Nashville Union And American

Douglas and the Abolitionists.

It appears that Senator Douglas is greatly indebted to leading Black Republican influences, outside of Illinois, for his triumph over Lincoln. This Greeley and others were prompted to as a stroke of policy, expecting thereby to fully identify Mr. Douglas with them. But the Black Republicans of Illinois thought they could get through without Mr. D and spoilt the whole thing by nominating Lincoln. The result is that the Black Republican papers in Illinois and those out of Illinois have been snarling at each other ever since. The New York Tribune and the Chicago Tribune have recently had each other by the ears over this matter. The latter journal is unwilling to take Douglas into its ranks, and sums up its complaints as follows:

Let us not be misunderstood nor mislaced. We repeatedly charged the N. Y. Tribune, both before and after our election, with aiding and abetting Mr. Douglas, and damaging the Republican nominees and the Republican cause. We did not charge that this was done openly in its editorial columns, but that it was done covertly, putting us in a false position, and damning Mr. Lincoln with faint praise, in its Washington correspondence and in the whole tenor of its columns. In these particulars it has not abated a jot from its then position of smothered ill will and dishonest indirection. Douglas is cheek by jowl with the Propaganda, counseling the felonious seizure of Cuba, and the Tribune is as much enamored of him in its "personal convictions," as when he was denying the first paragraph in the Declaration of Independence, on the stump in Illinois. It cannot be alleged that this course is pursued to make Mr. Douglas too black for the Charleston Convention—a motive which we could understand whether we approved it or not—because, according to the Tribune, he has done that job for himself already.

We appreciate the indignation of our Illinois contemporary at the effort being made to put forward as a leader the man whom of all others it has had to fight for years past. The feeling is a natural one, but we predict it will have to yield to the more calculating policy of the New York Tribune, and that before another Presidential election the little giant and his old enemies will be fighting under the same banner.