The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-15
A COMPROMISE.

There is every indication that compromise
has been made between the President and Sen.
ator Douglas, blythe terms CT which Temporal.
~ peace is concluded between the parties.
The Washington correspondent of the NJ Y.
Journal of Commerce, Democratic newspa.
per, writes upon the subject in the following
manner:
6 have good reason to know that Judge
Douglas disclaims all intention to oppose Mr..
Buchanan's Administration that, on the con-
trary, he is resolved to afford him firm and
cordial support. And he asserts that, in the
past, with the single exception of the Kansas
question, no member OF the Senate has given
Mr.. Buchanan steadier or more willing sup
port He is resolved to canvass the State of
Illinois from one end to the other. He will
announce his programme within q day or two
at Chicago, wherein he will declare his unalter.
able purpose to abide by regular Democratic
nominations, will pledge himself to support the
nominees Of the Convention stick to the Gin.
cinnati platform in its integrity; declare the
Kansas question settled in q manner both final
and conclusive by the English bill and will
state that if the Kansas people refuse to accept
tie terms of the English bill, they must consent
to remain in Territorial condition until they
have the population (ascertained by census)
to entitle them to one Representative in Con-
gress. All this Judge Douglas il willing and
ready to do. But / am told that he requires
the Administration to order cessation of the
opposition offered to him in Illinois by the por.
ton of the Democratic party which differed
from him on the Kansas question, and which,
it Is alleged, is led and directed by Federal Off
Gals. ~ - s
al am told, on what 1 have reason to believe
good authority, that if Judge Douglas does all
he says, and reasserts his allegiance to the Dem
ocratic principles and party discipline he will
find that the opposition Of Federal officials will
disappear, and that the whole controversy will
be set at rest. The President has some reason
to complain of the manner Of Senator Doug.
lass opposition to bis Kansas policy, and his
prompt onslaught upon his first annual mes.
sage but do not believe that the President
viii allow any feeling Of personal resentment,
however natural, to influence his public con-
duet, or push to extremities q misunderstand.
ing, the result of which must be disastrous to
the party eff which he is the acknowledged and
trusted chief. He cannot be expected to make
overtures to Mr.. Douglas. 1t would be beneath
his dignity and his power to solicit the forbear-
ance Of Mr.. Douglas, or promise TO extend his
own towards that gentleman on certain condi-
tons! He cannot ask his friends and the
friends of the Administration in Illinois to bow
before Mr.. Douglas and his friends, until he is
assured, beyond peradventure, that they are
resolved to act in concert with the Administra-
ton Democrats and to ignore the past, its
feuds, and differences"
We very much doubt the statement of this
correspondent, that Mr.. Douglas viii acquiesce
in the English bill but he may not say any
thing upon that subject. He has already open
ed the campaign, by defending the bred Scott
decision. V ED
Z The steamer Styx has arrived at Halifax
from Havana, and reports the yellow fever as
raging badly there. The Styx is to try cooler
climate, after her belligerent career in South
Iern waters. s I @ -is
s6- The New York regiment of volunteers
got back to New York on Sunday last, and were
welcomed home with great enthusiasm by the
people.
The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company
has jast effected asale of the Delaware division
of the Pennsylvania canal, extending from the
Dslavars river ct Bristol, to Easton, for the sum
of one million seven hundred and seventy. five
thousand dollars, the payments to be seventy
five thousand dollars cash, four hundred thou
sand dollars in tsn equal monthly payments of
forty thousand dollars each one hundred thou.
sand dollars in eight per cent. preferred stock,
and Twelve hundred thousand in six per cent.
bonds. The purchasers are company of pri-
vats eitizeus--among them are the names of j.
v. Williamson, Judge Hepburne, Mr.. Borie of
the Bank of Commerce, Charles Henry Fisher
Marsh of the Morris Canal, e. w. Clark Il Co.,
and some six or eight others. The Governor
has approved the sale. sai ~
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company,
it Is said, have offered two millions of dollars
for the work. The purchasers have organized