Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1859 — Democratic Perversion. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Perversion.

We copy the following article, written by j Hon. Schuyler Colfax, from the South Bend , Register. It explains itself. “A fortnight ago, commenting upon a con- ' troversy between the Indiana State Sentinel , and New Albany 'Ledger, growing out of the ' declination of the Speakership by Mr. English, and in which the Sentinel said, if it had announced that its editor was not a candidate for President, it would have expected to be sneered at for presumption &.C., we remark as follows: “'The Sentinel, only a fortnight ago, laid : a trap for one of its Republican cotemporaries of the exact kind alluded to in its concluding sentence above. Publishing a cat- i alogue of persons talked of for the Presiden- • cy by the various political parties, it added on a the Republican side the name of one of the editors of this papers, whom it knew very well was no more talked of for such a place than the editor of the Sentinel was for the Democratic nomination, or Mr. English for the Speakership. - It supposed of course, that we would disavow if, when it, or some other paper could ‘sneer at us for our apparent presumption;’ but not having walked into the trap, we are called to see that our course ihas been so soon vindicated by the would-be t/apper himself. “Foi'ed In its attempts to elicit something from us at which it could carp, the Sentinel coolly perverts and misrepresents what we did say, as follows: “‘Schuyler Colfax annC unces ,n his paper that he will not disavow i. v,a t he is a Republican candidate lor the PresiaC’ n cy • e infer from his article on the subject f hat that distinguished honor floats in his ima^ 111 ®' tion, and that he would not object to tax’ e the risk of an election. As Mr. Colfax seems anxious to keep his name before the people, we take pleasure in exercising our benevolence to that extent.’ “And then the Chicago Times takes up the chorus as follows: “‘Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, announces in his own paper that he will not deny ne is a Republican candidate for the Presidency. We fear his modesty will interfere with his prospects. He is so backward that his friends will not be able to prevail on him to push himself.’ “And having thus given this sneering perversion of our remarks a start, we suppose it will enjoy quite a run among the Democratic presses of the State with additions and comments to fit. As to keeping our ‘name before the people,’ it is the Democracy which dothat thing most faithfully and sedulously. Year after year, they charge us most persistently with all kinds of missdoings, and with every Species of politcal heresy, interspersed with personal columnies and satirical thrusts. We doubt if they have been paid for their trouble; but they keep on at the work with an energy that is unwearying and an appetite that is insatiate. We hope they are having a good time of it.” has been frost in New York in every month so far. In September\they will doubtless have it; so that even if They escape this month,they will have frost eleven nnt of the twelve months in the year.