, 1862-10-11
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER II. 1899
SENATOR DOUGLAS.

The Chicago Times, \ fe1 dsr, ,;n..
published some gsrtaed and jesuitcal ex
tracR iron Senator Douglas lat speeches
pretending to show that the lamented
statesman Was Tory instead Of patrio,
-that he charged the war upon the Re.
publtean party instead Of the disun,onists
Of The South, ard much more tc the same
vie and slanderous purpose. To show
now utterly false and wicked is this pre-
tense, We republish elsewhere the greater
part Of Judge Douglas speech to the mem
bers Of the Legislature, on the 9th Of
April, 1881. II ask you" said he ato H.
fleet, aud then point out any one act that
has been done, any one duty that has been
om'tted to be done, Of +ehieh any Of these
dts"nsonssts can Justly complain" Ma,k
the fe1vor with which be urges his wn
political friends 10 drop their partisan AMI
mosl11es and join ia "thc most s.upendous
and unanimous preparations for war"
Gould he have made such au appeal if the
South had just cause for drawing the
sword? Could he have told the Democ-
racy Of Illinois to rush as one man to the
field and destroy the armies Of Tiff.
Davis, If the Republican party had
brought on the rebellion and plugged
the country into civil war? By no means.
Ifhe had believed that The secessionists had
good ground for their acts he would have
been required, as much by his sense of
justice as by his former antagonism to the
Republican party, to urge his friends, either
to stay at home and take no part in the
conflict, or TO join the rebels, as the Times
has done, or aid them to overtime the
government.
The Times n.akcs an equally shameful
pcrve1sion Of Mr. Douglas speech III the
Senate on the 25th Of March, 1861, before
the bomhardmert Of Fort Sumter. In that
speech. and in the very context Of the
words quoted by the Times, he Douclas)
said:
g 1t seens TO be generally conceded now that
no revenue 1e TO be collected nale2s Conerrss
maker It he duty Of the President to do It; no
ptttt Afc 10 he b1ackaded unless Congress maIea
II the DUTY Of The President to blockade .heu m
fn1lta:y force Is to he used unless Congress- ehaI
fhat 10 &c a. oohe ne and osae the means
l. very good poicy-a much wiser aud better one
tran rad expected u hoped f>,r from R2pubI-
have made as gFeat tfarte to defeat them. If had
Thought they would have acted with so much pa:-
to"g'ess- rage ] 5Q2.
The point here made by Senator Doug
Las was, that no acts should te done Nv The
Administration to provoke and bring on a
WAT No such ac:s were done. Tue m st
wonderful aid exemplary f,rbearance WIS
shown from the day the enew President was
inauSurated to the day that Beauregard
opened fire on Fort Sumter. Then and
there war was inangurated, and Senator |
Douglas came home and told his constitu-
ents that "not one act had been done. and
not one duty omitted to he done, Of which
any ono Of the disunionists could Justly
complain
The tory organ is on the wrong track.
douglas is not the man to be quoted on that
side He is not the man to he quoted
against bis country and lis couutry's flag.
tie has left no texts to comfort Jeff, Davis /
or his Northern allies. That which lie
said before war existed is applicable only
to the period in which it was uttered. He
las Lett US abundant aud uncquiyocal proof
that, after the traitors had forced the issnc
OF blacashtd upon us, he deemed it to he |
The duty Of al putrio1ic citizens 10 Join in |
tic most Etupendous and unanimous
pn paratio.s for war;