Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-30
The War on Senator Douglas.

ton Constitution upon the people of Kansas,
that brought upon him the wrath Of the Ad-
ministration. That wrath has followed him
ever since. 1t followed him through the
whole of his vigorous campaign against Re
publicauism in Illinois And though Repub
icanism was then as now, the foe of the
Democratic party, the Administration lent it
its aid, and for no other reason than that
Doagas, who had refused to obey the mandate
of President Buchanan, should be crushed.
But the wrath of the President was mpotent
in Illinois, so far as Douglas was concerned
for he was returned to the United States Sen
ate. From that time to this, the war upon
him, by the Administration, has been renew
ed upon every occasion possible. 1t has been
carried on out of Congress too. The political
gullotne has been put into requisition, and
kept constantly busy, in decapitating officers
under the Government, who approved or
were suspected of approving the course of
Senator Douglas. In the Senate we find one
of the most prominent supporters of the Pres
slave property, in the Territories, for the sole
purpose of forestalling the action of the
DemocraticNational Convention and inducing
it to adopt a slave code policy. Anything to
defeat the nomination of Mr.. Douglas for the
Presidency, appears to have been the idea of
the supporters of President Buchanan 1t
was their cherished idea in Congress and was
put into practical operation at Charleston and
Baltimore. But no where did it exhibit it
self more plainly than at Charleston when
member of these same men attempted day af-
/ ter day to secure the Presidential nomina-
/ ton, on the platform on which Mr. Douglas
was afterwards nominated at Baltimore. If
either ofthem could have been nominated on
that platform, it would have been all right
but Just as soon as Mr.. Douglas was nomina-
ted upon il, it became in their eyes, unwor-
thy of support Nor was this all. The Bal
timore Dispatch informs US that "the Yancey-
Brecknridge politicians talked arrogantly at
Charleston and Baltimore, and boastfully as
serted as a fact certain, that the Southern
States would be united in favor of secession
and diS,aion in the event of the nomination
of the Hon 5. A. Douglas 10y the DEMocRArc
NATIONAL CONVENTION as the Democratic can.
didate for the Presidency"
E.erything goes to prove that the war was
not SO much against the platform adopted at
Charleston, as against Douglas himself The
' Yancey Brecknridge politicians would
have received the platform without Douglas.
With Lane upon it, or Dickinson, or anybody
else who had never dared to disagree with
! King James Buchanan, it would have received
the sanction of the said King James, and all
/ his followers would have said "Amen" Well
we think that these Yancey- -Breckinridge
politicians have now found that they have
overreached themselves in this matter Did
they expect to gull any body with the idea
that the South would favor disuuion merely
because Douglas was nominated. We eappre-
hend they have now found that the South
will not favor the secession from the Nation
/ al Convention, let alone a secession from the
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from Douglas? True, lie opposed the lie
compton Constitution, in opposition to South
ern statesmen, and against the wishes Of the
President But does this prove him an enc
my Of the South? Did not Houston, Critten.
den and Bell oppose the measure also? and
who doubts their loyalty to the South2 But
the seeessionists may answer, they dislike him
not for his opposition to the Leeompton meas.
ure but for his refusal to agree to the decis
ion of the Supreme Court in the bred Scott
case. Well. as to what the Court decided in
that case, is an open question. Hon Reverdy
johnson, who argued the case, maintains that
the Court did not decide the question as
claimed by some, and chat the decision by
which the question Of the Territorial Legisla
ture power over the constitutional right TO
slave property was to be decided This be-
ing an open question, Judge Douglas ought
certainly to be conceded the right TO his own
opinion in the matter Have the secessionists
any other reasons for denouncing him? Oh
yes-Earious and cogent reasons One is
that he is making speeches in some of the
States-a great crime is it not? Yet why
should it be, when the President set him the
example and the secession candidate for the
Presidency, has himself taken the stump in
Kentucky. Anotheris, that, Republican in
Maine heard another Republican say, that
Douglas had said, that he had Joe Lanes
hand in a basket, and that the next Presi-
dent would come from Illinois or some of that
sort. Republican authority, appears to be
regarded as law and gospel by the secession
lists just at this time. The Republicans con.
coct such report somewhere in the East. and
send 1t out to the secession papers, which
seize 1t with as much avidity as the Irael-
ites did mama, regarding it as a God-send.
and parade it before the people, as a matter
OF undoubted fact, when these same seces.
sionists, deuounce every report unfavorable
to themselye, as falsehoods stating that they
are manufactured out Of whole cloth. The
TRADE Of the renegade Hickman against
Douglas, the flying report that the Republi-
can Burlingame had been heard to say so
and so, were received by the hungry secess-
ion sheets, and dished up in the most savory
manner What kindness on the part Of the
Republicans? What thankfulness on the
part of the secessionists, for favors received
In the eyes Of the secessionists, the Republi-
cans are no longer "black,' and it would be
strange indeed, did not their long abuse of
Douglas and their sympathy for Breckinrdge