The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-04-04
From the Neao York Herald.
Extraordinary Revelations in Congress
Stephen Arnold Douglas and Hor.
ace Greeley.

On former occasion, when Mr.. Kellogg
asserted in general terms that there was a DO
lItieal understanding between Greedy and
Douglas, and that secret conferences had been
held between them in the house of Douglas in
Washington, his statement was contradicted.
But now he gives in the House of Representa-
tlves q full, minute and circumstantial account
OF the conspiracy, and fortifes it with va
rlety Of proofs which cannot be contradicted.
HIS speech has not been answered, and his
facts have not been denied.
What Mr.. Kellogg before stated was, as he
says himself only drop from the bucket,
one link in the chain of evidence by which he
demonstrates the coalition between Douglas
and the Black Republican leaders to secure his
reelection to the Senate from Illinois, and the
triumph of the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor at the same time. Both objects were
accomplished, and with majority Of five
thousand for Republicanism, and of nearly
ten thousand against anti Lecompton, squatter
sovereignty and Douglas, in the whole State,
ne was yet mysteriously elected in pursuance
OF the arrangement with Greeley, Wilson, Of
Massachusetts, Burlingame and the other
leaders of the Republican party, who "held
consultations in the parlor of Judge Douglas,
planning and scheming for his reelection to
the Senate"
Upon this election, in consequence Of his
peculiar position toward the Democratic par
ty on the Lecomption question, his hopes of
the nomination at Charleston in a great meas
ure depended Mr.. Colfax admitted that
Clarke B. Cochrane and himself were present,
and that Blair, of Missouri, was also mixed I'D
with it +; but he declined stating what occurr-
ed at those private conversations" But KEEL
logg lets the cat out of the bag. He says the
common object of Greeley and # Douglas
was to defeat the Democracy in Illinois; but
Greeley's motive was to erect Republican
ism on its ruins, while the motive of Douglas
was to exalt himself by breaking down the
administration of Mr.. Buchanan, and if he
could not succeed in getting the Democratic
nomination for President, then he would thus
prepare the road for deserving the camp and
openly joining the enemy. Mr.. Kellogg, in
deed, quotes Covode as stating that Douglas
in that hall asked him to go to Trumbull and
induce the Republicans of Illinois to consent
to his return to the Senate, that he might re-
main in Congress and fight the administration,
and that he was yet young man, and would
fight the Republican battles of 1860" In one
of the conferences Douglas told the Republi-
cans that he had checked his baggage through
and having his baggage or political capital safe,
and sent on ahead he would stand on the
borders OF Democracy until he could gather
around him all his followers, then cross the
river break down the bridges and burn the
boats"
This, says Mr.. Kellogg, was the promised
consideration for which Douglas was to receive
so much Republican support as should elect
him. Accordingly, the Washington CORES
pondent Of the Tribune, in August, 1853, an
nounced, "the Republican Senators held con-
sultation last night with Senator Douglas, at
his house, which was satisfactory to both par
ties" Ofcourse Greeley, being present, could
speak from authority. Extracts from the Trl-
bune favoring the election of Douglas were
copied into several Democratic papers in Illi-
nois during the campaign in 1858. 1t is also
proved that Greeley stated in one converse
ton the Republicans Of Illinois made great
mistake in not taking up Douglas as their
candidate, and letters had been addressed by
him to leading Republicans in that State urg-
ing them to nominate him. Then, after these
conferences in Washington, it is shown that
Senator Wilson, who was one of the per sons
present. and Mr.. Burlingame, Republican
member Of Congress, of Massachusetts, rec
ommended his election. Wilson said private
ly he was "all right on the slavery question, "
and Burlingame said openly in a speech, that
in the Lecompton struggle the Douglas men
"had kept the wilderness of their souls" and
he called on the young men, in all the enthu-
siasm peculiar to their age to go for Douglas.
Several persons are named by Mr.. Kellogg in
confirmation of his statement, and besides
some of the facts speak for themselves.
1t is not for nothing, therefore, that Greedy
has been lauding Douglas so long. It is not
for nothing that he has been recently writing
letters from the West, in which he represent
ed Douglas as having the best chance of the
Charleston nomination, and as being the best
chance at all, and that he would be about the
most unlikely to win that could be put for
ward. The design is to pave the way fol
Douglas and his men to bolt at the Charleston
ticket on the squatter sovereignty humbug, as
Van Buren, ran on the Free Soil Buffalo Plat
form in lS48, or to openly eSpouse the Repub-
leans, with the understanding that if he does
not get their nomination now, he will get it
for the succession in 1864.
Haskin, Clarke, Forney and the rest of his
tail are included in the arrangement. As a
first instalment of it Forney has got the Of
fee of Clerk to the House of Representatives,
in which there is plurality Of Republican
votes, and he has openly joined their ranks.
He is the dirty pioneer, who has gone before
to do the dirty work. The little general at
the head of the whole Squatter Sovereign
phalanx will soon follow. Whether Douglas
is to run on his own hook in opposition to the
regular Democratic nominee, or to cross over
within the lines of the enemy, and wear his
uniform, is only question Of calculation as
to which course is best adapted to defeat the
Democracy and render the Republicans tri-
umphant in the great Presidential struggle, on
which hangs the fate of the Union and the
hopes of freedom on this continent and Of hu-