The Opposition not only attack every Democratic measure, but they heap the foulest calumny upon its men. But there is a time coming when the sovereign people of the United States will hurl back with contempt the calumny which the Opposition party heap upon our great men, and be more firmly united as freemen, belonging to the great National Democratic party. Douglass, the notorious Negro Orator from the State of New York, delivered a flaming address to his friends and admirers , in the Public Hall in this place. They have brought this man here for political effect. They became in 1844, the most ardent friends of the Tariff of '42, and succeeded in carrying the election, under that banner.
All underhanded work is despicable.
The concern was at low ebb enough before the libellous pen of McClure resumed its willing work of defamation but his bad example has sunk it so low that contempt can hardly reach it at a nine days tumble. Let us see how a plain tale will knock the music out of the above niggerism . The nigger Douglass visited this place as a well know ally of the Republican party. His bills for his meeting were printed at the Transcript office. The editor of that paper honored him with a call at the negro house he stopped at, somewhere on the suburbs of the town, under pretence of getting his hair oiled.