The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-03-15
For the Express.

Hefe a day or two since.
For the Express.
Dubuque, March S,h.
Ma. Epifcs To the reply which appeared
in the "Aux. Wing press the following may
serve as an answer:
The letters addressed by Mr.. Mahony to
Messrs Kre.chnar and Schueler, and the re-
plies thereto received and published on the 9TH,
acknowledging Mahony a. Editor, and Mr..
Kretchmar as his translator.
We are thus positively informed, who, for the
past eleven weeks, and at the present is, and
was, the unnamed Editor of the 'North West.
ern Democrat" The entire proof that Mr..
Mahony tries to give by those communications,
is that the articles by me extracted, were not
Editorial, and thinks that any other "seoaRdret,
might come, and also make him responsible tor
the extracts Of Mr.. Chase's speech against the
Nebraska Bill, which appeared in the Herald
declared himself in favor Of the Bill, and il at
times he gives extract Of the opposite party, it
| is merely done to show his readers the weakness
| in the arguments Of its opponent, which il not
done in the n. w. Democrat, for in it not the
first word in favor of the Nebraska bill, it ad-
vocates, or of our administration has as yet APP
peared the only thing that was laid before its
readers was infamy and outrageous abuse heap.
ed upon the bill, its friends, the President, and
his cabinet. That gave the extracts in ques-
zion as editorial is false excepting the article in
relation to temperance, which designated as
the only editorial, and therefore gave the No. oil
| column, line, &c. At the close of the other
extracts | distinctly said that the editor Of the
N. w. Dem. ransacked the entire press OF the
Union to gather from it whatever was abusive
Of the bill and its advocates, 90 that he might
| Law it before the readers of the German Aux,l-
iary Wing Press. That is what said; though
it scarcely needed this explanation, for almost
every American schoolboy knows that the edit
OF, and in case he 10 missing, the publisher, il
responsible for all it contains. Nevertheless
Mr.. Mahoney pretends not to be responsible fol
anything else but what he positively writes him
self and Mr.. Kretchmar translates for him
which would indeed be very easy and diminu
tive responsibility, for the simple reason tha
for the eleven weeks that he has been editor o.
the N. w. Dem. he has produced at the highes
estimate but four columns Of editorial, OF M
political importance whatever, aud in which
The administration, the Nebraska bill, Douglas
Bedini, Sc, were neither mentioned either One
way or other, whilst on the other hand, he lait
before his readers at the very least calculation
over 1913 columns Of extracts from other papers
The greater portion being against Bedini, the
Nebraska bill, popery, and our administration
which appeared weekly, and in regular success
sion, without any comment whatever, and were
thus distributed among the Germans. But dur
ing oil these numerous extracts, this paper did
not bring forth . single line in favor Of the
Nebraska Bill, its friends, or the administration,
and has thus since its very beginning occupied
a decided hostile position against the Bill and
the administration. The readers Of the N. w
Dem. have never in regard to this importan,
question of the day, read any thing else, in its
columns, than that it was an infamous piece Of
knavery, and that it's friends and the administra-
ton together, were but pack Of scoundrels, the
tendency Of this course, can be no other, than
by degrees to undermine the confidence Of the
Germans in our administration and the d.mocra'
cy in general. Is it therefore to be wondered
at, that by many of the readers of the N. w.
Democrat, hostile feeling against the friends
| of the Nebraska Bill and the administration is
already manifested Surely not, for that which
a person finds weekly covered with one, and the
same abuse, he must at last believe, and pa
per that does nothing else but weekly, spread
abuse among democratic portion Of the COM
munity, against the democracy and its fathers
should, forsooth not be held accountable because
its editor did not write it himself, but appropri-
ated the writings Of others to his own use
Nonsense! just as well might the editor pub
lish articles in his paper, withou: commentary,
that advocate indecency, murder, arson and
theft, and when these teachings begin to bear
their fruit say,-it is none Of our business, we
are not to elaine, We did not write them our
selves. No, Mr.. JMahony, to such an ignomin-
ious responsibility the press Of the United
States, excepting yours will never sink. For
every line in your N. ". Dem. you can be
made responsible, and all extracts that you may
bring from other papers, with one and the same
tendency in regard to any important question OF
the day, without any commentary whatever will
be looked upon as being in accordance with
your principles, and be considered as editorial.
These are the rules and laws with the honorable
editorial corps throughout the civilized world.
But not alone the doub.e-face of Mr.. Mahony
caused me to take up my pen, but the impu-
dence with which he has deceived the German
democrats, through his prospectus, merits a
scourging. In programme directed to the
Germans, with the signatures of Messrs Maho-
ny and Dorr attached, and published in No. of
the Northwestern Democrat, they say positive.
ly, IS that the tendency Of the paper (the N. w.
Democrat,) shall be democratic; nevertheless
il 10 the intention of the publishers. not to ill
their columns with too lengthy political discus
sions; that the object Of the publishers, 10, to
make ha German family paper-such a. will
merit the confidence and the patronage of not
alone the German public, but Of all those that |
are DESTROYS Of acquiring the German language"
Here Mr.. Mahony defines the tendency of the |
Northwestern Democrat, and even promises to |
make it desirable German family paper; but if