Daily national Democrat. [volume] (Marysville, Calif.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-11
The Express a Time-serving Sheet.

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les and fre-eaters, has brought out reply
from the Express, in which it charges that
we are denouncing the Democratic party
abusing the South, and squirting at Repuo-
licanism. Either the intellect of the editor
of the Express is sadly befogged or he writes
with determination to misrePresent US. In
our article to which the Express replies, we
ouoted from a Southern paper, and said that
the remarks Of that psper were very applica-
be, when applied to the disunionistsnnd dis
organizers of any section Of the country
The term "any section of the country" is
certainly plain enough,we think, for the com
rrehepsion of any man Of sense. The para
graph which we quoted, could not" we
said, "be applied to the Democracy as a
whole" We moreover said, that nearly cue
rv State has some fre-eating or fanatical rep
resentative in Congress. This also we should
think, ought to be plain enough for cOmpre-
hension. There is not word in the whole
of our article indicating. in the least. dis
position unfavorable to the Democratic par
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OWNS speech in the Senate, the Express has
nothing to say. In leader headed "dsun
ion" however, it indorses in part the senti-
ments of that Senator, by "squinting" at
disunion. Speaking of the DEMOCRAT, it
says:
1t always manfests disposition to cast as
much odum on the Southern Democracy as pos
sbe, whilst on the other hama there seldom oc-
ours passage paragraph, which could prove
offensive to the most sensitive Republican. From
this we infer that Republicanism is more accept
able TO it than Southern Democracy.
This is an old cry of the Express, and we
now intend to notice it in few plain words.
The DEMOCRAT has been accustomed to ut
ter its sentiments freely and without reserve
in regard to all the parties or factions Of the
country. Claiming TO be q true Democratic
paper, it d0precates any disunion sentiment
in the Democratic party. Must it necessarily
follow, that to be Democrat, one must keep
his mouth closed in regard to anything that
any leader in the party, or any portion of
the party, may do? We oppose the disun-
ion movement in the South, and the Express
tells us we are opposing the Democratic par
ty. Out upon such twaddle 1t is an ex-
preston fit only for time-serving men, or
time-serying newspapers and the public will
hold it at its true value. While we depre-
cate the disunion movement, we do not like
the Express, anticipate a dissolution of the
Union in the event of the election of a Re.
publican President. Our faith in the loyalty
to the Union of the mass of the Southern
Democracy, will not suffer us to anticipate
such a calamity as a dsunion of the States
would be- We have more confidence than
the Express, in the integrity and loyalty of
the Democratic party. 1t infers that North
ern Republication is more acceptable to us,
than the Southern Democracy. 1t infers
this, because we speak out against the disun-
ion sentiment in the South. In its estima
ton, We have, by so doing. committed an un-
pardonable sin, and proved that we are not
Democrat What logical conclusion this
is!
According to the Express, we ought to de-
nounce the Republicans in unncasured terms
-"squint" at a dissolution of the Union in
the event of the election of Republican
President and say nothing at all about South.
ern threats, except to gloss them over, and.
by so doing, sanction them. We have hith-
erto expressed ourself fully in regard to the
Republican party, and the Express wilfully
and maliciously misrepresents us when it
continues to harp upon our curying favor
with that party. This cry was raised during
the last campaign, and the Express seems
determined to keep it up. Will that sheet
inform us, when and where we have spoken
favorably of the doctrines of the Republican
party? Have we not spoken, time and
again. of the fanaticism in that party? This
fanaticism is the prime cause of the disunion
sentiment in the South. Yet, must we say
that, because the fanaticism exists, the South
has good reason to go out of the Union if a
Republican be elected Presidents Must
man be charged with Republication because
he does not paint that party with the black
est and darkest of hues and because he
does not continually harp upon the general
ruin to come if a member of that party be
elected Presidents We say that the Repub-
lican doctrine is at utter variance with the
long established Democratic creed. The Re-
pubhcans want Congress to legislate in re-
gard to slavery in the territories. We say,
that Congress ought not thus to legislate.-
Can the Express say as much
This time-serving paper says we have re-
Gently denounced the Democratic party
This is not true-and the Express knows it is
not true 1t is but another of those reckless,
malignant assertions, which it has been the
custom of that paper to get off. We give
the following as sample. The Express of
Wednesday, speaking of the DEMOCRAT,
says:
ave suppose, having failed to accomplish
anything by chcanery, it is now appealing for
sympathy"
Will the Express inform us when we at =
tempted to accomplish anything by chica-
merry?
But this continuous howl of the Express
in regard to our being opposed to the Dem
ocratic pal ty will be taken for what it is
worth and that is very little. We can
here anticipate the reply of the Express, if
it should choose 10 reply. We have seen SO
many of its replies after being cornered, that
we have almost learned them by heart. 1t
will not attempt to prove its assertion that
our article of Thursday was another of a