, 1860-01-28

>he North. lily wun.s it 10 be made felony to
assef1 that Slavery is wrong, and penitensiary
ohence lof 1t man 1" be Il Republican. This is
douglas icw pauacea 10 restore fraternity aud
good feellnG between the slave breeders and tie
Tree 'aooFers. 1Hrrison and hang the leaders
Of tue Republican party and their followers will
quietly surrender their convictions TINT slavery
Is IN csil, aud believe as they mHy be ordered
by their Southern masters, thnt it is a blessing
and divine institution. The proposition Ct
Douglas is 10 pass Congressional slave code
for the ffee States, putting down free speech.
tree presses, free thought. and placing the
opirions of the people Of the free States under
Tie legal censorship Of Southern slave breeders
and their Northern SIZES and iufor1ners. lie
wants tile machinery Of the Spanish lnqnisition
set Ill motion in the North. And would not the
.'esu'ts be the proper persons 10 administer il:
1t would give them such infinite delight to nut
to the torture those double.dycd heretics-pro
tessant Frce-soicrs. pouglas seemed to have for
gotten that his border Ku:ian friends of Missouri
passed exactly such u law when they had pos
session Of the Legislature of Kansas, aud un-
der 1t many Of the ''Isiack Republican leaders"
were arrested, and Ia large number murdered:
ont the measure iai'ed TO gire peac, to Kansas,
or to reduce tue ra"k and file Of Republicans
into submission; OF to stop the .tirrepressiblc
conh'cl' in or ou! Of Congress. But Douelas
thinks, il the Black Laws the Border RufIians
made for hnnsns could be applied to all the free
States peace could be conque ed, the North
crushed .oct, The .nillcnium would be usher
cd in, and every knee would bow to tue Bual of
slavery.
Senator Fessenden replied 10 the little dcs-
perado in 4 'oastcrly argument. Douglas at
tempted rcjoInder, l'ut it was wretcled fail
"rc. Upon the conclusion of his speech not
Southern Seustor Went near him; not one shook
hands or congratulated him. Ills speech ad-
sanced him not pr4 towards the goal Of bis am-
bltlon.- Every Southern member disce1ned lis
motives and >purucl his bid for their favor and
confidence. But he will find that his new Alien
and Sedition bill will blast his littlc remaiaiue
popularity in tie North. It IVES the meanest ard
most unluck1y speech for him &lat be ever made,
The more it is examined the baser il will ar
pear.
Since tue election Of Bowman OF tl4e Coust;fu-
lion to be SenMe Printer, the public curiosity
has been excited to learn whom he would con-
tract with TO DO Tue work-he having 10 facilities
Of his own. lie has concluded q contract will,
John e. Rires Of the GloJe by which be obtains
the u:c Of tile lutter's otli.e 10 execute the wo,k
Wendell regarding this as breach Of the Union
sale contract has sued out an attacbmcntacaiust
the Constitution newspaper Office claiming sco,-
ol'0 da1nages-tha. being The price he was Of
fered for tiny tic friends Of Douglas previous
to. the sale aud transfer to Bowman and Bu-
chanan. Wendell claims that one Of the terms
or understandings Of the sale was to tae effect
that lie WIS to lie employed 10 do oil the Gov
ernmcnt printing that was given to the Consti
tuition ~-ac paving Bowman q certain per-
ccntase on The work. The suit is likely to dc
Feior some rol'slca! scandal that will not1cfiecs
any honor on the leaders Of the Democratic
party. Uld Anck+ derry Dinck, Floyd, DigleT
aud various other n'agnates aud political trick
s'ers "ltl ne put IN the witness stand and sub
Jecfed to cross examination under The solemni-
tics OF m oath to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
IN regard to the Isaac Cook~1lolt case, there
are conflicting rumore. The statement Of q let
ter-wr1ter, for Western paper, that Holt said
to tae PRESIDENT "sll"t # he wanted riolator
OF law and dccencs retained in office, and
shielded from exposure, he could not be M ac~
tnmllice in the transaction, OH which Mr.. Ku
chanan waSed highly wroth, hut finally yielded
to reason, and consented that Cook should 60
OUT is not credited in tle circle Of the rms
sips; and II true Il not known to the news-mon-