New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-19
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 10, 1858.
Diana Of the Ephesians was accounted "great," yet
her grandeur was the mercst circumstance compared
with the greatness Of the Democracy of America.
verify believe the Lecompton Constitution will pass,
after ail and pass In such way to cement again
that strangely cohesive body the National Demo-
cfacy
When, on Monday last before an audience of nearly
four thousand persons, and in the midst OF an excite
ment akin in quiet intensity to that which attended
the trial Of Warren Hastings, the Douglas men tri-
usnphed over the Administration, be would have been
bold man who should have declared the possibility
Of reunion of the hostile sections Of party
divided upon question OF vital interest, and enraged
by a recent personal collision. Yet this reunion is
now not only possible, but imminent As thus
Calhoun now declares that the Freeson party have,
beyond the shadow Of doubt, gained the day in
Kansas. The Lecompton Constitution, during its
brief residence in the pocket of the party who
brought 1t to Washington, has undergone change
mysterious that necromaney and spirit writing seems
to have interviewed for the salvation of the Union
and the Democracy. It is said that the Constitution
now contains clause permitting the abolition, BY
purchase 81 slavery within six months after the ter
sifogy shall have been admitted as a State Further
ii Is stated that the Senate bin providing for the ad
mission Of Kansas and Minnesota viii set out with
preamble admitting the power Of State to change
It's constitution precisely when and as often il
pleases.
So construed, 50 patched and polished, what is
there to hnderthe most rabd Abolitionis from voting
for the admission Of the Lecompton Constitution
Nothing earthly. Already, two Pennsylvania Demo-
Gratis, who votewith the opposition, have announced
their return to party fealty and athird the represent
alive from Bedford county, WILL understand, renew
his allegiance. These, If no others are added, will
make difference Of six in favor Of Lecompton-and
carry it,
Thus, Old Buck. the widest of living men, will take
the wind out Of Master Douglas sails and retrieve
the nearly fatal error Of making schedule in Wash
ington for Constitution framed in Kansas. sup
pose you are aware that this wonderful Lecompton
Constitution was printed in the Union office, with i'm
portant omissions. The National lntelIigencer ex
posed this. But what is straugest of all, this very
Constitution appeared in the Washington Union and
10 a St Louis paper the same day, accompanied in
the Union by carefully dgested editorial expressing
no doubt. the opinions OF Cabinet conference. So,
The Lecompton Constitution must have reached Wash
ington (by the underground railroad, doubtless,}
day before it reached st. Louis. recall these we'll
known aets merely to show how very curious is the
world, geographical and political, we live in.
Unless obstinate private resentments interfere see
now no material obstacle to prevent Douglas from
coming back into the orthodox fold. willheg C'est
scion All the spols, the spoils And 1860 is not
far off.
Since the great excitement attending the close
voting on Monday, there has been dolefululI. The
Army bill has been bitterly opposed in the Senate,
Senator Benjamin is among the number Of its oppo-
nents. In the House yesterday the attendance was
very thin and the time consumed in reporting bills,
resolutions and the like a great deal of work has
been cut out By the committees Of both houses, and
in the event s the speedy admission of Kansas it is
probable the work will be more or less properly dis
posed Of and the session brought to a speedy close
Within a day Or two past have heard considerable
talk about The simultaneous secession of the cotton
States, and rumors to that effect purporting to come
from the highest authority, are floating about the
streets The clerks in some Of the departments have
looked very blue and some Of the Southern members
have looked very mad-and this is the nearest ap-
proach to secession have seen.
Hon. John 8. Phelps, of Missouri, has addressed a
letter to the citizens Of Arkansas in relation to the
Pacific railroad. The letter is too long for busy
to read especially when the busy man disagrees
with Mr.. Phelps, and thinks the Southern preferable
TO the central route
Sumner-the lazy, contemplate sneak--eame back
In time to vote against Lecompton. He towers upon
the monument Of his shame. Apes have been wor.
shipped, beetles have been adored, lust has been
deifed, and theft had its god but it remained for
the nineteenth century to witness the apothess Of
poltroonery, and for the Yankees to canonize a
coward.
In the rotlnda there are now several landscape
pictures Of toeabIe merit painted by an artist who
attended Fremont on one of his famous expeditions
With the landscapes, likeness in oil Of Brigham
Young is exhibited, and il is curious to see how the
ladies gather around to gaze the minister of many
wives. What interest, think you, they can have in
such creature Judging from the CALCULATIONS Of
the fair spectators, they all think him very hand
some man.
II appears that Bernhisel and the President have
not come to terms about the Mormon business. Too
many fat contracts can be given and too much in
1uenee gained, for the Administration TO give up.
The war Is to be prosecuted with energy.
Direct taxation is making its way into the heads Of
some meiabers. How it win emerge, if ever, from
those lahyrinths, deponeut saith not. MALou.