Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-07-11

as vet to doubt the correctness of the impression
expressed few days since, Gin the Star,) that
union of the entire opposition to the Republican
party In what regarded being the uncer-
tain States Of the North is likely to be necessary
to compass the defeat Of the Republican electoral
tickets in each and all Of them. The mere union
of the Breckenridge and Douglas forces appears
very unlikely to accomplish that result in New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Indiana
The course of Mr.. Douglas and his leading
friends has as thoroughly abolitionized consid-
cradle portion of the rank and hle of his follow
ers, that Of Mr.. Seward has, by degrees, served
TO abolitioniZe the whole Republican party
large wing Of which, until Mr.. Seward became a
so intensely slaveryite, were certainly con-
sentative as any other portion Of the Northern
Wing party. So, IL the proposed union takes
place, it is but fair to calculate that large per
centage of the present Douglas party will slush
of to the Republicans. The latter have already
gained immensely from the opposition Of Doug
las to the Democracy In the Lecompton contest
In that contest he occupied a position identical
with that Of the Republican party; preaching the
same doctrines, laboring to the same end, and
acting in as complete conjunction with them as
though he had never been identified with the
Democracy. Thousands at the North, Of anti
been restrained by the apparent return of the
Buffalo-ite leaders to the Democratic party fold,
seized upon the regeneration of Douglas to give
license to their secretly cherished sentiments
and elevating him % for the nonce into the
position of their Sety, (political) shouted him
into his present prominence
When, In his subsequent contest with Lincoln
he saw mt to protest for effecD that they had mis-
understood the length to which he had gone in
favor of abolitionism and against the Democracy
very large wing of his followers refused to
follow him back to his quasi position of renewed
Identification with the Democratic party. MIR
Hickman and John b. Haskin are fair types of
that wing; while Montg Of Pennsylvania
and Morris, of Illinois, are as fair types of the
wing Of his followers who accompanied him back
as far as he came back. That is to say; lust far
enough to enable him to break up the party for
the time being, on finding it impossible to induce
II TO accept an anti-savery heresy for the conve-
nience of his nominal consistency. On the whole
the refusal of portion of his followers to followhim
even partially back tocdrdS the Democratic party's
positions, was the real cause Of the Democracy's
loss OF the ascendancy in the House Of Representa-
tves They voted for the Republican candidates
in every northern district where the congressional
contest was between Republican and a straight
SO directly by the advice of Douglas himself and
bis council Of managers, who have been acting
Tor the last two years upon the idea that his best
policy to force the South to accept him as its can
dldate Tor the Presidency, was thus to make il as
plain as possible that asprant for any position
north OF Mason s and DixOn's line at the hands of
the people, claiming connection with the DemOc-
racy, could hope for election unless identified
win hls-Doug aSs-fOrtunes Hence has resulted
most OF The weakness which the Democratic party
proper has exhibited at the North since he doug
las) first openly became the ally of Seward & Co
In the Lecompton contest. His game to force the
South to accept him as its standard bearer having
failed as signally at Baltimore as at Charleston,
and with it all hope Of securing for Douglas a
single electoral vote, 1t is very certain that those
nominal Democrats at the North who have gone
farthest with him In his now open and bitter war
upon the South, will abide by no coalition be-
tween the Democracy under the Breckenridge
nag, the Union party, and the more moderate of
the Douglasites
Our belief is, that on the contamination Of any
such union electoral ticket as we mention above.
thousands OF the DOuglasites in every State where
the junction may be attempted will go over to the
Republican Partyi and therefore it is that we re-
gard junction OF the three anti epublIcan party
doubtful northern State. 1t is already apparent
that the hostility of large wing of the douglas
party 10 the South is even more intense than that
Of the Republican party at this time. This is so
evident In the tone of their newspapers and pub
hshed speeches, as that no man who keeps nm lin
his reading) with the politics of the times fails to
comprehend Its truth. Every man at the South
who fails to give In his difference to the propriety
OF the Douglas plan for insuring (by means of the
pretended sovereignty Of the creatures of abo-
htion emigrant aid societies) that no slave State
shall hereafter be admitted into the Union. is be-
ing denounced as a disunionlst; while every stale
argument Of the abolitionists against the south.
its institution, and its intentions is being used
by the DOuglastes in the current contest with
gusto and vehem ence not even second to those
manifested by Wendell Phillips and his ayowed
co-laborers. This policy their part at the North
Will OF course insure that, by November NEXT
Douglas will have as few avowed followers In the
South as Lincoln has now. Hence our belief
that his candidacy cannot posi- bly, endanger the
success Of the Democratic electoral ticket in any
slaveholding State; for all men in all parties in
them are fast coming to realize that he and bis
northern followers are as intensely hostile to ey-
erytnlng southern, as Van Buren, and his followers
were in the contest of 1916 True, in every south
~" 'S'-AN~, =" No%Ch vi 1"o plunuer mOngerlng and
orazen-faced spectators on the credulity of the
people, long since Ostracised by their nominal
party organization, may continue to shout for
him, because no decent and honest party in their
respective bailiwicks will support either Of them
even for the office Of county constable; but the
TACT that they are found shouting for him will
only serve TO render it more plain TO the world
that be is without the shadow of respectable SUD-
port anywhere, where the community are directly
interested in the preservation of southern rights
under the Constitution.
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