The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-20
stephen A. Douglas.-Who and What
IL He.

Among the distinguished speakers at the
Douglas meeting in Philadelphia, Saturday,
was General Dodge, Of Iowa, Ex-Governor
of that State, ex-miniater to Spain, and
chairman of the Iowa delegation in the
Baltimore Convention. In the course of
his remarks, the General says:
know that Henry Clay relied upon him
more than upon any other man, entrusted to
him the drawing up of the Compromise bills,
and called upon him when his voice became
so feeble that he could no longer fill the
Senate, to take his place and fight the battle
for the admission of California, Utah and
New Mexico, [great applause, and for the
establishment of the principle that the PEG.
pie shall be left free to shape their own
domestic institutions and control their own
destinies. Who was it that dashed Sumner,
Seward Il Co., and triumphed over them in
the great debate upon the Kansas N ebraska
bill, which established living principle by
which the matter of slavery is to be settled,
and that vexed question to be forever
banished from the halls of Congress
1t was Stephen A. Douglas. Cheers.
You all know him. A voice "And love
him." cheers.1 l knew him when he was
an honorable pioneer with his pack upon his
back. [Cheers.] 1 knew him when he
pushed the jack plane in village in Illinois.
fCheers.] I knew him as village school
master; as the Attorney General of his
State as judge upon the Supreme Court
bench, and, subsequently, when he was
elected to the lower branch of Congress and
from there to the Senate, where he is now
serving his third term. Applause.l And,
gentlemen, if the boilers and political trick
sters who are now at work to defeat the
choice of the people for the highest Office in
their gift succeed be will grow upon their
hands just as old Hickory did, when he was
defeatedfor the same position, and by the
same means in 1924. [Cheers. The familiar
name, by which he is now known among his
countrymen, is that of the Little Giant, but
if he is cheated by these Secessionists and
disunionists he will be known in the future
as the "Big Giant" before whom intriguing
politicians will fly, as from the wrath to
come. tell you, that if be ever comes down
on any of them the unfortunate man will
think he weighs more than ton. Great
applause.
If he is beaten now, his success in the
future is certain while those who oppose
the party, because be is its nominee, will be
consigned to oblivion. T" That's so," and
cheers.l The people love him because he is
true to them and maintains their rights.
They have watched with interest the perse-
cution to which he has been subjected 4;
they have seen him removed from the chair
manship of the Committee on Territories by
tyrannical majority, because of his indie
pendence, and they have seen those who
should have sustained him and strengthened
his hands, resort to every trick to disgrace
him, because they we're jealous and envious
of his hold on the popular heart. The re-
suit of these attempts is before you. With
out patronage, without power, he has stood
forth in the Democratic Convention at
Charleston and at Baltimore triumphant
and victorious. He received from that
Convention the greatest honor it could pay
him, the regular, Legitimate nomination
for the Presidency, and if you are true to
yourselves, you will ratify that nomination
at the ballot box.