New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-23

through the door which the passage OF the Kansas
Nebraska bill had opened for its admission NO
body. We suppose, pretend. to doubt that what Nf
Douglas had in view In that operation ~as the
qualification Of the shareholders, and thr proving
himself thereby 10 be the special friend OF
the slsveholders, snd So 8 consequence OF that
qualification and Of that proof, likely to receive
Southern support in hi. pretensions 70 The
Presidency. Now, the same use 10 which Ar'
Douglas, in the ardor Of hi. ambition, was so
incsutiou. as 10 put the Missouri Compromise sad
the Territory and people Of Kansas, making them
merely stepping stone .Os Presidential nomination.
Mr. Buchanan just now proposes 10 put Nr'
Douglas himself and with much less danger, 90 we
think. Of breaking bis neck in the operotion. Ill.
much safer 20 eel ones foot upon the neck and
shoulders Of party politician Ike Mr.. Douglas,
whether he ha. first been triPPed up, or whether
he still contrives to hold himself erect, than to
undertake to trarple, as Mr.. Douglas did, not
merely upon the Territory Of Kansas, but upon the
feelings and the right. Of the entire Northern Peo-
pie. II ia much safer and much surer for Mr.
buchanan 10 demonstrate 70 the shareholders his
disposition 10 serve them by strenuously holding
Mr. Douglas up 10 the fnlfllment 10 the last letter
and 81 whatever risk and danger 10 himself, Of The
implied obligation into which he had entered to aid
them in making Kansas Slave State than IT was Tor
Mr. Douglas originally TO take upon himself any such
dangerous and desperate obligation. Should Dir.
Douglas present himself before the Charleston Con-
yention candidate against Mr.. Buchanan for the
Presidential nomination. MI Buchanan viii be able
contemptuously 10 point hun out as fellow
who skulked and deserted at the last pinch,
and thereby defeated the strenuous efforts of Mr.
Buchanan TO bring Kansas in a. a Slave Stste I'M.
der the Lecompton Constitution, however short
lived and evsnescent that triumph might have been.
And while thus pointing to Douglas as coward,
sneak and deserter, Mr.. Buchanan will be able al
the same time to goriy himself, not merely for the
devotion to the wishes Of the shareholders
which be exhibited in his utter disregard
Of the wishes and the rights of the people
Of Kansas but also for the stern spirit
with which he followed up, denounced and at
tempted to read ont of the Democratic ranks all
who failed TO come up to that mark Of devotion.
The presen. persecution to which Mr. Douglas is
subjected i. in fact declaration to all the world,
and the shareholders in particular, that in the view
of Mr. Buchanan the sole, single and exclusive
object for which the Democratic party exists is
the extension o! Slavery, no matter BY what
means.
To fail in this particular, no matter how perfect
ones Democracy may be in all other respects, is, as
The Union expresses it, TO be guilty Of apostacy.
Mr. Buchanan, through his organs and Office hold
ers loudly calls upon the Democracy Of Illinois to
come up to this mark, and BY refusing their aid in
keeping Mr.. Douglas 10 the Senate, TO become the
indorsers OF the LecomptOn Pro-Slavery Constitu-
ton, Of all the violence and scandaous frauds in
which that Constitution had its origin, and of the
attempt in Congress to force that Constitution
upon the people Of Kansas in the face and eyes Of
popular vote rejecting il by Oh overwhelming ma
jority. l. it possible for anybody to go further
than this in demonstration Of total devotion to the
interests and wishes Of the shareholders! Mr..
Douglas offered to betrsy Kansas into the
hands Of the shareholders. Not only did he
fail in this, but at the last moment ne al.
tempted TO save his Senstorship by coming
out as the champion of the rights of the
people Of the Territories TO frame their own Con.
stitutons, instead Of having Pro-Shvery Constitu.
tons forced upon them by packed and fraudulent
Conventions. Mr. Buchanan offers on his part-a
thing much more within his power-to introduce it
ss the grand principle Of the Democratic party,
that in attempts to convert Free into Slave Territory
there must be no hinching and that every one who
pretends to be Democrat at least every one who
aSpircs to be leader among Democrats, must be
ready in this matter 10 follow any step which the
President for the time being may see fit to take.
This is certainly splendid bid for slave
holders nomination, which, of course, the nomina
ton of the Charleston Convention will be-and
should Mr. Douglas, in spite Of the pending efforts
to degrade him, contriyc to present himself at
Charleston as candidate, we do not see how be
can possibly oyerbid it.
1t is quite apparent that New-Jersey, following