Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-10-23
it, she will ultimately be compelled 10
accept universal suffrage.
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THE YOUNG DOUGLAS.


Robert Nj. Douglas, the clakt son
Of the late Senator Douglas. made a
speech, u few'da,s since, at Raleigh,
y. C., aad denounced in bitter terms
tcose who affected to be his fathers
friends, aud We're now nsinglis name
TO aid the cepperheads. lis words
might be pondered with prdit, if not
with pleasure, 10y the fiieui, Of Ste.
phen A. Douglas, wherever fonnd.
He said:
speaking Of him, and telling that
whatever importance any words OF
mine may have is derived from the
name bear and the aifect,c, many
still feel toward one who through lite
proved himself the rcore's friend,
a few words concerning my father
may not be deemed Inappropriate,
1t was with teclins OF surrisc-and, l
must add, OF lndignatloa--that | saw
his name inscribed upon one of the
trausparencics borne in he late con
seryative procession, l thought tina,
common deeenc., at least, wculd
have prevented them from dragging
ilom the tomb the nanp Of the mau
whom they had betrayed ana de-
nonnccd through lite, aud. after his
death, whose orphan children they
had prosecuted.
when gazing upon TIA, l rcmcm-
bercd the time these sane men de.
clared him 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 Tor the defence
OF the Union.
81 remember all these when am
declared degenerate son: and for
every quotation they give me from
his speeches l will give them a Dozen
When the .Scntinci parades sentence
concerning a white mans Govern
ment, | would remind them Of Ills dy-
ing words. When the wife bent
over the scarcely breathing form of
the expiring statesman and asked i;
he had no message to send his ch l.
dren: Tell them,' il he, in a
voice rendered almost inahible by
the near app roach of death, to obey
and support the Constitution and the
laws OF the land This solemn in
junction l intend to obey. When l see
myself personally abused by the con-
sentative press on account of my po-
litical sentiments. and called traitor
TO the State in which l was born, I
would recall to their recollection the
time when I was declared an alien
enemy. About the year 1869, bill
was filed snmmoniOg Thomas Settle
(now Associate Justice Of the Su-
preme Court and Il. A. Ellington to
Greensboro to show canse why they
should not surrender the property of
Robert NJ. and Stephen A. Douglas,
alien enemies of the Confederacy:
and when ] am denounced rs Y an
kee and carpet.bagger, would re-
mind them OF their efforts to drive me
an exile from my native State and
render me stranger to the soil that
gave me birth. As however, inher-
tied my fathers name and his princi-
pies. it is natural that should inherit
their luminosity. Nevertheless, j. 10
strange that these men, his bitterest
enemies in life, should now claim to
be the truest opponents of his princi-
pies: but not more strange than that
they should now assert themselves
the best friends Of the Constitution
of the United State and the mtalible
interpreters of It's provisions, after
they have sacrificed hundreds Of thou
sands Of lives aud thousands Of mill
ions oftreasure 10 tramrle in the dust
that sacred instrument"