The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-03


rsnks shall upset the long laid schemes Of this that
ambitious leader shall deter from branding, &C.,
&C., &c.
ITO take counsel Of our fears has never been the
motto Of the democratic party but the rather 10 thank
God for the radiance Of every double dealer and who
oppose all truce with the enemy and still more all for
gyeDcss for the deserte find proud consolation in re-
mebering the Of all who have preceded him IN the
wretohed experiment.
Away, then with the me-serving policy which tells
US TO forgive present and positive crime for the sake Of
future and contingent benefit The fidelity which has
yielded 10 brides Ia the past be counted in the
futurei the ambition which makes traitor to-day is
likely to have the effect TO morrow, and all expert
brings the warning that the false friend for
gven finds In his pardon only fresh Incentive TO teach
cry Impunity breeds audacity; every crime that goes
unpunisbed is the parent of another and Ii equiS tle
wisdom TO predict that party lorg sustain itself
which asks atonement for ,setion except few fine
words from the desertor hea no finds that the hos
tile camp will not receive him. We say, then, let Mr..
Douglas go.'' it pc wiAe n-l0 ~ haH g
II We were half as industrious in heraldng the OK.
pressons Of southern newspapers in defence of the
administration, as our adyerraries are in cleaning
crumbs Of comfort from every available spot, in de-
nuncistion of it, we could make pretty formidable
exhibit Of support Conscious of the rectitude Of
our course, however, and well convinced that the
future win triumphantly indicate our faithful cx
ertions to preserve the integrity OF the democratic
party, we have taken very little thought of what
may be said Of course by Journals in the interest
| of aspiring politicians.
If we had consulted our pecuniary interests in
shaping the course of this journal, we should have
avoided giving offence to influential men in Congress
like Judge Douglas and his supporters If we had
had the presidential aspirations Of any politician to
foster aud advance, we should have remained mute
under Judge Douglass onsaughts, in Illinois, upon
the Kansas policy Of the democratic party, first
endeavoring to perpetrate "fraud," and then
supporting a bill making an easy provision for
the admission Of slave State and hard one for the
admission Of free State. Indeed, we might have
! gone 80 far as to have broken such silent and tmid
neutrality, by intimatng that between Douglas
and Lincoln we would prefer Douglas. But these
truths are so palpable that it is useless for us to
state them and can afford to smile at the busy
allegations Of adversaries that sefshness is, in
some way that they cannot explain with all their
powers of classification, at the bottom of defiant
course on this whole subject
In the effort Of our adversares to marshal follow
ers, they have claimed several journals which
| have admitted communications from correspondents
extenuating the conduct of Douglas, Forney, and
their followers, by that fact taking sides on the
subject. On the same rule might claim the Rich
mond Enquirer supporting our views Of the case,
(which, however, we do not,) because we find in
that journal the following pithy and unanswerable
criticism Of the famous Freeport declarations
70 The Editors Of de Enqlrr.
GKSHEMEs Believing that you are entirely candid in
your support Of Judge Douglas, and will receive kindly
and publish whatever may be calculated to place him be-
fore the southern people in his true character send YOU
the enclosed account of his Freeport Speech from the
Philadelphia Press OF the l6shinstant The Press,
every one knows, is the fsgnd of Judge Douglas and
would not misrepresent him TO his injury.
Taking then, this account of Judge Douglass senti-
nSts to be correct he rpudates the decision Of the
Supreme Court in the bred Scott case and maintains the
doctrine Of squatte sovereignty in its broadcast and most
offensive
/. He maintains that the people of Territory can,
by territorial legislation exclude slavery from the Ter
rtory, prior to the formation of constitution
2. He maintains that slavery has constitutional
sanction guarantee in Territory, and is dependent
upon local legislation for protection
81 He denies the validity and efficacy of the decision
Of the Supreme Court and insists that it is competent
to the people Of Territory to override it by their legis
ation.
Now, let me ask what opinions more offensive than
these any maintain In what do they differ
from the worst soil opnios except that the avowed
fcesoilcr is prepared to exercise what Judge Douglas
claims his constitutional right by voting in the Terri
may exclude slavery from the Territory But in these
opinions does he differ from Judge Douglas insist
not because Judge Douglas hinselfis opposed to slave
ry and as a citizen of Territory, would vote to ex-
cude it and when he claims the right for the people of
Territory to exclude It, he claims for the creature what
he denies to the creator and places the
the worst possible ground; and when he claims the
right do this in defiance Of the decision Of the Supreme
Court, he takes broadly .the higher law and revou
tonary ground of Seward Is it possible to hold such
in any respect especially when you recoliect that
these opinions directly in violation of the Kansas act
Of which he is the author Ought such to be
turned to the Senate OF the United States by the demo,
cratic partyl
In my opinion, clearly not It is better for the dem
ocatc party and better for the South that the black
pubcans should elect Lincoln than that the democrats
should elect, aid in elccting, Douglas II the black
republicans elect Lincoln, we shall know him by his
caste, and know how TO meet him while the integrity
of Che democratic party viii remain intact still united
aud powerful hope and believe, to preserve the consti
tuition and the Union But what will be its condition IL
it elects Douglas 1t must concurrence in his
opinions, it must repudate them. III it
currence, it is at destroyed. The South
longer rely upon cooperate with IT, If repudiates
them it at ayowsits prostitution in supporting
Of the most odious opinions which IL condemns What
resistance it make to the opinions Of Judge
Douglas, when they urged by Seward and Hale, after
having voted for Douglas Will 1t not be rendered
oous and contemplate by the avowa that it has sup
ported man without regard to principle Upon what
ground democrat assa Seward and Hale after
voting for Douglas
IL will be- in my humble opinion far better for tho
party and the country that the back-repubcans elect