Daily national Democrat., 1858-09-15
Preparlng ror the Wan Again.t pouglas.

AePeefAhB AoE the Whf Against OOuSlhb'
We warned the Douglas men, in the late
contest in this State, against being deceived
into voting with the Lecomptonites on the
plea which they put up that they had no
fight to make against Mr.. Douglas We told
them that it was false cry, and that as soon
as the election was over, and the Douglas
men had voted against Douglas, the LecomP-
tonites would claim it as a triumph over the
Douglas principle, and in due time proceed
to denounee Mr.. Douglas. They were afraid
to denounee him. while the election was
pending, but, now that they have, by the
silly credulity of Douglas men, succeeded N
carrying their State ticket and electing a ma
ority of the next legislature, they have no
further occasion to conceal their real feelings,
and they will consequently commence in due
time, echoing the President in his denuncia'
tions of Douglas as they have echoed him
in everything else. Well, the sooner the
better We dared them, so far as we are
concerned, to make their war upon Douglas,
in the late election, and they were afraid to
do it. We told them, after the election was
over that they could not much longer stave
off the issue, or cover it up with the false cry
of "Broderick" and BLACK Republican" that
they would be compelled to take sides either
for or against Mr.. Douglas. The Sac. Mercu-
ry, we perceive, is already preparing for the
stand which we prophecied the Lecompton
sheets would take. The Douglas men, IN 10
ting the administration ticket, have been cut
ting their Oun Mroats Here is the editorial
from the Mercury:
In the late political canvass our opponents
claimed that Mr.. Douglas had deserted the
Democracy OF course, this is not fair state
ment, but let it go-ED. DEMOCRAT. and had
ranged himself openly against the President
that he was battling, in Illinois, in this very
position, and that he was, i'll fact, in the same
boat with the leading "factionists' of the
East and Messrs. Broderick and McKibben
of California. We combatted this assertion
Of our enemies and urged that Mr.. Douglas
strood on the Democratic platform; was sat
ished with the English compromise bill, and
was willing to let the past bury the past. "
1t is almost needless to say that many a vote
was cast against the Democracy, on the lst
instant, in this State, by those protesting to
be the especial admirers of Mr.. Douglas, and
yet claiming to have no sympathy with the
Black Republicans-men who, in fact, have
heretofore most invariably fought, side by
side, with many of our best Democratic SOL
diers, and find now no excuse for leaving US
but that of following the Senator from lii
nois. Where these men will be hereafter
will depend greatly upon the course Mr..
Douglas has really pursued in his canvassing
tour through Illinois, and therefore it is of
some moment that we should get reliable
news from that quarter without unnecessary
delay. The steamer is now due, and, perhaps
ere this article is in print, will Lave reached
San Francisco. She will, doubtless, bring us
full particulars of the position of political af.
iairs in the Eastern Southern and Western
states of the Atlantic borber of the Union,
and then we shall be thoroughly advised of
where Mr.. Douglas is really to be placed
If he shall have left us, as has been asserted
10y Broderick, MeKihhen and men of that
ilk, and has been making war upon the Al
ministration, We shall as freely denOunce him
as we have heretofore stood up and defended
him, but if he is with us, heart, soul and
body, we shall exult in announcing it, and
shall take pleasure in placing the fact be-
fore the eyes of those who have been de-
ceived and led astray
The above is only clever shifting of the
sails for another tack. The editors of the
Mercury know Douglass position just as well
now as they will after the steamer gets in
But they must have some sort of an excuse
for turning their late laudations of him into
denunciation and abuse. 1t will not be long,
we presume, before the Mercury will be stig.
matizing Mr. Douglas as Back Republican
and Abolitionist. The Lecompton sheets
have great faith in this cry of BLACK Re,
publican" but, we opine, they will find it
Il hard matter to make the people of Caifor-
MIA believe that Stephen A. Douglas is
Black Republican.