New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-29

whose views we have pretty generally been happy
10 find cur own nearly or quite in accord, whose
circulation and influence we have desired to pro-
mote, ard whose pecuniary mishsps have excited
our ferveut sympathy. Hence, We were little
surprised st finding in Minnesota journal The
MeatorriHe EIpr.ss--the following business letter,
being response 10 an application for daily Press
and Tribune in exchange for The Express Aforesaid:
"OrrIcE or The PRrss AND TRIBUNE,
"CHIcAGo Dee. %, 1853.
GLE BAxcRoFT-Dear Sir: We have no adver.
tisrg TO ,ffer you that would be Of any value
10 ". To publish prospectus would do very
t,e good as people in your State subscribe chiefly for
THr NEW. YORK TRIBuNE, which elected Douglas,
and Ite NeT. York Ledger, which employs Cobb
in its columns. Very tIuly YOU'RE, J. MEDILL,
For The Pre'' and Tribune Company"
Now, it certainly is true that the people of
Minnesota are extensively addicted to taking and
reading THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE; and it may
be that they have Ike penehant for The Nte- York
Ledetr, though we have no precise knowledge on
that head. II is also true that Ths LedgH
" employ Cobb;" but how it is made out that
The n. Y. TRIBUNE elected Douglas" We do
rot go clearly perceive. We think most that we
printed bearing on that election during the pen
able and clever anti-Dougas speeches. consisted Of
letters written for our columns BY the various edi-
tors of Tie Chicago Pres, and Tribune, sl of them
animated by the desdlest hostility TO Mr.. Doug
lass reelection; and if a., is quite probable, those
letter. had contrary effect from that intended,
we submit that i. is hard for US TO bear such re-
proaeh from that qnsrter We printed the letters
as they were sent u,-Mr. Medl, if we mistake
lot, being one of the writer's To have rejected or
suppressed them would have seemed very ungraci-
cue on cur part; so We let them slide. And now
We lave TO suffer for our, perhaps, excessive coar
tesy This is an ungratefal world.
1t is true that we Did not sympatbize with our
Chicago nsmesshe in its desperate e1ertons to de-
f at, at all hazards, Mr. Douglass reelection. Hav
irg been all Winter cooperating with Judge ID. In
a desperate and successful effort to defeat Mr.
BuchaDan's Lecempton policy We were not
ready to turn shor. around, and co0perate with
Mr. Buch,nan and his satellites in the efforts to
crush Mr. Douglas for that bolt from party exsc-
tions and party trammels. Early convinced that
gratitude ard policy alike required Of Republicans
the reelection Of every Democrat who aided us TO
beat Lecompton, We did not see how, consistently,
70 make Judge Douglas sn exception to that rule.
As, however, the Republicans Of Illinois lad very
generally determined TO oppose and beat him, we
.aid little on the subject, allowing them to cay
in our columns whatever they saw ht; not sup
pressing our own convictions, but saying very little
70 commend and yindcate them. We surrendered
. larger portion Of our columns to the efforts OF
our Illinois conpa.riots to defeat Mr.. Douglas
than We ever gave up to ike contest in any
State outside of our own; bat our personal con-
yictions we could not surrender, nor did We en-
tirely conceal them.
Judge Douglas is reelected; and We believe the
Republican cause ia stronger to-day, and nearer It's
National triumph, than if be had been defeated.
He, on the other hand, is less formidable In the
present and less dangerous for the future than be
had lost his late battle. As martyr to the cause
of Popular Sovereignty" be would have hsd
deeper hold on the popular heart than he row en-