The weekly Butte record., 1861-06-08
Senator Douglas at Home !.

SeudlOT OOuSldS dt hoHic
Last night will long be remembered by the
thousands who were fortunate enough to crowd
into the Legislative Hall, and hear the noble
speech of Senator Douglas. The Legislature,
Yesterday, passed a Joint resolution inviting
Senator Douglas to address that body in the
evening The resolution of invitation was
published in the Evening Journal, and at an
early hour the large Hall Of Representatives
was crowded almost to suhocation by ladies
and gentlemen anxious to hear our distinguish
ed Senator. Hundreds turned away, unable
to gain entrance or get within hearing distance
Promptly at the time appointed Mr.. Douglas
entered the Hall His appearance was the
signal for tremendous and long continued ap
plause. And when he was, without delay, in
troduced to the Legislature and audience by
Speaker Cullom, he was again greeted with
deafening and unanimous cheering. We will
not attempt here a synopsis OF his speech
We give it in full elsewhere. but we thought
it the best effort we ever listened to, and we
know that it will thrill every patriotic heart in
the broad Union. He spoke of secession as in
every way uniustifable and reasonable and he
called upon the loyal people to put forth all
their power TO crush out rebellion against
Constitutional authority. He exhorted men
of all shades Of political opinion to forget and
sacrifice party upon the altar OF country. lie
plainly pointed out the plans and designs Of
the consprators, and showed that in the event
of their success we would have neither country
nor Government lie spoke of the present
rebellion as a crime against country, cOnstitu-
tional liberty and God. He spoke of the con-
diton or situation of the Great Valley of the
North West in this contest, and said that she
/ would T. ba cbut frnpo tho
Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific seabord or the
Gulf of Mexico. But we cannot stop to par
ticularize, further than to say that Senator
Douglas plainly declared that he would oppose
any war upon the constitutional rights of the
South, "but," said he, in a voice of thunder
/" will war to the death before they shall be
permitted to infringe upon oursl" His re-
marks were received throughout with tumultu
Gus applause. Men wept and cheered by
turns, and hundreds who, a few weeks ago.
stood in hostile attitude to Mr.. Douglas now
resorted to every known method of testifying
unqualified admiration. Old Democrats, who
parted with the Senator on the slavery question:
now cheerad vehemently. and longed to grasp
by the hand the idol of other years. o the
power of patriotism Beneath the touch Of its
magic wand party dissoves, animosity dies
and the fires of friendship and love burn on
their ruined shines. The speech of Mr. Doug
las goes forth to-day by lightning and the
mails to every quarter of our land, triumph
ant call to arms in defense Of our country,
Government and Constitutional Liberty. By
his noble support of his country, Mr.. Douglas
has endeared himself to every loyal citizen in
our broad land-W State Journal.
CAIRO AND SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AS VIEWED
BY THE SoUTH.-The Memphis Avalanche,
after relating with a flourish of trumpets. how
the gallant Hicks" commander of the
steamer John Simonds, had determined TO take
his boat out of the Ohio river to Memphis for
) fear the mercenary hordes " of the \ North
would get hold of her, and how he was on the
Steamer Baltic bound for Louisville, and how
said steamer was compelled to round to at
Cairo, proceeds to pay the following compli-
ment to our soldiers at Cairo, and to Southern
Illinois. 1t also has a startling report OF the
tearing up of fifteen miles of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad track, which report it says is
confirmed. We quote it below
=" Capt. Hicks took look through the cap
ital of Egypt. He was informed that there
were 1000 troops in the place, but he saw the
whole force mustered, and thinks there were
only obout 500, and these were composed
Vi 0eTHldiiS, utSFO6S, duu luC oCuiLi
of Chicago. The Baltic had a large number
of passengers, all of whom crowded to the
guard as the boat neared Cairo, and it seems
that the " brave soldiers y fancied it was an
invading force. The innocent ard harmless
passengers struck terror to their souls, and
they fired their cannon at the boat If they
prove to be no better marksmen when our
gallant fellows get after them, they had as
well curl up and quit
"The citizens of Southern Illinois, as body,
are in fdror of the South. The report that
some fifteen miles of railuay track, thirty miles
aboUe Caro-, had been torn up bq the people IS
confirmed"
1t is just by such lying stories as this that
the people of the South are being led on to
sure destruction. When will the traitors learn
that there is no division here, and that the
whole north is in arms against treason ?-M
State Journal
THE ANTI-GovERNNENr PARTY CoNTINU-
ING TO SHOW THEIR HANDs-Despite the eff
forts of the Secession leaders to cover up their
treason with mountains of words having no
meaning, the lesser lights will not follow suit
We see by the Express, of yesterday, that the
Davis Democracy met in County Convention at
Colusa, on Saturday last. OF course plat
iOril WIS ldlu uOWU. w VIII give TOOu lOl
two of its planks. One is as follows
ResOlUed, That we, the Democrats Of Colu
sa county, do not undervalue the advantages
of the Union of our whole Confederacy nor
have we abated in our attachment and vene
ration for the institutions Of our fathers. But
we believe that the trainers of our Constitu
tion deliberately chose a free Government,
though it might be a weak one, rather than
return to a despotism from which they had
just emerged that they wisely laid its foun
dation upon no other principle than reason
justice and patriotism; and they purposely
and intentionally omitted any coercive feature
not desiring Union perpetuated by force
Perhaps there is no county Jail in Co
lusa county. If there is, it is g coercive
feature" and ought to be razed. Our Oregon
neighbors will be pleased to see that the Co
lusa Secessionists have not been unmindGul Of
them, but have made platform for both the
Pacific States. Here is the resolution:
Resolved That California and Oregon, hav-
ing a population drawn from all the other
States of the Union, may now honorably re-
frain from expressing sympathy with either of
the contending parties on the Atlantic, since
we would thus lose the blessed Office of peace
maker, and the result would be evil-ony
evil.
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