The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1858-08-19
rsosn the wash.ngton Union.
WAT ooNeTI1vTH ALLDolAHc1 10 the
pE0oC2ArlC PAkfYi

democratic party 7 Either he is in ol
he is out Of the party II he is out, il
matters little whether he has been "rcat
ant" or whether he has ilounccd himself
out; 80 that he is out dcscrvedly Il
he has been guilty, then the being in
and out Of the party are undistinguisha
bic facts, and there IL no such thing as q
wcIldcfncd democratic organization
Tie question is not whether the demo
cratic party can do without Mr.. Douglas
whether it can afford to cut loose from
him and his mlnions, whether it is able
and the time is now arrived to de.
clare independence of him; for the cx.
pericnce of the last six months has
shown that II !, cannot get along with
out him, II is in vain to expect to get
along with him. The question with the
party is simply whether il is sclEsus.
tanning independent organization, ac,ua.
ted by decent and conservative self.
respect, and strong enough 20 rcpe as
slul,, to subdue treason. 10 punish ag.
grcssion from within as well AS without,
to protect it's integrity. and to preserve
q future for itself
The Kansas. Nebraska bin was Judge
Douglass own measure and was nc
ceptcd by the party as democratic
measure and democratic test at his
own instigation. II was enacted by the
party, defended by the party, and put in
force under territorial government in
Kansas by the party, AS democratic
measure. At every step of its history it
WAS opposed by Judge Douglass present
allies, the black republicans who re-
sisted its passage through Congress
ag,atod for its repeal before the people.
OF the Union, and then organized emf
grant aid societies for prccipitatng vast
hordcs of vagabonds into Kansas to re-
sst its peaceful and proper application
in that Territory. The black repubi-
cans opposed the territorial government
organized under it; resisted every law
and act OF that government; refused to
vote at any election, and by every shift,
evasion, ingenuity, and factions pro-
cecding they could invent, cndcavored to
bring the Ncbraska-k ansas bill into dis
rcputc dorision, and nullity They
continued tins opposition from the day
# its enactment down To- the elections Of
January 4th last. under the Lccompton
constitution on purely party grounds.
In the last stages of this iactious OPP
position and these unrcmtted cxertions
If the black republicans. in and ont If
Kansas, to defeat the application of the
Kansas Nebraska act, and to discrc1t
every legal and regular step taken under
IL; and at the moment that the Democrat
it party was about Ia bring the new
state into the Union in pursuance of the
iegll aud regular measures which they
had taken in strict and religious accord
aucc with the act, and N the teeth OF
the violent opposition of the black re-
publicans, for this pnrrosc-Judge Doug
las aud his minons wheeled of from
their party, took up the olatsor of the
opposition, justified ,li 'scir faetkus
non-yotlng and cmigrsnt-ald proceedings,
'lncd them IN their Congressional votes,
and out.hcroicd llcrod IA their cadcavors
a. thwart the democratic rarty in bring.
tng the provisions Of the Ncbra ska X an.
sas act t. q final cuusumma:ion. in the
admission ui the state under a constltu-
ton framed by It's supporters, aud re-
esd y, us Opponents. !. tho Territory.
Not only did Judge pouglas sad his
minions desert his own great measure at
the crisis Of its fate, desert the party in
and out of Kansas who had supported il,
through thick and thin; but he Joined
the party who had % posed it from FIRST
t. last, entered e,c all their factiouS
,lampr against the proceedings which
had been taken 10y It's friends aud s-;,.
portcrs, and made common causc with
them in Congress Throughout, lang and
boisicrpus session These are facts well
known to- the country aud To- the party,
neither of whoa can NO" lee drred by
HIS special pleading about the rights of
majority, (who iactously refused to
vote, and against forcing constitution
on people (who courtcd the forcing Of
1t upon them hy not voting
Glozc his conduct As lee may, refine
and specialplcad as he may, the country
and the democratic party cannot be de-
cclvvi by huH. H. hLs resisted the con
summation of his own great measure
He has denounced its steadtast support
crs AS men without homer and the perpc-
traitors Of Fraud lie has Joined Seward,
Hale, Wade, and Trumbnll, the veteran
opponents Of his great measure IN
making war upon ii, in defeating its
application in Kansas, and IN opposing
anil deuouncing its supporters. lie
voted for and culogizcs the trittendcn
Montgomery amendment, a measure sup
ported by the very men who lnstigatcd