, 1859-02-16
PRESS AND TRIBUNE.
wTpFFspA1 x,RH1Ka, fKB, 10, 1859.


Ws h%vc not much to sag In reply to thu
I. r. 1ribune's reio1nasr to IN article IN or
seue Of the "a ipptant-wbich rejofnder Will
" found IN another column. The afteH"ts
in giving US The 1ast word Is ap'
preciated. and shall not be abused, A. Cur
Eastern ally has word about "sptrlt aud
temper.'' We may remark that the absence In
The article before III Of the mingled jaunti-
ness aud dictation wh1ch marked its former ut.
tcrapces, is noticeable and gratifying. We
eub.ait that the T.ibuns's former expressions,
particularly that referring to "Mr. Lfnco1ns
:. pb e md clever anti Dotglas spcccbes"-
which meant tbnt Mr.. Lincoln vas $3.50
kind Of deba.er, and that bis efforts were not
80 much imbped with Republican principle
al with personal animosity ty-were not calcu-
lated to nourish admiration for the writer ont
this way.
The 141tune says We speak as II
It were solitury example Of the
"criminal folly" which We reprobate.
Well, We believed u u. The folly re.
ferred to was that Of continuing in the lace
of facts, to parade Douglas directly and in
directly rs hopeful Free soller-he mean"
while, proclaiming himself an ardent flibus'
ter aud Border Rutian, and in his late print
ed speeches standing step in advance of all
our prominent pro,slav,ry men born IN a free
atmosphere. What other goes to such lengths
in treading out the grand maxims Of the De-
cluration OF independence What other 80
unblushing1y argues the lawful enslarement
Of The negro. the IodiRn, and all the infe-
rior races!" Not one. If there is any pro"
fessedly Republican journal in the Eat Of
such prominence as 10 have reputation be-
yond its own county, except die New Turk
Tribune, which etill presents Mr.. Douglas in
all sorts Of ways as promising case Of poll
tical reformation, We. do not koow the name
Of that journal. The 7FiJanes explanation
OF the way it came to couple Douglas with
Seward, Fremont, and Caase in its Presldeh'
tial article. is to our minds very singular
besides being late in the day. How any per
son should fancy that An omission Of Mc.
Douglas uame covered hidden devotion
to Ills fortunes, when that Was estopped by
the phrase or any other man," we do not
zee uu}css the Tribune has led its readers lat
.erly into strange ways Of thinking. But We
gladly accept the explanation.
4 fen remarks Of d personal character are
due to Mr. VIM II. Herndon, Of Springfield.
The letter to which wc made reference In
our prevlous article, Was handed around
quite extensively as we believe, and in per
feet good faith as We know, By Mr.. Herndon,
early last summer. It was taken by Mr'
Herndou and by ourselves, and re think by
everybody who saw it, as evidence That the
wriler was on or side. Is such wc read il
with peculiar eatistaction- satisfaction
which WIS joyfuliy Responded to by all te
whom We communicated its sentiments
it did not correspond with other letters writ
ten by the came gentleman to the came gen
tleman, tbut was not our look out. We did no.
then suppose there were any reasons rtquir
ing it to be kent private. Ne do not nov
know that the obligations Of priyacy wer'
aEv stronger than those Which hedged ou
two letters to t4e Ncw York Tribune. III
hasten to say, however, thai Mr. Hsrudol
knew nothing whatever Of our previous arti
Gle until be saw it in print. The letter j
probably in his possession, though re kno'
ppthing further about it than that it wa
handed to US as testimony to show that tb
writer eas with u, and not against us, in IT,
then approaching battle
The matter embraced ia Tie sonclulinl
paragraph Of the 7ribune's article, has bee
discussed In our columns too often to nce'
repetition now. We will condcnse it, there
fore, into this: FRS ~ and chiefly, Ar. Dong
las was oil the time ayowedly hoslitc TO Re
publican principles. Not only that, but h
Democrats Of New York, New Jcrecy and In
diana .cefe not. Ills State Convention me
two months before ours, md Put up m e,
treme proslaEery aud Dred Scott platform
HIS eolIea- urs at the East put up no platform
ut ali, or at least no such Platforms More
orer, Mr. Douglas' position and the power 6
his allies in I.linoie, would have made such
concession as the New York Tribune coun
sele1, not compromise but A surrender.
would have left US at their mercy our o.
ganizAtion would have been gone; mud Ill
nois would have been guaranteed for the pr
slavery ticket in 1860, us surely as she is no
guaranteed by her popular vote, for the r
publican nominees for President md Viz
President. Aud here we rcEt nnd abide