Daily national Democrat., 1860-08-07
The Express and the Office Holders.

ne Express ana The Oihce HOlderss
The article in the Express. of yesterday
morning, in reply to our article of Sunday,
entitled Office Holders in Arms" is a COW
ardly attempt to misreprescut our true posi-
ton and then to deny it 10y declaring certain
remarks false 1t is very brave to say that
certain statements are false. when those state
ments are necessarily Of a character not to be
insisted upon as true in the broad sense in
which they are taken by him who pronounces
them false. If the Express means to deny
that ollice.holders have ever written for that
paper, then it wilfully and knowingly lies.
But. If it simply means to say that the edi
toriGls are all written by the editor, except
those which have stars under them, it may
be true, for We have no opportunity of in
spcctng the editorial articles which 60 into
the Express in order to be able to assert the
contrary. What we said was, that "the whole
community of oiiice-holders in the country
seem to lie writing for the Express" Well it
d es seem SO. Bat the Express affects to
understand us as saying that the oilice.hollers
write the editorials Of the Express and then
pronounces it false Well, what we say we
are ready to stand up to, but the Express is
hardly at liberty, under the rules which gov
ern gentlemen, to travel out after something
We did not say and pronounce that false.
The following is the article in the Express
to which we allude.
THE OFFICE HoLnERs IN AeMs l'-Under this
/ heading the DEMOCRAT ofyesterday contains an
artHle as tuh Of talsehond as an egg is Of meat.
The following is aH extract
"rhe whole community Of ofIice.holders in the
country seem to be writing for the Express. They
are making desperate effort, in common with
the Federal oflice-holders, throughout the Nation.
t. keep out ot the Presidential Chair man whom
they thlnk they cn't make anything, pecuniarly
out { aud they must make something pecaHiar5
IN you know, somehow or other. Tie Express is
hIIed with their communications, and all Its edi-
toliHlS reflect their views. The Express is the
organ of the Court House Clique, the organ of
Charles l.indley, and the organ Of all that tribe
/ who have expressed themselves fully against Mr..
Douglas heretofore, and who cannot expect any
thing at the hands Vt Mr.. Douglas as President"
Inc aboFe IS IatSe IN every particular No office
holder Is writing for the Express, nor has there
been commune itiun published in its columns
from an office holder but once since he nomna-
tons were made, and that communication was not
over half dozen lines in length. The charge that
the Express IS the organ "of the Courthouse
Clique" is false 1t is the organ of the Demo-
ciatlc party, and ui no man or set Of men. We
see the game that will be attempted to be PLAYED. /
The idea is TO do that by misrepresentation which
cannot be done by argument, but we will not BE- |
misTepresented, and intend to cali things by their
proper names The DEMOCRAT must confue itself
to the truth or Il wW hear from as.
The Express says that no office holder has
published communication in that paper |
since the nominations were made" except /
once. Well, then, has any Office holder pub
shed editorials? We said that the whole
community of Office holders seemed to be
writing for the Express. OF course we could
not know that they positively were doing so,
and we rciterate that it is cowardly advant
age to take Of "A mans position, to use what
he says in qualified sense as if it was abso-
lutte and without limitation, and pronounce
it false. The Express gives itself the lie by
saying that no article has appeared from an
office holder in that paper, since the nomina-
tions, except one and that one was not over
a half dozen lines in length, when it well
knows that no less an office holder than
Charles Lindley published communication
Of vastly more than that length, over his own
signature. The community generally is of /
opinion that the Office holders do contribute, |
in some shape or other, to the columns Of the /
Express. and The exceeding sensilireness of
that sheet on the subject is little suspicious
The Express says 1t is false that it is the
f flto TT,t,-., 1
lieye that 10 Is the organ Of the Court House
Clique, and our reason for believing so is thai
the Court House Clique agree with it in every
particular We can't prove that it is the or
gan Of that Clique, by showing that the
Clique go and dictate and influence the Ex-
press, because such things are not susceptible
of proof, but the general Judgment Of the
people seems to be that rag Heretofore, if
we reeoleet Alright, the Express denied that
there was any Court House Clique at ALL
Now, it acknowledges that there is such a
Clique, but denies that it is an organ of it,
The admission that there is Court House
Clique is something, and we reiterate. here,
that we believe the Express to be an organ
OF that Clique, in just this sense, that it fully
agrees :cih hat Clique, and that that Clique
have no objections to its course. We believe
it to be the organ Of Charles Lind ey, in the
same manner ItreAects views precisely like
his and endorses his positions, whenever he
chooses to take them.
So much for what we did say and for what
we did not say. For what we did say we are
responsible.
The editor Of the Express intimates, at the
bottom Of his article that, if we do not write
to suit him, 'cs shall lear from linn. Shall
we, indeed? Well, then, let him send along
his missive whenever he feels like it.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING AT CoLusA.-The |
communication, in another place, giving an
account OF the Democratic meeting at Colusa /
on Saturday night, is from an old and well /
known Administration Democrat at that |
place, and is fully reliable The Express, in |
ITS account of the meeting, states that no .
cheers were proposed for the Douglas aud |
johnson ticket. We are authorized to saw |
such cheers 'rcre proposed, and moreover
heartily responded to-
DouGLAs IN KLANArn.-The HUMBOLDT