New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
DOUGLAS AND BUCHANAN.

Correspondence OF TIE N ". crescent
WASHINGTON, Dec II, 1851.
Mr.. Buchanan, in playing the part of Toots with
regard to Judge Douglass detection, by saying thst
% It's Of no consequence, deceives nobody. Ofhclal
dignity requires that in the moment of greatest dan
ger the captain of the ship should be most calm and
collected. The voyagers must not be permitted to
contract panic from the convused expression OF the
chief officers features. However much alarmed
within, he must be outwardly cool. II is told here
that Mr.. Buchanan said the other day that the
Democratic party had lost many man greater than
" Douglas without sustaining permanent injury
question may be raised as to whether the President
considers Douglas great at all. But if his loss
be really matter of consequence, why the nightly
caucuses held by Democratic members about him
why all this delight on the part of Black Repubcans
why this CONSERVATION in the presses throughout the
country? why the unanimous opinion entertained
here that not only the Democratic party, but the
Administration and the Union itself, are in such pen
as they were never before, and it is to be hoped
but not believed, that the last may never be again
Judge Douglas may DO small potato, but in the
present tickish posture OF the Democratic party the
loss of a small potato may result in starvation
and death During the next few weeks We look Tor
scenes of Congressional storm and uprOar more vio-
lent than any before witnessed. Expectation and
dread are or less plainly written upon the fea-
lures of every who has his own or hls coun,Tys
interests at stake. Ont of the existing trouble, no
ONE not even tho wisest his way clesrly The
organs Of the Administration, together with other
journals Of the oldiogy school, and those desrous Oh
obtaining the name of conservative, are persuadin6
themselves and their readers that the storm VIII DO"
quickly over, that the LecOmpon Constitution VIII be
Quietly submitted to the people of Kansas, that they
will vote against the Slavery clause and the state be
admitted forthwith into the Union. Fain would
believe this But our Black Republican surgeons
have no idea of seeing either tampon or styptc ap-
piled to the Kansas hemoThage. The tactous oppo-
siti0p of Douglas, raised at the very moment when
the difficulty was approaching a solution, and when
the weight of his own name in favor OF his own bll
would have done more to complete the solution than
the combined weight Of perhaps all other names IN
the Senete Chamber, shows cOnclusively the deter
mination of the North not to declare peace between
itself and the South now nor ever hereafter. Inc
South is insOlently defed and the Union imported by
the fiaw-picking of q demagogue, whose malicious
and unpecessa opening of the crevice can accom-
pish only the perpetuity of his return as Senator
from a State, of which, in the absence OF all chance
for the Presidency he seeks now to become the quasi
Calhoun-with this difference, that Calhoun became
the alive Of his State by matchmaking
the cf'zen with his carefully studied views oil
the tia, o<v ,iGOvenment, while Douglas leads his
State by eunnngly subOrdnatng his political opinions
If he has anvil TO the whms and caprces OF eteiO-
genous and uninstructed population.
The North loudly declares its determination never
to admit another inch of slave territory into the Union
and 20 goes TO the wind the essence oil the great
Kansas. Nebraska bill The doctrine OF th"t pausioiy
devised instrument is henceforth tenable at the
North "a the Fugitive Slave law. The common prop.
ery of the Union belongs now TO but one section OF
the Union-the North; and the assertion by tile South
of her rights in the Territories must unless some un.
imaginable mutation of parties takes place, be in all
coming time the veriest farce. Now or mover must
the South lay down its ultimatum, and that with
mness to which our tame representatives nave mere
fore been strangers This cannot be done in the
House; it must be done in the Senate. There, al
Southern eyes are fastened.
And who is the man. endowed ut once with the calm
of the statesman and the courage OF the soldier
who shall lay down his ultimatum with the dignity,
the strength the resolution betting the South, whose
manifold interests and bright destiny lie helpless under
the Northern hoofl Who is this man cannot de-
clare him, but well believe that he will make
himself known before the thirtyffth Congress closes
Great national troubles evolve great thoughts and
make great men; and | am forced to the opinion,
shared by every Southern man around me- that We are
upon the eve OF great, Of very great trouble.