The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-08-13
Election, Tuesday, Sept. @.

Tie utter Reorganization of the Democrat
io part, IS 90 obvious, that the hl,HdeU par.
ti,an cannot but see and acknowledge it,
The part, 81 hrpd ,sly divided, constitution.
ull, morally aud scc,.oualy Even the pose
session and hope ct the cmulumouls ~ office,
and the incidental advantage Of "Ieolnra"
and tat Jobs hitherto the most potent bond
Of union, though rhcy s'ill exert Almighty iu-
nucucc, are set insufficient o. opuutDmg che
operation " causes WHICH spriuR from that
ac, VI bad filth, the ahroral.ou Of lhc Nilsson.
ri compromise a Western man, q native.
We blush 10 'ay II, Of our own state, claim,
the honor Of tina, measure, htnl nlikc 90 the
asccndcncy Of his own party, his personal as.
piralons, and l. may Doe the very existence Of
the Union. This man, Ike his prototype,
Benedict Arnold, wos wiling TO bcuuy the
causo Of il,pdom TO %, enemies not hoWey.
cr, Ike him, from resentment, arising from
Guoj,l injuries, but from an unch1rrncd
ambition. he had seen more than one Nor
,hcrn man made President of ,be United
State q, au unnatural 4al 80 uGs-FlPl!-a4
devotion TO the interest, OF slavery, llr hes.
itat,d at first liz own record showed the
most emphatic ayovals against the act rc.
quirod Of him. llc knew we'll that cumpli-
nucc involved a pcrIGcc Of principle, of con-
-.-.. , ,.I ,...,..l 81, r--riv~-,
10 comply \ mad ambition hurried him ou
10 his own di,honor 20 h'. own destruction.
But did hr uol cuuci.il'c, and will D, not ob.
tain the support OF those, for whose interests
he thu, consented 20 sacrifice every thing
public man ought 10 hold dear Nui for,
having done this great wrong, aud having
cNcr,,d al hi, acknowledged powers 90 de-
lcnd and jo,uyi,, hc again ml,,rcd and
showed sign, of woe. lie was willing 60
make slavery possible where before it was
impo,,iblc-uay, bee cNg,cd all hi, energies,
ia the struggle that hc had invited, t. crush
the efforts Of the free men OF The North and
East to keep slavery out Of Kansas. lie ,i-
olcuIly denounced cmigrant aid societies,
whose object was perfectly constitutional aud
legal, and favored associations, ia the South,
whose object WAS TO raise organized bands of
runians to send into the territory who should
bvmurdcr, arson Violence and election frauds,
aid IN planting slavery there. Ills speeches,
mis- reports, his c,cry act and word, showed
that hc did care whether slavery was voted
up or voted down. lie wished il voted up,
fought up, cheated up, forced UP in every
way and any way that ingenuity or violence
could devise. And yet after all, he could
not satisfy his frcnds-hc did not dive deep
enough. lie ycnturcd to think that, in ma
king constitution for that new state, the
people ought to have some voice. He did
not, like his friend buchanan, think they hla
any such voice IN the Culhoun-Lccompto
constitution. lie had distinctly given IN bio
adhesion to c. j. 1aney's doctrine in the
bred Scott case, that slave property, like any
other property, may he taken into our terri
tories, and held as such there. BH here
again he baked. His southern friends de-
sired a.rca practical South Carolina sort of
slaycry-nut mere naked abstraction Mr..
Douglas pretended newly discovered princi-
PIE Of non-intcrvcnton, which, such as it is,
be has no just claim to the paternity of, is
not the thing he burgaincd for. As inter
prcted at the South, it means no intervention
in derogatiun Of slavery, but active ihter,cn-
ton to invest il with all the advantages it
has in the slave states. Mr.. Douglas in all
this forgot his NdchjareN Did he not
know that in conscnting TO PROSTATE himself
to the Moloeh Of slavery, that grim monarch
would not be loutcntcd with simple gcuuAee-
tons but insist that his devotees shall
crawl upon their bellies with their mouths in
the dust? Was he no, aware that in politics
especially, whoever seeks popular favor
through dishonest componoes, must never
halt at half way measures lie must sell
himself soul and body to the evil one, or he
will not ride through the air triumphant
Mr. Douglas on this ground may be COM.
sidcrcd as hors dt, comjat already, in the en-
suing presidential contest. lie cannot get
votes In the North because he has gone too
fans nor in the South, becauky he has not
gone Gar enough.