Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-10-07

Robert NJ Douglas, the eldest son Of the
late Senator Douglas, made speech, few
days since, at Raleigh, North Carolina, and
denounced in bitter terms those who affected
to be his fathers friends, and were now using
his name to aid the copperhcads. His words
might be pondered with profit, if not with
pleasure, by the friends of stephen A. Doug.
las, wherever found He said -
Speaking Of him, and feeling that what.
ever Importance any words of mine may have
is derived from the name bear and affection
may still feel toward one who through nc,
proved himself the peoples friend, Il few
words concerning my father may not bedeem-
ed Inappropriate. 1t was with feelings Of
surprise-and, | must add Of Indignation
that | saw his name inscribed upon one Of
the transpareucies borne in the late conserya.
tive procession. | thought that common de.
cency at least, would have prevented them
from dragging from the tomb the name Of the
man whom they had betrayed and denounced
through life, and, after his death, whose or.
phan children they had prosecuted.
When gazing upon that name remcm-
bcred the time these same men declared him
traitor to every principle Of honor, becaus
he preferred his country to his party, and bit.
terly denounced him for his efforts to rally
the people of the West for the defense of III.
Union.
" | remembered all these when | am de.
clarcd a degenerate son and for every quo
tation they give me from his speeches | will
give them dozen When the Sentinel par.
AIDES a sentence concerning a white man.
Government, | would remind them Of his DIV.
ing words When the wife bent over tn,
scarcely breathing form ofthe expiring states
pan and asked if he had no message to send
to his children Tell them, said he, in a
voice almost inaudible by the near approach
Of death, to obey aud support the Constitu.
ton and the laws Of the land This solemn
injunction | intend to obey. When | see my.
self personally abused 10y the conservative pres.
on account Of my political sentiments, and
called traitor to the State in which wa-
born, | would recall To their recollection tn,
time when | was declared an alien enemy
About the year 1862, bill was filed sum.
monng Thomas Settle (now associate Justice oil
the Supreme Court and r. A. Ellington Ia
Greensboro to show cause why they did not
surrender the property of Robert VI and
stephen A. Douglas alien enemies of the
Contedcracy; and when | am denounced as d
Yankee and a carpet-bagger, | would remind
them Of their efforts to drive me an exil.
from my native State and render me a stran,
ger to the soil that gave me birth. As, how.
ever, have inherited my fathers name and
his principles it is natural that | should in,
herit their animosity Nevertheless it i,
strange that these men, his biterest encmie.
in life, should now claim to be the trucst ex
ponents Of his principles; but not NOR,
strange Than that they should now asser
themselves the best friends Of the Constitution
OF the United States and the infallible inter
prefers Of its provisions after they have sac
rifced hundreds Of thousands of lives ant
thousands Of millions Of treasure to trampl,
in the dust that sacred instrument"