Washington telegraph., 1856-06-25
The Hampstead Democrat Of the 24th
of June.

The Hampstead Democrat Of the oath
of June.
It is a source of regret with me that L
feel myself called upon to notice several
paragraphs which appeared in the Demo
cratic paper, published in this place for
Tuesday, June 24th. j. M. Killgore
says, in the outset, that he will not handy
epithets with the Junior editor of the Tel
egraph, because that would be "dishon-
oring condescension on his part" The
force of this remark is broken by the
fact that he applies number of epithets,
such as "black-hearted," and "cowardly,"
&C., to me. Mr.. Killgore, by so doing,
stands, self-confessedly "dishonored," and
is, therefore, if such thing be possible,
less worthy of notice now than before ne
put himself through this "dishonoring
process. But will let that pass and an
swer him as / see fit / wish briefly to
refer to the causes of the difficulty which
Killgore seems determined to bring about,
for he evidently wants one and assuredly
can get it. The Hampstead Democrat of
the Goth of May, contained language in
reference to the American Party, which
was deemed highly Objectionable and un-
warrantable. We felt called upon to re-
buke the language, and did so, styling
the charges cOntained in that issue of the
Democrat, ''false, silly and ridiculous"
and using other language in reply, which
at the time we considered offensive, and
which we expected to be called on to ac
count for. The editors of the Hampstead
Democrat paid no attention to our articles
in the Telegraph of the 2Sth May, until
about the 31st of that month, when they
both called on me at my room about noon
of that day. l was unable to divine the
import of their visit, unless it was to de-
mand an explanation They conversed
some half an hour, when l, myself, in
troduced the subject of the language
which had passed between us. They then
admitted that they had heard that excep-
tions had been taken to the tone of their
articles, and after some trihing dispute
between US We parted on seemingly good
terms, they giving me assurances similar
to those contained in their apologies and
explanations to the public, published in
their paper of the I'd of June. Kill
gore went so far as to linger behind his
associate and reassure me that he deeply
regretted the language he had used-that
he had used it because the other anti
Know-Nothing papers had used such
because he had obeyed his impulses rath-
er than consulted his judgment, and that
thereafter he would place guard on his
impulses. ;" Fine promises. Turn to
the Democrat of the I'd of June, and tho
the apology stares you in the face, Ian
guage the most s.siiiy and ridiculous is
used in the next column. to show up Gen.
Yell. 1t is true, Killgore afterwards cx-
planned this by saying that piece was set
up before our interview In the Tele-
graph of the 4th of June, the language
L use is as courteous as could find it in
my power to employ. Concerning this
issue Killgore said [ had literally "heaped
Goals of fire" on his head by the manner
in which l conducted my argument. In
their paper of 9th of June they ascribed
peculiar merits to the foreign population of
this country, to which 1 replied in the
Telegraph of the 11th inst, which reply
did not seem to please the getlemen of
the Democrat overly much. l shall al
ways be sorry about that This is brief
sketch of the way things stood up to
their issue of the 10th, when, seizing
hold Of the one-sided statements of a
New Orleans paper, they took occasion,
in one general, sweeping denunciation, to
impute infamy to the whole American
Party, because of the unhappy occurren-
ces which marked the recent elections
there. !! rebuked the partizan spirit
which they manifested, in terms the origin
al significance of which remains unchang-
ed. I took it for granted they would
take offence at the language which en-
ployed to express the contempt in which
L held the unfair spirit which they man.
ifested. I was told by friend a day
or two after the issue of our paper of
the 18th, that the editors of the Hemp
stead Democrat we're offended, had arm
ed themselves, and that might look out
for squalls. I took the hint. / prepar-
ed myself, and am ready to meet them !;
they are the aggrieved party. My threats
extended thus far-'I would defend my
self'' and am ready tn do II Nou, oon,o