The Washington union., 1858-02-26

such conditions, territorial and State "ln the mean
time manifestly refers TO the former while the
covenant ''that the inhabitants" shall be inoorpora
ted into the Union of the United States refers to tho
latter.
We like to call things by their right names. We
have no belief in the world that Mr.. Senator Doug
las any other senator, actually places the least
importance upon the opinion of Mr.. Butler in the
case of Arkansas which he 80 literally in his re-
port The admission of Florida and California since
and in fact the whole doctrine Of popular soye-
reignty maintained and strained by Mr.. Douglas, are
enough to convince that his Butler argument is
mere moonshne. If we have any lesson at all from
experience it is that permissory Legislation in any
case is of no great practical account.
Mr.. Douglas is western man, and there is no
person in the country who knows better than he that
the act of 1854 intended to be AN enabling act.
and if it was not that the end far the rights
of all parties are concerned, would be the same The
population of new States, like the waters Of our
great rivers, press onward to common equilibrium
They are men imbued with the principles of the
Union, and they seek its shelter and protection as
the mountain currents seek the main
TREASON TO DEMOCRACY CONFIRMS IT'S POWER
That vaulting ambition which 'erleaps itself and
falls on 'tother side never YET in short space
of time worked such havoc with the hopes pros
poets and pretensons of presidential asprants as it
has done since the last autumnal frosts stripped the
leaves from the forest. The grave-digger is abroad
in the land. The rivals for the stakes of 1860 who
have, rider and steed, come down with crash in
headlong the Kansas imbroglio, form
platoon of dead men who after lfe's fitful fever,
seem to sleep well
The march of the great democratic party, from the
beginning Of the century to the present crisis is
strewn at every step with the bones Of impatient
spirits, who have sought premature fame and undue
promotion, by short cuts and selfish ends. But in
spite of the many conspicuous and melancholy
amples of the ruin that attends on vanity, ambition
and treachery, every produces its quota
of victims, until if the bones Of all gathered
together, Egyptian pyramid would scarcely suffice
for their interment.
The political catacombs filled with curious
specimens of departed politicians, whose impatient
ambition has consigned them to premature obi
vion-here bold adventurous legislator and par
tisan giant there an orator Of dashing, slashng
headlong eloquence, who difficulties, obsta
ces dangers in the steep ascent to promotion and
was dashed to pieces in the fool-hardy adventure.
Gliddon and Mott could have added to their cheer
full array of specimen skulls and mummies from the
prolific Golgo,ha of prematurey defmct politicians
and could have traced, with philosophical precision
the unchanging and unvarying types which mark the
species through continuously succeeding examples
in long line marching down from the earliest pot
cal eras
But, the world still remains which holds the
crowded catacombs and embowes the teeming Limbo
tGna ages the democratic party has survived the
treason of the numerous champions in whom il
prded itself and who betrayed it, and ia apt to live
many glorious years to come riumphing in spite of
treachery, and surviving, though mourning, the folly
Of many wayward Absolam.
Right, truth, and honesty confer a vitality upon
self through eternal years They give consist
ency permanence, and enduring power to politi-
cal party, enabling it to survive successive genera
tons of ephemeral opponentsthe treachery of its
novitiates only operating to perfect and perpet
uate its vgor, athletic exercises harden the mus
cles, and the passing off of bad humors from the
human frame confirms its health and knits together
the sinews of its strength.