The Shasta courier., 1860-09-15
Then and Now.

al STAND BY THE DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATION,
YIELD OBEDIENCE TO ITS UsAGEs, AND SUPPORT ITS
REGULAR NOMINEES. s."-Stephea H. Douglass July
g. 1853.
&. The foregoing extract from one of Mr. Doug
las speeches was last year everywhere used by
the supporters of Mr.. Latham and the ticket
headed by him, to prove that the Anti Lecomp-
ton organization was using the name of Mr.
Douglas without his authority or consent. We
remember that rsed it, both in the COURIER
and on the stump frequently. Mr.. Latham also
used it, and with great effect Cen Denver too,
in his Nevada speech, availed himself of the
fact therein enunciated and in the Sacramento
STANDARD which contained that speech Mr.. Bolts
called special attention to that portion of it
Here is what Gen. Denver said in that speech
1t has been asserted here that this is Doug
las movement. This is not true. Mr. Douglas
repudiates disorganizers, boilers and outside or
ganzatons. He does not countenance any,
thing ofthe kind. Last year he passed through
one of the most fercely contested campaigns
ever known in the history of Illinois, or any
other State, and during the whole time he was
heard bitterly denouncng Black Republicanism
He, in turn, was as bitterly denounced BY them
Do you hear anything of this sort from Mr.
Broderick? Not word of it. He has no com
plants to make-no charges to make against
Republican sectionalism; but all his complaints
all his charges are against the Democratic
party. Conscious of his own dement's, he en-
deavors to fasten himself to the skirts of Mr.
Douglas, but Mr.. Douglas and Mr. Stuart at
tended the Democratic caacuses, and Mr.. Brod-
erick did not There they parted company.
Md -, hot NJ J
of July Is, 1859, said ofthat speech:
The General, too, calls our attention to this
significant difference 5ef,ceen Nr. Broderick md
MR.. DOUGLAS: the latter lets slip no opportunity
Of expressing hts opposition to the Republicans, nor
DO they fail to dehoHnce him in return-whereas we
find Mr.. Broderck and the Republicans, even in
California, upon the most intimate terms and
not a word has yet passed Mr.. Broderck's lips
in opposition to the bitter enemy of the party to
which he pretends to belong.
Thus, last year, the supporters of Mr.. Latham
everywhere argued that the Anti-Lecompton
party had no right to use the great name Of
Douglas in their behalf-that they had no right
to call themselves Douglas men, because they
were simply Broderick men and bolters Now
those of them who are themselves Breckenridge
men and boiters, try TO make 1t appear that they
fought Douglas last year as they are doing this
and that the Douglas party of this year il
simply the Ant-Lecompton party of last yea
revived Of course they do not believe whar
they say-not one Of them. They know thai
hundreds of the supporters of Mr.. Douglas in ev-
cry county were last year ardent Administra-
tion men. They know in fact that, last year
they swore Douglas could not be friend of the
Anti-Lecompton party because it was holting
organization, and that they were not fighting
him; and that, this year, they swear with equal
vehemence that he was a friend of the Anti-Le
compton organization of 1859, and that they op-
posed him then, and are doing so now Poh
such self-contradction is disgusting. Iron
faced, indeed, must be the Breckinridger who
can look upon the picture without blushing.