The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-27

james H. Fonda, postmaster, Troy l., Voc w w
Whitman, whose commission expires 4th August next
WHAT CONSTITUTES ALLEGIANCE TO THE DEM
oCRATIc PARTY
Is Senator Douglas in or out of the democratic
bartyY Either he is in or he is out of the party. Ii
he is out it matters little whether he has been "read
out or whether he has hounced himself out SO that
he is out deservedly. If he is still i'm after the con-
duet of which he has been guilty, then the being in
and out of the party are undstngushable facts, and
there il no such thing as well-deiined democratic
organization.
The question is not whether the democratic party
can do without Mr.. Douglas, whether it can afford
TO cut loose from him and his mnions, whether II Is
able and then time is not arrived, to declare lnde-
pendence of him for the experience OF the last SIX
months has shown that it cannot get along without
him. il is in vain to expect to get along with him.
The question with the party is simply whether it is
selfsustaining independent organization actua'ea
by decent and conservative selfrespect and strong
enough to repe assaultsto subdue treason, to pun
ish aggression from within as well as without to
protect its integrity, and to preserve future for
itself.
The Kansas Nebraska bill was Judge Douglass
own measure and was accepted by the party
as democratic measure and democratic test
at his own instigation IT was enacted by the
party, defended by the party, and put in force
under territorial government in Kansas by
the party, az democratic measure AT every
step of it's history it was opposed by Judge
Douglass present allies the black-republicans; who
resisted its passage through Congress agtated Tor
its repeal before the people of the Union, and then
organized emigrant aid societies for precipitatng
vast hordes of vagabonds into Kansas to resist its
peaceful and proper application in that Territory.
The blackrepublicans opposed the territorial gov
eminent organized under it, resisted every law and act
of that government; refused to vote at any election
and by every shift, evasion, ingenuity, and factious
proceeding they could invent endeavored to bring the
Nebraska Kansas bill into 1isrepute, dersion, and a
nullity. They continued this opposition from the
day of its enactment down to the elections Of Janu
airy 4th last, under the Lecompton constitution-on
purely party grounds.
In the last stages of this factious opposition and
these unremitted exertions of the backrepublicans
in and out of Kansas to defeat the application Of
gal and regular step taken under it and at the
ment that the democratic party was about to bring
the new State into the Union in pursuance Of
the legal and regular measures, which they had
taken in strict and religious accordance with the
act and in the teeth of the violent opposition of the
black republicans for this purpose-Judge Douglas
and his minions wheeled off from their party, took
up the clamor Of the opposition, justified all theil
factious non-voting and emigrant-aid proceedings
joined them in their Congressional votes, and out
heroded Herod in their endeavors to thwar the dem
ocratic party in bringing the provisions of the Ne
braska- Kansas act to final contamination, in the
admission of the State under constitution framed
by its supporters and resisted by it's opponents il
the Territory.
Not only did Judge Douglas and his minions deser
his great at the crisis of its fate. deser
the party in and out of Kansas who had supported
through thick and thin but he joined the party WHIT
had opposed it from first to last, entered into al
their factous clamor against the proceedings which
had been taken by its friends and supporters, ant
made common cause with them in Congress- through
out long and besterous session. These are fact
well known to the country and to the party neither
whom cannow be duped by hisspecal pleading abou
the rights Of majority (who factousy refused t
vote, } and against forcing constitution peop
(who courted the forcing Of it upon them by no
voting.)
Gloze his conduct he may, refine and specialpleat
as bp may the country and the democratic party can
not be deceived by him. He has resisted the consum
nation Of his own great measure He has denounce
it's steadast supporters men without honor and tn
perpetrators Of fraud He has joined Seward, Hale
Wade, and Trumbull the veteran opponents Of hi
great measure in making upon it, in defeat
ing its application in Kansas and in opposing and dc
nouncing its supporters He voted for and eulogize
the Crittenden- Montgomery amendment, measur
supported by the very men who instigated the EN-
grant aid societies, and set on foot the non-votn
proceedings in Kansas. He hoped upon the Pres
dents message in the Senate at the moment it ha
been read, charging its author with committing
g fundamental error" and classifying his Pledges
and no concerts with the abolitionsts through
whole session of Congress movements to discredt
democratic administration before the country,
break down the leading test measure Of the demo
cratic party, and battle, cripple, and defeat i
accumulation If TO attack democratic admi,