Daily national Democrat., 1858-11-11

The Sacramento Union is becoming abso
lntelv frantic in its politics--so much so thai
il docs not hesitate to say the most absur(
things Imaginable But, true to the instinct
of madman, it takes its positions always by
Implication and assumption, and never by
direct assertion. That queer paper, i'll its is
sue of yesterday, has the following, anon.
other things:
"In response to the demand of the Wash
ington Union thatSouthern papers and states
men should speak out uron the contest be
tween Douglas IL Lincoln in Illinois, larg,
majority have expressed themselves decided
ly and unequivocally in favor of Douglas"
Now any casual reader would understand
from this that the Sacramento Union asserts
that the Washington Union is for Lincoln
against Douglas, and calls on the Democratic
press of the South to speak out their pre-
| ferenees as between the two great Illinois
candidates But the Sacramento Union. as
viii be discovered bv a careful reading of t'
language, asserts no such thing it only sug
gests one untruth and then builds another
upon it. The Washington, as the Sacramen
to Union very veil knows, never made or in
timated any demand or request remotely akin
to the one attributed to it. The Union fur
thermore knows, and will not assert, howev-
er it may insinuate and assume the contrary
that there is not one single Democratic paper
or statesman in the whole Union, north or
south, that ever directly or 10y implication,
/ by speaking or by keeping silent, has ever
expressed or insinuated desire that Lincoln
should beat Dougas.-Cdi Express.
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country, nevertheless is, that the Washing
ton Union does desire the defeat of Douglas
and, as a consequence, the election of Eincoln
If it did not, why is it warning against Doug.
las with unremitting energy2 Why does it
refuse to acknowledge as binding upon the
party the action of the regular organization
of the Democratic party in Illinois which is
known to be favorable to Douglas ? Why
did it counsel boiling from the regular State
Convention of the Democracy, when it was
known that that body would endorse the
course of Douglas in the Senate? Why did
it do its utmost to weaken the hands of Doug
las in the contest, by calling upon the whole
turn their backs upon him, and leave him
to stand or fall, as he might, before the swar
ming hordes of Republicans who were march
ing upon him? Why did it lend its tacit
sanction to the efforts of the notorious Lieb
to induce Democrats to vote for Republican
members of the Legislature in preference to
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mocrats would vote for Douglas for United
States Senator Why did it proceed with
such vindietiye pertinacity in denouneing the
great champion of popular sovereignty, that
the Democratic leaders of the south, both
Lecompton and anti -Lecompton, cried shame
to it, and demanded that it should cease its
woltish how'll 1t was not necessary that
the Washington Union should distinctly de-
clare that it preferred Lincoln to Douglas,
when the inference was plain to the whole
country, from its uniform conduct, that it
did. We presume the Express would deny
that Mr. Buchanan desired the election of
Lincoln over Douglas, if he must have one or
Ouc Othti' Ahu 1Sts WidG hO6S JIle WnOie
country, from Maine to California, think
about it? What can it think, when it sees
how the heads of Presidential appointees in
Illinois have fallen into the basket of decapi-
tation, one after another, for their owners
daring to declare themselves in favor of the
election of Douglas? What can it think,
after Mr.. Douglas has charged in his recent
place in the Senate OF the United States, that
Federal agents were hunting down his friends
in Illinois, and throwing all sorts of obsta.
eles in his path, and laboring by every spe-
eies ofunder handed means to drive him into
retirement, and that, if the President anv
longer suffered these things to go on, the in
ference would be that he not only sanctioned
and approved them, but expressly ordered
that they should proceed The whole course
of the Union, and the entire conduct of the
Federal appointees in Illinois, go to show
conclusively that both the President and his
organ desire the defeat Of Douglas and the
election Of Lincoln, and we believe every in
teligent and unprejudiced mind in the Union
is perfectly convinced of it.