Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1860 — DOUGLAS’ TOADYISM. [ARTICLE]

DOUGLAS’ TOADYISM.

We publish the following article from the Chicago Press and Tribune containing an extract from tiie great toadying speec h of Douglas, niada in tho Uni ed States e'enate sume two months ago; in which the little toad, by the most desperate squats and jumps before his Southern masters, endeavors to regain the popularity ho had lost in the South by his toadying to tne No-.’.i in opposing the Lecompton Constitution, for the purpose of obtaining from Illinois hut re-election to the United States Senate. Milton, in his sublime poem of ‘■Paradise Lost.,” represents luiurc.fi one ul-.e guardian angels of Paradise, us having discovered Satan one night, in tire form of a toad, beside the sleeping Eve, whispering tem; t;»; n into her dreaming ear, and upon being touched by the celestial spear of Ithureal, Satan instantly assumed his natural towering form and dimensions. We tinnk that it would require the touch of u spear of much more potency than that pocsv sob y 'tthm-eaj, to cause “Little Dug” to assume his natural political, appearance and colors; for the little in an .has been so Jong and so Constantly toadying in politics that he has become a natura 1 political toad. “Mr. Douglas’ diabolical scheme for the suppression of freedom of thought and speech—fur repressing the irrepressible conflict, as he defines it—must nut sight of in the rush of events whio are bringing' on the great battle of 1869. Since his plan j was ri.sl developed in the Senate,two mouths ago, we have seen not a single apology i lithe atrocious seir.im. nts thus uttered. Ir j Mr. Douglas should iiapp. u to 1 e nominate'.! at Charleston, wo may lie very, sure that ; his election wlil be ur_ed in the South on' the'ground of his j.r.nniso to put down tlu> Republican | t; ty ‘-by indjcL-.u.-'-ts and convictions in vi,r Federa• < ' ,ur!s,” sir! if he should be eie rte-t to the Presidency we hate; his word tor it l; at .tvor would no > ;c i

to enact taiu tv.e, use . A.v. *i.ivd te-t . end. In *h i t-perch to v- id 1. v re. v. J Douglas si. • : s -■lt canno. be ruin that the . , -i; s yet arrived 'or such iegbdut Iv-iaonot be said with i-tuh '.at ti,e 11 rper'.-i I’v.iy case wiil-mit be top. .-w: ur is net in range; of repetition- It is oi.. y -n cessavy to :;i- ' quire into rlie cause's v. •.,< 1: "gel -c; ;i the Harper’s Ferry outrage, .urirurki,, sdithtr those causes arc y-l in ac. r; ojer linn, -■•a then you can determine whether there is any ground for apprehension u ■■ that’ imkedon will be repeater;. Sir, what was the Causes which produced the Harper* Y- tv outrage; Without stopping to adduce evidence in detail, I have no hesitation in expressing my firm conviction that the Harper’.. Ferry crime ■was the natural, logical, inevitable i exult of the doji inss and tea hngs of the Republican pa,-/,;, as explained ami ea-reed in their platform, their partisan presses, their pamphlets and beaks, and especially in the .speech 's of their leaders in ami out of Congress.’ “ ‘Then, sir, I hold that it is not only necessary to use the military power when the actual case of invasion shall occur, but to authorize the judicial department of the government to suppress all conspiracies and combinations in the several States with intent to invade a Stale, or molest or disturb its government, its peace, its citizens, its property, or its institutions. You inpst. punish the conspiracy, the -combinotintent to do the 'act, and then you v, i ■ isSypr’vs.i it in advance. V “‘The Constitution has given the power, mad all we ask of Congress is to give the means, and we, by indict,-at y. is and cc eviction's in the Federal Courts of one States, will ! make such examples >f the leaders of thse con--1 spiracies, as uni! strife. tenor into tie hearts of i others, and there .' I bean er; i of this eruj slide. The great p, im ipie of tke Republican j party is viols of. " oeoneilabie, itm rnil war* I fare upon the : i-t’livti -h sat' Ann. . ea.t Slavej ry, with the view of its ultima ■ .unction j throughout the land. Sir. I confess tiie object | of the legislation / contemplate is to put down i this outside interference ; it ts to repress the ir- ! respressible conflict. ’ i “We challenge »h.» records of legislative ; debate in this country, North or South, for a! ' parallel to this scheme, in ‘be element of ! despotism and depravity. In Virginia and j Alabama free speech is suppressed by mob power. Mr. Douglas proposes to elevate j the mob to the dignity of the officer, and to I extend its jurisdiction over the tree States, j Stated in concise logical I'onu the proposii tion stands thus:

“1. it is the only of Congress to inquire whether the cause which led to the Harper’s j Ferry outrage still exists. “2. Tho doctrines and teachings of the: Republican party arc the cause ol that out-i rage •‘3. It is the duty of Congress to punish not only the act I.Vu ■ >d to do the.net. “4_The holding anti proclaiming of .a certain set i..l opinions— : to wit; the doctrine ot j the Repu' i< .» party- — are the intent to invauej a State and shoahi i.o pun: do d by indict-! me fit. and convict,. >, in Lite Federil t'ear's,.) “\V■; have heretbnoe comnieadfd the-dei-egat 'to i! Cb o'le-i ;?, Convention to in.tie i.' : eh a .. • ,nl noon his Uac : ■ We iL..- teem t.gm.j .e J it. ‘Whii'.nyr ; - peculiar p and popmariti- that :aa ,j: : . in the-free States Is derived from his'p.e-; surued baptism m the free s.- t ;-J‘.u dui’ng! tiie Leeorapion. fight. Lot tins hu; tes -: i: j he removed iron- T ' public mind, aim he i-l no stronger liri-n J. Davis, Guthrie, Sic-: pheus or any of his competitors lor the pro-1 slavery nomination.” §HjrTho number of Revolutionary soldier 1 who still live is said to be one hm died and sixty-five. Tho youngest of them'is -of .the age of eighty-nine years. As the revolutionary army was disbanded rather more than seventy-six years ago, this juvenile pensioner must have been a very juvenile soldier. He belonged to the light-infantry beyond doubt. having grunted its periaisIsi oil, Commodore Dhubrink has received the ! sword presented him by Gen, Urquizii, President of the Argentine Confederation. The [scabbard in silver and gold, the hilt tipped } with diamonds, and is valued at five thousand ' dollars.