New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
csu,-psoAsne. Of The N. Y. Tribune.

WASHINGTON, May IL, 1860.
The Japanese Embassy fills the city. 1t absorbs
universal attention. Outside of political circles
Mere is nothing else. The Japanese may be GU
rious, but the curiosity Of the Yankees cannot De
beat. Our people throng their door-ways ana
cape in the streets that pass their dwellings, is
a show, and all shows draw. Ii 1t were a uioe oil
,Comancbes il would be all the same. But they
are a friendly. JOYOUS people apparently the soul
, ,of sooa nature. poteness, and amiability. They
s.on, 20 no alike nimbe in mind and body, and to
consider themselves on capital lark, which they
mean 10 make the most of. 1t would be boorish
NOT TO try and help them enjoy themselves. We
have invited them to tea-party, and the least we
can do is 10 be hOspitable and give them their fill of
the best we have. We can afford to be tender of
even their semi-ciyiized ways and antique customs
If they are In one stage of national development
30 are we IN another, and each is far enough from
tine ultimate goal. Our elevation is great but even
the poor Japanese may have then Heenan some
day.
Mr.. Douglas assailed his Southern political COM
rides Of the old Democratic organization with great
eject yesterday. He demonstrated their incon-
sistency and their encroaching temper in refusing
30 stand BY the Cincinnati platform. He showed
very plainly, what is true enough, that the present
demand Of the South for a Slave Code for the Ter
ritories and the abandonment of the doctrine Of
non-intervention, is fresh claim for Northern SUBJ
mission on the Slavery question. Mr.. Douglas is
doing lust what the Sias Wrights, and David VIII
mots, and Preston Kings did on the Wilmot Pro-
viso; Just what the Hamlins and Bankses and Bout
wells did on the KansasNebraska bill; just what
the FOrneys and Hickmans and Pughs, and BrOd
ericks, and himself did on LecOmpt0p AT each
stage of Southern aggression q fragment of the old
Democratic organization has broken off, refusing to
submit TO Southern demands, until, the pow
er of the Northern wing Of the party having
just sbOut totally disappeared the remaining
shattered columns make a final stand under
Douglas ON non-interventiOn, that they may be
saved from entire demolition. The shareholders
have obtained everything but active Intervention by
Congress ia behalf of Slavery in the Territories.
This they now demand. The virtue of Douglas
and his followers is that they resist this. Not that
Douglas himself has any scrupes about granting it,
if he could do so and live But he believes il would
DO utter death to him. politically, in the North, if
he did not make stand somewhere. He thus
plants himself on the forlorn hope of the last post
not yet carried by the enemy. This he says he
will hold. And the main body of his followers be-
ieve be means TO hold it. 1t being the first exam
pie of anything ike successful resistance within the
Democratic ranks to the Shareholders rule, his pluck
is admired, and the astonshment OF the doughtaces
great They really think they themselves feel
slight sprouting of backbone, while they wonder.
Douglas is certainly doing them and thecause of Re-
pubhcanism good. He is teaching resistance where
resistance was never taught before He is proving
that rebellion may pay. The lesson is excel
lent, and viii bring forth fruit to the cause
OF righteousness. What shall become of Doug
las himself is no matter. He is flaming
the flames of rebellion, and creating a senti-
ment that viii find its own modes of expression,
when he himself shall desert his present apparent
position. He may retreat to the shareholders here
after, and Mr.. Pugh may go with him, they say
they viii when the Federal Court shall decide
against them (as that Court surely will, unless
snubbed by Republican successes), but they viii be
unable to take their present followers with them.
And this II precisely the measure of these gentle
mems usefulness. They are creating recruits for
the Republican army, which in due time viii join its
standard. lisp