The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-09-19
Startling De9elopments----Additional
Exposure Of Douglass Conspiracy
with the Black Republicans.

Judge Trumbull, Mr.. Douglass colleague
in thesSenate of the United States, made
speech in Illinois the other day, and brough:
to light some important facts in the career OF
Douglas. When he was about to take the
stand, Mr.. Kirkpatrick, a Breckenridge man,
rose and said
Judge Trumbull, / desire to ask you 0
question, for the purpose of information, and
don't wish to interrupt you while speaking;
will YOU permit me to ask it now?
Judge Trumbull-Yes, sir.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick-I see from the speech of
Judge Kellogg, that at the time Of the at
tnmpted passage of the Lecompton Constitu-
ton through Congress. Mr.. Douglas called on
Mr.. Covode, Republican member OF Con-
gress from Pennsylvania, and requested him
to go to you and get you to agree that he, Mr..
Douglas, should be returned to the Senate by
the Republicans of Illinois, and in considera-
ton thereof he would fight the Republican
battles in 1860? Was this message conveyed
to you by Mr. Covode. and if aye, what reply
did you make thereto?
Mr.. Trumbull-Mr Covode has told me
since, that he came to me at that time for the
purpose of delivering the message, but before
mentioning the matter to me. found from my
violent denunciations of Judge Douglas, that
it was useless to make the proposition to me,
and consequently it was not delivered, at that
time, to me.
Mr.. Kirkpatrick-One more question. Was
Judge Douglas, at that time, an applicant for
admission into the Republican party, the con.
sideration on the one side being that the Re-
publicans of Illinois should return. him to the
Senate Of the United States, and upon the
other that ne would fight the Republican bat
ties of 1860?
Judge Trumbull-I had no intercourse
with Judge Douglas at that time, and conse-
quently can only state the reports which came
to me through others. 1t was reported to me,
at that time, that such was the fact, and such
appeared to be the universal understanding
among the Republicans at Washington. will
state another fact: | almost quarreled with
some of my best Republican friends in regard
to this matter. was willing to receive ] Judge
Douglas into the. Republican party upon pro-
hation, but | was not, as these Republican
friends were, willing to receive him and place
him at the head of our ranks.
From this it will be seen that Senator Trum-
bull states implicitly that Mr.. Douglas did, in
1858, send Mr.. Covode, a Republican member
of Congress from Pennsylvania, to Judge
Trumbull, with the proposition that he doug
las) would aid the Republicans in the present
Presidential canvass, if the Republicans would
not prevent his then pending election to the
Senate; that the proposition was faverably re-
ceived by great many Republicans, but was
defeated because Senator Trumbull and his
friends, though willing to admit Mr.. Douglas
into the Republican party on probation, were
not willing to admit him as q leader. About
the same time (the Lecompton bill being then
before Congress) Mr.. Douglas (the st. Louis
Bulletin asserts this upon authority which
shall be produced if Mr.. Douglas dare to deny
it, sent Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Republican
Congressman, to Frank Blair, (freesoiler, at
that time representing the st. Louis district in
Congress, to request an interview with him.
Mr.. Blair, thereupon, went to see Mr. Doug
las at his own house. During that interview
Judge Douglas told Mr. Blair that he Doug
las) scas as hostile to Slavery as Mr.. Blair
could possibly Be; that he synspathised pih
Blair in has struggle Nth Missouri, and would
aid him in ii, if Blair suould point out hov he
could do so; and he then suggested to Mr.. Blair
the property of attempting, with his Doug
lass assistance, to be elected to the Senate as
James S. Green's successor.
Mr.. Douglas told Mr.. Blair at the same
time, that his Kansas Nebraska policy had
been designed from the first Nth vis,e to
crush out slavery, by surrounding the slave
holding States with Gordon Of non-slave-
holding communities. Mr.. Douglas so COM
pletely satisfied Mr.. Blair of his auti-slavery
sentiments, on this occasion, that the latter
gentleman wrote to Mr. Gratz Brown, who
was then editing the Missouri Democrat, to
abstain from all further attacks upon Mr..
Douglas
Our readers will, some of them, (says the
Bulletin remember that Mr.. Blair admitted
some time ago, in letter, that he had received
the message above alluded to; and that he did
have the interview with Judge Douglas. But
he has refused to disclose what was said and
done, because the interview was somewhat
private one, and held in Douglass house, and
he is, therefore, unwilling to say any thing
about it, without Judge Douglass consent.
Mr.. Blair admits that he wrote the letter above
spoken Of, to Gratz Brown. m
Democrats of the South, what say you to
this? Can you trust man who has acted
thus treacherously, not only towards the party
which has honored him with its most distin-
guished positions, but to the confding people
Of the South, whose favor he courted with un-
ceasing and disgusting assiduity, until he
found that the anti-slaEery sentiment Of the
North was beginning to control the nation,
and who then sought to betray them into the
hands Of their bitterest enemies, the Black
Republican party.
In view of the additional convincing and
overwhelming evidences of Douglass confer
ences with the Black Republicans, his treach-
cry to his party, and his betrayal of the con-
fding and unsuspecting South, we trust that
we will be no longer charged with injustice"
for calling him " renegade
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