Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-13
THE ADMINISTRATION VS.. DOUGLAS.

The recent action of the Democratic men,
bers of the United States Senate, in displacing
Senator Douglas from the position which he
has so long held, of chairman of the Commit
tee on Territories, is significant. 1t indicates
that, instead of the prospect of the breach be-
tween him and the administration being heal
ed, it is likely to be widened, even to the per-
manent dismemberment of the party.
The result is regarded at Washington, ac-
cording to the tone of the dispatches thereup-
on as demonstrating the intention of the adj
ministration leaders to adhere to the extreme
pro-slavery policy adopted at the last session
to make war upon the anti-LecomptOn men,
bers of the party as being mere faction, and
to drive them from its ranks. Aleading South
ern Democratic senator is reported to have
declared, that they chad temporized long
enough, and that they had concluded to drive
Douglas out of the party" The South, (which
is the all-controling element in the party it
would thus appear, can be made to tolerate no
halfway positon-it must go the whole figure
fu5 Slavery, at all hazards
OF the twenty-four members of the Demo-
cratic Senatorial Caucus, in which it was deci-
cided to ostracise Douglas, seventeen stood for
beheading him. and seven only for retaining
him in his present place at the head of the Ter
ritorial Committee, so the edict for the decapi-
tation of the ''Little Giant goes forth, clothed
with the authority of a caucus vote of nearly
three to one in favor, and will be ratified at to-
days session of the Senate, when the question
of the organization of the committees is to be
acted upon.
This action of the administration majority
of the Senate in regard to the rebelious Hi
noisan, may be regarded as one of the most
important and significant events in the whole
Douglas controversy in fact, it is the ulti-
matum of reconciliation between Buchanan
and Douglas, to which everything previous
has seemed to point, but which, it was thought
the friends of the President would not suffer
to be brought about
1t would seem to be decisive Of division in
the ranks of "the democracy" reaching to and
including 1860 when the next Presidential
contest is to be decided. Mr.. Douglas cannot
so direct as this ostracism would imply. And he
will rally either alone or with the other oppo-
nents of the Lecompton democracy, against
the pro-slayery national democracy. AS to
whether the Republicans will consent to ally
themselves with him, will depend upon the
platform he is willing to stand upon. They
will, or should, accept no half way issue to
accommodate him. Let him take a position
of manly, full, and decided opposition to the
pro-slavery democracy. and nothing can pre-
vent such consolidation Of the opponents of
Southern and Buchanan democracy in the
next Presidential contest, as shall place whom
soever the friends of freedom shall nominate
at the head of the national government, by a
triumphant majority, with House of Repre-
sentatiyes agreeing with him. And thus the
good policy of freedom, for which we have so
long sighed, would be inaugurated in the
national councils.