Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-04-02
WAsUINGTON MATTERS.

writes an interesting ltNttI ubHh w hohlhS e'Aif
from which we extract the following
"The President in his Special Message,
made Lecompton party measure, and its &C
coptancc a test Of party fidelity. His TigM to
do so may be doubted or denod-but having
done it, there is no alternative he must ell
ther be sustained or overthrown Mr.. Blu
chanan understands this perfectly, and in an
Interview with a Pennsylvanian member to-
dav declared. with visible emotion, that the
defeat of the bill would break down his adj
ministration-that his fate was in the hands
of his political friends, and that he appealed
70 them to save him from ruin.
IL is now generally believed that Mr. Crit
tenden's requiring submission
OF the Constitution to the people of Kansas
will be carried in the House. The South
ern Americans will support it warmly
they consider it their measure. For this very
reason some Of the ultra-radical Republicans
hesitate about giving it their votes-but their
scruplos viii probably yield to maturer re-
Election. 1t will probably be carried by this
combination, and will be sent back to the
Senate. That body will doubtless reject it
and then the question will rccur whether
the House will rcccdo from or adhere to its
amendment. If the bill reaches that stage, |
think it will pass"
Mr.. Raymond records the following capital
hit
"AIr. Douglas is by no means mcaly mouth
cd or er-iastidous in his expressions of
opinion. At an early stage Of his detection
while he was having interviews with the
President. in the hope that they might come
60 some agreemont-the latter remarked to
him that it was very perilous for public man
to put himself in opposition to his party-and
that he must take the liberty of reminding
him Of the fate of Rivcs and Tallmadge, who
rebelled against the policy Of Gen. jackson.
Permit me. Mr. President Mr.. Douglas re-
piled, permit me to remind you that Gen.
jackson Is dead
Mn. DOUoLAs's PosITGoN. - The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Cou-
rier and Enquirer, gives the following ac-
count of Mr. Douglass views ON the political
controversy Of the day 80
IL am informed by many persons who have
Opportunities Of knowing, that Mr.. Douglas
does not expect any reconciliation with the
party of which he was so lately the admitted
and popular leader. He considers that party
incurably corrupted and perverted by the in
fucnce of the Administration, and by the Sc
ditious and ncondiary schemes Of the South
ern Secessionists. These men, Mr.. Douglas
Democratic party. 1t has, under their lead.
LEFT the line Of progress marked out by princi-
pie and is hurryng along the downward
road which leads to civil connection and dis
union. lie has not left the party, and he
trusts that a majority of the honest masses of
the party have not left him. But in any
event he goes no farther with the propagan-
dists of Slavery.
Mr.. Dougas regards the Administration as
an enemy to the peace Of the country and to
the Union He considers that the very first
act Of the Executive after the admission of
Lecompton, should that misfortune come up
ON the country. will be to bring on civil war
by an attempt to force spurious government
upon Kansas.
lie thinks, therefore, the first duty of all
parties is to break down the present corrupt
and trcachorous Administration. That will
be followed, he believes, by the reconstruc-
ton Of sound, national and conservative
party in the South, which will break the force
OF the impending secession movement and
will afterwards secure the punishment of the
eonspirators against the Union.
IL is the impression among Mr.. Douglas
friends that he expects the election of Mr..
Seward to the Presidency in 1860 The next
four years VIII be occupied in restoring to the
country that tranquility and order of which
the designating measures OF the Democratic
party for the last eight years have deprived
it. Such are said to be the views of Senator
Douglas"
~ The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, who probably gives the views
of many Democratic politicians here says
The struggle is for the possession of the
Federal Government for the next Presiden-
tial term. If the Kansas bill be beaten in
the House, the Black Republicans will be tri-
umphant in the country at the next elections
for Congress, and possibly at the next Presi
DENTAL election, On the other hand, the sue
cess Of the Administration in carrying this
measure will dissolve the league, and com
plotely destroy he Republican pdrty.'
WAsuINeroN, March 26. The Senate
Committee on Territories to-day reconsdered
the bill establishing government in Arizona,
which had been previously ordered to be re-
ported and unanimously defeated it. Mr..
Douglas had put in an amendment preventing
repetition of Lecompton frauds, which the
Southern members did not detect till recently,
and then finding popular sovereignty unpaat-
able, thcy repudiated their own offspring.
The President has WARNS Spain Cuba
seizing message ready to be sent in on the
passage Of Lecompton.
10 Tho Columbus Statesman. the organ
the Ohio Democracy, and until lately the
property of Gov. Medary, is terrible in its
denunciatons of the President, Speaker Orr,
and the whole Lecompton democracy. Here
is a specimen of the bricks that it throws:
" We would see Congress and Calhoun and
all concerned sink into hell sooner than ac-
knowledge such outrageous folly and tyran-
ny to be democracy"
SIGNs OF DECAY-AND OF HoPE.-The
admission of Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution passed the Senate by Ayes SO,
Nays %. The Fugitive Slave Bill passed the
Senate in $50 by vote of % ayes and only
2 nays, and the Nebraska Bill repeating the
Missouri Compromise passed the same body
in 1854 by ayes 81, nays 4. Thus, year by
year, does the Slave Power decay, until we
see 20 negative votes cast in the Senate a
gainst its iavorite measure. This number is
destined to expand, until it establishes free
dom on the citadel so long occupied by slave
ry.-AtbdHy Journal
CALHoUN's DECISION. - The decision OF
Calhoun to reject the Delaware Crossing re-
turns will leave political parties in the two