Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-08-30
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

w hSdfNGlON VIEW - dNO UOCSiP.
THE RUNoRED NEGoriAruoNs.-Someo of the
Opposition journals are amusing their readers
with accounts of alleged negotiations between
the Administration and Ssnstof Dosglas. Such
stories are all bosch" Senator Douglas is
engaged in denouncing the majority Of the De-
mocracy of Congress and the National Admin
istration as traitors to the cause Of free prin-
ciples, of which he vaunts himself the cham
pion. Standing in his present attitude, his
success would be TO the future of the Democratic
party about what that of Van Buren, would
have been had he succeeded, in the canvass Of
lS4S, in rallying to his support a majority Of
the Democratic votes Of the n-slsyehO holding
States. That is to say, it would inevitably
destroy all hope of future union Of the North
ern and Southern Democracy. The fact is 50
self evident that all politicians comprehend it.
The Administration have, therefore, no I" com
promise to make with Senator Douglas. We
take it, he can only regain his former connec-
ton with the Democratic party by abandoning
his present attitude of hostility to it, That he
will not do; because, to do so, will be at once
to transfer to Lincoln tho host of his supporters
who, from being national and constitutional
Democrats when he professed to act on the
slavery question with that party, have been
made Republican-party men In their sympa-
thies, through adhesion to him while he was
engaged in struggling against the Democratic
majority Of Congress in defence of the Kansas
policy of the Republican party, and in close
alliance and consultation with its leaders. 1t
is not in his power to transfer all his followers
back to the Democratic party, if he would. Nor
even enough of them to render it possible that
the true Democracy of illinois could carry the
approaching election, even were he to withdraw
from the canvass, as he should do, and labor
honestly to secure the election of some reliable
Democratic the Senate Of the United States.
In his present temper, as developed in his
speeches and his political attitude, union be-
tween the Administration and Senator Douglas
would be neither more nor less than an aban,
donment Of the Democratic party on the part
of the former, quite as fragrant as his own. So
those who conjure up stories of Negotiations
to that end, are deseiving themselves and all
who believe them. The New York Herald
takes proper views of this subject as we'll as
Of the motives, labors and prospects Of Senator
Douglas, in a recent article, from which we
quote as follows:
{" Whatever the truth may be, and to whatever
extent negotiations may have been preached in
the premises, one thing Is very certain-to wit
that without the active Intervention of the adj,
minstration the case of Mr.. Douglas Is a hone
less one. We fear, indeed, that 1t has reached
that crisis which admits of no hope, even with
the best endeavors of the administration to avert
the impending catastrophe. A party split like
that Of Illinois, is not often remeded by 90 be-
tweens from the one faction to the other in the
midst of a heated canvass. Nor was this Kansas
bolt of Mr.. Douglas the accident of a day which
can be remedied In week. IL was, we suspect,
matter Of deliberation from the nomination of
Mr.. Buchanan, in 1856, down to the reading If
the Presidents annual message of December last
From the day of his failure TO receive the hearty
and determined support Of the South at the Gin
cinnati Convention, Mr.. Douglas has had an
account to settle with the Southern Democracy
and no love for the distinguished statesman by
whom he was supplanted; and from the day
after the Presidential election, 'the Little Giant
saw that his choice Of evils was an adhesion to
the Kansas Nebraska bill and its legitimate con-
sequences at the hazard Of losing reelection to
the Senate, or bold effort to make good his re-
election in the abandonment Of his Kansas Ne
braska programme.
" Mr.. Douglas chose the latter alternative He
refused even the compromise of the English bill,
upon which the Administration went more thai
half way to conciliate him and his followers |;
and he went home to denounce that compromise
40 t'iSh ard Maud wholly incompatible with
the sublime doctrine Of popular sovereignty :,
What could the administration do in behalf of a
party man so intractable as this' Nothing we
dare say, however, that Mr.. Buchanan has been
all along and Is now, perfectly willing to leave
TO MI Douglas the privilege Of fighting ont his
own battle In bis owa way, subject only to the
Democracy Of Illinois: and thus we presume that
the appearance Of an anti Douglas Democ ratio
party and State ticket in Illinois Is charpeable
not to the zone man power at Washington, but
to the 'one man power in Illinois, Of which the
anti-Douglas wing Of the party have become tired
and are anxious to be relieved.
"From such causes Benton, the great Demo.
cratic dictator Of Missouri, Of thirty wears i'm the
Senate was cast out into political exile; and the
| same may be said Of Van Buren,, In New York
and Of other distinguished politicians, more OF
less IL should also be an instructive fact to all
political aspirants for place and power, that the
fall Of Benton, Calhoun, Van Buren,. Rives, Tall.
madge and host Of others among the shining
lights Of the Democratic camp in their time NAV
be dated from the day of some rebellion agains,
the policy Of the administration representing the
principles and the interests of their party. All
such instructions, however, Were lost npon M
Douglas, aud he returned from war against the
administration In Congress to war against the
opposition In Illinois, without even deigning to
count the administration as a party in the Con.
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