civil war out of it, Mr.. Davis reported
at Washington, and so elected the Illnoisian
Senator from the South precisely as Mr..
Garrison had before cut him off from the
North. If Mr. Garrison, therefore, really
represents the North, and if Mr.. Davis
and Mr.. Yancey really represent the South,
Mr.. Douglas certainly occupies very lone
ly and lamentable position.
Upon this point, however, the Democratic
delegates who rallied around the standard of
popular sovereignty at Charleston till they
had succeeded in hopelessly disorganizing its
opponents, seem to have entertained some
serious doubts. That Mr.. Douglas himself
shares their scepticism his speech yesterday,
delivered in the Senate, pretty plainly proves.
In this speech, one of the most sharp, pointed,
clear and positive in tone which the energetic
"Little Giant" has ever delivered. Mr..
Douglas distinctly declines to be considered
as a +" cast away" either by the North or
by the South. He disciplines the "Seces-
sionists," with twigs cut in their own copses;
and arrays formidable battery of Southern
speeches, and resolutions, of popular procla
nations and legislative acts, to prove that
the South, and the whole South, deliberately
accepted in the person of Gen. Cass, and in
the platform upon which that statesman
presented himself as a candidate for the
Presidency, those very doctrines of popular
sovereignty, for maintaining which now as
be maintained them then, Mr.. Douglas is
charged with treason to the South and to
the Democracy. The authorship of these
doctrines as practically appled in politics,