The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-14

scat In her connseIs ssOht honest. upright Judge
how much wiser art thou than thy looks y IcAnnot
help compmentng, al the risk Of beiag ebArged
with alliance this oYereandd rcIgbical upon the
entire truth Of his Il Is pleasure % be
able 70 50 unTeseEely endorse republican sentiment
Hit EN- again
publican party, and viii give Douglas seat ia her conn
cils beautiful democrats these, whom Dougias would
fster upon the paIty-yeTy ~Ieisbe democrats Amer
all they would Doubtless render the democracy the
only real service IN their power They would trance
her 1t i refreshing 20 hear senator IN the aoe Of
these pAlable facts thunder forth his anathegnas
upOn aa invisible indedn-be secret alliance existing
somewhere, somehow with somebody TO prolnote the
republican ticket There Is degree of distinguished
suIance and nAtehleSs intrefidity Of face genins Of
e-onery in the charge that extsrts ones admrAtion
Cheers and cries Of 'sIhets so. n f5t aaE a4
1t Is doubtful whether. hs il not been for Judge
Douglas wo1d have had any republican party nj ali
IL born in his repeal Of the Missouri Compromise
noaIised BY the turnoils Of the Kansas Sebraska bill
and finally rescued at the point Of death by his late amt.
Leoofnpton rebellion B .s5 SrE
But for Stephen A, Douglas the republicans would
have been bankrupt concern to-day, without capital
enough TO carry them through summers campaign
Bat for Mr. Douglas Kansas, the theatre a tie runp
parliament Of Topekathe object of Henry Ward Beech
political prayers and Horace Greeley pious frauds
Kansas that has driven passion in place. politicians into
treason shed blood in Washington layisled money in
Massachusetts, sent dEels into Canada governors into
Disgrace and everything into disorder-K Kansas, the
great bunknm fund of repubcanizm, would have been
thrown from the political arena and its dismal
shrieks senced for all time Great laughter
Where would republicans be to-day hut for kansas
Wheie would Kansas be but for Douglas
Senator Douglas cries peace, peace, and charges
with attempting to break up the democratic party by de-
feafing him. Waving fcr moment the strange pEoba-
bility Of The democratic party, without senator
Douglas let examine who it is Chat has done the most
towards breaking up the party.
In 1884 when Mr.. Douglas introduced his Nebraska
bl yen all remember the desperate character Of that de-
i L.. "a.
Many stauch azld able democrats ventred differ with
Mr. Douglas the policy and principles Of this l Some
Of the leading politicians Of this State did For these
men Mr., Dorgas had no leuiency. he advocate
then of that latitude Of opinion that catholic charity TO
eErorthat generous forgiveness Of heresy Of which he
now such an eloquent and interested champion 1t
for then rebel against democratic Congress
democratic organization not for then To
rebel aans democratic administration ard its leading
measures All such men denounced By Mr.. Doug
las himself traitors If any one expressed the slightest
reverence for compromise canonized in the hearts Of
the American people, the slightest irrererence for
the stump speech in the belly Of the Kansas h oi
went his head with the accuracy of the guiotne And
now if even handed justice this chalice the
senator's lips, he has no one to blame but himself.
That's so--great cheers, .a.,..
The fight Of 81 upon this ISSUE in which the denocra
ey defeated Ia every norhern state the bitter
and most peIilous it encountered In that
Of the oldest leaders and Iroadest ntellecs o
democracy stricken down, and thousands upon thou
sands Of the rank and file lost forever.
We eonsoled ourselves, however, with the belief that
lighting for great principle practical pIinc
pie, plain and inhexible, which it the pleasure OF
Judge Douglas 70 shTrtsn -laAtter sovereignty npa
popular sovereignty and the right Of the people to
govern Themselves, and dozen other winning para
phrases but which really only the doctrine of the
Nicholson letteIthe intervention OF Congress IN
State and territorial legislatures During the searching
analysis which that principle underwent throughout that
memorable there not point better under
stood beth North and South by republicans and By demo
lion extended perfectly the and form Of terHSto
rial stature its and substance. During all
that elaborate discussion il vas pot HoEneRt doubt
ed that the people OF Kansas had clear right to s
late the lorn executing their laws the pass
ing OF the Laws thefnseres that they bad anques
tonable control Of the raBea of the
they had the nature ef the enactments thesels
One Of the greatest objections urged by the republicans
against the Kansas bill that the pro-savery men
sought, through Missouri inyasions fraudulent rsturns
and executive influence TO elect osaFery convention
and fste upon the State Prosiavery constitution
20 which tie inEaFlale OF Dongas and the-se
ocracy was, that the election laws seEH T, ana i,
they should be rgidly enforced let tie bostal sjori
ty Of the free State vote like loyal citizens and prevent
scA result You all familiar with the history Of
that struggie-with its boodshed, civil war and rebel-
li0n- st at. ae. - .#asts
Every opportunity oei the aboliti0niSts TO vote;
every argument used to induce them To accept them
Never people entreated to do their duty
people SO coaxed preserve their rights and
crcise their power Governor Walker became profrse
and la4;Lrysnose Ia his procamstions Gov Stanton
sentirnentaIIy patriotic IL Lis alreais Aif Isag.aa
threatened and foreaarned; the Times rdiculed and
argued All to purpose; the rebeloSs faction con-
tinued in reasonable to the last moment L
compton adopted There nothing in the records
of kansasnot document that could be considered by
Congress the President authortativethat showed
even technical obe-Eon to that instrument and If
there any democrat than another Ehp by
bs speeches. arguments votes and conduct pledged
in sYor Of Lecom pton it Senator Douglas Icries
n u 8 . E . .
The announcement that the natcF intended 20 oppose
the nnssion Kansas under thai constitution icok the
nation and the democratic party by surPrise Ii at
FIST vehemently denied then reluctantly credited up TO
the very moment of his political suicide in the Senate
The 9Th of December. Democrats could not believe that
Douglas H9aid 20 fsT gtuy himself that after leaving
the van, he would n the very hear of tic h41e so i
gIoEioasy eset They could not believe 4aS at crisis
when the integrity and very existence of the democratic
party depended upon Eustaning the nAiioIs auinistrs
lion in position in which il had been placed by Douglas
himself he would seihshly and slaefuliy turn hs bat
teies upon his old friends and strike hands with the
enemy. %
That proud confidence which the democratic party
placed in Douglas has been broken shat deep abiding
trust which they reposed in him has been fortified sd
simulated penersce threatened vengeance,
5000 II Defeated elected he again have
aa opPoranity u lstF~yszg RE fofaos Of the demo
cratic party. s ~ NJ .IE -ssEa ~ Il
4op, why did Mr.. Douglas eppo-e thai admission
might tell soH that it because the senator pa
triot because he great man, beouse he of
the champions OF the people the only cavalier seas
pesr rproohe in the democratic ranks any Of
the other handsome usually given by tho senator
hifnEelf 1 trefer falling and