Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-01
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1.-THE Donglas Men Going Back.''
This is the caption of letter from Wash
ington, under date of May oath, to the New
York EIpress.' The writer alleges that the
Douglas recusants are 'about to file again
into the line of the regulars and adds that
= '.the indications upon which be forms his
opinions are unmistakable.' Amongst these
indications are their refusal to unite with the
opposition upon candidate to beat the sham
Z democratic candidate for door-keeper, and
permitting CAMPBELL anti-Lecompton, to be
elected from the House, to make room for
VALLANDIGHAM, Lecompton. The writer
adds:
"ln fact one of the best-informed of the
adherents of Douglas told me this morning
that the Administration and Douglas men are
now, in effect, reunited, and that they are
now looking forward, with hope, to the
Charleston Convention, believing that Doug
las will therein unite upon himself all the
wings OF the Democratic party, be the nomi-
nee of that convention, restore harmony to
the party. and make thus of its disagreeing
actions and members ''happy family"
Is additional evidence. the following ex-
tract rom the Washington Star, a lesser organ
OF the Administration, which has been very
dennnciatory of DOUGLAS and his guard, is
cited:
"Recent developments lead MS to the con-
cius'on that Senator Douglas and nine-tenths
Vi MS immediate supporters here are now
seriously anxious to renew their connection
with the Democratic party-a wise and "a
n trlotic determination on their part indeed
we cannot doubt that it will be hailed with
unielgned pleasure by nearly all the Demo-
craIs OF the country, and trust that the party
ma ctx
eilnent through which they will present ar mi
ted front to their arch enemy Republican
partyism."
getL TO these indications we NAV add another.
are il,fDoUGs4As has introduced in the Senate
bill comforting upon the President further
power to enable him to RESTRAIN and redress
outrages upon the flag and citizens of the
United States" by which act be has drawn
from the Washington Union such expressions
as the honorable Senator from Illinois, the
distinguished Senator from Illinois, and
commentator of his motives. When the
Union lets down its up-turned lip of scorn,
and smiles instead, surely it must mean some
thing.
The correspondent of the Express may be
mistaken as to the result to which these indi-
expected anything else than a cordial co6pe-
ton of the DOUGLAS and BUCHANAN shams in
good time. 1t is, surely, the policy of the
sham democracy to preserve the party from
utter route in the North, and this can only be
done by saving DOUGLAS and his friends to it.
Unless this should be done, the spoils will pass
out OF the possession of the party which has
been SO long accustomed to the enjoyment of
them. Now, it is very certain that neither
the DOUGLAS nor the BUCHANAN wings will
submit to this if the thing can be prevented.
They may quarrel, and call each other hard
names, and fight, but always with ''an eye to
the main chance" the spoils, with which they
will never part, IF Il can be helped! The course
which DOUGLAS bias pursued, against the ad-
mission of Kansas, has strengthened him
vastly amongst the sham democratic masses
of the North, the quarter in which he most
needed strength. 1t has made him so power
full there that, should the sham democracy
take him up and run him for the Presidency,
in 1860, no black republican could beat him.
And why should the party not run him? Up
on the slavery question, his record, previous to
the presentation of the issue ON the Lecomp-
ton constitution, was as fair as BUCHANAN's?
The difference between him and the President
in regard to the Lecompton constitution, is
not one which may not be looked over: mas
much as the latter originally favored the
policy of submitting the constitution. in all
its parts, to the vote of the people, and sent
WALKER to Kansas tocarry out that idea; and
inasmuch, also, as the result of the English
programme promises to be what both readily
agree to, to-wit that Kansas shall wait for
admission until her population amounts to
$4,000, or enough to entitle her to a repre-
sentave in Congress. During the debate in
the Senate on the English substitute, DOUGLAS
announced that he wsuld vote for it, if it
should be reduced to asingle proposition to
admit Kansas, only afterher population should
reach $4,000. The Indications from Kansas
are that the land proposition submitted, will
be voted down, and kansls, as the substitute
provides, lett Territory antil her population
attains the requisite numIer, as suggested by
DOUGLAS. Should this be the case the DoUG-
LAS and BUCHANAN sham democracy will have
reached the same point by different roads,
and be safely mounted the same platform.
What can keep them from embracing, and
travelling on together cordially? The two
wings thus reconciled, and DOUGLAS the only
one of their leaders able to defeat black re-
piblicanism in the North, will not the party
unite upon him for the Presidency!
Now, if what is indicated above should
come TO pass, how will our reconstructionists,
who have been extolling DOUGLAS feel? Where
will they have to go? With what effect can
they work against DOUGLAS should they de-
cline to support him us the sham democratic
no ninee for the Presidency