The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1855-08-29
Correspondents If the New York Herald.
Very Curious from Washingtsn.
WASHINGTON. August 10. 1885.

You are aware that very lately Mr.
Senator Mason, of Virginia, aud Senate,
Douglas. of Illinois, dined with the Presi
dent at the White House, and YOU wer.
right in supposing that they had some
thing at the dinner besides bacon and cab
bage.
Since Judge Douglas has gone of 10 IT.,
North, and tie President and Mr.. Masos
have departed for Virginia white. red, blue
salt and swec! sulphur SPRING.. the secret
in part, is out The leading conversation
a; that dinner was upon ksnsss. Redeer
Atchison, StringFelow. &c. Mason ap
proved the removal Of Reeder, but said
that Southern man ought TO have gone tc
Kansas 10 the first place-not a compro.
miser. bu: a regular fire eater. Mr. Pierce
smiled, and SAID that he had 10 consull
bo,h sections He didn't like to remove
Rec Ter, because at the Pennsylvania DC
tob.r election ii might do some damage 10
the party; whereas, there was otherwise
hope, this fall, Of saving Pennsylvania
Could not R-eder have been spared Til
the middle of OCTOBER Mason said no
Virginia would desert You it there were
any further tcmporizng You are with
us or against US. Let Recder 90 and we
will provide against the deserton of Penn
sylvania. Keep up the excitement, and
while we break up the Know Nothings on
the rock OF slavery, we can get the de-
mocracy together again. Make String
fellow Governor of Kansas, after the fall
elections. and we shall thus secure dis
tinct understanding on The slavery issue
upon the meeting OF this new abolition
Congress Let us see where they are.
Judge Douglas dehurred. The whole
Of our difficulties in this Kansas imbroglio
had resulted from the outrageous proceed
ings of Atchison. Doniphan, and that set.
Stnnglellew was but the StrngfelIow Of
Atchson, doing bis work for pros CITY e
consideration. Between Doniphan and
Atchison, in their desperate rivalry to Sc
cure the suffrage OF the pro-slavery party
Of Missouri for the United States Set ate,
IN the next Missouri Legislature, all these
Kansas border troubles had been created.
The proceedings Of those men bal brought
popular sovereignty IN the Terrltoii into
contempt. and the whole country on both
sides TO the dangerous Issue Of most vio-
len, and virulent sectional contest for the
Presidency. Nor can We hope to rally
The Northern democracy together till this
Doniphan, Atchison and Strngfellow leg
islature Of Kansas is sc, aside, its acts de-
clared null and void, and provision made
for a government of the Territory by the
bon" fde people thereof, according TO the
law. We must do this before we eau
hope rally the Northern democracy to the
support of the Nebraska bill
Mason ddn't care for the Norll e n de-
mocracy --didn't want them the time la
gone by for that. A sectional contest is
inevitable. If Mr.. Pierce is with us, who
shall sustain him-.f no, where else can
the administration lock for support?
Such, | understood. was substantially a
part Of that dinner conversation at the
White House between Messrs. Pierce
Douglas, and Mason. Ii may be over col.
ored, or it may not be colored sufficiently
Ligh. OF one thing ! am positively assured,
and that is, tina, Judge Douglas makes nc
SC cret of his denunciations Of Doniphan
Alchison and Stringfellow, in cons ,quence
e the oiium which their proceedings have
brought upon the great saving territorial
doctrine OF squatt.r sovereignty.