Democratic banner., 1849-07-16

pluSnlngly garoie me documents 70 predicate
Ifalsehood in behalf Of . treacherous SenatorI
The 9Th section of the Oregon bill provides a
follows 1--WE quote from The bill.
That every free white male inhabitant, above
the age Of twenty-one years, who shall have been
a resident Of said Territory at the time of the pas
sage of this act, shall be eligible to vote at the
first election, and shall be eligibls to any Office
within the said Territory, &c.
Mr.. Hale moved to amend it BY striking out
the words free whis before male ~inhabitant, in the
first line, and the quotation from the Union after
"act" In the fourth. It proposed to removs the
words that prohibited negroes and mslaHo.. from
the right Of suffrage and Of office, and the Union
~conceals the fact andlied when it pretended to
give the proposition. The vote for the PrOposi-
ltion stood
NAYEs--Messrs. Baldwin. Benton; Clark, Da.
Wis of Mass, Green, Hale and Upham-7, all
told.
NA1rs-44 Senator'S --[see Con. Globe, page
IlOOs. r
The Union says it desires to use courteous Ian
|guage towards its contemporaries. We have seen
ii pronounce false what we have proven true
We have seen it garble the documents and mis-
state votes in the very teeth of those documents.
We desire to be courteous at all times, and think
we are sufficiently so when We tell the Union
its language indicates a cowardly desire to bully,
a mind without vigOr, schoOled in cunning, and
disposition prone to lie.
1t is true that the largest number
of the Democratic papers IN the State have
come out for the resolutions. They make
a so an infinite deal of noise. They swear
terribly. But it seems that they are, for
the most part, controlled by men who have
their 0tCn purposes to- answer, and who do
not express, and can by no means be % o
sidered as the opponents Of public opinion
in their respective counties.-lSt. Louis
Union.
For downright boldness and impudencs
we write down the above quotation without
a parallel in the history of the editorial
chore in the State. Coming as it does from
the editors of the St. Louis Union, respec-
lively from Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania, but
more recently a steamboat Captain on the
Ohio river, as we are Informed, and Peoria,
in Illinois, and connected with the press in
Missouri only from about the time that Col.
Benton made his celebrated Appeal to the
people from the instructions Of the Legisla-
tnre, it is the quintessencs of brszen faced
efrontery, and an insult to the democratic
press of the State. What say you Metro
Platte Argus, Mo. Democrat, How
ard County Banner, Southern Standard,
Hannibal Courier, Grand River Chronicle,
and Northeast RepoIter-papers edited by
men old in the service Of the democracy Of
Missouri, to the ~snnunciations Of these men?
You have each Of you published to the
world that your counties stand steadfast
to the principles Of the party and to the
resolutions of the Legislature, and Of course
opposed to Wilmotism, Bentonism, Van Bu-
Free-Soilism, A~bolitionism, and all
Kindred isms. And these newly imported
editors tell you you have your O,cn purpo-
ses. to answer, and do not express, and can
by no means be considered as the opponents
of public opinion in your respective nj
In vain may you point to the talented
leaders of the democratic party throughout
State to sustain your position, for you
will be told BY these Pittsburg and Peoria
men that they too shave their osOn purposes
to answer" In vain may you bring for
ward the resolutions of the people passed
in mass meetings, as evidence in the case,
for they too it seems shave their O,Cn pur-
roses to answer" For ourselves, we h0re
our otrn purposes to anwser, while the I'm
ion, it seems, has none but Benaon's. A
part of those purposes are 10 show up in
their true colors the motives of such rene
gades from she principles Of the party a.
Benton and Van Buren,, and to expose the
absurd pretensions, as opponents Of the Mis-
souri, democracy, Of all such interlcpers as
the Pittsburg and Peoria editors Of the I'm.