, 1860-06-08

is without poliiics-he bets on the winning
card; be is for Douglas, Davis Lane, Bell
or Seward, which ever he thinks will win.
Now, sir, if we had desired this class OF
mongrels at our meeting (Which we did not)
all hopes Of getting them wonld have van
ished after seeing what we saw, and hear
ing what we heard at Masonic Hall last
Saturday. We saw at the great demon
straton, Douglas men, Lane men, Buchan-
an men, and heard it loudly proclaimed that
Seward men were voting and otherwise en-
gagged in the scramble. We saw there old
Whigs-the class, Mr.. Editor, you call
Jockeys (for political jockeys are those who
change politics. on hand, actively engaged
with an eye single to an Office The old
guard of Democracy (ofice holders) were
protesting against the tricksters and joe
keys, declaring that they could not, nor
would not be stuiifed 4 Young but ar
dent liner was so diSguSted that he took his
hat in hand and, with the grace Of Phil
adelphia lawyer, left the house, declaring
lie could not set in convention with such
scamps. Others more bulky gathered their
hats as if to leave, but the deaicniug cries
of "Charlestonp "the Gulf States NOV
ingw together with the opportunities ofsome
one less impetuous caused inSultcd dignity
to stay locomotion. | think / am warrant
ed in saying from what | saw and heard at
Masonic Hall last Saturday, that the huck
sters, tricksers, Jockeys aud POLITICAL gam
blers are in league with shanl-demdcracy-
| do not, Mr.. Furste, approve of jockeying,
but there are times when trade or Sl0dp
wonld inure to the public good For ex-
ample: The Thurston county members Of
the last legislature were offered the capitol
commissioners for the public printer. Now,
if our representatives had made the diefer,
the capitol building would now he going up,
and we should have the benefit of an ex.
penditure of $50, 600 in our midst The
printer, it is true, could not have been
Furste, nor could any successor have been
last in qualification.
In the second paragraph of your edito-
rial, you say-'yet as it has been SO Or
dained by the 'Regmental opposition drill
master, Judge Hays, we suppose they will
have TO obey" The only reply have to
make to this slang is this: if you had writ
ten this on Saturday last, at o'clock in
the evening, you would have had reason
to know that the "dear peeps" do no, always
obey the political dril-master.
In the third and last paragraph, you say
in relation to my politics-"to US he has
ften avcred he is no Republican "-yes,
and have as often avered TO you that
was whig. The name whig is proud
name. In connection with the name there
are associations Of thought truly crafty
ing. In their nationality, they knew no
East, no West, no North, no South. Their
banners, which were thrown to the breeze
in Maine and Massachusetts, as emblemat-
ic Of their principles, were identical with
those which waived from their liberty poles
in Charleston and Savannah. The treason
able cry Of disunion was never heard in a
whig camp; one of their mottos was:-
Liberty and Union-one> and insep4fa-
blo."
In the new and vital questions which
have arisen since the disintregation of the
old whig party, some of which are the re-
peal Of the Missouri Compromise line; the
Kansas question; the effort TO force slavery
on Kansas against the most solemn protes
of its people; the Pacific railroad; the
homestead bill; the anti-poligamy bin; on
all these questions, / agree with the repub-
licans and differ with the democrats. There
is another question still mofSRi,al, Il mean
the continued union of thSSAtes,) l agree
with the Republicans; they abe for "union
and lberty-one and inseparable."
In the present Congress, forty-two dem
ocratlc members have declared, in language
unmistakable, their treasonaJLe purpose to
cecede from the Union If the American
people, in the exercise Of the elective fran
chise, choose to elect a republican presi-
dent True, they agree to stay in the
Union on certain conditions What are
those conditions? Just this: Don't elect
republican president, and let US dictate
congressional laws for the government OF
the territories, and the Union may still
run along"
cannot judge otherwise, than that the
democratic party are sectional in the pay
ment of debts. In 1855 we had an Indi Ii
war. We contributed men and means to
carry it on to a successful termination, aud
government refuses to pay, as yet, dollar
In 1856, Florida had an Indian war, her
volunteers, and those furnishing supplies,
we're paid two years ago Minnesota had an
Indian war which begun since ours, and
that debt has been paid Now, ask, Mr.
Editor, why the Oregon war debt has not
been paid? Whose fault is ii? Tue fault
of GnlfState Democracy, or is it because
Stevens and Lame have no influence Al
Washington, or does the fault rest nearer
homer
That may differ with the republicans
on some questions is most likely. II they
propose, by congressional intervention, to
keep slavery out of the territories, differ
with them Whilst l admit the power,
deny the expediency of its exercise Ihold
to the whig doctrine Of non-interveuiion;
but on this question, | differ alike with
IL. / ".