New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-18
DOUCLAs AND BIGLKR.

lance. We think it was Lecompton. The facts
reported in the proceedings of the Senate are that
Mr.. Bigler of Pennsylvania, Mr.. Buchanans first
friend in that body, came out with long and elao'
crate bill to prevent and punish the invasion OF one
State by another, or by individuals of another.
But Mr.. Douglas is reported to have risen in ad-
vance of the introduction of Mr.. Bigers bill to
propose resolution nstructing the Judiciary Com
mttee to do the same work which Mr. Bigler Of
fered ready made There is undoubtedly sharp
political practice here, in which the Little Giant has
| only exposed his arts without saving his bacon
| He must have known of Biglers movement, and
made his to intercept portion of the Pennsylva-
MANS freight of glory. Biger had fairly captured
his prize, and it was not fair in Douglas to attempt
to steal it, though be did intend the theft in the
interest of the same parties for whom the original
captors designed their booty.
This is sample of the degree to which Demo-
cratic States-worstip has degenerated. Mr.. Doug
las, as chief engineer of the Democratic train of
which Gen. Pierce was superintendent, ran it off
the track in the year 1884, smashing locomotive
tender, and cars and breaking bones and destroying
numerous lives of the passengers. Since that event.
both these distinguished persOnages have been very
busy in their efforts to patch up the disaster Mr
Pierce, whose Presidency soon expired, took him.
self out of the country, and busted himself whlle
gone in writing back frequent letters declaring that
he did not wish to be reelected. The declnaton
WAS sufficiently amusing, in view OF the lact 'na'
not a single director or stakeholder In inc WHO'S
concern could be found who desired 10 nave III"
hack or who could have been induced, under any
,;roumstances. 10 give him vote for that place or
.nv other. The same gentleman has, nevertheless,
overv now and then turned up here and there, pro-
flashing TO lament the great calamity; but, in man.
nor that no Righteousness could equal, sOlemny
attrbutng it to the passengers and grayey reterat
inc his assertion that he would consentto take
the place of superintendent agan-all the while, not
a soul desiring him to do so, or having the least
intention of permitting such thing. The last thing
in fact. heard of the Ex-President prior to his
leaving the country for second and last time, was
formal repetition of this ludcrous statement.
Mr.. Douglass course has been hardly less pre-
MYSTERIOUS He, too, has made himself remarkably
busy since the accident, by showing how it need
mt have been so bad. He has stuffed magazines,
and occupied platforms, and generally thrust him.
self in everybodys way, in order to explain the
character of the catastrophe, instead of exhibiting
a commendable reticence and modesty, and mani
Testing regret or sorrow for his prodgous blunder
He now shuffles and swells around, and claims that
as things have been badly managed since the dlSas-
ter both in mendiDg the track and curing the pas
seppers, he is entitled now to the post of super
intendent himself. The logic is anything but con-
elusive but still he urges it with all the earnestness
of wropged innocence, and in sublime disregard
both of his defects of reasoning and of the total
want of merit in his entire case. AS consequence
of his previous incapacity and reckessness in
bindly causing the original calamity, Ne have lately
experienced secondary consequence of it in the
recent incOnsiderate action of Mr.. Brown of Osa-
watOmie, in Virginia. Forthwith PUSHES IN MIR.
Douglas, with his regrets and condemnations of
this inevitable result of his former conduct display
ing the same cool disregard he has all along mani
tested of the circumstances that implcate him in
the transaction, and fussly and superfuously run
ming about with flask of oil and fagOn OF wine,
to sOothe the wounds and raise the spirits of the
victims of this more recent disaster.
This is Just what Mr.. Douglas is doing or essay
ing to do, at Washington, in his sly and thlmbe-
rigging attempt to supplsnt Mr. Bigler in his anti
invasion movement ThewhOle thing is as prOvoca-
tive of cOntemptuous mirth as any act can be that
partakes of the dignities of contemplated egisa-
tive measure, and is surrounded with the assumed
prOprieties of official action. 1t is humilitating to
see the duties and dignites of craftsmanship re-
duced to these patry tricks, and it evinces want
of appreciation of their own shallow conduct on
the part of the actors, wholly conlormable to the
low scale of capacity which they have themselves
hitherto manifested in their treatment of great ma
tonal questions To be compelled to behold the
best and vital interests of the country trihed with,
great domestic disorders created, and great national
perils threatened such as We have witnessed in the
acts and behaviour of our Democratic politicians
ever since the initiation of the Kansss-Nebraska
bill, seems to be as much of dose rs one genera
ton ought to be asked to swallow. But to see these
same short-sgbted pretenders, and offenders,
persist in keeping the stage of affairs,
and challenging not the forgiveness, but
the approval, of the great communities they have
convulsed, is still more trying to human patience.
Instead of Mr.. Douglas, or Dir. Bigler, both from
the fields of their fame fresh and CORY, the one from
his Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the
other from his defense of the Lecompton Consttu-
On being entitled to respect or liberation for intro
ducing their new nostrums to heal the wounds they
have themselves inflicted, they deserve nothing but
scorn for their whole method of managing public