Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-09-21
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

DouGLAsIsM IN PRACTICE Is at this time pre-
cisey what Ii was when Messrs- Seward, Waoe,
Hale, st al, OF the Republican party cohof' In
Congress, were marching nightly out 10 senator
ID ,ssresidpnce and there connecting measures or
appliances i'm consultation with him to defeat the
pol CIV of the Democratic party It's thus true to II
self I'm practice at this time, notwithstanding his
suea ent protestatons of identity with his former
party friends Thus, in the late Oregon election,
II turns out that his adherents there made common
cause with the Republicans against the Demo
cracy, under the lead of the pro-Douglas States
nas newspaper. In the election in California
that has just taken place, the Douglasites and Re-
publicans formed coalition to elect McKibben
(Douglasite) and Baker Republican, to Congress,
each party dropping one name off its own Con-
gressional ticket The Democratic papers charged
this bargain upon the Douglasites, who through
their mouthpiece, Mr.. Frederick. did not hesitate
to avow 1t. The New York TribHHe's San Fran
cisco letter by the last steamer, published on
Monday last, says that it will surely be carried
out and that the doomed Douglas and Republican
nominees for Congress Zone of each) will conse-
quently not poll an eighth Of their respective
party's vote. On this (Atlantic) side, We have
Mr.. Forney-Douglas ugleman-bargaining off
the votes of the two Douglasites from Pennsyl-
vania, the two from New Jersey, and the three
from New York. TO the Republicans, In the or
ganization of the House. for the Republican party's
vote for him for Clerk.
With these practical results of Dougla
staring all in the face, that the Illinois Senator
continues to dream that he will be able to brow
beat the Southern Democrats into supporting him
for the Presidency alternative Of the election
of some political cousn-german Of his to be nomi-
mated by the Republican party, is simply evil
dence that ambition has entirely bcreft him of his
senses. That scheme failing, the other string is
to ssrun a stump against the Democratic nomi-
nee in case he cannot succeed in breaking up the
Charleston Convention without nomination, as
We explained some time since. Within the last
week or two, hundreds Of newspapers have come
to see through this game Of his, and are air
ing it. That there is nothing but impudence in
his squatter- sovereignty special pleading, is al
ready being made manifest by nine-tenths Of the
newspapers, as well as by such able non-editoral
pens that of the writer of the review of his late
copyrighted essay, originally published in the
Washington Constitution.
The article now in course of publication in the
National Intshigeneer narratng the history of the
legislation Of Congress upon slavery in Territories,
by the by, apty illustrates the impudence Of the
Illinois Senator's change of front; proving as it
does that his version of that history is utterly
true in all particulars and coined to serve his
purposes for the nonce. We have never been
among those who gave Mr.. Douglas credit for
misunderstanding him only the need Of
praise for his abilities as stump popular orator.
ard we feel very sure that no well informed man
can read the Constitutions review of the copy
riyhted essay and the IntslIigeneer's summary of
the history Of the legislation of Congress with re-
ference to the right Of squatters in Territories to
confscate slave property, without concludiLg with
us that Senator Douglass claims to substantial al
statesmanshP rest wholly upon his gift of CAB and
impudence combined-not possessing a single ele-
ment of the sound learning common sense ne
cessary to constitute a statesman in fact as
well as in name. Cunning, intr que. industry and
cheek" combined, though they have earned for
hun his present notorety not sufficient to sus-
tam him an hour longer for the reading and
tia. mixing world is already deridng the false pre-
teIces of his latter day argument and position,
to utter contempt of his political charatanism as
being made manifest.