The Shasta courier., 1861-02-16
Not Very Consistent.


claims of the several Senatorial aspirants. This
we have thought discreet silence. While we
have our preference, and while it would prove
to us a work of great pleasureto enlarge upon
his fitness and urge his claims for the position,
we have, nevertheless, in obedience to this pref
ty general understanding. maintained perfect
silence. Not so, however, with some others, for
we find that while the editors themselves keep
silent, they permit their Sacramento cores
pondents to decry and SANDER one of the most
prominent candidates. Did not Gen. Denver
fight earnestly for the cause of Douglas during
the last campaign? Aye, did he not accomplish
q thousand times as much for the cause as did
Randolph, whom these correspondents love to
praise, and who so far from being a Douglas
Democrat, absolutely supported and voted for
Bell and Everett? Why shall Denver not be con-
sidered sound and reliable Democrat? Say
these hirelings, "some of the Breckinridgers
prefer him, therefore he must be doubted p'-
With the same propriety why not doubt McDou-
gal, for certainly a number of Republicans say
while they might vote for him they never can
swallow Denver The argument applies in the
one ease.as foreibly as N th5ostt ostter, anu = un-
i worthy of being used by man having even
thimbleful of brains.
SEwARD's SpEEcH.-Seward has made a COM
promise speech. We trust he did not put off its
delivery to period too late. Had he delivered
that spe .ch at the opening of Congress the se-
cession movement would never have gained the
| slightest headway.
| He emphatically declares in favor of faithfully
executing the Fugitive Slave Law and of repeal
ing the Personal Liberty Bills. He says he
would vote for the admission of two new States
which should include all of our territory and
that proper laws to prevent invasions of States
by citizens of other States should be passed. He
says further that 'Republicanism is subordinate
to Union, as everything else is and ought to be
-Republicanism, Democracy, and every other
political name and thing all are subordinate
and they ought to disappear in the great ques-
ton of the Union. So far as l am concerned it
shall be So" These are patriotic sentiments,
and if Mr. Seward is honest in their avowal, and
acts upon them, he will thereby cover q multi
tude of sins, materially aid in saving the Re-
public, and therefor entite himself to the thanks
of mankind.
PACIFIC ExposIToR.-The FEBRUARY number of
the Pacific Expostor," edited by Rev. w. A.
Scott, D. D., whom we consider the ablest di-
vine on the Pacific Coast, is now upon our table.
Its ample pages are filed with interesting mat
ter. In the Introductory article, the Doctor, in
replying to correspondents who find fault with
him, some for not replying to calumniators,
some for not noticing the attacks of other jour-
nails, and some for not giving more prominence
to his own views, says, in effect, that he desires
to attack no one, to quarrel with no one, to
wage war upon no one, but to preach the truth
as he understands it, cultivating fraternal SEN
timents toward all men, and doing his part to-
ward Fastening the day when calumniators and
revilers will cease from their labors, and peace
and good will among men will universally pre-
vail
Terms of the " Expositor" are 50 per annum
in advance.
GooD.-Greeley gives a plan for saving the
Union 1t contains ten specifications, the first
of which is:
"Stop agitating the negro question"
Ohio, so this miserable political knave, who
has done more than any other one man to bring
the Union upon the verge of destruction, by
"agitatiug the negro question: now calls upon
Congress to "stop" that agitation Why stop
it now? If honor, humanity, philanthropy and
Christianity demanded of the Republicans to
"agitate the negro question" for the last quar-
ter of a century, why shall they "stop" that
agitation now? Have they liberated the slave?
No. Have they ameliorated his condition No.
Why then should they stop the agitation
now? The only answer is that they have gotten
into Office. 1t was for that and that alone that
they "agitated the negro question" and not to
benefit the negro, whom many of them have
robbed for q livelihood.
ACTING ToGErHER.-A few days ago, upon n
motion to go into Joint Convention, on the Goth
inst, for the purpose of electing United States
Senator, the Breckinridge Democrats and Re-
publicans to a man voted together in the mega
tive, and defeated the motion. We trust that
hereafter no member calling himself Douglas