The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-02
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sen a8ahst inc = attdcks OF the organs OF tne al
ministraton." We are not sure that there had been
any attacks to provoke defence; for, except to
deny the statements of his Tarrytown speech, and to
characterize its authors fasifcations of private
respondence we ourselves have had very little say
of the Tarrytown orator, one way or the other. A
vndication of his own course seemed necessary to
the orator himself however, and we do not object to
his convenient hypothesis, that it was provoked by
the organs of the administration"
The vindication is very lame affair. 1t viii dis
appoint all the expectations that had been entertain
ed concerning it, and the dealers in penny lit
erature, who had given heavy orders for what
they expected would be Sensation" paper, will
be the chief losers by the publication for the
men who thought it would be a rocket will find it
only stick, and those who expected "infernal
machine that would blow every thing up sky-high,
viii find nothing but package of CONNECTIONS in the
shape Of bonne bouche though is three months in
advance of Christmas and Santa Claus annual adj
vent. There is abundant detail Of private CONVEX
sation in the "vindicaton z but there private
letters. In this respect we disappointed. 1t
had been bruited about that among the private let
tiers to appear would be that Of the President to
Governor Walker, written while the governor was
in Kansas; and we sincerely hoped that that famous
letter would at last see the light. We were anxious
that it should We desired the country to see it,
We were delighted at the thought that the people
were about at last to this letter; but it has
come up missing, and we are disappointed and
grieved.
There are no private letters in the "Vindication'
from President or cabinet. The circumstance is sig
niioant; and the inference is either that the author
of the paper was too honorable to produce them
or that there were none which could have been pro-
duced at ALL or none that would not have reflected
credit upon their writer's. Between the two alter
natives it is not difficult to fix upon the true in
ference.
The effort of the "Vindicaton is to show that its
author has been grievousy and shameuly prosecuted
for his course upon the Lecompton question. That
is mistake He has not been assailed for that part
Of his conduct That is not where the shoe pinches
Since the passage Of the English bill there has been
no disposition to make an issue with the democrats
who acquesced in it, and ceased their denuncations
of the democracy for the pursued upon the
Lecompton question. 1t is only those who refused
to do this and who have played into the hands Of
the black-repubcans who have been rebuked by the
democratic party since. The Press is one Of the pa
pers and its editor one of the who thus acted,
and he and it have been denounced for this conduct
Judge Douglas denounced the English bill as pre-
scribng one rule for the admission of slave States
and for the admission of free States; while he
would not cease to denouuce the Lecompton consti-
tuition as fraud, swindle, and cheat; and he has
,dop tbaoaa frb
votes on the original Lecompton question
There has been no issue made by the organs Of the
administration with any member of the party on the
original merits Of the Lecompton question since the
passage Of the English bill. Nobody has been at
tackled or denounced but those who were either in
open alliance with the blackrepublican party, or
those who were continuing to denounce the action
Of the democratic party at the last session of Con-
gress as attempt to perperate fraud, swindle,
and cheat"
There has been no issue made against democrats
on the original Lecompton question, and the claim Of
tine Tarrytown orator that the whole North and the
larger portion Of the South supporters Of himself
and Douglas against the administration and the de-
mocracy in the last Congress, an issue that has
not been made, is absurd and silly. 1t is amusing to
witness with what facility the author of the "Vindi-
cation" figures up among his followers presses,
States and leading men of the Union. Maryland is
Forney State the Richmond Enquirer is a Forney
paper; Wise, Toombs Stephens, Brown Of Missis-
sppi Green Of Missouri, Reverdy Johnson, and
list Of worthless, are Forney Here is sample
Of Mr., Forneys face style Of marshalling followers
Cast your eyes the wide cxpansc of the coun-
try and observe the change which has taken place in
short time Let us begin at Maryland, and there we
shall find that at democratic convention lately held in
the city of Baltimore resolutions in favor Of the Kansas
policy of the administration tabled by decided
vote. From the State published the eloquent
letter of the Hon. Reverdy johnson (whosc powerful
speech in Philadelphia in 1856 will long be remembered
zane prescription Of Judge Douglas.
Sin Virginia. Governor Wise, the representative man
Of the State whose brilliant and uncquacd against
religious prescription will be remembered long the
name Of the Old Dominion itself, and who has always
emerged the victor from his contests with factions
remarkable stands in the forefront Of the scene,
bavely denouncng the Kansas policy Of the admnist
ton In all the phases and especially that portion Of
which seeks to force upon democracy dishonorng and
repusve test The old organ Thomas Rtchie the Rich
mond Enquirer which daily lauresb its intrepid
resistance secession IN oil its hord guises stands forward
now, of old in defence of Jefersonan principles and
responds TO the appeals of the true democracy OF the
North Even in South Carolina find Mr.. Speaker
Orr lifting his voice. not against the Kansas blunder of
the administration at least in favor Of Judge Douglas
In Georgia. the leading active of the democratic
community, Mcss Toombs and Stephens backed by the