, 1859-02-02
The New York Tribune and the Chica-
GO Press and Trihunp

lPfom the N. +. Tribune, Jan ~
The Chicago Prtss and Tribune is a Journal
with whore !iews We have pretty generally been
happy to lind our own nearly or quite in accord,
to promote. and whose pecuniary mishaps have
excited our ferrent sympathy. Hence, Ne were
little surprised ut finding in Minueeota Jour.
nal-the HantorriUe Exprea following
business letter, being response to an appica.
tion for daily Pr<ss dad Tribune in exchange
for the Expras aforesaid:
~osF1cEor 1Hx Paes 4sn Temrsx}
- aAsc.o,7-pe.1 g: hs!s ~; & 10 tsd1e.ti3nF
;.s Ss st:S Ss "a j. II: fs;s S:S
emp oss Cobb" mis- colpnns- vesstru'y soaE;.
"For the Pres aad r,isaae Conps:ay."
Now. it certainly is true that the people OF
Minnesota are extensively addicted to taking
and reading the New York Tribune mad It may
be that they have like pencAant for the New
York Ledger, though Nc have no precise knowl-
edge on that head. It il also true that the
Letger employs Cobb;" but how it is made
out that the N. Y. z;i6une "elected Douglas," ,"
We do not 80 clearly perceive. We think most
that We printed bearing On that election during
pendency OF tne contest, aside from Mr. Lin
coins able and clever anti.Douglas speeches! !!
consisted Of letters written for our columns by
the various editors Of the Chicago Press and
hostility to Mr. Douglass re- election and if, as
is quite probable, thosa letters had contrary
eject from that intended, Ne submit that it ia
hard for us to bear such reproach from that
quarter. We printed the letters a. they were
sent us-Nr. Medill, # we mistake not, being
pressed them would have seemed very upern-
cious on our part; 90 wa let them slida. And
now We have TO suffer for our, perhaps, e1ces-
'sive courtesy! This is an ungrasefol world.
1t is trus that We did not sympashize with
our Chicago naneeake in its desperate exertions
to defeat, at all hazards, Mr. Douglass re.elec-
ton. Having been all winter coo operating With
Judge y. in desperate and successful effort to
defeat Mr. Buchan8n'a Lecompton policy, Ne
were not ready to turn short a-ounf, aud CO.
operate with Mr. Buchanan and his satellites in
the efforts to cruah Ar. Douglas for that bolt
from party exacslons aud party trammets Ear
II convinced that gratitude and policy alike re-
ouired Of Republicans the re- election Of every
Democrat who aided Us to beat Lecompton, We
did not see how, consistently, to make Judge
Douglas an exception to that rule. As, how
ever, the Republicans of Illinois had very gene
rally determined to oppose and best him, We
said little on the subject, allowing them to ssy
in our co!amns whatever they SEW tit; not sup
pressing our own convictions, but saying very
little to commend and vindicate them. We sur
rendered larger portion Of cur coirmns to the
efforts OF our Illinois compatriois to defeat Mr.
Douglas than we ever gave up to q like contest
in any State outside Of our own but our per-
sonal convictions we could not surrender, nor
did We entirely conceal them
Judge Douglas il reelected; and We believe
the Republican cause is stronger today, and
nearer its National triumph than II be had been
defeated. He, on the other hand. is less form.
liable in tho present aud less dangerous for the
future than if he had lost his late battle. As a
martyr to the cause Of +" Popular Sovereignty"
~ nH a hal ~
lar heart than he now enjoys; while sense of
common misfortune might have commended him
to the 6ympathies Of The G. ". Joneses, Billy
Wrights and other Lecompton Senators, who
are not now likely to forget that he has saved
himself BY course which has powerfully aided
to ruin them These men are just as likely to
support him for next President az to support
Gov. Seward-neither less nor more. "Au uu-
aobdued rebel "a rebel on question affecting
SiaverY-is the verY last man 10 be designated
at Charleston to bear the standard Of Slave
Democracy in 1860.
Whether MI. Douglas Jet eomprehends this,
we neither know nor care. He is the aroiter Of
Us he will. The foolish babb1e, importing that
ne. With other Republicans of the East had some
sort Of arrangement or understanding with him
as to the future, is as false and wretched a. the
Adams- and. Clay "Bargain and Corruption"
slang Of 1824-5, Ne know nothing Of his plans
Aa0 PAIpuoeo D4t "uAk VIC RatHeT lEQu1 sources
accessible to all-neyer sought to learn ought
from other sources. Whatever good will we
may hare shown him during the last year was
based entirely on his course relative to Lecomp-
ton; we coneider that account now tquared, and
be at ptrfect liberty 10 plunge heels over head
into Fiibusterism, Cuba. stealing, or any other
iniqulty whereby be may vainly seek to make up
his leeway Of 1858, and feinstate himself in the
good graces of the Stare Power-we being like.
wise free to oppose him IS decidedly when he is
wrong. as We were to commend him while he
VAS empbatical1y right. He and We may forget
that be once etood firmly an the side Of Free
Labor AMI the North through desperate, pro-
trocted struggle; but the Slavery l'ropaganda
will never forget, however they seem to ignore
it, His future COURSE may he sienaizsd BY the
most deadly opposition to:every principle We
cherish, and still We shall rejoice that be did not
fall martyrto his first nc. Of decided resistance
to Ibe requirements Of the Slave Power. The
moral Of his career mnst not thus misguide our
aspiring politicians Jet to be. Let us he patient
1ud see what We shall zee.