The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-08-08
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!. The editor ofthe Southern Confsdeucy, pub
, Iished at Atlanta, Georgia, displayed some sore
ness a. our Illusion few days since to the ap
! parent inconsistency of his present support @
Mr.. Douglas for the presidency, with his ayow
ed political opinions as published in the prospec
, tus Of his journal. The editor Of the Souther'
; COntederucy svowed himself to be "emphaticalIy
and uneQuivocally for disunion," immediat,
and final, unless the neutrality laws, the com
promise measures Of 1850, and all subsequent
compromise measures, and the restrictions or
the African slave trade, are wipea from the stat.
ute book. We have not yet learned that squat.
ter sovereignty will effect any of these objects
unless, indeed, its present tendency to aid the
election Of Mr.. Lincoln may precipitate the
disunion which the Confederacy so unequivocal.
ly desires. Its editor, however, while he holds
with commendable pertinacity to all his ultra
opinions, still believes that the douglas and
johnson ticket is the true representative of de-
mocracy;" and herein, we repeat, lies the in
consistency which we are unable to explain. A
change must have come ao'er the spirit of his
dream" He did not always believe Mr.. Doug.
las to be the representative Of the democratic
party. On the contrary, he used very harsh
language towards the Illinois Senator as recent
ly as the 2lst Of December. 1852 In an edi-
torial article published in his paper of that date
IN alluding to Mr.. Hickman's notorious .teigh-
teen million bayonet" speech, he remarked as
follows a
"Mr. Hickman says the question in 1860 will
be, Shall the South be permittes to extend the
institution Of slavery! The issue is boldly made
and stephen A. Douglas is responsible for the
heresy. He duped the Southern people in his
iavorite scheme of non-intervention in 1854,
and now the consequences are before them
Can any loyal son Of the South entertain for a
moment the thought of supporting him for the
presidency? It is said that he advises his friends
to support Bocock for Speaker. What of ill.,
Yet we find his particular friends-John Hick-
man. Adrain, and others, anti Lecompton dem.
ocrats-standng aloof as exponents Of his pe-
cular sentiments in the organization of and the
extention Of slavery in the Territories. as
"Jndge Douglas makes his friends from Illi-
nois cast their votes for Bocock but those from
Pennsylvania, New York, and New jersey are
not so controllable. They agree with Douglas
in sentiment, but cannot take his choice in the
support OF Bocock. The game is patent one.
Judge Douglas really prefers the election Of
Sherman to Bocock. lie is traitor and dem
agogue of The lo,oes. cast. 'i--fa # Hs a
| Douglas has abolittonized the Northern ao;nqs
Of the Democratic party to secure5a united support
Of that section for tie presidency.
| "The South soiR never support hin, though he
soas the nominee Of forty Charleston Conuentions.
1t is very plain that the editor Of the South
ern Coafederacy did not believe six months ago,
that Mr.. Douglas was 'the true representative
ofthe democratic party" and that all true and
loyal democrats will support him. He was
then convinced that the South would never
support him though he were the nominee of torty
| Charleston Conventions. He explained in the
article from which we quote the reason why
the South could not support Mr.. Douglas. He
said:
"But, says Mr. Hickman, 4 stand upon the
principle of the Kansas Nebraska bill; | know
how it will result. 1t will result in the exclu-
sion of slavery from the Territories We be.
lieve this statement to be fact. And we be.
lieve Judge Douglas knew it when he offered
the bill. The great principle OF non intervention
of the Kansas Nebraska bill was right, and is
yet right, but that principle is worthless with
the Douglas Hickman black republican con-
struction. Therefore instead of q benefit to
the South, it has already, by its rejection of
Kansas, proven to be not only worthless, but q
curse-a cocatrice. The principle ofnon- inter-
vention is right, is correct but Nth the interpre
tatioa givcn it at the North. and especially by
Judge Douglas, how can IL be aduantageousiy op-
piled sothe South. 1t is worse than futile to
think Of it. 1.-THE Republican party (aohich is
but another name for the Douglas democracy in
sist upon the application Of this Interpretation
to the Kansas. Nebraska BILL the South cannot
now expect justice, harmony, peace and safety
to her institutions. ....reL E..s|F s.fr--
Again he remarked: ass4 g.,r,t.-
Sand although Mr. Hickman declares that
the South shall never desolve the Union by a
division Of territory yet, division or no division,
we are resolved, in the event OF the election OF
a black-republican President, (and Judge Doug
las is equally as offensive as Se,oard) to make
the attempt" sf4- .,r. r.H s.z. /
We have shown enough to prove that Mr..
Douglas did not always enjoy the esteem and
approval ofthe Southern Confeaeracy. We leave
the editor to account for the change in his SEN
timents as he pleases, and also to explain how,
adhering as he does to his own very ultra opin-
ions, he can support a candidate from whose
doctrines the South, in his opinion "cannot ex-
pect justice, harmony, peace or safety to her
institutions" t s s-..ts,.s fass Ia ...g ..