The Placer herald., 1860-10-06

chairman OF the National Democratic Cen
trail Committee, to Senator Gwin, which has
thrown the Douglas camp into an agony of
anxiety, and stirred the bile of every Doug
las sheet in the State, including that venera-
bic old lady the Sac. Union. But here is
the dispatch that causes the hurt:
By Pony EXPRESS
New YoRK, Sept. 22nd 1860.
To WIN. NJ. Gw1N:-Tide in favor of
Breckenridge and Lane setting strong dur
ing the last fortnight. Douglas fast DOSING
his little strength at the South. His Elec.
tors in Tennessee Virginia Alabama, North
Carolina, and Mississippi decline to serve.
The Union Electors will without doubt be
elected in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
(signed.) ISAAC. J. STEVENS.
The Union affects to consider this dispatch
a roorback, for the purpose of injurng the
prospects of Douglas on this coast; and the
Doug gasites taking their cue from that true
Democratic sheet, affect the same thing. But
this will not avail. There are nearly five
weeks until the election. and if the intei-
gence be untrue, the rebuttal will follow in
a few days. No man occupying the distn-
guished position of Gov. Stevens would at
tempt TO propagate fasehood that could
be so easily refuted. We believe the state
ment to be true of the withdrawal Of the
Douglas Electors in the States named, and
we find it partly corrobora:ed in ithe s. f.
Bulletin's Washington correspondence which
speaks of the withdrawal of several of his
Electors in Virginia, after Mr.. Douglas
Norfolk spe ch. We believe that speech
has caused the same action on the part of
his Electors elsewhere, as we find in peru
sal of the speech, that his squatter. r.sovereign-
ty doctrines are advanced in manner
that must be distasteful to the South.
He reiterates in substance the doctrines Of
his Freeport speech, that "it matters not
what way the Supreme Court may hereafter
decide as to the abstract question, whether
slavery may or may not 90 into Territory
under the Constitution, the people have the
lawful means to introduce it or reXclude as they
please, for the reason that slavery cannot
exist day or an hour anywhere unless it is
supported 10y local police regulations, and
those police regulations can only he estab
lshed by the local Legislature" We say,
in substance he advanced this same doctrine
at Norfolk, and following it naturally comes
the withdrawal of his Electors in five South,
ern States, who cannot subscribe to the views
enunciated.
We are not surprised that the associated
press of California, the Douglas Republi-
can. Union Bulletin, and Alta-have not re-
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of those papers that the Pony Express
brings no dispatches to them favorable to
the Democratic party. Their dispatches
have repeatedly, the present season, contain
falsehoods against the National Democracy,
which have occasionally been rectifed by
their correspondence by Overland Stage, sew
eral weeks after the poison had time to OPP
crate. Latterly we occasionally find an item
of fairness in the Bulletin's correspondence.
The dispatches and the editorials of the
''association" faIsitied the result of the Ms
souri, election; they falsifed in reference to
the purchase of Lime Point; they faslted
in reference to the position of Senator Cling
man, of North Carolina-proclaimin him
for Douglas, when he was stumping for
Breckinridge they falsfied The position of
Senator Green, of Missouri; they falsifed
the result of the county elections in A a.
bama; they faIsiied long and persistently
the result of the Arkansas election, and have
never admitted to this day, the fact long
since ascertained, that Rector, who was
elected as an Independent candidate for
Governor, is a Breckenridge Democrat; they
failed to learn of the overwhelming Demo
cratic victory in the State election of Texas
until the country press of California was
publishing the news, and yet they are pro
fessed collectors of the earliest and most re-
liable news. They are thoroughly informed
at the earliest moment, of the movements of
Mr.. Douglas, of his speeches, and were no
doubt gratified to announce him as finally
having reached his mother but their "tee
graph" did not announce that Mr.. Breckin
ridge had made speech at Lexington, (the
first and only one he will make in the can,
vass) TO thousands, whe he scattered the
ISLANDERS heaped upon him by unscrupulous
politicians. The "association" strained a
point, however, and published the speech
when other papers were doing the same.
The dispatches to these papers will give
the latest fires, the most recent murders, and
the latest fistcuff on the Atlantic side, but a
grain of intelligence to the advantage Of the
Democracy is not of their seeking, but they
are keen on the scent of an item inimca to
the cause of Breckenridge and Lane.
The above record is sufficient reason
why the substance of Gov Stevens dispatch
is not found in the columns of the associa
ted press. and why the news is proclaimed
a roorback.
We hope Dougasites Republicans, and
Beleveretts will not expire under the infc
ton of that dispatch, as there will undoubt
edlv he mora naws "Of the sama sort" oionr