The Irish standard., 1904-03-12

, the great live stock market, and COM
mercial center that so many prosper
GUS communities to the south and west
are linked to by indissolube bonds Of
material interest. And so Missouri.
IKE Ohio, can boast of two great cities,
and st. Joe makes third to which
Ohio has no complement
The day will come-and it is not OK.
cccdingly remote-whcn te political
primacy now held by Ohio will descend
to Missouri.
Perhaps it was in the Thirty-fifth
Congress that Stephen A. Douglas
made powerful speech in the Senate
in support Of his theory of non-inter.
vention with slavery in the territories,
deiided as "sIuatter sovereignty" by
his enemies. as though "squatter sover-
eighty was not the foundation stone
and the cope stone, too, of the Amer
lean system. What is the town meet.
ing of New England but "souotter
sovereignty?" What is the county
convention of the South and West but
"squatter sovereignty?" Not only was
s1'1atter sovereignty sound home rule
doctrine, but it was the only political
contrivancc that could, by any possibiI.
1ty, defcnt secession and avert war:
but the Free Soilcrs of the North
would hear to nothing but the exclu.
sion of slavery from the territories.
and the firc-caters of the South wou,d
near to nothing but the right to hold
slaves In the territories That was the
lrrcprcssible conflict. The South Ind
the constitution, the law, and the Sun
rene court on her side, and the North
had the spirit Of the nineteenth century
civilization and the "higher law" on
her side. Between the two Douglas
was crushed.
Colonel Thomas T.. Anderson was at
tnht tlme Il member of Congress from
Missouri and an intense Southern man
The speech of Douglas gave the Buch.
hnan Administration serious concern.
and the Southern contingent was much
disconnected, for there was very
large conservative element at the
South ready to follow the "Iittle
Hlaht,' and this speech was calculated
10 visit much injury on the cause of the
lilr-catcrs. There was a consultation.
t winch the speech of Douglas was
debated. and it was agreed that It
must be answered: but where was
filere a champion of pr0wcss sufficient
10 cope with Douglas? There were
Ioombs and BENJAMIN. either a match
for the "Littlc Giant,' but they were
too far South ana too radical to COM
mhnd conservative attention. At last
rom Anderson rcmarked: II have Il
man for your business. Jim Green
can tear that speech all to flinders"
All agreed with Anderson, but
splendid as were Green's talents.
transcendcnt as where his abilities, he
was very hard man to locate, and
| MS conduct made abortive his magnif-
lcent intellect AS was said of cer-
tain British statesman, nothing but
such character could pull down such
parts, and nothing but such parts could
buoy up such character. 1t was the
period of conviviality in Congress, and
irecn had craving for drink that n
stronger will than his would have been
poWerless to control, and now he was
chosen to do what none other had done
---master Stephen A. Douglas in forens
lc debate. After a long search he was
round. and after a long treatment he
was braced up. Documents were put
: before him. and with marvellous ranid-
lty that giant mind devoured, digested
ana assimilated all the philosophy and
; every principle of the question. con-
stitutional and political, and reply
to Douglas was the South's case.
In his "Twenty Years in Congress-
Mr.. Blaine pays tribute to the gen.
ius Of Jas. s. Green, and marvels that
such man, in the age of which he
was part, and having a career$il, both
Houses of Congress, is SO little known.
and that little the shadowiest tradi-
ton. The writer of this is of the i'm