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Douglas Before The People

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
October
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Douglas is the first Prcsidential candidato who h:is ever taken the stump in advocacy ofhis owu cleetiou. - Republican JSxchanycs. If the word " Danocrai' had Leen put in before "Preaidential" in the abovc extract, it would have been correct. The opposition caudidates for President, have frequently taken the stump in advocaey of thcir oivu election. General Ilarrison in 184.0, spokü at Dayton, Port Meigs, Tippccanue, aad (Ijvert other placaa vrheio lie eould uieet h political frieuds. In 1852 General Soott made au extended political tour from Washington to Kentucky, spoaking in fif'ty plaoes. In 185t(,Mr. Fillmoro while a candidate for President, delivOTod mauy political speeches, one of which at Albany, attracted much attention The Opposition papers, embracing all those that are now llcpublican, thought it was dignified and proper in overy respect for their oandidatcs to tako the stump. They now think it very uodignifiod and impj-opor for Mr. Douglas. The differeiK-e in politics makes the want of dignity, the want of propnety. - S'titc Journal, I3P" The )co)lc ot St. Louis ;ire so -issutisfied wiln tlie census tukcn by 'c U. S. Marohui that lliejr aru itbout have iinother tuken.

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Old News
Michigan Argus