Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1857-12-31
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Prom our own Correspondent.
WAsurxGroS Cry, Dec. -

bold ground IN favor of the admission
Of Kansas under the I.ccompton Con.
stitution. with. or without Slavery
rs the case may present itself. | am
told that this is the sawe DIR. Fitch.
who, when canyaSsing for Congress IN
your State in 1910, declared in a letter
written 10 one Grove PoNEroy, that he
was i'm fovor of abolishing Slavery in
the District Of Columbia; Of extending
the Wilmot Proviso over the Territory
of California and New Mexico: and of
prohibiting the " interstate Slave
State. He was then seeking votes, as
I am told. for scat in Congress, and
without the aid of PoMERoY and his
Abolition friends, nc could not sue
ceci. Hence his letter above referred
too. Now he is seeking votes TO re-
tain seat; hence his present, seem
ingly inconsistent position. | think,
however, he will not be as successful
in guiiinq Southern gentlemen, as he
was in misleading GROVE PoMEnoY and
party. The most Of them who are
now in the Senate, have placed them
selves upon the record in the HARLAN
case last Congress; and doubtless have
too much regard for their character,
for consistency to sacrifice it to graft
fy Mr.. FITcu, or any other Northern
weather-cock, who turns about with
every brccse that may seem to favor
his own selfish purposes.
The veritable JONI l.. RoBINsoN but
recently received, at the hands of
Southern Democrats, such rcbukc as
all such changclngs should receive at
the hands of honorable men of all par
ties. He, like DIR. FITcH, has been
striving by word and decd, to convince
the South that he had rcpcntcd of all
former political sins, and was now
ready to be baptiscd into full fellow
ship in the Pro-Slavcry church.
Southern gentlemen very naturally
and nationally conclude, that il gentle.
men would play false to the Frccmcn
Of the North, they might at some nm
guarded moment be tempted into u he.
trayal of the South also. Hence their
want of confidence.
A Bill passed the Senate yesterday
and the House to-day, authorizing TIA,
issue of twenty millions of dollars
worth of Treasury Notes, of the dc
nomination of one hundred dollars, I,
meet deficiency in the Treasury, {,
pay the current Expenses of the Gov
eminent for the present year. Thus
Indirectly establishing Government
Bank for the time being; and sending
forth Government paper to take TIN
place Of gold and silver, which Demo
Gratis, have up to the present time
! claimed as the only true and propc
currency for the Government, an'
> which the President in his late Mess
!, age SO highly eulogiscd.
Republican members did every thin;
in their power to prevent such an issu
of paper, by proposing the sale of Gov
ernmcnt Stocks or Bonds, of demon
nation so large as to prevent then
from being used as n circulating mcdi
y um. But such propositions howcvc
n were voted down by almost strict
% party vote; and we will soon find thes
n notes circulating in the country, to th
- amount of twenty millions of dollars
instead of that amount~pf gold and 81
yer. So much then, for Democrat
consistency upon the subject of OF
= currency.
DOUGLAS replied to DIR. FITcH in
speech full of bitterness and withcrin
sarcasm; showed the fallacy of I'll
Doctors reasoning; his inconsistent
with the President, who he was tr,
ing to defend, and in very gent
manner limited that the Doctors pr
vious record was probably not in
what 1t should be; but said he wou
not go back to old musty letters al
records, and bring them up in judg
: mcnt, in a case where they were II
!, strictly in the issue.
DOUGLAS is the best gladiator in
running fight, | have ever seen.
- parties blows, come from what quart
they may with mastery hand, al
returns them with force that is ;
WAYS felt. He remarked to-day tn
he would reply to gentlemen one at
y tins, as long as his strength lasted
!, he felt like it; and if they tired hi
out by their repeated attacks, as tn
seemed determined TO do; he won
: recruit himself and then give the VIII,
\ squad one general raking fire.
You are probably not aware of t
/. great disadvantage by which DoUGL
is surrounded here. There is pow,
w. full aud side pressure in favor of $
at very surrounding our National Capt.