Year: 1859

tormlY and strenuouslyI anu tnut Is IN oppo-
sition to true Democracy. The Express takes
particular pains to quote from the Times on
every occasion that it endeavors by misrepre-
sentation TO injure the Douglas party, and
gives it full endorsement The Times says.
hGt the National Democrat aims at the same
result in the main that it (the Tines does
We respectfully beg leave to assure the Times
that we aim at no such thing. We aim at
allowing the people to settle the question of
slavery for themselves-we aim at the tri-
umph of the doctrine of popular sovereignty.
and whether it result in making free States
or slave States, we are satisfied. We know
that an intelligent people nre capable of self
government, and they ought certainly to be
the best Judges of what is for their benefit.
The Times has wonderful faculty for trans
muting everything it touches, that is at all
antagonistic to LecomptoDism, into Republi-
canism. The Gwin sheet on First street has
the same proclivity. The Times is actuated
by desire to make the Republican party the
leading organization in this SAFE opposi-
ton to he Administration. The Express is
actuated By desire to make it appear that
Leeomptonism is Democracy. They each
have tt cir own ends to subserve, and agree
remarkably well in the means which they
Use to effect their object We envy neither
of them the peculiar attributes whicl. are
necessary to such an agreement.


The Express has the effrontery to say that
beyond doubt" the DEMOCRAT is "a Free
Soil paper and opposes any further extension
of slavery" Whether the charge be made in
seriousness or merely for political effect
whether from a motive arising out of that
loose morality of q certain style of politics
which considers any mode of attack upon n
political opponent legitimate, or whether
from cool determination to injure us per-
sonally,-no matter what may be the motive
of the charge, we pronounce it absolutely des-
titute of one particle, shade or shadow Of a
shade of truth. We shall no sooner be a Re
publican than any other true follower Of
Stephen a. Douglas, and we are this day far



ther from the line of that party's doctrines
than any organ grinder of the Gwin faction
dares to be. The Lecompton-G win Brown Da-
Wis crew are upon the same platforn,to all in
tents and purposes, as the Republicans Both
believe in Congressional Intervention on the
subject of slavery in the Territories, and the
only difference is, that one is for Intervention
in behalf of slavery and the other for inter
vention against it


We have become somewhat accustomed to
the Poll Parrot cry of the Lecompton press
about the Douglas men "Offiliating with the
Black Republicans" DC, DC, and we seldom
notice the stale repetition, but when a Lee
compton or any other paper undertakes to
make formal charge that the DEMOCRAT is q
Free Soil journal, and, as such. opposed to
any further extension of slavery" we feel
very much like using language in denial of
the c@arge which we hope we shall never be
driven to use in the conduct of public print,
II may be, however, that we are little too
eXacting towards the automaton sheets Of the
Lccompton faction. They are hard run, just
at this time, for argument, and in their fret
ting and fuming over the difficulty, they pro.
badly say things in a sort Of delirium with
out exactly knowing what it is that they
have uttered. They are wound up to play
one certain tune, but with such variations a:
they may be able to throw in, aud some o.
these variations are as apt to be variation:
from the truth as any thing else Every
thing opposed to their monstrous doctrines is
"Black Republcanism. Free Soilism," "Ab
otionism." We ought really to have no OBJ


ections to their throwing this kind of mud
all around them, and to their hearts content,
seeing that they only dirty themselves and
not their antagonists