Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-12

was on the sixteenth ballot, which stood for Mr..
Buchanan l6S, for Mr.. Douglas l2l, and for Mr..
Cass 6. In the Congressional session of 1878,
he denounced and opposed with ability and en-
ergy the LecOmptOn constitution, upon the dis
tinct ground that it was not the act and deed
of the people of Kansas, and did not embOdy
their will.
Before the adjournment of that session of Con-
gress he returned home to vindicate his action
before the people of Illinois, in one of the most
excited and well contested political canvasses
ever known in the United States. He had to en-
counter the determined hostility of the Federal
Administration and all its patronage, and the
powerful opposition of the Republican party.
But he succeeded in carrying the election of
sufficient number of State Senators and Repre-
sentatives to secure his return to the United
States Senate for six years, from March A, 1859,
by fifty-four votes for him to forty six for Abra
ham Lincoln, his able and distinguished opponent.
During the whole Of that contest he maintained
and defended the doctrine of non-intervention
and popular sovereignty, in the same sense in
which he had previously proclaimed it in Con-
gress. Subsequently, in debate in the Senate
February 23d, 1852 he avOwed and defended
the same doctrine when assailed by several Of
the ablest Senator's of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Douglas has been remarkably successful
in promoting the local interests of his own State
during his Congressional career. To him, more
than to any other individual, is Illinois indebted
for the magnificent grant of lands which secured
the construction of the Illinois Central Railroad
and contributed so much to restore the credit and
develop the resources of the State. He has always
been a warm supporter and advocate OF arailroad
from tie Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, having
been member of the various committees of Con-
gress on that subject, and being the author OF
several bills reported by those committees.
NJ - views in regard to our foreign
lations have seldom been in accordance with the
policy of the administration. He opposed the
treaty with England, limiting the Oregon Terri
tory to the 49th parallel, cOntending that Eng
land had no rights on that coast, and that the
United States should never recognize the claim
He opposed the treaty of peace with Mexico on
the ground that the boundaries were unnatural
and inconvenent, and that the provisions IN re
gard to the Indians could never be executed. The
United States have since paid Mexico 100000
600 to change the boundaries and rellnquish the
stipulations in regard to the Indians. He opposed
the ratification of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty,
and endeavored to procure its rejection upon the
ground, among other things, that it pledged the
faith of the United States in all time to come
never to annex, colOniZe or exercise DOMINION
over any portion of Central America. DE de-
cared that he did not desire to annex that country
at that time but maintained that the isthmus
routes must be kept open as highways to the
American possessions on the Pacific, that the
time would come when the United States would
be compelled to occupy Central America, and
that he would never pledge the faith of the Re
public not to do il the future in respect to this
continent what its interest and safety might re-
quire He also declared himself in favor of the
acquisition of Cuba whenever that Island can be
obtained consistently with the laws OF nations,
and the honor of the United States Mr.. Doug
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d. Martin, of Rockingham county, North Caro-
lima, by whom he had three children, two of
whom are living She died january 10, 1853.
He was again married November %, 1886, to
Miss Adele Cuts, daughter of James Madison
Cults, of Washington, d. G.