New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-12-23
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

WASHINGTON, Dec H. 1857.
Mr. Buchanan, in playing the part OF Toots with
regard to Judge Douglas detection by saying that
it's Of no consequence" deceives nobody Official
dignity requires that In the moment of greatest dan
ger the captain Of the ship should be most calm and
collected. The voyagers must not be permitted to
contract panic from the convused expression Of the
chief officers features However much alarmed
Within he must be outwardly cool. 1t is told here
that Mr. buchanan said the other day that. the Dem
ocratic party had lost many a man greater than
Douglas without sustaining permanent injnry.n A
question may be raised as to whether the President
considers Douglas great man at all ; but If his loss
be really matter Of no consequence. why the nightly
caucuses held by Democratic members about him
why all this delight on the part Of Black Republicans
why this CONSERVATION in the presses throughout the
country; why the unanimous opinion entertained
here that not only the Democratic party but the ad
mlnistraton, and the Union ITSELF are in such peril
as they we're never before and, it is to be hoped
but not beloved that the last may never be again
Judge Douglas may be small potato, but in the
present ticklsh posture Of the Democratic party the
loss even Of email potato may result in starvation
and death. During the next few weeks we look for
scenes OF Congressional storm and uproar more VIC
lent than any ever before witnessed. Expectation
and dread are more or less plainly written upon the
features Of every man who has his own or hts coun-
Try interests at stake Out Of the existing trouble
no one not the wisest can see their way clearly
The organs Of the administration together with other
Journals Of the old fogy school and those DESTROYS of
obtaining tho name of conservative, are persuading
themselves and their readers that the storm will blow
quickly over that the Lecompton Constitution will be
quietly submitted to the people of Kansas that they
vnf ,lo
admitted forthwith into the Union. Fain would /
believe this. But our Black Republican surgeons
have moi dea of seeing either tampon or styptio ap-
piled to the Kansas hemorrhage The fictitious oppo-
sition Of Douglas, raised at the very moment when
the difficulty was approaching solution, and when
the weight OF his own name in favor of his own bill
would have done to complete the solution than
the combined weight of perhaps all other names in
the Senate Chamber shows conclusiyely the determi
naton OF the North not to declare peace between
itselt and the South now nor ever hereafter The
south IS nsolenty de6ed and the Union imperiled by
the hawTpiekng Of demagogue, whose malicious
and unnecessary opening OF the crevice can accom-
pish only the perpetuity Of his return as Senator
from State,of which, In The absence Of all chance
for the Presidency he seeks now to become tile quasi
Calhoun with this difference, that Calhoun became
the representative man Of his State by undertaking
citizeHs With bis own carefully studied views Of
the theory Of government, while Douglas leads his
STATE By cunningy sbordinatng his political opin.
ions ST be las any) TO the whins and caprces Of
ileserosepsoas and liuinstiucted population.
The North loudly declares its determination never
p admit aiipther inch Of slave territory into the Union
and g goes % The Winds the essence Of the great
hansas'N ebraska hill The doctrine Of that plausi.
bly devised instrument Is, hencesofth,as tenabie at
tie Nerth as the Fugitive Slave law. The common
properly Of tho Union belongs now 10 but one sec.