New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-08
DICKINSON ON DOUGLAS.

In his recent defiant speech at Washington Mr..
Dickinson declared that the main object of the
Douglasites in sundering the National Democracy
BY their reckless course at Charleston and Balti-
more, was to build up Northern party as Sec
tiOnal in its principles and policy as the Repub-
licsn, and far more dangerous, because it aimed
to do BY indirection and false tokens what the Re-
publicans did openly and avowedly. We shall not
stop TO prove, for the thousandth time, that our
own party is not guilty Of this stereotyped charge.
Our present business is with Mr.. DIS arraignment
of the Douglasites. We have right to cite his
testimony in the premises. He ought to know the
persons whose characters and objects he is de-
picting. He has long been acquainted with them.
He has recently dealt with them on confidential
terms and in regard to matters which would give
even less sagacious man pretty clear insight
into the real purposes at which they are aiming.
Doubtless, in viewing them from his stand point,
his vision is somewhat clouded with passion and
prejudice because of the scandalous wrong done
him by the leaders of our Soft Democracy, who
are now the chief managers of the Douglas move
ment--for, of all the cases of wheedling, lying,
cheating, fraud and treachery, with which Amer
lean politics abounds, one of the most shameless
and infamous is the treatment of Mr.. Dickinson
by the Soft Democracy during the past twelve
months. Nevertheless, he is substantially right in
his estimate of the cardinal object of the Douglas
revolt against the National Democracy.
The followers of Douglas excluded from power
and provender in the Free States by their long de-
votion to the mandates of the Slavery Extension
lists, are getting very hungry and seem willing to
excite temporary insurrection against their old
masters, so that they may have some chance of OBJ
tanning place and pef at the hands Of Northern
constituencies. They finally begin TO discover,
what others long ago saw, that the aacrity with
which they have met every requistion of the Negro
Propaganda, has reduced them to an impotent mi
nority in all the Free States, has wrenched from
them every seat in the United States Senate, has
almost excluded them from the House of Repre-
sentatiyes and has rendered their success in the
coming Presidential contest SO hopeless thatyision
of lucrative Embassadorshps, Consulshps, Collect
orships, Marshaships, Post Offices, ETC., are vanish
ing into thin air. 1t is time therefore, for the hungry
leaders Of the Northern Democracy, when about
to be driven in Disgrace from the Federal clover.
fields where they have so long fed and fattened, to
do something whereby they can thrust their greedy
shouts into the well filed cribs Of the Free States.
To do this, and thus temporarily regain prestige
and prevent, and redeem the name they bear from
utter losthng, and obtain food for famished stom.
achs and raiment for palpabe nakedness, they
must seem to have some respect to the sentiments
Of the people among whom they dwell. So, they
refuse, for the time being, to take the next con.
secutive step in the infamous road down which, for
twenty years, they have followed their Southern
masters. That is-they admit all the premises of
their slaveholdng leaders, but for once, they de.
cline to 20 with them to the legitimate conclusion.
And, to that extent, the Douglastes are sec
" tional."
Admitting, then, that Mr.. Dickinson has ua-