Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-01-14
NEWS AND GOSSIP

sured the public, it will be remembered, that
Senator Douglas absented himself from inc
Senate chamber during the first month oil .h'S
session because unwilling to DO forced 70 sno"
his hand" until after succeeding IN acnieVing
his late re election by false Pretences-oy oo-
tanning the votes of the few sound Democrats
in the Illinois Legislature, under belief on
their mart that he meant hereafter to act in
GOOD faith with the Democratic party. We
now have it in our power to prove the truth Of
this assertion to the entire comprehension of
all, and thus to entirely justify our course in
the estimation of all true Democrats, in per-
sistently treating Mr.. Douglas as the most
dangerous enemy of the future Of the Demo
cratic party now on the stage of public affairs.
Yesterday We briefly alluded to the fact that
his home organ-the Chicago Times-on re-
ceiving news of his reelection to the Senate,
announced his undying hostility to the present
National Democratic Administratio and his
determination, If not nominated at Charleston
for the next Presidency, to bring about the
defeat of the Democratic party in the national
election Of 1860; alleging at the same time that
the consideration that by showing Mr.. Dou-
glass hand ere he had been reelected, would
have resulted in his defeat for the Senate, had
alone prevented it (that journaD from earlier
making known his future intentions towards
the Democratic party Of the Union. So uni
versal is the desire hero to see the exact terms
of this evidently authorized manifesto of Senator
Douglas, that we to-day publish extracts from
it, embracing all its really material points as
follows:
From the Chicago Daily Times-Home organ of
Mr.. Douglas
JAMES BUcHANAN.-An unwillingness to say
or do ANYTHING that mig ht in any possible man.
ner be considered as tending to embarrass a po-
litcal contest in which our friends had deep
personal interest has for many months restrained
us In that free and candid preston Of our Judy
ment OF the acts Of the Administration OF Mr.
Buchanan that we would like to have given to
our readers The action Of the Leg islatufe OF H.
linois yesterday has removed the last possible
excuse for silence on our part and therefore is
that we ask the attention OF our readers for few
minutes this morning.
Hardly had he taken the oath Of office before
sters-men who, having neither ability or posi-.
tiOn themselves, devote their lives to attempts 10
destroy others who do possess those qualities.
Such men as Cobb, Black Bigler, Fitch, Bright,
Clancy Jones, Gund, and slldell look pos,e.siOn
since the opening Of 1sss the administration
the lowest depths Of political meanness II has
sought TO terrify men by prescription; to buy
men by bestOwing Office upon them; and to cor
rupt men by holding out inducements to corrup-
ton. Ii has dismissed honesty from the custody
Of the public funds, and invested convicted
knavery with the treasurer's KEY. IL has stooped
to acts from which Bomba would turn with dis.
gust, and which would be cons dpred revolving
In drspotsm. 1t has sought directly by the
application Of federal money, to coerce the pso-
pie into the choice OF particular ind yiduas az
representatives, and then lamented with croco-
dilean anguish over the dangers which peril our
liberties by the employment Of money to control
elections.
Owing his present position, and all the posi-
tions he ever neld, to the Democratic party this
James Buchanan, assuming the tone Of a Louis
NapoleoR has sOug hit to dictate to the people of
Illinois the men for whom they should vote He
has, through the gang OF miserable ofHceholders
who hang at his coat skirts and despise the
facile stupidity which allows them to rule him
sought the election Of an unanimous Republican
delegation to Congress from this State The
people refused to obey the despot, and he has.
through his official organs, pronounced them
outlaws. He has told them that II they re-
elected Douglas they should not be represented
at Charleston, and, Douglas having been re-
elected, II remains to be seen whether the ROYAL
edct will be carried out. The man who pro-
claimed 1t, the men who instigated 1t, and those
who confirm il by their action, may never hope
to hear the approving voice OF the American
people. They may triumph at Charleston. in
people.
Now all this is clear enough. 1t says that
the future policy of Mr.. Douglas is and has
been ever since he struck hands with the Re-
publicans in Congress last winter-war to the
knife and the knife to the hilt, on the Demo
cratic party as represented by the administra-
ton Of ] smes Buchanan and the majority in
Congress supporting the Lecompton bill. And
further, that the desire to compass his re cleo
ton to the Senate by deceiving the few sound
Democrats of the Illinois legislature as to his
real future intentions, alone prevented him from
letting the world know what those intentions
were, until this time.
We accompany these extracts with others:
the first from letter from Forney, to his Press,
published on Tuesday, and the second an ex-
tract from the Washington correspondence of
the New York Evening Posi- of the same day.
showing that the inference we draw from the
Chicago Times article is in exact accord with
the understanding with reference to his future
political course entertained by his immediate
coterie Of friends here, Forney, Haskins,
Mcconnell Co.-his sore headed coterie of
co-labOrers against the future of the Democratic
party.
liz he lany politician with a very uau,eou.
sore on has head-Ed asks that c on vention to
nominate man like stephen A Douglas: n he
piraos Tor the great doctrine Of Popular Sover-
eighty; II he holds up the promises Of our candI-
GATE and our party In 1855, he is denounced as a
disorganizer, and consie ned to the tender en-
braces Of 'the Black Republicans And all
this In the face Of the fact that we can have no
nope for success In $780, unless under the banner
OF such man as Douglas, marshalled by the ac-
cepted and now universally understood doctrine
OF elf-goyerDment In States and Territories "
tne democratic party is forced upon the secession
PLATFORM at Charleston, defeat will be its DOOM
aeieat' certain, crushing, inevitable, aad de- |
sT'ed!-ForHey'S letter 10 las Press.
presume there exists general inquiry among
!ne curious 70 Know what Mr.. Doug Las is going
10 DO. His most Intimate friends have been un
aoie 70 answer this question until very recently
a personal friend Of the Senator answers me
mat he Is going To stand up.n "Stand up and
90 what :" ! inquired "Stand up and fight the |
Administration. "WilI be seek 10 obtain the
Charleston nomination." Inquired again. Ono:
u ne does he parts with his best friends in the |
North :" = But will he not do it, nevertheIes,!n |
" can assure you that be will not uHIsss n,
: ranges hts policy els there any truth that |
he means to urge Wise IA the Charleston nomi
nee 20 - Not word Of truth in It," Will he /
run as an independent candidate for the Presi
m ~.