While the feeling was too deep to brook resistance, or quietly to endure a word of opposition, it was happily so tempered with discretion as to prevent personal outrages upon the few who did not join in the general chorus for the Union.

Suspected men were waited upon and requested to speak for the loyal cause, and newspapers, which before the firing of Sumter had been offensive in tone, were compelled to hoist the National flag over their offices, and openly support the government.
But these cases were few and exceptional; and it is due to the Democracy of the North to say, that however strongly they had opposed the election of Mr.Lincoln, and however hostile they had been to the principles which he represented, the mass of the party responded with noble enthusiasm and with patriotic fidelity to the Union.

Their great leader, Senator Douglas, set a worthy example by promptly waiting on the President, and expressing his deepest sympathy and his most earnest co-operation in the struggle for the life of the nation.
PATRIOTIC COURSE OF MR.

DOUGLAS.
The patriotic course of Mr.Douglas had been of invaluable service to the government from the hour of Mr.Lincoln's inauguration.
The old friendship between the illustrious rivals from Illinois, which had begun when each was in his youth, was now strongly revived.
Differing always on political issues, they were at once in accord when the fate of the government was at stake.

The position of Douglas during the extra session of the Senate had given marked satisfaction to Mr.Lincoln, and when the deliberations came to a close, on the 28th of March, the President said that a great gain had been made to the cause of the Union, by the direction which the speeches of Douglas would give to the sympathy and action of the Northern Democracy.