The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1868-10-22

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Speech of Col. Robert NJ Douglas in
Raleigh.
The Raleigh IN. Co. Standard pub
fishes report of the speech made by Col.
Robert NJ. Douglas, son of the late Ste
phan A. Douglas, at the Republican mass
meeting in that city, on the 10th inst
Col. Douglas said that he believed that
the main issue of this campaign was war
or peace, and quoted from Gen. Frank
Blair's letter to Col. Broadhead. He
then continued.
IF any further proof was needed to show
the revolutionary spirit of the Conserva-
tive party, it could easily be found in the
violent harangues we daily hear around
us, their bitter persecution of Union men,
and their unrelentiug hatred Of the North
and its loyal people. This bitterness to-
wards Northern men, who prove true to
their principles, and do not bow in slavish
submission to the opinions of these
naughty aristocrats, self constituted judg-
es of honor and morality, know form
personal experience. Though descended
from one of the oldest families of this
State, and born and partially raised in
Buckingham County, upon my return
nearly two years ago to my native place |
was denounced as Yankee, and general
ly received with all the coldness and dis
trust due to one Of that detested race.
Notwithstanding my own nativity, and
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could never forget the Puritan birth of
my father, whose native State, Vermont,
with her 80, 600 majority, so nobly leads
the van aud may add, could never for
give his dying efforts in defence of his
country. Speaking of him, and feeling
that whatever Importance any words of
mine may have, is derived from the name
bear, and the affection may still fall
toward one who through life proved him
self the peoples friend, few words con-
corning my father may not be deemed in
appropriate 1t was with feelings of sur
prise, and, l must add, of Indignation,
that saw his name inscribed upon one
of the transparencies borne in the late
Conservative procession. thought that
common decency at least would have pre-
vented them from dragging from the
tomb the name of man whom they had
betrayed and denounced through life, and
after his death, whose children they had
prosecuted. While gazing upon that
name, | remembered the time when those
same men declared him a traitor to every
principle Of honor because he preferred
his country to his party, and bitterly de-
nounced him for his efforts to rally the
people of the West for the defence of the
Union. | remember all these when am
declared degenerate son and for every
quotation they give me from his speeches
will give them dozen. When the Sen
tinel parades a sentence concerning a
white mans government, would remind
them of his dying words. When the
wife bent over the scarce breathing from
of the expiring statesman, and asked if he
had no message to send to his children,
"Tell them," said he in voice rendered
almost inaudible by the near approach of
death, "to obey and support the Constitu-
ton and the laws of the land" This
solemn injunction | intend to obey
When l see myself personally abused by
the conservative paess on account of my
political sentiments, and called traitor
to the State In which | was born, | would
recall to their recollection the time when
| was declared an alien enemy About
the year 1862 bill was filed summoning
Thomas Settle (now Associate Judge OF
the Supreme Court and r. A. Ellington
to Greensboro, to show cause they should
not surrender the property of Robert NJ.
and Stephen A. Douglas, alien enemies
of the Confederacy and when am de-
nounced as a Yankee and carpet. bagger,
| wonld remind them of their efforts to
drive me an exile from my native State,
and render me stranger to the land
that gave me birth. AS, however, | have
inherited my fathers name ana his prin-
ciples, it is natural that | should inherit
their animosity. Nevertheless, it is
strange that these men, his bittcrest enc
mics in life, should now claim to be the
truest exponents of his principles; but
not more strange than that they should
now assert themselves the best friends of
the Constitution of the United States, and
the infallible interpreters ofits provisions,
after they have sacrificed hundreds OF
thousands of lives and thousands of mil.
lions of treasure to tramp into the dust
that sacred instrument.
Adolph Moses, Esq, an able Jewish