Year: 1859




The Express of yesterday, makes use OF the
following language:


After searching diligently for week in the
public library in this city and elsewhere, the ed-
! tor of the DEMOCRAT managed to find two short
extracts from a message Of President Madison,
which he appears to imagn holsters up his posi-
ton as TO the protection which should be extend
ed by our Government to InaturaliZed citizens
when they return to their native land.


In regard to the above, we have simply
to say, that the assertion that we have been
searching "the public library in this city and
elsewhere" 'for n week" is untrue. We
pretend to know something of the political
history of our country, and it does not re.
quire weeks search for us to find authori-
ties with which to maintain our position. If
we can have access to the records, we know
where to find the precedent and authority to
which we refer, at once, and without any
tedious ransacking of libraries. If we did
not, we should not consider oursef fit to be
an editor. The so called editor of the Elk.
press must not suppose, that, because he is
necessitated to rahsack libraries in order to
obtain the rudiments of an editorial educa.
tion, We are in a like predcament We do
not pretend to know everything, but we do
pretend to know the general landmarks of
the editorial profession.


But, the editor Of the Express is assisted,
as usual, by correspondence man, who,
under the shelter of an anonymous signature,
assumes to say things that he would not say
over his own proper name. Aftera tissue of
Misrepresentation and distortions, he con-
cludes with the following:


I have in my possession, Mr.. Editor, some sweet
morsas, which will not prove very palatable to
The sensitive organs of the woudbe-great man of
| the NATIONAL DEMoCRAT.


We acknowledge that we are sensitive.
We hold our manhood and our honor above
all other considerations, and the man who
would touch either, must answer as, face TO
face Now, if the individual who is thus ready
TO attack us over an anonymous signature, has
any "sweet morsels, as he calls them, which
will not prove very palatable" to us, all we
have to say is this, that if they prove too Gun
palatable" to us, we know how to make them
prove equally unpalatable to him. We trust
he understands us. If he does not, we shall en-.
deavor to give him realizing sense of what
we mean.


If he has any unpalatable "morsels" for
US let him bring them forth.


So much for that. In addition to this, we
have to say, that it is untrue that we have
made personal attacks in this paper upon
private individuals. We have used the Ii
cense which belongs to us as an editor and no
more. Where candidates are before the peo
pie, we have noticed their claims to the pub
lie support, and where we thought that they
were not entitled to the popular suffrages,
we have said So and given our reasons for
the opinion. We consider this our right,
and we shall continue to exercise it.


We have asserted that several of the pro-
prietors of the Express are old line Know
Nothings, and that one of them, owning a
onethird interest, is an unnaturalized deRixen
thrown upon the proof, and are ready TO
meet the issue. We say that an unnaturali-
zed denizen shows, by the very fact that he
does not choose to be naturalzed, an aversion |
to American institutions, and that he has no
with the principles of the Amer
lean Government He is no proper Judge,
We say, of the rights of American citizens
abroad, for he occupies position totally diff
ferent sand distinct from them under the
Government of the United States.


As to the right of an editor to speak of the
of a paper, We have to say this:
That where an editors name is at the head
of paper, it is taken for granted that
he is personally responsible for what appears
in the paper but when his name does not
appear, no one knows who he is, and it is |
naturally supposed that he is a mere instru-
ment in the hands of the proprietors, and that
he islcompelled to speak their sentiments. If
it be proven that he is not so, then he is re
sponsble, but it must first be proven.