Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-21
Jackals over the Grave OF Douglas.

Individual policy must be subordinate to the
public safe'y Stephen a. Domglas.
lie is not true patriot who does not en-
dorsr the sentiments uttered ly the late Sen
"tor Doug C0tiforpia Express.
If anything is calculated to exasperote
those who have. for the past three years.
striyen 10 rcfute the vile and bitter calumnies
uttered against our great leader by such
newspapers as the Express, it is to see these
papers. now that Ire is dead, preach the right
of Secession in one column, and, in another,
pretend to endorse sentiments for which he so
mnntully hatlled while living. He would not
now be in h- grave but for the indecent
unjust and unfceling war which was waged
upon him, from December 1857 until NoVem-
ber SG0 by the unprinciIled and damn"oIe
cons,irnfors who have brought the present
troubles upon the nation. Even his power
Gll brain was overworked in the long pro-
trncted struggle. and at the age of forty eight
years he has fallen 10y an unnatural death
Falsehood, persecution and malignant hatred
are the weapons with which he was mHr-
dered let those who loved him remember
forever 10y whose hands those weapons were
welded Let it not be understood that we
charge the Express with having contributed
greatly toward the slaughter of our dead
champion for its share wnsbut as that Of
single drop Of water in "A destructive water
fpout. Nevertheless, according to its puny
power. it did add to the general persecution,
and chimed in with those who said that
Douglas was "charlatan" more to be de
-p,ed by the friends Of Southern rights than
the Republican candidate himself. Those
who stood hy Douglas were denounced as
mulattoes - half way Republicans, etc. and
time and again the Express quoted the miser-
able SANDER That Douglas had predicted TO
Burlingaue the meeting at Washington OF
himself Lincoln, NcDougall and Baker. But
if there is something revolving in the specla-
Gle of pretended respect for the memory Of
| Douglas exhibited by his deadIest enemies,
what shall be snd when we see those enc
mics striving to make it appear that he
agreed with them in any particular in regard
" lDt I)TtotIlL IdllCHHl CIlcIS LHtV pa ttCHh
to endorse his sentiments In the very same
editorial from which the extract which heads
this article is taken, we find the following:
If it were treason to oppose the civil war,
into which Mr.. Lincoln and his advisers seem
determined to plunge the country, it was
equally treason in the Republican leaders to
oppose the war against Mexico, which the
Government prosecuted a few years ago
against Mexico.
Mr.. Douglas said at Chicago May lst:
have not only rendered those States what
was theirs of right. but have gone to the
very extreme Of IN gnanmity.
Tile return ue receire as war, armies march
upon our Capital obstructions and dangers
to our navigation, letters of marque to invite
| pirates to prey upon our commerce. con-
certcd movement to blot ont the U"jtcd States
IF america from, the map Of the gtote, The
question is, are we to maintain the country
of our fathers. or allow it to be stricken
down by those who. when they can no
longer govern, threaten 10 DESTROY
Whose testimony is The best as to the ques-
ton of who commenced the war? In the
same article the Express says:
We shall oppose this war as unnecessary
and unust-ruiuous to our country-an out
rage upon humanity and civilizluon-and
shall continue TO advocate speedy and
peaceful solution of our national troubles.
Mr.. Douglas said at Chicago.
We cannot close our eyes to the sad and
solemn fact that war does exist. The govern
mpnt must be maintained, its enemies over
thrown; aud the more S'NpcuIo~S our prepa-
rafi0uS the less Me dL0odShed and tile Shorter
the struggle.
Again the Express says:
1t is no more treason to crilicise the
conduct, or TO oppose the acts, or the
policy of one branch of the Govern
ment than another Nor is it any more tra-
| son 10 oppose tile ,car policy of the Admins.
iraricn, than it is the Tariff policy of the
administration, or the Abolition policy of
Administration. We are opposed to all, not
because Mr. Lincoln is President or Mr.. Sc
ward Secretary Of State, but because we be-
lirve that all these measures are and must
prove fatal to the prosperity and integrity Of
our Government aud country.
| Mr.. Douglas said in the Chicago speech:
The conspiracy is now known. Armies
have been raised War is levied to accom-
plish it. There are only two sides 10 the
question. Every man must be for the United
states or against it. There can be no netu
rails in this war, only patriots-or traitors.
Who doubts which of the two sides OF the
question Mr.. Douglas was on when he eXhort
ed the loyal people of the Northwest to rise
in their might, draw the sword, and throw
away the scabbard ? Who doubts, either,
which of these two sides the Express is on,
when it daily denounces the President as a
usnrper and tyrant, who has overthrown
the Constitution, and while it labors inces-
sanity to benumb the patriotism of the peo-
pie and frighten their loyalty out of them by
the idiotc howl of Black Republicanmism.'
The Express endorses the raLid secession
platform adopted at Sacramento recently, in
which the right Of secession is claimed as one
of the modes of redress contemplated by the
Kentucky resolutions, which form a portion
Of the party creed Mr.. Douglas said at Chi
cogo last month:
We cannot recognize secession. Recognizc
it o"ce, and goW hare nat oniy dissolyed The
9ose,7ehe't, bW gou hare destroyed social or
der, upt,trued the foundations of society You
h0pe inaugurated anarchy in as agorSt forn
and acW shortly experience all tie horrors of
the French Reecialion.
Is it not II shame that the grave Of Doug
las is not secure from the invading tread of
secession jackals? Must the public ear con-
tinue to be offended with their hollow en-
dorsements of the dead patriots sentiments ?