Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-01
Stephen A. Douglas on the War---Dem-
Ocrats, Read.

pie. thirty-eight thousand of whom voted Tor
Douglas for the Presidency, and read extracts
from one of the great Illinoisan's speeches,
made in behalf Of Compromise before the mad
adherents of the Davis rebellion had actually
opened the war Mr. Mcconnell dare not
read one word uttered by Mr.. Douglas after
the wicked war had been commenced by The
Southern insurgents. If the counsels Of the
great Douglas are SO worthy the attention OF
the people, rs Mr. Mcconnell pretends TO be-
lieve them, let the following extracts from
his speeches made after the war had com
menced, be read ly all Mr. Mcconnell is
di-grncing himself by his attempts to secure
Douglas votes 10y claiming that he is follow
quotations from the sreech of Douglas before
the Illinois Legislature, April %. 1851:
THE DEMANDS OF THE sEcEssIoNIsrs.
| We are called upon to fold our arms, allo "
the National Capitol to be seized 10y mill
tary force under foreign, revolutionary fl &;
to see the archives of the Government in the
hands Of people who affect to despise the
flag and Government Of the United States.
THEY SEEK TO sUBJuGATE AND DESTROY THE
| NATION.
| II is n crime against the inalienable and in.
defeasible right of every American citizen, tc
attempt to destroy the Government under
| which we were born. 1t is crime against
constitutional freedom and the hopes of the
| friends of freedom throughout the wide world
to attempt to blot out the United States from
the map of Christendom Yet this attempt
is now being made. The government of oui
fathers is to be overthrown and destroyed
The Capital that bears the name of the Fn-
,her of his Country is to be bombarded anC
leveled to the earth among the rubbish ant
dust of things that are pastl The records o
your Government are to be scattered to The
four winds of heaven The constituted au-
thorilies placed there by the same higl
power that placed Washington, and Jefferson
and Madison, and Jackson in the chair ar,
to he captured and carried off, to become
Il byword and a scorn to the nations of tn,
world
AN APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS.
Then appeal to You, my own Democratic
| fiiends-those men who have never failed t,
rally under the glorious banner of the coun.
try, wherever an enemy at home or abroad
has dared to assail ito you who believe
to he the purest patriots that ever lived-dc
not allow the modification growing out o.
defeat in a partisan struggle, and the eleva'
tion of n party to power that we tirmly be-
, lieved to be dangerous to the country-dC
not let that convert you from patriots into
traitors to your native land.
ALL MUST UNITE To DEFEND THE COUNTRY.
Every friend of freedom, every champion
and advocate of constitutional lbertl
throughout the land. must feel that this caus
is his own, and there is and should he no
thing that ought to he disagreea6le or hu.
initiating to men who have differed in time;
of pence on any question that could divide
fellow men, to rally in union in defense o
the country and against all assailaDts
WAR FOR RIGHTS MUST NOT BE SURRENDERED
1t is war in defense of our own JUS
rights in defense of the Government whicl
we have inherited as priceless legacy from
our patriotic fathers; in defense of thus,
great rights of freedom of trade. commerce
transit and intercourse from the center to tn,
circumference of our great continent. Thes,
are rights we must struggle for and neve
surrender
THE DUTY OF PATRIOTS.
1t is with a sad heart-With grief that
| newer btIOIt NlleIltHc'u-ludl 1 nave I
f contemplate this fea fu struggle; hut | hp
lieve in my conscience that it is a duty "
owe to ourselves and our children, aud on
God, to protect this Government and tha
hag from every assailant, be he who he may
AT Chicago, May 5, Senator Douglas de
livered his last speech. We make a few
extracts:
THEY SEEK TO DESTROY BECAUSE THEY CANNo,
GOVERN.
have struggled long for a peaceful solu
ton of the difficulty | have not only ten.
dered those States what was theirs of right
but have gone 10 the very extreme Of mag.
nanimity. The return we receive is war
armies marched upon our Capital. obstruc.
tionS and dangers to our navigation, letter
of marque to invite pirates upon our com
merce, II concerted movement to blot ont IL,
United States of America from the map o
the globe. The question is, are we to main
tain the country of our fathers. or allow it t.
lie stricken down 10y those who, when they
can no longer govern, threaten to destroys
THE SLAVERY QUESTION A FALSE PRETEXT-TH
DIsUNIoN CONSPIRACY A DELIBERATE ONE
The slavery question is mere excuse Th
election Of Lincoln is mere pretrxi. Th
present Secession movement is the result {
an enormous conspiracy formed more than
: year snce-formed ly the leaders of tn
Southern Confederacy more than twelv
months ago.
They use the Slavery Question as mean
to aid the accomplishment of their ends
They desired the election of Northern can
didate by a sectional vote in order to sho '
that the two sections cannot live together
| w hen the history Of the from, ri,
Lecompton Charter down to the late Presi
DENTAL election shall be written, it will b
shown that the scheme was deliberately mad
to break up this Union
They desired Northern Republican to b
elected by purely Northern vote, and the
: assign this fact as reason why the section
may no longer live together If the Disuno
candidate in the Presidential contest ha
carried the united South, their scheme was
the Northern candidate successful, to seiz
the Capital last spring, and by unite
South and divided North. hold it, Thn
scheme was defeated in the defeat of the Dis
union candidate in several of the Souther
States.
NO NEUTRALITY.
: But this is no time for a detail of cause.
The conspiracy is now known. Armies hav
been raised War is levied to accomplish i,
} There are only two sides to the question. =
Every man must he for the United States o
against it. There can be no neutrals in thi
war; only pdtriots-or traitors,
UNITED NORTH INSTEAD OF THE DIVISION AM
CIVIL WAR HOPED For BY THE REBEL CHIEFS
know they expected to present an unite,
South against divided North. They hop,
in the Northern states party questions woul