The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1858-09-24


Beg. Mr. al SIR In the trse
Press Of Sept. goth, you say tba. for ra-
sons entirely different from any suggested
by me, you have refrained hom answer
ing my article in the Northerner Of the
Sd inst
Now, sir, DO not recoll ct that sug-
gested any reasons why you had not an
swered that article / did hint at
certain reasons why you refused to answer
my intcrrogat0ries, as you expressed your
willingness to do when you propcs cd this
discussion. And if YOU have any good
reasons to give for that rcfusal, our readers
would doubtless be glad to hear them
But | do not intend 10 allow you to evade
that issue and throw those questions into
the back ground by intimating that it
was something else that you was expected
to answer
You deny calling me traitor, aud
charge me with objectionable miscon-
struction" of your language in saying
that you had so called me. If you say
that you did not intend to apply the term
double traitor" to me, then am willing
to accept your explanation; but, sir, it
would be difficult for any one to put
different construction upon your language,
as quoted by yourself, from the one put
upon it.
BY what authority do you say that the
leaders of my party have unanimously re-
pudiated the Missouri Compromise ? The
statement IS utterly unfounded in truth,
md you cannot produce any authority to
justify it.
did not, as YOU say, ask "against
whom the champions Of the compromise
of 1850, SO long aud so molly fought for
the Union" although you put it in quo
tatioua, us though you We're using my own
words You spoke of Clay and Webster
as having long and noby fought for the
Union before the compromise Of 1850,
and l asked against whom tLeg had so
tong and SO molly fought, &c, had
supposed that their lifelong opponents
were the leaders Of the democratic party.
Am l mistaken in this Surely, one Of
the most bitter and uncompromising enc
mics OF Henry Clay was no other than
james Buchan, ON whose authority that
most whitening caluuluy that ever prcycd
upon the character Of the Kentucky
statesman was propagatcd; namely, the
charge that his support Of j. O. Adams,
for the Presidency, was the result of
corrupt bargain between those two iudi
vduas-a charge that thousands were
led for a time to 6clicpe, and many, un-
doubtely, aided III propagting who did not
believe it. If YOU believe that charge
was tyue, why do you now laud Henry
Clay as such pure and noble patriot p
And il you believe it talsc what do you
think Of the man-President though be
be--who would insinuate that il was tru.,
and leave others TO rest in the tclief hat
he kac,o it was true, when it was not SO
Few men in this country have ever been
worse vilifed than Clay and Webster
were, during their lives, by the democrat
ic party; and it certainly sounds very fine
to hear The orators and editors of that |
party now laud them to the skies for their
noble patriotism and purity. Surely,
"your praises of their 4" THRICE GLORIOUS
LIVES are rung at rather late day. -
Verify, YOU are like the phsr.sces who
built aud garnished the sepuIchres Of the
prophets whom their fathers had killed
Will you, sir, have the goodness TO quote
from the Lansing Republican or the De-
troit advertiser, where either of them
state that sis the doctriucc of the Repub.
lican party to exclude any and every State
flom the Union that presents itself with a
slavery constitution, phether The majority
of tic people DiU IL or mott" This, sir,
is the proposition that | denied, aud until
you can quote from these papers some
thing that is equivalent TO that PROPOSE.
iior, it is vain for you to attempt to put
me at issue with them. | have not said
that " for twelve long years the demo-
'cratic party OF this State we've "full OF
fraud, dishonesty aud deceit" charged
them with delinquency in neglecting, {
yher they bal .bc reana an hand 10 rav .
he 'n,srest on The State dch, thereby .