Year: 1866

tervleW had between the late Senator
e. Douglas and himself more than twelve
years ago.


The points embraced in it are, first, Mr.


Douglas opinions and expositious of tht
doctrine of non Second, hi:
views as to the then threatened separation
by the south and its effects And third


his predictions Of the career, policy and
designs Of the now radical party.


These remarks Mr.. johnson states were
made in 1854, after several hours confer.
encc together on the draft of Mr. Douglas
celebrated Kansas report, and arc now
given to the public ia conformity will, a
request to him in 1861. not long prior to
Mr.. Douglas death Should any thing"
said Mr.. Douglas, happen to me, want
you, at the proper time, to make known
the substance of that Speech" adding,
''there is as much honor in prophesy as in
craftsmanship, if indeed, true statcsman>
ship is not the power of prophesy ITSELF


The recent inauguration of the Douglas
Monument in the presence of the Chief
Magistrate of the United States and so
many distinguished persons, under nations
al auspices, aud as comm ,moratiye of his
craftsmanship. is regarded as the proper
time at which to make known these views,
and the communication is addressed TO the
President on account of the remarkable
parallel between the sentiments of Senator
Douglas and those which the President
has advanced


The genuinencss of the letter appears to
be unq qlestloncd. 1t is certainly of great
political interest.


The prhphesis of Mr.. Douglas are ccr-
tanly precise and accurate No picture
could be made more true to life, or exhibit
more faithfully the designs of those who
wicld II power, and the dangers which
threatened the common welfare.


Senator Douglas never believed that the
south would be successful lie regarded
the Union as essential to the existence of
slavery. Opposed 10 the secession of the
States. he always anticipated their failure
in the recent struggle.


To discuss these views would be idle
and without result 1t is only designed to
present in the following extracts his pres
cicncc in reference to the course and meas
ures of the radical rarty. when, through
successful war, they should have seized and
exercised the supreme powcr--and, as
such, they may not prove devoid Of inter
est


EXTRACTS.


The severance of relations between the
Democracy. north and south, will throw
the whole management of public affairs
with men whose object will be rs much to
punish the southern people as to preserve
the Union Should the south withdraw
be fierce and protracted 4 great civil
war and the continuance Of slavery are in
my judgment, utterly Incompatible. The
men who have been ready, at any time. to
sacrifice the Union to emancipation, will
have exclusive control Of the government.
1t is folly to suppose that their efforts will
be limited to the restoration of the Union.
1t will not be careful inquiry whether
they possess legal authority, by virtue of
the federal constitution to do that which
tie, have leen ever ready to do in contempt
of that compact They will make new
law suited to the ends they seek to accom-
plsh, while prolesscdly engaged in the
great work of restoring the integrity of
the Union. The foremost evil of such
state of things is that which shall bring
into powei that nomadic class of mind,
those wandering humanitarians, those
fierce aud turbulent spirits whose atmos-
pherc of life is the hurricane and the storm.
Starting with the conviction that civiliza-
ton and good government are long way
behind them, they have no respect for
constitutions, however wise, and no regard
for rights, however sacred. Suspicious
and ungener0us in mind, ylndictlye and
cruel in resentment, pro.criptive and un-
principlcd in action, tyarnnical and mer-
ciless in their exercise of authority, their
subiueation of the south will leave us an
inheritance ofcvils scarcely lees appalling
than those inseperabc from a stru, gle to
maintain tie integrity of the Union


The attempt will be made to confer upon
the two races equal political rights and
privileges | am irrevocably opposed to
any such policy. This is a white mans
government. and it can never be any thing
else and preserve the public peace. The
abolition Of slavery is one Of the most
pr liable events of the future, but that
will only exhibit the folly of all attempts
to confer political power upon the negro
race. The latter, by the constitution of
their nature, are dependent people. They
are entitled to protection, and if made free,
either by their own yindi cation-an event
| have never contcmplated--or by the
convulsions which would inevitably attend
an effort to break up the Union, | would
regard it the duty of the United States,
as it would be tie dictate of justice and
philanthropy. to extend over them, as we
have extended to the Indian tribes, the
vigilant guardianship Of the national Gov>
crnment.


In regard TO the negro race, hold that
We have done quite enough for them by
giving them an asylum, field tor labor,
and the protection of our laws | repeat
again, as have every where proclaimed,
our institutions were made for white men,
and must be maintained exclusively Tor
their benefit and advantage. Ny faith IN
/ the policy that looks to the exclusion Of
the blacks from all political rights, Is stern
and unbcnding sec nothing but evil in
attempts to equalize the races politically,
or to bring them upon terms of social