Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-14
Tint rrecport speech.

The Express desires us to publish a so call
ed "extract" from Douglas speech at Free
port, Illinois 1t saysi
The extract is not near so long rs the
Democrats eassjcally and poetically pretty
leader of yesterday, on Mount Shasta, "the
skyeazing promontory," from which the
Bird of Joye' "rose into the blue empire.
an" an all that viii the Democrat let the
bird soar awhile, and in the meantime bring
itself down from the realms of Imagination.
and give us the extract? We desire to see
the extract in its crowded columns"
The last we saw of that bird, which is, of
course, the eagle, he was spreading himself
at the head of the "By Authority odver-
tsement of "Old Buck in the Express, and,
consequently he can't be soaring to any very
great extent, Just at this time. We fear We
shall have to drop him, as he has become so
groveing in his nature that he prefers to de-
seend to the lower regions of the "earth
earthly after Federal pap to basking in the
sunlight of heaven We wish it distinctly
understood, therefore, that we surrender
that fowl to the keeping of the Express, and
that he may roo.t or soar hereafter, accord
ing to his own notion
As to the extract from Douglas speech, the
editor of the Express would certainly verify
his acknowledged claims to great shrewdness
as a political writer, could he induce us to
commit so sillya act as to give to our readers
as an extract from Douglas speech, what
we have never seen in anything, as yet, but
Lecompton and Republican papers. Catch
us biting at any such lait Until we find
that Freeport speech properly reported, as
Douglas delivered it, we shall not cucumber
our columns with any extracts from it. When
we see it reported in a genuine Democratic
paper, with the endorsement of the editor
that it was really Douglas speech, it will
then be time enough for us to publish it, or
portions of it. We wish to give our readers
correct information, and consequently we
publish no Lecompton or Republican distor-
tons of what Douglas snys in his great
war against those parties in Illinois They
both hate him, and he need expect no justice,
at their hands. A Lecompton or
a Republican paper, just at this time, is the
last place on Gods earth to go TO after cor
'ect information about the position of Ste
ohen A. Douglas.
We repeat that we shall not publish the |
xtract We know what he meant in that
peech, and what he will hereafter say that
e meant If his remarks have not been
wholly mis- reported, they have at least been
aringly distorted in the Interpretation
which has been given to them. He said in
hat speech, and we are as confident of it as
we had already seen it reported in a good
ound Democratic paper, that although the
Constitution of the United States recognized
lavery in the Territories, yet that recogni-
ion would have to be enforced by the Terri
orial Legislature, and that, if the Legislature
appened to be free.soil one it would not
'ass those regulations, and so slave property
would lack that protection which it other
wise would have" This is the great treason
hat the Leeompton papers are making SO
much fuss about We shall give our readers
n due time the cract acords of Mr.. Douglas,
md they will see that we have correctly
him.