The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-04

HihSc Hc uoes hVt uchJ Jul nthlcHShls VIC
need not now furnish the proof thereof,
but whenever they are denied, we will
having obtained permission of our inform
ants-publish their names and then let the
Sun question their truthfuness If it dare,
This much would suffice in reply to the
Sun, but knowing that few additional
facts concerning Douglas, besides those we
presented yesterday, would be of interest
to our readers we will furnish them;
Unfortunately for the memory OF
his father this young man Is
now travelling over Illinois in the interest
and pay Of the Radical party, To this
young man--so low in the moral scale has
he sank, has been intrusted the task Of rat
ting the bones Of his dead father, as q war
cry for the Radical party, This fellow is q
striking illustration of Cations theory
that great talents are seldom transmitted.
His first public appearance upon the polIt
ical stage was made in North Carolina in
the halcyon days of tn, carpet bag Sat
urnalia, when Judge" Tom Settle
and Holden were the leaders Of that band
Of thieves tina, stole everything in that
state except the state house at Raleigh.
Appointed United States marshal, he dis
tinguished himself and made his peculiar
talents respected, and be soon became the
facile princeps OF tina; band Of political
outcasts, who desolated the North State
worse than the civil war had done. His
corruption became SO open and notorious
aud his conduct 50 arbitrary, that even his
associates, the carpet bsggers, We're forced
for the sake of self preservation to prefer
charges against him. He was removed by
Grant and proved detaulter TO the
government to the extent Of
hundred thousand dollars. a defaulter,
fugitive from justice, he now appears in
this state, under the auspices Of John
Logan, in the role Of a political mOunte
bank whose mission is, as he says, "to ap.
peal to the old Democratic friends of my
father to forsake the error Of their way and
vote for Garfield, ETC." Civil war has ragged
in our land, twenty years have passed,
thousands of new men have come upon the
political stage-great regulations have been
made ami lost yet the name and fame Of
that greatest leader of the Illinois Democ-
racy, Judge Douglas, is still green in
the hearts Of all Illinois Democrats. He
came among us a poor, young man
without friends or money, the Democracy
of Illinois took him up and honored him,
as no man in America, was ever before hon.
ored, save Clay, We elevated him TO every
Office in our gift, to which he aspired and
finally, as one man VIC did all we could to
place him in the presidential chair. We
failed, the fates were against US. The lurid
glare of civil war lit up the political hori
zOn Of our country, The existence of the
republic was trembling in the balance.
The downfall OF the grandest government
by the people that ever existed, was conf
IDENTIFY predicted by the European
Monarchists. The country, Just
emerging from one Of the most heated po-
litical contests in its history, thousands of
Democrats throughout the entire north IN.
famed by political passions, brought on by
defeat were intensely hostile to the Repub
lican party. All eyes were turned toward
Washington; how stands the commander
Of the old guard of Democracy What
does Douglas sayl This was the question
upon every lip throughout the land. He
had the fate OF the country in his hand,
Not long did the people have to wait, for
soon the word was flashed over the wires
that, Douglas voice was for the Flag and
his country,
He came to Illinois, thousands OF Dem
ocrats from every county in the state
flocked to the state capitol to see and hear
their gallant leader, for whom they had
fought hundred battles. The hand Of
death was already upon him, he looked care
worn, weary and hopeless. Many an eye
was filled with tears that day as they
gazed upon the sad sight of the wreck
of their once gallant leader. He spoke,
and as he portrayed, as he only could the
crime of destroying the Republic, the light
came into his eye, his wan and sunken
cheek glowed. What he said that day is
matter of history He SAID that now, NO
patriot could hesitate, the Union must be
saved, by Democrats as well as Republicans |
And fellow citizens of Illinois, if they |
the Republican, party shall attempt to
override the constitution or invade the |
rights OF the states, you will find me op.
posing them, etc." That speech and atti-
tude of Stephen A, Dauglas contributed