Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-05-14
From the New York Evening Post.
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senator Douglas showing the White
Feather.
It is now given out quite generally that Mr.
Pierce has pretty much determined to transfer
his Presidential mantle to the shoulders of Sena-
tor Douglas. His motives we will not stop to
speculate about. 1t is enough to say that prob
ably he sees no other way of preventing the Kan
sas policy of his administration being rebuked at
the democratic convention, by the nomination of
Buchanan. uncommitted on the subject, for his
successor.
One Of the most unmistakable evidences of the
authenticity of this rumor if found in the various
movements making in different quarters by the
trends of Douglas, to change the presidential
issue, and to divert public attention from the
Kansas business. 1t will be observed that Sena-
tor Weller, a fast friend of Senator Douglas, has
taken decided ground in favor of Walkers move
ments in Nicaragua; calls Walker his chosen
friend; charges England With aggressive propen-
stiles in Costa Rica, and laying the foundation of
an agitation for the recog :ition of Walkers
government in Nicaragua preparatory to an ap-
peal to arms against England, if she ventures to
co operate with any Central American state
againstit. In all this, it appears by our Wash
ington correspondence, that Senator Douglas
heartily concurs, and that he is quite ready to
take Mr.. Walker &c. his arms, without why or
wherefore.
Simultaneously with this movement we find
Mr.. Soule devoted friend of Mr. Douglas, the
chairman of the Louisiana delegation in the last
National Convention and who cast every vote
for Douglas till Pierce's nomination became GER
tain; he suddenly reappears above the political
horison. An invition, addressed to and signed
by some forty or fifty citizens of New Orleans,
appears in the papers of that city, which reads as
follows:
"Dear Sir: The undersigned, citizens of New
Orleans regarding the events now transpiring in
Central America as of vast Importance to the
country at large, and to the interests of the
South especially, and believing the present mo-
ment to be critical one, which calls for prompt
and energetic action on the part of the
friends of the American movement in Mica
ragua, and Of the Interior objects to be forwar
ded by that movement, have thought proper to
take this method of requesting that you would
furnish them such valuable information as you
may possess, and lay before them such sugges-
tons as you may think fitting, relative to the
present state of affairs in Central America and
kindred subjects"
What "the Interior objects referred to are,
no one need be at loss to conjecture. They
are to carry out the great purpose for which
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise was init
ated, and to make Mr.. Douglas President
As we have had occasion to state freqently be-
fore, Douglas, Atchison and the Disunion-chque,
who begat the Kansas bill, did not incur the obi
um Of that measure and PROSTATE the Democrat
muck for slavery in Kansas and Nebraska. The
result of the struggle, far those territories
were concerned, was of comparatively little con-
sequence to the South. They few at higher
game. They wished to unsettle the authority
of the ordinace of 1857, and the doctrine that
Congress had not power TO exclude slavery in
new territories That accomplished, the plan
was and is to COLOMBO and annex the Central
American states as fast as possible, and with the
doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty to aid them,
they we're quite sure of making slave states as
fast as they might be required for the purposes
of maintaining that equilibrium which Mr.. Call
houn, in his last speech in the United States Sen.
ate, dccl red to be the only salvation of the I'm
ion, and which, Mr.. Cushing, the other day, at
the Slash Cottage meeting, speaking, as he was
well known to do, for the President aud Secre-
tary of War, ayowed to be the policy Of the ad-
ministration.
These are the Interior objects which the peo-
pie Of New Orleans have invited Mr.. Soule to in
struct them about, and which il is expected will
unite the South with entire ananimity upon Mr..
Douglas He knows that he must contrive in
some way to obscure and dwarf the Kansas issue
in the next canvass or be disgracefully beaten,
and this is the agitation with which ne hopes to
accomplish his ooject. Ifhe can make an issue
between this country and England about the va
ldity of Walkers government he trusts to the
strength of national sympathy in favor Of the
American colonists who have taken service un-
der him, with the aid Of the administration,
which is doubtless already secured, to give the |
controversy importance, and, for the time at |
least sink the Kansas question out Of sight
This Is the most unqualified confession of weak |
ness which has yet been extorted from Douglas
Who. through an the fiery ordeal of northern Vi |
taperation, has kept up sort Of Dutch courage,