| Show mr angl as in III virginia how tic ile As is regarded the Peter petersburg abu r ices aress is is distin distinguished h a I 1 for its ability and prudence p radence anguis and ile never er fears to express its opinions frankly and timely express 1 regarding eg arding ibe camill coming presidential elec tonit says bat a the charleston convention will have to decide the fortunes of the democrat democracy Dem ocra y tor for ears to come and may determine the existence of 0 the confederacy iracy for it is idle to attempt to disguise the fact that the question of union or disunion wirl rise all disguises to mold the conduct of the next national campaign the press then proceeds to define its position on the question of candidates and while bile it admits that senator hun 1 ter of that state is ig its first choffe it very strongly presents the case of m douglas in in the following mild and truthful argument it is is well worthy of ther circulation over the country for our own part we are free to confess our decided preference for a gallant son of f our own state we conceive him the man of all men in the country to present as the embodiment ern of just this issue a dauntless assertion of our rights right to the ultimate limit a friend loyal to I 1 the be extreme of devotion to the union ii a man mai aiho he is riot not afraid to be logical but next to him we have no hesitation in avowing our preference for that ion long tried and tuie true friend or of the south staphen staphan stephen stephan A do douglas glas and aid this for reasons we propose to sketch very briefly lie he is is the only northern po politician liticia n that maybe may be considered a presidential aspi has been able to sustain 1 himself sp for the last ten years ears in the front lank rank of 0 aggressive assault on abolian ism I 1 we make no imputation upon the honest honesty esty the courage or the ability of an any mat man but we point to the fact and challenge chal contradiction that be is 13 t the he only man that has weathered wei the storm tor dickinson anil and cushing cashing and dallas and shields in in shot t every other prominent northern man vi h ho 0 dared to offer resistance to the fanatical fanatic tide M mas swept fanatically all away and not even the t a venerable v oner a aada b name and aid eminent services of 0 general gass cass could purchase exception from the general fate nothing is is easier than to charge a man with inconsistency I 1 by a contrast 0 ot f h his opinions with those of others nothing is easier than to convict a man if you ou permit evidence of ailt to com promise him but the justice of such a coursel oarse is less obvious than it its facility what we want and what we have never yet seen is is a conviction ot of douglas of insincerity inconsistency stancy or disloyalty disy alty to the south on the evi evidence dince of his own acts and utterance and till this I 1 la pro deuced we claim for him the praise and position of admitted services and sacrifices in the cause of the south and the union we believe he be is is the on only northern national man who can carry more than one northern state this of course i is s a matter of opinion but the opinion is is based upon the notorious us fact of the last four years campaign ing ge we remarked above that only thirteen th ot of the new hew northera Nort Nor heru theril members we were re i democrats and it is la worthy of a notice otic that four of those thirteen cane caitie from 11 II linah a ard ril comprise every new member that hails from that state in a almost most every other instance throughout the vr north evert in bibich the member has been chari changed zed a black lila cli republican has follow ed ad a lilick republican or superseded a Domo democrat crat that ibis exception in in illinois is is due to td the personal exertions of judge douglas no one wi mil 11 d doubt ato re members hig laborious services in the local contests 11 in that state for the last three years year apar particularly ticul arly the a same ame qualities and labors abich produce such effects in illinois would accomplish similar results elsewhere throughout the north in a dennial dent itil cat canvass nass and the very deci decided p preponderance v hick his friends manifestly possessed in all the northern state conrest lions ions which b i 1 ch have been hild hed wit ill the last six months confirms our opinion ion of his availability if then it should be the pleasure 0 of the charleston condei tion to honor ill him witha with a nomination we shall extend tor to him and challenge for him a hearty support confident tint that the honor interest and security of the south bouth will be compromised byro by no act or woid of his bis such being our feeling ar arid d position we confess concessive sive i e view with great regret the ungenerous arid and unjust course ot of many man southern papers paper democratic papers to tow ard mr douglas anticipating th the a contingency of his hia nomination they at ai him at the bar ot of public opinion and gravely proceed to try convie convicts ty and sentence him on the evidence of uns unscrupulous all enemies and political rivals Is orly less unscrupulous surely barely even if ic he be all that he is is charged with being his hia past services entitle him to fairer dealing than this he is not a man of con ceal ments and upon the particular subject of those charges he be has as he claims with proud defiance of contradiction written an aej spoken more than any other living man north N orth or south |
