Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — The Douglas “Cave.” [ARTICLE]

The Douglas “Cave.”

Thurlow Weed Esq., writing from Washington, to the Albany Evening Journal, says: • It is true, as reported, that Senator Douglas has ‘caved.’ lie goes hack, however, without the true men who stood by him in defending the right in the last Congress. The Insertion is felt most keenly by the anti-Lecompton Democrats ot Pennsylvania, and by the friends of Broderick and McKibben, one of whom sacrificed his life and the oilier his election for a cause which Senator Douglas took up and laid down, as men put on and draw off their garments. Like Daniel S. D ickinson, of New York, the Illinois Senator goes back to he strangled. Their heads will go into a hag and into the river, ust as go the heads of rebel Pachas who offend the Sultan. There a ft* no men more truly and firmly fixed in their opposition to the Democracy, now and through the war, than Messrs. Hickman and Swartz, and Col. Forney, with their 20,0°0 Democratic friends in Pennsylvania. Indeed the men who carried Buchanan through Pennsylvania on their shoulders, in 1856, will now help to swell the majority in that State, mountain high, against the Charleston nominee.”