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selves personally. have been the theme OF unceasng
eaumny and abuse the part OF discounted and in
eensed opponents Almost every term in the vocabulary
Of sphel and Bngsgate has been cued out and applied
to US BY the demened and chsgrned conductors Of the
federal press Occasionally have stopped to repel
these calumnies. heaped upon by political enc
mics; but generally have treated them with the ST.
snce and contempt which they meied, conscious that
il we were not doing duty. should not have pro-
voked the ire Of our caumnaiors.
But recently tribe Of assailants have stepped into
the ring against us. the leader of whom is the editor OF
the New York Evening Post From tolerable poet IN
ding Indifferent verses, few OF which may perchance
be remembered decade OF years. the editor OF the Even
ing Post has become malevoent and embttered fanat-
ic. assaiIng everybody who does not fall in with his
narrow views Of public duty and policy This gentleman
and his coespondents-one Of whom, If we not mis-
taken very base character, rejecting credit upon
the establishment by which he is employeddo not hest
tate to denounce us rs disunonists recommend
overthrow and even 10 advise the democratic party to
substitute for paper the abolition organ published in
this District Now. il the political anecedenls OF the
editor Of The Evening Post not really unayora
Bile. we might take some at his denunca;ions.
But when we remember him as an old original federast
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Jefferson we ecollect that he has for years been
an open and ayowed aboltionst, at the same time pre-
tending to be the most orthodox exponent Of democ-
was ostensbly advocating the election Of Mr. Polk,
he was. at the same tme secretly endeavorng TO
compass his defeat in candesne and treacherous
mannerhe issuing Of secret circulars advising the peo
pie not to vote for hm-we really do not look upon his
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We ask not nor seek, the good opinions Of press like
that Of the Evening Post which, with hesprit Of n.y.
ena hesitates to open the cerements Of the
grave. apd assuage It's thirst for and bastard
venge upon the remains of the lusrous dead We al
lude its wanton and brutal attack upon the memory of
Mr. Polk But enough Of this coadiuto Of the federal
press. with whose conductors he doubtless sympathzes.
and more eectually aids by sailing under false coors.
while be stabs at the democratic party, whose cause he
pretends to defend.
We would now allude to respectful, and we have
no doubt well-intended criticism from another quar-
ter We alludc to the Philadelphia Spirit Of the Times.
The able editors Of that paper find fault with late art
Gle headed Messrs Toombs and Stephens Of Georgia"
expressing their dissent from its tone and spirit and taking
issue with some Of its positions, particularly with that
relating to the power of Congress 10 abolish slavery in
the District Of Columbia. We not disposed now to
enter into an argument with friends Of the Times
either Of the points contained in that article We will
only add. that with regard to the District OF Columbia
expressed briefly the opinions formerly put forth by Mr.
Van Buren, upon the subject and fully and elabo
raiely argued in speech in Congress- delivered by the
Hon. Eli Moore, OF New York II was also the position
taken in introductory, when the Union passed
under the joint control Of its present editors. All the
views expressed in the first paragraphs Of that ar
tcle, to which the Times takes exception, were fully
stated in our editorial Introductory, with the excep-
toa of the statement in reference to the compromise
of the constitution BY which the people OF the slave
States permitted TO pursue into the free States and
recapture their fugitive slaves. Those matters were
stated in the paper alluded to preliminary explana-
lions to the position OF non-nteventon which we as.
sumed-which believe calculated to save our country
and our institutions from agitation which may (but
we hope and trust not) endanger their safety. We
thought therefore, that it in order for us, at all
times, TO aIlude to those matters without giving offence
to any Of our friends, North or South
But in the present state OF sensveness and we fear
Jealousy. the part of our democratic friends both in
the non slaveholding and the saveholdng States, we
unfortunately find that have offended both parties
Our friends from the South find fault with us because
they say, we were TOO the gentlemen whose
names stood at the head OF the article And our friends
from the North aIlege that erred in two particulars
FIRST. in stating that the compromise Of the constitution
alluded to had become practical nuty; and secondly
that because did not denounce Messrs Toombs and
Stephens for uering threats Of disunon we therefore
approved them. We win briefly review these TWO OBJ
jeciions in their order.
In the first place. it be denied that slaves cannot be
recspured and brought back from Massachusetts, and
other free States Of the North Have not their legisla
lures passed laws denouncing penalties against
those who shall assist in recovering runaway slaves
Did not Mr.. Seward, when governor OF New York.
refuse TO deliver up fugitive savesi Was not citizen
Of Maryland murdered recently in Pennsylvania for pur
suing and attempting to bring back fugitive slave, the
murderers being afterwards acquitted We believe such
things have occurred, and that in many OF the northern
States is impossible for to recover his slave
We do not say IT is in all the free States; but we
think II Is true that in Of them the compromise of
the Constitution in relation to that matter has become
practical nuy il crmiaal-nay. is il improper
allude to these well known factsi
With regard to the other allegation agans, us we have
to say, that did not article aude to the threats
Of disunion uttered by Mesus Toombs and Stephens
two wings bitterly opposed to any others in the
House. We only stalled that some Of their complaints
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