The Nevada Democrat., 1858-10-06
Nrer,ts.l D,stsncslon.

Of the vIliners, Charlatans, and Slang Ma
kers." The credentials which follow this an
nouncement show that the editor Of the Citizen
was born to WELD the scepter he has assumed,
and we question whether blackguardism can
coin from all Billingsgate as dirty mass Of
expletiyes as compose the Citizens article on
Mr.. Douglas.
That the Little Giant would be abused BY the
organs Of the administration we have already
asserted. Their hypoeritical laudations OF Mr..
Douglas were but part Of the system Of false
hood and dissimulation pursued by them in the
late contest Their object accomplished, they
now throw of the mask, aud from the Washing
ton Union to the Sierra Citizen, the ours that
lick the seres of corruption are bowling at the
leader and champion Of Democracy.
That the contest now commencing will be-
come national one, evoking malignant pas
sions and abusive attack upon Mr.. Douglas,
cannot be questioned. But the scavenSer OF
the Citizen has entirely mistaken the time for
his attack. Mr.. Douglas stands far too high In
the estimation Of all for such filth to pollute
him, and the vomit must return to the dog.
But IL is In that portion Of Judge DouglaS con-
duct to which the Citizen objects that we find
the true index to the elements composing the
Lesompton faction. It was Douglas, says the
Citizen, that 6rst termed the Know Nothings
"Thugs," and coined the phrase "Black Repub-
lican." Harsh terms, but most appropriate
It does not surprise us il the proscriptivs and
sectional fanatics 10 whom Douglas applied
these terms, and to whose overthrow he 80 sig
nslly contributed, should remember both the
victor and the appellation, with embittered ha-
tired. From them he can expect nought bat
abuse, and in them We can recognize the old
enemies of our party, acting in our ranks, at
once tho hireling and the traitor, and stealing
the name Of Democrats to destroy Democracy.
But IL is not from its morbid sensitiveness upon
Know Nothingism alone, that the course OF the
Citizen is instructive. The all-absorbng inter-
est manifested by the masses for Douglas sue
cess in the present contest BODIES no good to Le-
comptonism, should Douglas name and voice
rouse the Democracy for the Union and the
right in sixty. To-day the administration
scarce staggers along with the scathing rebuke
Of Kansas to its English infamy, and IL the Lit
tie Giant be returned to the Senate, against the
Republicans and their administration allies. II
digs the grave of Lecomp:on, and seals the po-
litical damnation of its advocates. The GER
tainty that Douglas unless crushed will lead the
national Democracy in sixty, has reused the
administration organs to this bitter war, and
opened the sluice-gates Of that King Of the
Slang Makers, the Sierra Citizen. Says this last
and most delectable sheet in the article referred
to Mr.. Douglas is
"a man whose tongue going vehicle Of vulgar
profane and sanderOus words he Is manufacturer OF
gross and ptefu expressions and filth coated political
appellatves; II "scullduggery" was not coined IN ms
mouth he will adopt into his abusive vocabulary and
proanely declare his regret that 1t Is one OF INC Few
abomnabe terms which he did not originate. lie has
moro Unborn and disclosed tOn OF morbid
organism than and all Senators since the government
was established surpsss him among all Vitu-
perative public men,"
And then regales its readers with choice
collection of coarse and profane expressions,
which it charges Douglas to have used during
a political career Of some twenty years. The
Citizen may be right in the language used. We
apprehend few men in political life have used
any less. At oil events IL is impossible for us
to establish the negative. But for the few vul-
gar expressions which the Citizen seems to have
treasured alone, the friends of Mr.. Douglas can
point to volumes spoken for the nation and the
Union. Whatever has been his incentive,
whether personal ambition or the public good,
his course as q Senator has been digni!ied and
commanding; his fidelity to the nation and the
Democracy as true as that of any Senator, citi-
zen or partisan, and the charge OF the Citizen to
the contrary is as false as the language which
clothes II is foul. In Mr.. Douglas the Demo-
cratic party have long recognized an able ad-
vocate, one whose voice has ever been heard
either in the Senate asserting the right, or
rousiDg the people in its defense, and who has
never faltered or swerved from the support Of
. principle, let who or what would assail II.
Upon such man, the abuse Of q venal press,
the scurriity Of the Sierra Citizen, is lost, or on
ly exhibits the vileness Of the libeler, and we
contrast the past career Of Judge Douglas and
the article in question, as the best commentary
upon the character Of its author.