Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-29
A TRAITOR UNMAsEED.
DOUGLAS PLAYING INTO THE HANDS
OF THE ABOLITIONISTS.
Read! Read :! Read q!

We bespeak for the annexed state
ment the attentive consideration and
perusal of every citizen of Louisiana, ir,
respective of party. 1t fully speaks
for itself. We find it in the speech of
Hon. William kellogg, of Illinois, deliv-
cred on the 18th of March, 1860, in the
House of Representatives. Can Louis
ianians support a traitor?
Mr.. Chairman, | send TO the clerks
desk an extract from q communication
that appeared not long since in the Chi
cago Journal, a leading and reliable Re
publican paper in the State Of Illinois,
signed | believe H." | wish to say,
also, that | a%scertained who the author
of the article is. He is a gentleman
well known in the City Of Washington
"a respectable, responsible, and relia-
bic man-and if Judge Douglas desires
his name, | am authorized to give it. |
ask the clerk to read the article.
The clerk read as follows:
This train of thought carries me
back to the beginingof the Thirty-ifth
Congress, when Mr.. Douglas broke from
the line of policy marked out by Mr..
Buchanan for the Democracy, and op-
posed the LecUmptOn Constitution. He
was under the ban, socially and politi-
cally, with the Democrats. The remark
able expressions he used to make about
his rccord-what he had done in the
party TO stop the progress of slavery and
TO advance freedom, and what he pur-
posnd doing in the future to destroy the
intentions Of the slave power-will ne
yer be eareased from the memory, as
they never can be from the minds of
hundreds Of others who heard the same
things.
He said that, when he started out in
his opposition to Lecompton, he was
merely making fight on a single meas
ure, and not against the party but a
blow at LecomptOn, was a blow at
slavery, and he soon found the whole
slave power arrayed against him, like
a pack of wolves. In making the fight
against this power, he remarked that
he was enabled to stand off and view
the men with whom he had been acting;
that he was ashamed he had ever been
caught in such company; that they were
a set of unprincipled demagogues, bent
upon perpetuating slavery, and by the
exercise of that unequal and unfair
power, to control the Government. or
break up the Union and that he intend
ed to prevent their doing either. His
denunciations Of the fire-eaters were at
times very severe, and couched in lam
guage fit neither for the parlor or news
paper.
He insisted hat he would never be
driven from the party, but would re-
main in it until he exposed the admins
tration and the disunlonists !; and when
he went ont, he would go on his own
accord. He was in the habit of remark
ing that it was policy for him to remain
IN the party, in order to hold certain of
the rank and file, so that if he went
e from the Democracy to any other
party, he would be able to take the
crowd along with him !; and when he
got them all over, he wonld cut down
the bridges, and sink the boats.
On n occasion, | waited upon him
to ascertain if the report was true that
he and Buchanan had had an interview
for the purpose of settling their dispute.
l said to him that, as the correspondent
OF a leading Republican organ, ! had
represented him fairly, and the report,
If true, tended to compromise my posi-
ton, and thought therefore. that | was
entitled to a fair answer to a fair ques-
ton.
asked him 10 say to me frankly if
there was any trnth in the report. Put
ting a hand upon each shoulder and look
ing me square in the face he, said al
authorize you to say that there is not a
word of truth in the report" Adding
that there neve would be any union
between him and Buchanan, unless the
latter saw fit to come to him and stand
by his side on the platform of Popular
Sovereignty.
In the interview he repeated MANY
things that he had said before. to con-
vince me and others that he had said
he was earnestly and honestly on the
side of the North, against the slave
power, and should be found fighting in
the ranks of the great Northern party
in 1860. In this interview he also used
an expression which a distinguished
Republican member of the Thirty-ffth
Congress informed mo he used to himS