Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-05-29
BENJAMIN on Douglas,

Washington correspondent makes the fol-
lowing notice of the speech recently delivered in
the United States Senate by Mr.. Benjamin, OF
louisiana: dA
The ablest, dearest, and most forcible speech
yet made against Mr.. Douglas, his doctrine and
position, was delivered by Mr.. Benjamin in the
Senate to-day Uuesday.) 1t was free from all
violence, and therefore the more effective
Every proposition was fairly stated, fortified
by fact, and worked to common conclusion,
which put Mr. Douglas in open rebellion to his
party, and in direct antagonism to the princi-
Piles he had heretofore avowed. He announced
one extraordinary fact, which, though we'll
known before, had never been frankly admitted.
Both wings Of the Democracy agreed in 9
cancns of the Senate in 1867 that each should
maintain its particular theory before the public
One side sustaining Squatter Sovereignty, and
the other, protection to slavery in the Terrific
ries, but pledging themselves to abide by the
decision of the Supreme Court, whateye7 it
might he.
This Is the manner in which the people
North and South have been deceived into the
support of the Democracy, by promulgating
doctrines adapted to both, and yet hlloestlle to
each other.
Mr.. Benjamin proved by the record what
question they agreed to submit to the Court,
and how it had been decided, reading from the
opinion of Justice fancy to sustain HE argu-
lpent. He said that, up to 1857, be had always
regarded Mr.. Douglas as one of those Democrats
North who were entitled to the favor and atfec-
tion of the South, and he had so commended him
to the people OF Louisiana. Since then, he had
wandered off, and no longer deserved the con-
fidence which had been reposed in him, and was
I'D = o f.,ra
In reviewing the position of Messrs. Lincoln
and Douglas 10 the Illinois canvass, he said the
former had consistently and manfullv maintained
the principle which he had then asserted, and
was rewarded by his present distinction; while
Mr. Douglas lad deserted hia and had been a.
bandoned. In this connection he admitted that,
after careful examination of Mr. Lincoln s
speeches, he was constrained to regard him as
far more conservative than he had been repre-
sented to be.
One of the most effective points of this speech
was a comparison of extracts from Mr.. Lincolns
speeches with citations from Mr.. Douglas arti-
Gle in Harper's Magazine, to demonstrate that
the latter had used the arguments and language
of the former to vindicate his own position and
justify himself with the South
Nothing so effective has been witnessed for q
long time and Mr.. Douglass presence was alone
wanting to make it overwhelming.
Mr.. Eugh replied sharply, saying that Mr..
Douglass friends would stand by him at Balti-
more till the 4th of March next, if necessary,
and that the Southern delegates who seeded
had no right to return. This ard other demon
STATIONS render Mr. Douglass nomination at
Baltimore almost impossible, or yaaelleas i az
somplshed by bogus delegates from the South.
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina
and the States which did secede, can never &C.
cept him in the presence Of this opposition, and
his recent declaration against the compromise
resolution they proposed while those who with
drew will run a Southern candidate if he be
forced by any combination