The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-20

minds 10 unite themselves for better or for worse
with the blackrepubiican organization.
We hoped that the conduct of these violent par
tisans would be disavowed by their more influential
leaders, and We were fan to take tho declarations
made by Judge Douglas in his speech of June 10,
in the extra session Of the Senate the platform on
which the better portion Of his party would act. We
alludo to the declarations Of the senator in which
after expressing his regret at having been unable
to give his vote for the conference BILL he said Of
that measure
But when the bill became a law the whole question
remanded to Kansas, to be decided at an election
which has been fixed for the first Monday in August
Whichever way the people of Kansas may decide the
question ut that election will be final and conclusive If
they reject the proposition submitted by Congress the
compton constitution is dead and there is end Of the
controversy IT, tho contrary, they accept the prop
osition Kansas from that moment becomes State of
the Union, and thus the controversy terminates Wher
they shall accept Jet tho proposition question for he leo-
pie Of Kansas 10 drid, for Meyssve and rcith which neither
Cbyres The people Of The several States, any person.
Official Otherwise, oasde Of thai Territory, has any right 10
interfere.
Hence tic Lscomon controversy is at end for al men,
Of all parties BE- ,ci and abide By hepr decision
the people Of Kansas may make"
The controversy which was at an end in the mid
die of June, notwithstanding these emphatic words,
which were accepted as rendered in good faith is
renewed by the senator himself in tho middle of
July, at the first moment of reaching his constitu-
ents--renewed in language breathing spirit and
tone as inconsistent with any intention to let Shy
cones be bygones," to cultivate peace and harmo-
ny with the great body of the democratic party OUT
side of Illinois, they at with all that his
most intimate friends had allowed themselves to
expect of him before his departure from the East
But the language of Judge Douglas at Chicago,
inmica it is to the democratic party of tho Union
and the policy ii has pursued on the Kansas ques-
ton, is mild in comparison with the extravagant
employed by his followers in the North and there
is this characteristic which further distinguishes
his speech at Chicago from the fulminations of his
lesser organs, that, whereas he does assail his
republican competitor in Illinois, tho whole force
of their assaults and vituperaton is turned upon
the democratic party and administration while they
have no blows to deal against the black republicans
1t being thus apparent, that the chief source Of
danger to the democratic party and its cause is from
those who claim while stabbing it to the heart, to
be of it and part of it, we, for one shall not be
deferred, by any sort of clamor from defending il
from the insidious assaults Of protested friends
assiduously from the open attacks of the avow-
ed enemy The danger rom outside attack has been
| SO often encountered and surmountcd by the de-
| mocracy, as to afford no very serious grounds Of
solicitude The danger from within is new and uni-
sual, and must be repclled with vigor and stern
ness equal to the novelty of the case and the urgent
necessities of the emergency.