Year: 1860




awake up outof your lethargy, and to put o


the armour Of light, and not to be led away b


the frivolous doctrine Of y. A. Douglas and


Forney for they are the men that have cause


disruption in the Democratic party by com


binatIon with the Republicans. All honest dem


ocrats must see this is fact il they woult


stop and think one moment, and view the work


ings Of these men for the past two years.


ask who made the first bolt against the Ad


ministration party? All know that it was Ste


phen A. Douglas in his great Senatorial speech


What next follows. Forney and the Republ


cans raised the howl that Douglas was right


Then commenced Horace Greeley and the res
of the Republican editors generally, with the
same kind of barking and bowling against the
Administration party, in order that they might
get upa dispute in the real Democracy against
the campaign of 1860 would roll around, as
there was no more bleeding Kansas to cry
over.E This by the aid Of Douglas, Forney and
others, they have accomplished in part, but i
will finally terminate in good to the glorious
old National Democracy, that so in for the 90
equal rights Of all the States. In order to prove
the assertions here laid down, that the Repub-
licans were combined with Forney in this !nefa
rious scheme Of disruption in the Democratic
party, i will here mention one case that proves
this assertion. There WIS Republican in this
vicinity who subscribed for ten copies OF For
ney's filthy sheet, and tried to disseminate
them among the disseminate them among the
Democrats Of Greene township but he failed
in his calculations, and he had to get his Re
publican brethren to help him out of the scrape
or lose his ten dollars, as that was the sum he
paid for the ten copies When this same Re-
publican was asked why he was scattering For
ney's papers around, his answer would be "Oh,
/ only want to scatter some Of the pure princi-
plies of Democracy among the Democrats to
let them see where they stand" Now what
interest was tito a Republican to scatter For
ney's paper amongst the Democrats? This
question is easily answered, for it proves most
conclusively1t that this was q scheme gotten up
by the Forneyites and Republicans for the pur-
pose of destroying the National Democratic
party, and this was not the only place that this
nefarious game was resorted to, for in most
every township in this State there was For.
neyite Republicans engaged in the same trick
cry.


Now what follows: These ficnds have ac-
complished their end, and the Republicans have
become very silent towards the National Dem
ocratic party, but have commenced most vio-
lently on Mr.. Douglas and his small party
Poor Douglas, they have pulled the wool over
his eyes till they got their ends accomplished,
aud they turn around and say to Mr.. Douglas,
"you have done for us all we wanted-we only
wanted you to split the Democratic party. This
we have got accomplished by your aid and
strength" Yes, the Republicans now hurl
forth all the dcnunciations against Mr.. Doug
las imaginsble, and poor Douglas is now left a
poor tool. representing no party and a laugh
ing stock for the Republicans. r


Upon due consideration Of all these matters,
what is the best policy for the true, genuine
Democrats, to adopt under the present circum
stances? Will they turn around and vote for
S. A. Douglas, who was the first man that ev-
er denounced James Buchanan and the Ad-
ministration party as being traitors to the true
principles of Democracy. thinking that by so
doing that he would thereby get half of the
Republican votes and nearly all of the Demo-
Gratis, and by SO doing he would become the
P resident Of the United States.


Now, brother Democrats, one and all, do not
be ed,away by such iallacious doctrine as MIR.
Douglas has been promulgating for the last two
years, for it does not amount to anything at BEST
1t would never settle the question of slavery in
the Territories Mr. Douglas says the people
in Territory, by their Territorial Legislature,
have power to abolish slavery. Who ever heard
of Territorial Legislature making Territory
q free or slave State. No one ever did unit !
Mr. Douglas proclaimed the doctrine. Now
suppose this, doctrine was established in the
Territories, would the question of slavery be
settled. No, never! One Legislature might
establish it, and the next one might abolish it, |
and the people in q Territory would be in a
perfect turmoil over this vexations question of
slavery until they would adopt the true Ma
tioual principle Of democracy proclaimed in the
Cincinnati platform, and set forth in its true
light by our worty President, in his late speech
Of the 4th Of July, to the friends of Breckin-
ridge and lane. 1 ask again who ever heard
Of this new tangled doctrine as set forth by
the Douglasites, that Territorial Legislature
Las the power to abolish or establish slavery
in the Territories. leyam s1g si o4


The Cincinnati platform does not declare this
kind Of doctrine, but it sets forth very plainly
that a majority Of the actual residents in Ter
ritory, whenever their number is sufficient to
entide them to admission as State they then
possess the power to form Constitution with
or without domestic slavery, to be admitted in-
to the Union upon terms Of perfect equality
With the other States, II presents the clear
principle that atthe time the people form their
Constitutionthey shall then decide whether
they shall have slavery or not Is this any
thing like the Douglas doctrine that he is false
" representing to the people in this campaign
IS the true meaning Of the Cincinnati platform.
Most emphatically all pure Democrats will an
swer negatively. Now what does the Douglas
loctfne amount to but about the same as the
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