The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-12-27
A CARD.


A CARD. }
In his speech in the Senate the instant Judge
Douglas took occasion to mpugn the actions and motives
of those editors who happen TO be hcre" in Wash.
mgton who differ with him upon the Kansas question, and
who write home to their papers such views they have
thereon, know not ho the editors who have been
thus assaed by the honorable senator know not how
many editors he alluded to- j know not how many ed,
tors may be there writing for their presses But
one of the number alluded to in the senator's speech
however great OF small that number may be, feel
willing to allow the mputatons cast upon by that
senator to pass unnoticed And will in the beginning
premise that as editor of daily democratic paper
now temporarily sojourning 'here, apprehcnd that
am as independent in my course and actuated therein by
as honorable motives in my editorial duties as is or as
can be, the honorable senator from Illinois in his sena
toria duties And strikes that for man who owes
SO large share of his present and past prominence to the
democratic editors Of the country does Judge Douglas
his onslaught upon any portion of them is TO say tho
least, in very bad taste. ns
There are hundreds of editors in every section Of tho
country who have heretofore stood manfully up to the
honorable senator who have aided him in arriving at
that distinction which he SO much values to-day, although
they cannot conscienousy support him in his present po
sition upon the Kansas question. And am among
them have in many line and column defended him
and his policy alike against the assaults Of black epub
licansm. But now know of presses and few OF them
quasi democratic whose hatred Of him has been extra
ordinary that their bitterness out in rivers of gall
upon hm-presses that have blasphemed him like an
other Judas that enough in his present position
to applaud and commend
As to the Illinois senator's being read out Of the dem
ocratc party by editors 'here sfor with such deeds
they are charged without have only to say far
am concerned that my press taking its position it
did at the earliest moment upon the Kansas ques
ton as it standshas never by word or syllable
intmated that that gentleman either read out Of the
party k read out of the party to desert the dem
ocac party He denies too that he is either to be read
out OF the party, that he will leave it, we'll that
there any authority for making the question Of the ad
mission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution
test of party featy. Well it is not for to judge
whether this question should be, decide whether 1t
win be- made test not but will take occasion to
remind tho honorable gentleman that IL 1T were to be
made such test there can be found high authority and
recent precedent in the senator's history for making
it So Neither he nor the country will forget that the
Kansas Nebraska act itself of which he the dstn
s1,ished author ,cas made test Of shagh-om democracy
from the moment it made administration measure
No man has so much prstcd by the results of that test
as the honorable senator himsef-a test which, If am
not in error had greater share In establishing
than he 1t this test however that gave by turns
every State in the North to black-repubcans, and to
the senator himself black republican colleague in the
Senate 1t this test though that sifted the demo
cratic party and gave it radiance of all the antisavey
abolition elements that had given it much trouble be-
fore it purified the party and in its results established
the inalienabc doctrine Of popular sovereignty, and in
the fall of 1856 secured tho election Of James Buchanan
whilst at the same time it made permanent the doctrine
of non intervention in the domestic affairs of the States
and the Territories
AS one of the editors, therefore Of the democratic
press who sustain the President in the position assumed
by him the Kansas question in his late message and
one too who has been consistent supporter and defend
of the Kansas Nebraska from the day which
Judge Douglas offered it in the Senate chairman Of the
Committee Territories up to this hour protest against
the wholesale denunciation of dishonesty and corrupt
motives which that senator has proper, from his
place in the Senate to upon those editors who cannot
follow the author Of the Nebraska
with his scheme of eioa in the affairs of Kansas for
the sake of non, ii,tsrrafon,
A NORTHERN DEMOCRATIC EDITOR.
WAsnISeroN, Dec 49, 1857 f ECO
do not wish to appear over-ostenatious and hence
forbear to append my signature to the above card but
my with the editor of the Union who is at ber
ty to furnish it to any person interested.
PANS COACHES You take a coach and pay for the time
you have it, beginning from the first quarter OF an hour
for which comparatively high price is charged From
that up to hour, trng increase is added for every
additional five minutes For the full hour you pay thir
tysix cents, and for every hour fraction Of m
hour after the first at the rate five minutes being
the minimum Of time computed watch is inserted IN
the drivers box TO be in full view of the occupant
of the carriage, and the drivers obliged TO at the rate
Of four miles hour very necessary provso when you
pay by the hour This IL certainly admirable in theory
and practice. There Is opportunity for disputes
Everything is definite and the driver, when you enter
his carriage hands you his card with his number and tar
in Of prices calculated for every five minutes after the hrs
fifteen You both look at the watch when you start ana
all is ht--Paris Letter.
TIE FIRST SILK MANUFACTURED THE UNITED SrATrs.-
Mr.. I. Kohn merchant in this city, who deals IN MT
ands, frnges &c. has put up valuable machinery I'D
Mr.. Thras building for weaving silk. He showed US q
piece silk yesterday containing twelve yards which was
made by this machinery, and which he claims the hrs'
piece Of silk made in this country Ii very heavy
made of double thread, and is plaid Of five oolos
is certainly successful experiment. Mr. kohn has ma,
chinery for producing six hundred different patterns OF
figured silks and he intends to do good business az SIX
making. He also intends TO make ribands. Mr. Aioel.
Sugden who superntends the work, is an expenenceo
and competent weaver and he has procured from Eng
land certain portions Of the machinery used ard dreoo
the work in putting IL up The piece of silk shown US
scvcn-eighths of yard wide, and IL Is though. 70 w
worth 81 yard though IL probably be sofa LOT ef'
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