, 1859-02-16
The Chicago Press and Tribune.


Ws print In smother plase tho Response of our
Chicago uAmsssks to Cur lats eomnsnts on
letsat ffoEo nns Of ~ sd1tasa y klanesota
Journal tn spirit md tsoper of this rsaponse
we lsave to speak tor themselves. Nor do ws
think 1t noss8ary 70 add ward 10 what ve
haIs already said respecting tbs reelection OF
Seaator DoassAs md our attitude relative there
to. We fcel that We can Afford to allow our
critic the last word, and let him ex feas1 with
regaEd to our conrBe. Ill tho surprise, Anaze.
nens, d., Of which be u espabla. on'Y the
new points introduced in his last require and
shall receive attention.
Our namesake aotp talks as OF tho n. 7. 13fb.
une u If il were solitary and astounding ex-
ample OF tho '* criminal folly " which it repro
bates But last ye4r it VIA quite ~ aavaRe
Esstern States, accusing ssid Pfess Of aetiye,
outspokeu advocacy Of Mr. Douglaa'a re-elec-
tion. We do not care which war it puts this
matter, since our course was not ut all affected
By that Of others; but it would look better 10
msintain some show Of conslxtency.
that this paper was committed to no man, work.
ing for no one, with reference to the Presidency
IN 1850. In so saying. We named Nessrs. Seward,
Chase, Fremont, and Douglas. Had we omitted
the latter, there are those just paltry enough to
say, and sone silly enough 70 belis!e. that there
WAS silent reservation covering hidden devo'
| tiou to the fortunes Of ME. Douglas. We chose
to deprive that cav1 Of any pretext or colornR Of
plapsibility. This our Chicago friend calls "c1as
| sing Douglas With Seward, Fremont and Chase"
Can any reply to such logic be needed?
'Now word On personalities" Our Chicago
namesake quotes from private letter written BY
Us Aat Summer to At. Herndon Of Springfield,
Ill, whom it declares to be ''Mr- Lfncoln's law.
| partnet"-a fact hitherto unknown to Us, but
| which may explain remarkable change Of front,
NOS On our part, but on his. Mr. Herndon il an
old acquaintance and correspondent, who called on
| Us in this Office aome ten months ago, on bis way
home from Washington, and volunteered the assur-
ance that he agreed With US perfectly with regard
to Senator Douglas and deplored tho blind per-
verseness OF those Illinois Republicans who in
sisted On lighting him Mr. 1ezndon went di.
rectfy home, and sooa wrote NJ In N s1actly
oppoaite key from thst Of his recent conversa.
tim. Ii be ia in any sense party to The use
here mtda Of our private letters, NO insist thai
| be ahaiI publish them entire-pot one, but all
we ever wrote him win reference to the late
Senatorial contest in 1lliuois-and let the pub
lie Judge whether Va ever led him to believe
any thing contrary 10 cur public attitude and
| ayowsls We remove all obligations of secrecy
and insist on the full publication Of Cur privat*
letters if they are to be used at sll to eoupte
nance the Chicago allegation Of "duplicity -
m allegation which not Nj. Herudon alone bu
the whole editorial corps Of the CHICAGO PRks
AND TR1BusB we'll know to be unfounded.
Whether the Republican,. .of illinois the los
Legislature OF 1858 9 aud the Apportionme1tf TO
| 1850 bY the unWlse couusels that they followed
or the hesitation Of those WHO could not concu,
in them, must be determined By impartial judg
es. We know we'll that in those S ates where ou
views prevailed Pennsr1vanis, New Jersey, In
diRna-the Republicans had no occasion to regre
OF complain Of the issue. In Illinois aluue wer
they induced 10 take the course Of which our Chi
csgo nanesake IS the champion. The resutt is vel
known. Eren there, it Is not contended that "
wers wroug with regard to the other States jus
named-it is only conten1ed that we ought to hav
had one policy lor New Jersey, &c. and auo:he
for Illinois. 1t was allowable, ihipks our critic
to elect anti Lecompton Democrats to tue Houst
but not to the Senate. o. railier-it would do t
| fraternIze With them where we had al to gain an
nothing to concede, hat rank treason to do til
| same thing where we might make more by con
binding with the Lecomptontes to hunt the1
down. That policy may do for our Chicago nams
sake it did not seem to us worthy Of the Me-
!. / Yorl- ItriIn.ne And here 1e rest and ahiie.