The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-11

Soy thdt III itaNCn lA0 party oDQ uIc0 MS UIO4O-
sides at it, the whole mass Of the democracy be-
comes by virtue Of that fact alone, united with its
enemies We tell Mr. Douglas he is giving himself
entirely too much personal importance. His defec-
ton has not made the slightest change in the hos
tility always existing between democrats and aboli-
tionists. Their relations have been and will con
tinue just the Same whether he comes back TO the
democracy goes over entirely to the republicans or
hovers between the two.
Mr.. Douglas is the last man to talk of alliances
with the enemy. During the whole of the Kansas
difficulty the backrepublicans had him for their
own. He was their acknowledged leader in every
struggle They followed him. and he relied implicit
ly on the aid which their sectional fanaticism fur
nished to carry out his schemes against the party Of
the nation.
Popular sovereignty, forsooth He will devote
his life to that SO he says If he is true to that
pledge, we viii promise to give him all the aid we
in our humble sphere. Nobody denies the right
of tho people to govern themselves and nobody
but Mr. Douglas and small body Of his adherents
denies that their sovereignty goes to tho length
of deegating their power to convention, if they
think proper to do So in legal and orderly way
But he to think that they must act under his
supervision. Mr.. Douglass comparison Of himself
to the Gar is nothing worse than pardonabie vaHity
But he must not deceive himself by supposing that
the people of Kansas his serfs. They had right
legally to clothe their immediate representatives
with such power as they chose to give them; and
Mr. Douglas has right to interpose his veto be-
tween them and the agents they selected to do their
work
Mr.. Douglas is in a most unenviable condition.
No leading member of the democratic party ever
made war upon it under auspices so unpromising to
his own future. lie expected confidently that he
would divide the party almost into halves and place
himself at the head of one. But his adherents in
both houses of Congress loss than the smallest
corporaPs guard--too small to defeat or carry
measure with the alliance Of all the other enc
mics Of the administration. State after State repu-
dates or ignores him. Witness the recent action of
ohio's noble democracy, from whom he is known to
have looked for triumphant endorsement Of his
course Our ranks are everywhere closing up. Mr..
Douglas and his boasted broadsides are becoming
less and less important every day.
To do him justice, he is not 80 unwise as to have
persisted in these attacks upon the administration if
left to his own judgment. 1t is generally believed
here and we have no doubt of the fact that he de-
sired to accept the English bill and vote for it but
he yielded to Broderick superior strength Of will
and went against it. Before he left Washington,
and on his way home he caused it to be understood
that the arms of his opposition would be grounded
the past should bury the past and he would support
the party. But the abolitionsts of Chicago uniting
for moment with the boilers, received him with
such ovation that he became intoxicated again
with the hope of success. Thus has he been led ON
from one blunder to another. Where it will end we
know not but certainly no good to him can be ex-
pected to come of i.