The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-22
BoUGLAs IN nissLSsPPh
Ifrom tAs Nlmissipplan, sept. II j

we cordially Join Senator Brown in the wish expressed
IN his speech at Hazlehurst that Douglas may whip
Lincoln of his boots but we 60 further After
Lincoln receives his drubbing want him to return the
compliment and arrup Douglas And then, by way of
making honors easy and rdding the country entirely of
pair ot deiaved, clustering, mischieyous, lowdown
dcmaGogues, we would have them make Kilkenny cat
light o It, and eat each other up We have choice to
express between them because it is like choosing be-
tween Punch and the devil If post of importance and
responsibility requiring the qualities of honesty and
fidelity, had to be filled. and were called upon to
choose between two criminals who had graduated in the
school OF knavery and were alike adopts in its black arts
We would not like to make selection between them.
We would prefer leaving it to the decision of the faes
than to have hand in the business, way or the
other II kind friend to place before a choice
bit OF strychne and delicious iorse of arsenic upon
which TO feast ourselves, stomach would revolt
both dishes, and we would most respectfully say not
any thank you" tH.i 5tt lhae1 3sa III h .safsl
There is nothing in the recent Of Douglas
ia bis present position TO save him from the execraons
o the South and redeem him from the sentence Of
demnaton which she has passed upon his conduct To
say that he has great taents does not furnish
for ndulging sympathy for him. We would no more
urge that for restoring bad to conf
dence than we would commend rattlesnake to
bosom because of it's, immense power 20 strike and the
intense venom OF its fangs VII
In 1854 Douglas to curry favor with the South and
not to confer benefit her. his recent proves
brought forth his for repeating the Missouri
restriction The measure stirred up the passions Of north
ern sectionalsts against her to degree before unknown
the end the battle which he claimed the credit of begin
ming. But ho dishonorably skulked from the conse-
duehbds Of Its o art At the late session of Congress-
the Missouri restriction having been reiosed Kansas
presented herself for admission into the Union with
constitution establishing slavery. President Buchanan
meeting the responsibility with the irmness of Roman
patriot, recommended her Immediate admission and
staked his administration upon it, His message had
scarcely been read when Douglas denounced with We
hemence of utterance which elected rapturous applause
from the black republican foes of the constitution and
the South FILLED with admiration at his course Seward
Hale, Wilson and otef agitaors To whom the fanatics
had been accustomed to assign the geftralship stood
ssie aid gave him the lead For long months he cou
selod with them IN their cauciscs bore their sooty
bannef represented their reasonable sentiments in de-
BATE black vomited on the unoitndlg beads Of the adj
mnistration and the South whole floods Of miscpresc
alton and calnmny and capped the climax of his in
qutcs by defeating the measure 1t is fact not to be
forgotten that but for the treachery of this and the
small squad of servile creatures that stood at his beck
Kansas would have at been admitted into the Union
| slave State.
SO fat had lie wo upon the gratule and affections Of
the republican, toiispratofs that Horace Greeley
the leader Of the free soil outside of Congress-
ly advocated his election to the Senate Greeley had
assurances which satisfied him that he would render the
Hlck-republcan Ga,ise ar more service than lincoln
John Wentworth and any of the other abolition veterans
In Illinois Bat the rainbands in Illinois did not agree
with Greeley. They were willing to accord Douglas
their homage for what he had done but willie they
loved his treason, they not disposed afford him
opportunity of betrsig them rs he had BETRAYED the
administration and tle South 1lies therefore nominated
Lincoln Douglas nominated hinself and the contest
aRstare wcoiling each other with the croety of wild
beasts, to the evident satisfaction of the multitude
As before said, it fight in which the South should
feel no other concern than curiosity to the result
Lincoln has been longer in the service Of cesosn than
Douglas but the latter will bring to its aid the zeal of
new convert and probably larger capacity for mischief
On the great ssue which will come before the next
Congress- that Of maintaining nyioate the clause of the
conference bill requiring Kansas to have population
hort
according to the present ratio they cordially agree In
his late speech at Frecport Douglas declared with Lin
coln that he would vote to resnd that clause of the bill
| as he had voted against t on It's passage
On the occasion he declared himself advocate
Of squatter sovereignty, which Senator Brown with
much force TRUTH and eloquence denounced in his speech
at Eazlehurst. This is the doctrine under which the
rowing adventures from every cline who first float into
the Territories, claim the prero.ative prohibiting
the South from settling with her slaves within their lin
its. 1t is antagonstc to the creed of the democratic
party as defined in the Cincinnati platform, and d
rectly at variance with the Drcd Scott decision We pre-
sent below extract from his speech defining his posi-
tion on this subject
"Thc next question Mr. Lincoln propounded to me is
Can the people of Territory exclude slavery from their
limits by any fair before it comes into the Union
State Z answer emphaticay, Mr.. Lincoln has
heard me answer hundred times, every stump in
Illinois, that in my opinion the people of Territory cam
by lawful means exclude slavery before it in
State
.'Mr Lincoln knew that had given that answer over
and over again He heard mo argue The Ntbrasku biz
that princ, all over the State in Is54-5 and g. and he
has now to pretend to have any doubt upon
that subject.
Whatever the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as
TO the abstract question Of whether slavery may in
der the constitution not the people of Territory have
the lawful to admit it exclude it they please
for the that slavery cannot exist day hour
anywhere unless supported by local police regulations
furnishing remedies and means Of enforcing the right to
bold slaves Those local and police regulations only be
furnished by local leaislatue the people of the