The Shasta courier., 1858-10-09
COURIER.
The Washington Union and the Great
Douglas.

Judge Douglas made speech to about ten thou
sand lllinoisans. We extract from the Quincy
Herafds report that portion which fully explains
why the Washington Eaion so bitterly opposes
the election Of one Of the greatest, truest DEM
ocrats in America-why the Union, assuming to
be the leading organ of the great National DEM
ocratc party, is directly assisting Lincoln, the
Abolitionist, who declares "the Union cannot
exist composed of part free and part slave
IststesI and to the same extent endeavoring to
dsfeat one who has always proved to be Ma
the North, the East and the West. Here is the
extract. Read it.
q am aware" said he, that an attempt is
being made by a company ofambitous presden-
tial aspirants, to instil the idea into the minds
OF the people that the doctrine is to be abandon
ed, that the constitutions OF new States are to be
submitted to the people, prior to their admission
| into the Union. The Washington Union, a
newspaper printed in the city of Washington, is
violently denuncative and abusive of this great
recommendation of President Buchanan. The
| Unan, In late number, quotes Mr.. Buchanans
recommendation without mentioning his name,
an6 then attributes it to Mr.. Douglas speeches
| in Illinois, and denouncing it a most Infamous
| act of ultra federalism
| after quoting that recommendation of Pres-
delt Buchanan, and denouncing it as the rank
| as federalism that was ever preached, the Union
goes on to denounce the author of it as a traitor
t6-the Democratic party, who has not drop of
Democratic blood in his veins. But the editor
O the Union is cautious to charge it on Mr.
Douglas, of Illinois, knowing at the same time
! that he copied it from the Presidents annual
massage.
While the Union is engaged in that conspiracy
against the Democracy and against the Pres-
dent of the United States, whose organ it pre-
tnds to be, it carries a scheme to try to break
Gown the Democratic party by creating dissen-
ton in its ranks, thus securing the triumph of
he republican sectional organization of this
country. What do you suppose is the object of
his journal? You have only to enquire who is
its editor, proprietor and owner, and what his
character and history is, and the object is per-
fectly plain. One Cornelius Wendell is owner
and proprietor, of the Union! The same man
who has become notorious as lobby agent
and chief of the lobbytes about Washington
the same man who, while he professed to be
Democrat during the Congress before the pres
ent, composed of a large Republican majority,
succeeded in getting elected printer to that
House by that Republican Congress, making
j hundreds of thousands of dollars of money by an
election thus secured at the hands of Republ-
can House He became candidate during this
present Congress, composed of majority of
Democrats, to see if he could not be elected and
| as you must have expected, and as he, if he was
an honest man, should have expected, the DEM
ocratic party kicked him out of the House and
elected an honest Democrat.
Having thus made a fortune out of Repubi-
can Congress, having been kicked out by DEM
ocratic Congress, he took the money he had
made under the Republican rule and bought the
Washington Union, and pretended that it was
the organ of the Democratic party, and that he
was the embodiment of Democratic purity. Ac-
cordingly, no sooner had he got possession of
the Union, than he employed his hireing tools
to write for it, denouncing every Democrat
whom he could not corrupt with his base
schemes, and perhaps you may have noticed that
for the last six months lie has been slandering
and vilifying me in every number, and now he
is urging the Democracy of Illinois to unite in
| sending Republicans to the Senate and House of
Representatives in place of Mr.. Douglas, Messrs.
Harris, Shaw Marshall and the rest ofthe Dem
ocratic delegation. Why does he want a Repub-
| lcan Congress? of course, in order that he may
be made printer again by that Republican Con-
| gress, when he could not get the place if the
| Democracy had it.
This man Wendell, and his hirelings, who
| nave just rs luuCu pIluClplc us anu no more,
whose whole object is to filch money from the
treasury through his lobby operations-he is
attempting to interfere with and control the pol
| itcs of Illinois, with the view of securing the
election of men in harmony with him and his
| speculations to the exclusion of the Democratic
party Follow the lead of the Union and the
corrupt gang that control it, and you will rend
the Democratic party asunder, and not only
break down those that it processes to denounce,
but disgrace the administration that it processes
to support while it denounces its leading recon-
mendations.
have never noticed the Washington Union
before. | have such loathing-such con-
tempt-such a disgust for the corruption that
hangs around it-or the corrupt purposes to
which it is applied-for the few agents that rule
| and control it, that did not wish to trust my
self in expressing my opinion before an audience
| upon it. The object of the Union in assailing
Mr. Buchanan and denouncing his recommend
alton that hereafter the example of Minnesota
shall be followed is to be found in this fact, that
Wendell and his crew have ascertained that
they cannot make money enough out of Buchan-
| an and his administration, and hence have sold
| themselves to political firm who are to be
made President and Vice President, with Wen
dell as head of the lobby and chief of the plum
derers. That plundering gang now have their
| -5SA.o III lLiuOiS approaching DShaoeA"eS ---
electioneering for them and the Republican
ticket. intend to fight them wherever | meet
them (Long continued applause.) intend to
expose their .reachery and their coalition with
| the Republicans wherever l meet them. Loud
cheering.) intend to show them that the free
people of Illinois are not mere slaves, that they
may be kicked and cuffed and instructed how to
vote, either by newspapers from Washington or
from corrupt and ambitious politicians from
1 other States intend to apply to them the
principle of the Nebraska BILL which declares
that the people of each State must mind their
own business wish to say to the people of
Indiana, do your own voting, bring ont your own
candidates, hold your own elections. manage
your own affairs and mind your own business ;
and then intend to say, if you have an idle Gu
rioslty to come over and hear us suckers dis
cuss the political questions of the day, you can
come, provided you do not interfere with our
local affairs
b6T Ex-President Pierce and lady on their
/ way from I.iShon tn MarSef1ae vuara The racini-