The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-14
cRrrrENpEN AND DOUGLAS IN KENTUCKY

CRlTIENDEN AND DOUGLAS In KENTUCKY.
The elections Of the month have srikingIy indi-
Gated the temper of the country towards the admin
istraton Of Mr.. Buchanan, and towards the policy of
the democratic party as represented by the Presi-
dent. In Kentucky this judgment of the masses has
been recorded in manner peculiarly emphatic, al
though Kentucky has been long the stronghold in
the South of the opponents of democratic Presidents
and of the entire democratic policy. In that once un-
compromising and imperious wing State, the people
have awaited themselves of the election Of a mere
clerk of court to testify most unequivoca manner
their approval of the policy of the administration, and
their utter condemnation of the resistance which
even their abest, most popular, and prominent fell
lowcitizen made to that policy in the last session Of
Congress. In the election of the most subordinate
Of their State officers in whose fortunes functions
they can be supposed to feel no peculiar Interest,
the people of Kentucky have rallied to the polls with
remarkable enthusiasm, and, by an unprecedented
majority registered vote Of censure against Mr..
Crttenden, bis obnoxious affiliations last winter,
and his whole scheme of peoples party which
will effectuaIly extinguish his aspirations for the
presidency and crush all the efforts which
have been made in the South to organize against
the democratic party and to combine with The
black-republicans of the North. The failure of
Mr.. Crittenden in organizing such movement in
his State proves conclusively enough that there
is chance for its success in any other State aud
the South may be set down as a unit for the admin
stration and democratic party, in any contest that
arise for several years to come, with the black
republican enemy of the North.
But the vote Of Kentucky is not merely crushing
blow to the aspirations of Mr.. Crittenden and the
peoples party" movement, in which he was en-
gagged it is also a terrible rebuke to Mr. Douglas.
Who at the time of tho voting in Kentucky was Ell
gagged in Illinois in extong the projections of the
Crttenden bill, and in clarifying the Americans and
blackrcpublicans who supported it in Congress Tho
Illinois senator had succeeded by intrigue in seducing
portion of the Kentucky democracy from the support
of The orthodox measures of their party. Though
enjoying the aid and comfort Of this disappointed
faction, the course of himself and Mr.. Crttenden
has been emphahcaly repudiated by tho people of
Kentucky and the Crittenden BILL its heretofore
cherished author its motley coalition of supporters
and its apostato panegyrist, have been repudi-
ated by a popular majority Of twelve thousand
votes. Such is the verdict against Mr. Douglas of
southern State, among whose democracy he had
been more popular, and in which the circumstances
conspiriDg to give him favorable verdict were far
stronger, than in any other State of the South.
The vote of Kentucky will teach Mr.. Douglas that,
however successful he may be in dividing the demo-
ratio party in portion of the North, there is no
quarter of the South in which he hope to be re-
garded in any ether character than disorganzcr
and an apostatc