Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-07

Well. so far as Old Yuba is concerned, we
imagine that the members elect to the legisla-
ture always excepting Mr.. Aud, who oecu
pies "A negative position) care very little
whether they are excluded from Lecompton
caucuses or not They doubtless are aware
that their Douglas constituents expect them
to act as Douglas Democrats-to stand upon
their principles, and to ask no more favors
from Lecomptlnites than from Black Repub
licans. They are expected to regard nei-
ther of those parties as politically their
friends. but to consider both as hostile to the
Cincinna Platform and to the true Democ-
racy.-Nationat Democrat, Tuesday.
This looks like throwing your friends off,
You ask "Ro more fayors' from "Black Re
puhhcans" Now that the election is over
after the work is done-after the Repub-
licans of Yuba county have elected one san
ator and four members of the Assembly fof
you-after they have enabled you to triumph
ever the National Democracy, instead OF
thanking them, you insutingly call them
BLACK Republicans" and tell them you ask
"no favors" from them Nay more, you class
them in the same category with what to you
are the most despicable of all creatures, lie
compton Democrats !-Erpress, yesterddy
The palpable distortion of the plain intent
of our language, by the Express, is too shall
low trick to need any exposure If any
body is silly enough to be deceived by it,
that person is too unimportant an entity in
the scale Of ment ! existence to induce us tc
take the trouble to undeceive him. We said
that the Douglas members of the Legislator,
from this county were expected by theiI
Douglas constituents to ask no more favor:
from the Leeomptonites than from the Re
publicans We believe the expression i,
grammatical and signifies. among judges o
English, that no favOrs are to be asked from
either
The Express seems to be very solicitou'
about the feelings of the Republicans. 1t
probably remembers with gratitude the large
vote which the Park and Stanley -Lecompton
wing of that party cast for Baldwin in the
last election. 1t also is mindful, doubtless,
of the aid which the Republicans gave to
the Lecomptonites in Butte county.
The Express goes to work. in the same
article to try to prove that the Douglas De
mocracy was greatly indebted for its success
in this county to the Republicans. Now,
every shrewd politician knows tn at the very
fact that the Republicans were understood to
be supporting portion of our ticket drove
off hundreds of Douglas Democrats who
would otherwise have voted for us, and who
are with us now. They were so much afraid
of even a momentary contact with Republi-
cans, that they preferred to vote in direct
opposition to their own principles to having
it said that they were voting ticket which
the Republicans were also voting. These
men now see their folly, and have no hesi
fancy in acknowledging it
The Express is welcome to make all the
capital that it can, by trying to array the
Republicans asainot We have never pre-
tended to court the political friendship of
that party. For the members of it, as men,
so far as we know them in this county, we
have great respect. We know them to be
high minded and honorable gentlemen. In
their social and business capacity we are
proud of their countenance and support.
For them as well as any other intelligent
portion of the people We endeavor to make
a good, readable paper, and are gratifed if
we succeed. But we believe that they give
us credit for honesty of purpose, and that
they would scorn US were we to smother, in
any degree, our genuine political sentiments.
We have told them, repeatedly, that this
was no Republican paper, but that it was
Douglas paper-the organ Of the regular
Democracy of this county. We have no
favors, politically, to ask from either them or
the Lecomptonites. If they choose to vote
with the regular Democracy against the Le-
comptonites, why, they are welcome to do
so, but it lays us under no political obliga-
tions to them for so doing, and the princi-
pies of our party would remain as dear to
us as ever We intend to abide 10y the old
! time.honored standard of the Democratic
party,-there we stand, and will stand, let
the Lecomptonites or the Republicans, or the
Know Nothings, do what they will. We
certainly consider that the Lecomptonites
have departed from Democratic doctrines,
and until they return to the true faith the
faith of Jackson, a jefferson and Douglas,
We wash our hands, politically of the whole
tribe.