The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-16
THE BLACK REPUBLICAN PRESS,


In our first number we made an ex-
position of the principles upon which
our paper would be conducted. Its NOR
atty should be christian, its politics DEM
ocratic. 1t would "advocate the princl-
pies of that party of which JEFFERSON was
the founder, of which JAMES BUCHANAN
is to-day the representative, and STE
pHEN A. DOUGLAS the able exponent"
This declaration has excited the indig-
nation, in some cases, and in others the
risibilities of quito n large number of
black republican editors. How singular
that it should produce such opposite ef-
fects! And indeed, TO us, it is very sim
gular that it should have received SO
much attention. That an article written
by an unknown editor, of backwoods
paper, should have been copied,in galbled
extracts, and commented upon by the Ma
6onal Era, the Buffalo Express, and
even the Grand Traverse Herald, and our
county organ, besides others Of less note
and importance than the last, is to us q
matter of surprise, and shall we confess it
qualification. We place our thumbs
in the amholes of our vest and sitting
back in an easy and yet graceful position,
smile with intense satisfaction at the as
principles fiat nave rsiplyaass;n And can
ty to the Grand Haven News, and which
will probably bring to us an offer from
BONNER TO become correspondent Of
the Ledger-$-00 column. Nayver-
lily. Let us analyze this declaration which
has SO Mortified black republican editors
First, then, VIC proposed to publish a
paper which should advocate principles Of
christian morality. Well, among demo-
cratic papers this cxcites no surprise; in
fact they are accustomed to the thing;
they rather look upon it as necessity in
this age and country. But it seems that
our republican presses are, to borrow n
nautical phrase, taken aback ut the bare
mention of such proposition. We are
not surprised at this, as m instants re-
Election shows that were they to do it their
occupation would be gone. GREELEY's
Kansas correspondent--that invaluable
man who has made the republican party,
and given il all its power-would die, and
all his fctions and calumnies, constituting
for the past two years the entire stock in
trade of black republican editors, would be
dissolved; and /" like the baseless fabric of
a vision, leave not n wreck behind" ANY
person acquainted at all with black repub-
licanism knows that "Uncle Toms Cab
in" gave it birth, and GREELEY's Kansas
correspondent has been its sustenance.
Can bantling, born of fiction and sus-
tanned by falsehood, give any other an
swer to the proposition of having press
conducted upon principles of christian
morality than Dogbury's exclamation, alt
is most intolerable and not to be enduredn
Secondly, we proposed TO advocate the
principles of that party of which JEFFER-
SON was the founder, of which JAMES
BUCHANAN is 10 day the representative,
and STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS the able expo
nent.
Now we want that sentence critically
examined. Is there in it a statement that
the principles of the democratic party are
TO day the same as they were in the days
of JEFFERSON Is il either affirmed or
deniedG For the purpose of this argu-
ment it is entirely immaterial whether our
principles are the same in all respects as
those advocated by the democratic party
in JEFFERsoN's time. We want TO know