Daily national Democrat., 1859-10-14
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The "Dirty Weed.,,

could Mt chew tobacco without incuring a
sense of nausea, applied a similar term to
that divinely aromatic plant. These terms
may have been misnumers, but that there
is one dirty weed" theie can be no rea-
sonable doubt We think we have found it.
We will proceed to tell our readers where II
is. 1t is par excellence Weed, is of a gross
and uncultivuted stock, something like that
genus of fungiferous vegetables known among
Yankee school boys as pig weed" varying
however, from that plant in having a red and
flaming top piece, dirty, dingy and coarse
The "W eed" we speak of pertaineth to the
press-is being, human in outward appear
ance, beastly in desires, wishes and feelings
He is the st. Louis correspondent of the San
Fraucisco Times. That is ,cho he is. Not to
be obscure and incomprehensible,n nor to speak
in parallels, we will tell our readers more
plainly that our weeds" name is Weed and
that he is "colonized" in ST. Louis, Missouri,
and that his business is to he the irresponsi.
6le author and. .circLlator of calumnies and
idle gossip for the Times aforesaid Well, in
his last letter to that sheet, he writes, among
other things, the following:
DOUGLAS ALL PLAYED OUT
The Minnesota Democrats want Douglas
to go up there and talk to them; but if he
does, Abe Lincoln and Trumbull have threat
ened TO follow him aud expose his sophistres
Douglas Declines A gentleman from the
Chicago fair yesterday informed me that
Douglas was on the ground on the 10Th,
drunk as sot, and the next day in the same
condition. The telegraph from Dayton stated
that he was unwel and had to 20 to bed 1t
is now openly charged that it was lntoxica.
tion that caused his illness Pretty conduct,
surely, for an aspirnnt to the Presidency i
but quite in acc rdance with the conduct of
Douglas in Washington, before his marriage,
That lifted him up some, but he is now at
the old tricks with rs much lnoseness as ever.
Yet Douglas is plucky and playing game of
desperation. AT Wooster, Ohio, on the 10th.
he attacked Attorney General Black for his
review OF the Harper copyright article in
the coarsest terms But he is PLAYED ont.
The Illinois Republicans have concluded to
dispatch him; their axe is at his neck al
ready, and when the signal Is given. off goes
his he ID. Lincoln and Trumbull have CON
Guided to worry him to death meanwhile
Both are in Ohio TO counteract his speeches
there in behalf of Pugh, and if they don't
rake him down it will be mighty queer.
They have scared him off the Minnesota
trail, and will shortly upset his Ohio speech
making in the same way. Added to this.
the limitations from the South are unmis
iakaby against Douglas Conventions in
kentuck y and Mississippi have repudated
hun, and Clement Z. Clay, the Alabama U.
;. Senator, publicly declares that he will
not support Douglas although regularly nom
mated ut Charleston, or not. so says Mr..
!+artrell. of Georgia. So says the Richmond
! Enquirer SO says the Louisville Courier.
90 says the Charleston Mercury, News, and
twelve other South Carolina papers Doug
las has as much chance of being President rs
of going to heaven in whe harrow. Let
his admirers give up all such calculations.
We have chosen to give the dirty Weed"
a full hearing, and have thus given our read
ers the benefit of all his writing under the
attractive head of Douglas played out" If
what he has said should harpen to prove q
fiction as well as an eminently slingslagular
piece of hlackguardism, as it is, we should
really feel relieved. Let us see.
lie says in the start that Douglas is afraid
OF "Abe" Lincoln and Trumbul. That is
too bad. Why, our Weed, just by way of
giving us chance to impeach him in the out
set, graeiousy tells us lie so palpablo that
none may fail to recognize it. Unless he will
prove to US that Douglas has written him a
private episte telling him of his intentions
we must beg leave to doubt his italicized as
ser'ion that douglas declines" Having
said this 81 coolly and so fearlessly, he then
boldly dashes his pen into the ink pot and
makes the Little Giant drunk. That is the
dirtiest thing that Weed does The other is
brainless, this is malicious lie 1t is these
malicious things that make Weed so dirty
The way he tells his stories is bad enough.
but the gist Of them is wore His mistaking
California slang for the English language i.
misfortune for which he should he pitied
his utterance of maig ant lies makes him
worthy of castigation.
The rest of Weeds comments are Of n
style with his opening, and need no further
notice. BIT the character of the whole thing
deserves our attention as being the general
expression of Republican sentiment. Bitter.
y US the Lecomptonites hate Douglas, their
feelings are as pure and perfect love- com.
pared with the awakened venom of the Re.
publicans. There is no sense of vindietiye
hate and bitter malice they do not nurse and
warm towards him. Douglas is the great
heart OF conservatism, the centre around
which revolves the true national sentiment
OF the Union, and they know it. and in the
hate that Lincoln and Trumbul and Pixlev
ana their wing of the Republicans bear the
Union OF States, they include Douglas as the
most formidable obstacein their black natb
OF ruin. If Democrats would tramp out and
check the growth of dirty Weeds" they
must rally nrouad this Giant Of Popular
Sovereignty. In him rest all the great homes
of the only party that can give the tide of
sectional danger check, and clear away the
frowning clouds that SO lower about the peo.
pie of our Union.
OK Friday last, at Red Bluff, the trial Of
oeVy' indicted for arson in burning the town
oil Iehoma, commenced On Monday, the
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