Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-10-13
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

on this subject from the pen OF Major General
Jssup, which We shall insert in to-morrow's
Star having seen it for the trst time at too
late an hour to enable us to spread it before
the Stars readers to-day. - -. -
The SoUrH's DUrY TO 1rsELF.-A CORES
pendent, evidently bitten with the Douglas
mania. writes us, in effect urging that the South
will overlook the course Of Senator Douglas
last winter, his moro recent denunciation OF the
Democracy Of Congress and the National Ad-
ministration for tho preparation Of what be
calls the great fraud Of the age upon popular
rights, his praises heaped at the same time on
the Republican party as the patriot friends OF
civil liberty in that contest, and his still more
recent utter reputation Of the bred Scott de-
cision wherein that 10 q shield Of Southern
rights under the Constitution; in doing which,
be virtually justified, and proclaimed to be
legal, the action of Republican party State
We cannot sympathire in our correspondent
wishes.
For the South to regard Stephen Arnold
Douglas as entitled to its confidence OF SYM
pathy in his present personal contest, wherein
he has seduced the Democracy of Illinois into
| position of hostility to that of the great Dem
ocratic party of the nation upon the important
Slavery question of the times, will be for the
South to proclaim that nothing can rightfully
operate to deprive recreant Democrats who once
| were true to the faith, of Southern confidence,
if they are clever fellows in a social way
Those of the South who now embrace Stephen
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John b. Haskin with reclamation. Do they
not really stand on identically the same plat
form, though Douglas now cunningly rofrains
| from the dangerous experiment of Wanting
that fact, as he was won't to do last winter
when hoping for Republican party support
| in his present contest?
What right have they-such persons in the
South-tO claim not to be in fellowship. also,
| with Broderick, the head and front of Douglas
| ism in California-the foul mOuthed denouncer
of the South and the National Administration
in the Senate of the United States? Or, again,
can they, folding Douglas in their arms, de-
| Gently refuse their embraces to his representa-
tive in Pennsylvania-Forney. Forney, so far
| as the slavery gu estion is concerned, is simply
acting out the last winters policy of his fugle-
man-Douglas policy which the latter reaf-
frmed as his in his first Chicago speech of the
current Illinois contest, however convenient it
may be for him to pretend to have abandoned
it, now that the Republicans of Illinois refuse
| to trust him.
What Forney says in the way of personal
| abuse and Misrepresentation Of the President,
the members Of the Cabinet, and all others who
| stood last winter in the way of the triumph of
| the plots Of Douglas, Seward, Wade, Wilson,
&c, against the rights Of the South and the
ascendancy of the Democratic party, is noto-
| riously borrowed from the private counsels and
sentiments of Douglas, however inconvenient it
may be for him to proclaim the fact just now.
Does any well-informed man doubt it?
We care not what nominal Southern leaders
may stand by Douglas-the public may rest
assured that they will be leaders of the De-
mocracy Of the South but little longer, unless
they speedily cease to give aid and counte-
nance to Haskin, Forney, Broderick, Douglas
Co.-the captain, mate, cook and crew of the
cock boat of which ex-senator Foote has seized
helm.
The WATER PIPEs.-We mentioned, a day
or two ago, that the contract with Lawrence
Myers, of Philadelphia, for water pipes for the
supply Of water to this city had been forfeited,
because Of a failure on the part of the con-
tractor to deliver them at the time appointed
Our paragraph has been made the basis for the
following unwarrantable and untruthful re-
marks by the Baltimore Patriot:
"We learn from the Washington Star OF YES.
terday, that such has been the outside pressure
upon the Cabinet at Washington that they have
been compelled to annul the contract with Law
renee Myers, Of Philadelphia, and that II will
again he thrown into market This nice job
which was intended TO place in the poe kets Of
Democratic politicians, Owen Jones' 4 Co, some
SS0UU for the purpose Of carrying the election In
Pennsylvania, has most fortunately ended in
complete failure.
" This is doubtless most sad disappointment
to Mr.. Buchanan and his retainers aud but for
the Overwhe lining ind gnation of the peoplr the
scheme would have been fully cOusumated. II
Is our honest conviction that Mr.. Myers never
Intended, nor did the government expect the de-
livery OF tie iron pipes by the LIST of October
=" Had the contract been given to our own man.
ufactOries, the pipes would have been delivered
and laid before the frosts OF winter should have
set IN, but now the probability is the work will
have to be DELAYED until the coming spring"
II would be difficult to crowd more Stiffness
in so small space as the above extract occupies.
In our article we said nothing about "outsi de
pressure, but stated distinctly that the for
feiture was in consequence of failure to com
ply with the terms of the contract. That sMr.
buchanan and his retainers'' were sadly dis
appointed is a queer inference to be drawn
from the premises, when it is remembered that
the time for the fulfllment of the contract was
the LIST Of October, and that the forfeiture took
place in very few days thereafter. Truly,
this seems as though the Administration was
in great hurry to be 'sadIy disappointed. s"
How this contract was to have placed "some
$50 900" in the pockets Of Owen Jones 4 Co,
is result arrived at by some process of igur-
ing peculiar to the genius of the Patriot whose
powers of arithmetical calculation some weeks
ago ena bled him to crowd "over thirty years.
IN the space which has interviewed since the
close OF the administration of General Jackson,
(Uide his articles on the "Humbugs of Democ-
racy."o