New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-28

Nepro Question. In his Boetoc nafA-S"o' n' "'
/" For the last few years, all the time OF Cong'e~
g has been employed 10 the discussion OF the
- Slavery onestion. to the exclusion OF important
{. busipess affecting the whole country;" and ne
waxes earnest and eloquent over the shameful dis
reoard nv the National Legislature Of the subjects
of the Tariff the Pacific Railroad, the Mali service
in the old States and across the continent, aud
cogna'e matters.
True. most true, Mr.. Douglas But where is
the man TO whom, more than any and all others,
this waste of time by Congress is due? Help us,
Bir. Douglas, to place our finger upon him, and
we assure you the country will put in every honest
hand whip TO lash the rascal naked through the
land
When the Ethiopian changes his skin, and Mr..
Garrison turns professi' nal Union-Sayer and
Gerrit Smith adyertiSes hounds to catch fugitive
slaves, and Satan puts on monks coWi, then
Stephen A. Douglas viii witness transformations
of character and conduct as miraculous as his
current condemnation Of Slavery agitation In Con-
gress. Let us refresh his memory with a bit OF
! history which the country has not forgotten
! A controversy conc, rning Slavery, which had
eonyused Congress and the country for three or
four years, terminated in the adoption OF the Con-
promise measures Of 1850. This result was not
wholly satisfactory to the extreme wing OF either
side of the cOmbatants; yet, the thing being done
| past help, there was general acquieseence in or
submission to this disposition of the matter in issue.
In 1852, both the Wing ard Democratic parties,
with some dissenting voices, ratified the measures
of 1850 in their platforms, aud agreed to abide by
them. No man was more 0stentatious III his aVow-
ais of fidelity to "this final settlement OF the
Slavery controversy than Mr.. Douglas. In the
Senate, and before popular assemblies, he invoked
maedictiOns upon all who should attempt to dis
turb the repcse of the country BY reopening the
Slavery agitation, either in or out of Congress.
So much for Mr.. Douglass professions. Now
for his practices In tie sess Of 1854, when IT.
ritation growing out of the contests of 1850 had
subsidized. Nj Douglas startled tie country by pro
posing to repeal the prohibitory clause OF the bis
souri Compromise, and throw the vast regions lying
moth of Sc 80 open to Slavery. This venerable
landmark, reared by conflicting sections as mon
ument of the final adjustment of struggle that
spy compact of the Constitution. Its proposed
destruction Immediately precipitated Congress and
the people upoa sea CT agitation seemingly with
out bottom or shore After conflict which
has no parallel in our history, Mr. Douglas,
spur1ed on by the hope Of outstrpping all compel
itors for the favor of the Slavery Extensioni'ts,
succeeded, by his tireless energy and force of will,
az To- nd haf
hour till now, Negro agitation has been the ruling
element of American politics. Mr.. Douglas has
always boasted, aud with entire truth, that this
repeal was his own haDdiwork. No other man in
that fatal Congress had sufficient yigor, skill, and
audacity, to do the deed.
A conspiracy to plant Slavery in Kansas, by
fraud and force, was partly the moving cause, and
partly the resulting consequence, of the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise. During the
three years when the attempts of the
consprators involved Kansas in civil war,
of the many black and bloody crimes perpe-
trated in their efforts to force Slavery upon her
people, none were black and bloody enough to cx-
tort rebuke or even regret from Mr. Douglas;
but on the contrary, he was the ablest champion
in Congress, and the loudest declamer before the
People, in behalf of this Internal scheme. History
will blu n to record that the policy of Pierce and
Atchison and their myrmidons, which stuffed
ballot boxes, forged election returns, drove legal
voters from the polls at the point Of the bayOnet,
installed bogus Legislatures uuder the protection
Of cannon fired dwellings, outraged female virtue,
cut Threats under cover of the night, shot men
down on the highways at MONDAY, and, in word,
for nearly four years gave Kansas up to anarchy,
pillage, and butchery, because she would not ac-
cept Negro Slavery, found its widest apologies and
ablest vindcation in the speeches and reports of
the man that now declaims in favor Of Non
81 Intervention by the Federal authorities in the
Territories ~ The LecomptOn Constitution,
with the yillainies that clustered around it, was
the natural fruit of the tree chDOuglas planted
ill 1854, and assiduousy cultivated throughout the
following three years. His political existence being
then at hazard he feared to pluck and eat the
fruit of his own dOings. Like DantOn, whom
Douglas resembles, he was about to be cons lmed
by the fires of the revolution which he had himself
kinded; but, unlike Danton, he had neither the
courage nor the manliness to die like martyr,
and so he ran away like coward, and has ever
since been Boosting like brsggart.
Now, does Mr.. Douglas hatter himself that
the people have forgotten this damning record,
because he finds it convenient to ignore its exist
encel Does he fancy that they will withhold the
retributon they have in store for the author of
this absorbing agitation in Congress, because it
cults his interests now TO feign to lament over its
consequences We assure him that he lowers