Year: 1860




Saturday contains one of the most laughable
articles that We have read for long time
We don't know whether it was intended as a
piece OF broad farce or not, but has it Just as
well served the purpose with us, fer never
have we been more thoroughly amused at
anything that we have ever seen or heard
The idea in the first place of speaking of the
Sacramento Union, as paper that lays claim
to being Democratic or to being anything
else than an Independent newspaper, is so
grotesque a proposition as to excite mirth
at once. The Union don't pretend to be
Democratic, but simply to express its own
individual views and notions about things in
general. Surely it is the most absurd Of all
things to intimate that the Union ever ina
gined anybody upon earth would think it
was Democratic paper. 1t follows, then,
that the effort to place the Marysvi,le DEMo-
GRAFT in the same line Of partisanship with
the Sacramento Union, is ridiculous, beyond
expression. Everybody, who knows any
thing about this paper at all knows that it
became Democratic journal upon the as
sumption of its editorial control by ousself,
and that ii has ever since advocated Demo
cratic doctrines. Every such person knows
that We were the editor of the Marysyille
Express, during the canvass of John b. Well
Ter in 1857, and that we supported him with
such ability as we could command. 1t is
well known also, that at the time Of the diff
ference between James Buchanan and Steph
en- A. Douglas, en- the Kansas question, we
took sides with Mr.. Douglas and popular
sovereignty. Neither did we wait to see
which way the wind blew. We did not care
whether it blew from the North or the South
We thought we knew what was right and
we intended to follow it, "snk or swim, live
or die. survive or perish" The stand which
We took was not agreeable TO a majority of
the proprietors of the Express, and, not
choosing to be controlled in the expression Of
our opinions, we resigned our position as ed
itor, expecting to retire altogether from the
political arena. Contrary to any expccta-
tion of ours, we were offered by the friends
Of Mr.. Douglas in this county proprietary
and editorial interest in the Marysvile Daily
News, paper we'll established and in flour
ishiDg condition. We took the position
changed the name of the paper, with the full
and free consent of all the proprietors, to
that of the DAILY NATIONAL DEMocRAT, and
in due time hoisted the name of Stephen A.
Douglas, of Illinois, as our choice for the
Presidency Of the United States. BY that
banner we have ever since stood, and, what
ever Others may think, we know for ourself
that we have been honest and sincere in the
course which we have pursred. At the time
of our assuming the editorial chair of this
journal, two State Conventions had been held
at Sacramento, one sustaining Buchanan and
the other sustaining Douglas. We hoisted
at the head of the paper the ticket nomina-
ted by the Douglas Convention. That ticket
was defeated. A second time two State Con-
ventons were held, and We again hoisted
the ticket nominated by the Douglas Tor as
some called it the Broderick) Convention
That time, one of the candidates on the tick
ct we were supporting withdrew, and the
name of Col Baker was submitted in his
place. We refused 10 support Col Baker,
because we did not consider him a Democrat,
and probably nobody gave us any credit for
honesty in that. 1t is immaterial to us
whether they did or not This ticket was
again defeated, great many of the friends
of Douglas voting the Administration ticket
underthe erroneous impression that Mr.. La
than, who headed the ticket, was himself
friend of Douglas and Popular Sovereignty


All this time We had expressed deep regret
at the divisions in the Democratic party, and
earnestly hoped to see them healed. When
we were told that we were warning against
the regular organization, we stopped the
mouths of assailants by referring them to the
war of their Captain, Buchanan, against the
regular organization in Illinois. But, every
body expected a union of the Democracy at
Charleston. Every Douglas Democrat ex-
pected to abide by the nomination, whether
it should be Douglas or Breckenridge or any
one else. For our own part, we thought the
union of the party should be effected in the
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the State Convention that was to send dele
gates to Charleston. We proposed that there
should be no test at the primary elections,
except this-a pledge to support the nom-
nees of the Convention. This fair PROPOSE
tion for harmony was rejected, and a test ap
piled which excluded every man from the
primary elections with rare exceptions in
one or two counties) who had not voted for
Milton s. Latham for Governor This deeis-
ion our wing of the party acquieseed in
took no part in the primary elections-and
sent no contesting delegates. We stood
ready to abide by the action of the party at
Charleston, Notwithstanding we were exclu-
ded. Nominations were made by the Ma
tional Convention, and we supported them
We were then as completely within the pale
of the Democratic organization as any men
could be- Those who bolted those nomina-
tions were upon the outside. We propose
now to apply the same rule to them, upon
the score of regularity, that they applied to
us, and it seems to make them sick at their
stomaehs Their reasoning powers must be
small indeed, if they cannot see why the rule
should not be as just in the one case as the
other; and more so, too, for the reason that
the grand National Convention of the party
is more authoritative than any mere State
Convention. and that all good Democrats are
expected to regard its action as final and su-