The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-08-18
MIR. DOUGLAS ON THE STUMP.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS ON THE SUBJECT

ing in travelling about the country, pro.
Ifessedly for the benefit of bis health yet, on
all occasions addressing the crowds that
gather around his hotel wherever be halts,
is the subjects of much attention and COM
ment both North and South. None of the
/, remarks we have seen appear to be dictated
by an unfair or partizan spirit though elici-
ted of course from those who oppose him.
The st. Louis Democrat, West, says:-
"Nothing marks the degeneraey of the
Democratic party more clearly than the
means resOrted to by Douglas for advancing
his prospects lie is the first Presidential
candidate who has mounted the stump to ad-
vocate his own election. Hitherto such can,
didates have maintained decent silence
from the moment of whiting their letters of
acceptance to the close of the canvass. Any
deviation from this rule has been the subject
of denunciatory criticism and of public Gems
sure, Witness the obloquy which was heap,
ed on Gen. Scott because he visited Ken
lucky in 1852, altogether public business
connected with the military department OBJ
rfged him to make that visit But Mr.. Doug
las, nader one pretext or another, is vaga
bondizing>all over New England and New
York, and availing himself of every halt at
a railroad depot to make stump speech, in
which he Whites the Republican party almost
as much as the party. which is headed by
Breckenridge. Under every circumstance be
is faithful to the character of demgogue.
He carries the tactics of the vulgar, third
class politician into the struggle for the
highest office in the gift of the people.
" hat falling off this is from the standard
of other days when the rule was that the of
fee should seek the man, not the man the
office p
The Charleston News, South, says:
"Mr Douglas has not hesitated to take the
stump in his own behalf. The practice is
unusual for Presidential candidates. But
he thinks he can explain squatter sovereignty
better than any one elsej and as it is one
of the schemes for excluding slavery from
the territories, he has properly taken the
North as his field for canvassiug Finding
that he has failed to deceive the South, and
that her electoral vote will be unanimous
against him, be has gone, as we predicted, to
contest with Lincoln the section Of abolition
and free soilism. He has pluck and brass,
and will not consent to lose the prize, if dar
ing can win it. He has penetrated into
New Fog land and vauntingly exhibited his
patent as superior to the Wilmot proviso.
He exhoyts, also the State of New York.
Confident of the Northwest lin which be is
Somewhat mistaken, as be was in the South, VI
the little giant now boldly strikes the shield
of the black republican Titan in his STRONG,
holds"
The Pittsburgh journal, West, says :
"In olden times Presidential candidate
would have been eonsid, red dsgraced, who
mounted the stuMp Or his own behalS. But
things 'arn't now as used to was Douglas.
who has ventilated popular sovereignty fifty
times in the Senate and five hundred time,
on the stump, has now cut it down to fit
tcen minntcs,and rehearscs it on all occasions
llis Astronomical vice has been making some
and attempting more speeches. John Bell
made some speeches, bur did not vcntiate
his own claims. Edward Everett, on the
4th ult, pitched into the English, but that
is excnsablc on Independence day. Lincoln
and llamlin alone have neither spoken
stump speeches nor written letters"
The Boston Atlas and Bee, North, says
"Thcre is no reason why be may noS rra7
el even if he is candidate. 1t is the VA.
cant seat in the Senate last winter, and the
esWse His lungs may be langald, AID his
blood may have become sEagglish uuder
soathern skies, and it Is we'll for him to
take draft of air from the sea and the
mountains. Having said thus much con-
gratulatory to the public and TO the Senator
upon his itnerations, our congratulations
must end. Possibly there are some com
ments appl oprate to the attitude in which
these itinerationS place him. We all recol,
lect that when General Scott was out West
locating The hospitals, the Democratic news,
papers fidieule him as travelling candidate
And there may be question as to the taste
and pFopriety of the proceeding. But the
gravest point is the character of the speeches
which Mr.. Douglas delivers. He made
hit at Cambridge, we believe, but on that
sacred bafceny of the Revere House, at
Charlestown, at Worcester and other places,
his speeches were very commonplace. There
was nothing in them to stir the blood and
rouse his friends to enthusiasm, but on the
other hand they were loose rehashes of Sen.
atorial harangues-often irrelevant, some
times vague, and generally superficial The
more he delivers of them the weaker he
is"
We might make column after column of
like tracts, but the foregoing sufficiently
show the sentiment of the press in all Sec
tions of the country as to the propriety of
the course Mr.. Douglas seems to have mark
ed out for bimselfin the conduct of the i'm
pending contest.
HINTS AS TO POLITICAL MEETINGS.