The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-07-27
The AdministrasiOm war a9aan.s
Douglaa.

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The Lscomptonites are getting up more ho
tile den oustrations than ever against Dougla
since MS Chicago speech. 1t may be all q prt
text. but it looks very much as if il were /
earnest. The Washington Union Of Thursda
nres whole broadsde at the Illinois Senator
is' editorial columns, and long New York le,
ter being chiefly devoted TO that subject. Tn,
edltor-after denouncing the attempts Of Doug
las has sought to bestow upon him its highes
nonors very explicitly says:-
IF ne prefers to oppose the Democracy. tc
oppose the Republicans, or to set up for himself
and attempt to carve out Of the public new
organization, placing himself at its head, we
snail treat him as an enemy, and We shall
| Freely express the conviction that he has for.
ieited the confidence of his former associates.
Mr. douglas will find it as difficult, we appre-
hend, TO raise up an effective Douglas party
as Joe Smith aud Brigham Young nave in
building into form special religious organiza-
| tion," &c.
The Unions New York correspondence con-
tains the following =
In the estimation Of those who have right
to consider themselves national Democrats-
who hold the same opinion as ninety.pipe hun
dredths Of the Democracy of the Unon-and
VINO nave supported, and do support, the Presi-
dent and his Administration, Mr.. Douglas
speech OF Friday last at Chicago seems to be
quite as Offensive, as Objectionable, and repre-.
hensioie as any speech, which he has dillyered
since he first assumed an attitude of hostiiilv
to the policy OF the Administration. the ninth
Of December last.
his Incorporate and vituperatlye strictnres
on the English compromise bill for the admis
sion Oh Kansas, prove concusiveIy the iuyet-
erAcy OF his hostility to the President and the
great masses OF the Democracy, and his deter.
minatlon to burn his ship so as to render his
return next to impossible. Had he felt other.
wise, ne weuld have retraned from making such
pompouse contrast between the course which
ne pursued and that which the Democrats of
uotn houses OF Congress adopted, and which
'ne democracy OF the entire Union has approved
with such emphatic unanimity. =
All this, and his boast of how " fearless,v
and boldly he vindicated his principles when
'ney were attempted to be violated by the
almost united South" has caused bitter pain
ana disappointment to Judge Douglas Demo-
crat'c friends here, particularly among those
~hom oy hss repeated and emphatic assurances
auramg his recent wisis to hts citu, he induced to
De'sere that he 'couid pursue d,ametrically on |
possfe course In conversation with several gen. +
Ilemen whom know well, and who occupy a /
prominent position in the Democratic party and I
me estimation of their fellow-nen, Judge
douglas repeatedly stated that, when he re.
'urheo 10 LIMOS, he would allow bygones to be
'ygohes' that ne would declare the English
niii 70 De dnality, since it gave the people of
Kansas exclusive control over their own affairs.
md that turning from the past to the present
md future, he would declare his unalterable
determination to abide faithfully by Democratic
organizations, steadfastly support the Cincinnati
platform, announce his resolution to support
ne nominee Of the Charleston Convention, and.
n short, placed himself on such a broad around
= 'rae democracy as to render 1t impossible for
ne democratic party to offer the least objection
o ms return to its ranks. They to whom he
made these assurances for the avowed purpose
u inducing them to use their influence to per.
uade Others who were more doubtful of his
incerity and good faith to accept his concilia.
ory overtures, and locked in vain through the
hree closely printed columns of the newspaper
eport OF his speech to find any one sentence in
Fhlch they could find anything approaching to
fuihlment of his pledges or the manifestation
u the remotest desre to take the position he
olemnlv promised to take and maintain during )
is coming canvass in Illinois.
Ihe dissatisfaction of these gentlemen, at
That they justly consider a betrayal of their
onhdence, is extreme. They believed that he
cit unhappy and dscontented at the anoma-
ous situation in which he was placed. Excluded
or months past from. the councils of has Demo
rGhc colleagues in the Senate, with no, even
ominaliy, democrat following in either house
Congress, regarded as a foe by the Adminis-
ration, and looked on with distrust by the !
iasses OF the democratic party, it was natural
D suppose that his assurances Of future fidelity
0 the party, and resolution to suffer the past to
g forgotten, rere made in order to enlist Tie
ympathies of those to whom they uere made to ,
I'd him in his re-enrolaent in the ranks of the
ationdl democracy. The modification, there. :
're, Of those gentlemen who believed his as
arances is not unnatural" ;;