Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-16
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

much ADO ABOUT NOTHING The Douglas
LIE newspapers fancy they a streak Of light for
their cause in the South In rumored recent dec
laration Of Senator Brown, Of Mississippi that he
will not support Breckenridge and Lane Even
II the story were true, land we have no conf
dence in its truth-why we will presently explain)
we question much whether its truth would de.
tract sixty votes from the aggregate that B. and
l.. will receive in November-say fifty in Missis-
sippi, and ten elsewhere In the South l.: Mr. h.
being too cratic Of late in his political course to
exert, go as he will, any influence whatever upon
| the result Of the election anywhere. We, how
ever, do not believe that he will fail to support
Breckenridge and Lane, because, II he does, he
will thus add confirmation so strong to the i'm
preston, that not few entertained here through
out the whole Of the last session, that though as
snming to be the most ultra Southern-rights man
in the Senate he was really play ing sab rosa very
desperate game for the Vice Presidential nomIna-
ton on Douglas ticket; and that the numer-
Gus coo-castles he set up nominally in behalf of
the Southern cause during the SESSION. were so
constructed as that Douglas might batter them
down with the greatest ease. As to confirm any
| such expression would certainly work the end of
all Senator Browns prospects ''dear people's'
man In Mississippi, we fancy he would as soon
put his head in the fire as essay to carry out such
purpose.
We may not inaptly add that from the begin
ming to the end Of the last session Mr. Brown
played, emphatically, the part of Monsieur Nal
aProPos upon nearly every slavery question arising
In the Senate Chamber. The South, as there rep
resented, seemed to dread nothing so much as the
injury TO their cause likely to grow out Of the posi-
ions he had way Of taking-all nominally so
ultra that II was rare to find any other Southern
senator coinciding with him; and vet all so scat
teringly taken az that they unfortunately, afford
ed Mr.. Douglas almost his only opportunities of
the session for gaining eelat and making substan-
tlal capital against the cause of the South. They
were, essentially, but cob-castles interposed A
the South's defense against Douglass Paixhans-
oratorieal. We do not know that we ever before
saw the friends of the South so vexed a, they
were time and again, by the rraLsdrott defep-
slve and offensive works which Mr. Brown saw
ut to construct as In opposition to the views and
theories Of Douglas. That he was regarded here
by many as being ardent friend of Douglas
personally, as any of the score, perhaps, of
Southern public men, who each seemed to fancy
his own Vice Presidential nomination as being
next to insured il he could only effect something
substantial by way Of strengthening DIS pros
poets, is matter of universal notoriety here
Though we have no knowledge of our own with
reference to any understanding between Senators
Brown and Douglas, we certainly do know that
a host of the most active friends of the South
around US, looked upon him as being quite as
ernest a symPathizer with Mr. D. personally, as
Mr. Clingman himself; if not an active and
aVowed worker at the task of building up
party for Douglas in the South such as Mr..
Chngman was, SO evidently to ALL as that we
presume none doubt that fact We place so
great confidence in the effect of the tone Of
popular sentiment in Mississippi with reference
to the cause of Breckenridge and Lane on the
one hand and on the other with reference to the
now so evident abolition tendencies and pro-
clivities Of Douglassm throughout the entire
North, as that we do not believe that a fortv-
horse power steam-engine could drag Senator
Brown, of Mississippi, up to the position which
The Douglasite press are trying to cheat them
selves into the idea he has taken.
The FLUTTER OF THE LOBBY late tho nate,