Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1859 — The Southern Press on Douglas. [ARTICLE]

The Southern Press on Douglas.

The Vicksburg Southern Sun says: “We do not believe that Douglas is the first choice of a single Southern-born man in the State of Mississippi for the Presidency. Never was a man more loathed. He is looked upon as a miserable demagogue, who would not scruple to sell his soul, if by so doing he could reach the goal of his ambition—the White House.” The Memphis Avalanche says: “From the borders of Virginia to the banks of the Mississippi, the advocates of Mr. Douglas cannot name a Democrat that holds a place as high as that of a Congressman-, or that has ever been honored by his party by a candidacy for such a position, who would not rather witness the nomination of almost anv other Democrat whose name has been mentioned in connection with the Presidency, than that of Stephen A. Douglas. His vaulting ambition and pestilent demagoguery have created all the troubles that now lower upon our party, and the Democratic masses, as well as their honered representatives, are anxious to wash their hands of him at once and forever.”