The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

"The collar press has commenced assaulting the Senate!" is the text for many windy articles. Is a sedition law required to prevent the collar press from bringing honorable Senators into contempt? Without such a law the Democratic press will say what they think of any portion of the government, from Jack Downing to silken McDuffie.

Once upon a time, an unfortunate wight in England, happened to say that the King, then reigning was born without a shirt. He was tried, convicted, and either imprisoned or hanged. In the course of time, however, it was discovered that princes sometimes come into the world shirtless, and are often obliged to run about the world with marvellously ragged breeches—so it is treason no longer to talk of princes in the abstract. In these latter days, it has likewise been ascertained that Senators are often no better than they should be, and very frequently not so good. The collar press therefore maintain that the Senate is a factious body; that many of them treat their constituents with open contempt, by disregarding their known wishes and instructions, and that fear is the only reason why they do not give full swing to malignant feelings.