Preble County Democrat

A Northern Man with Freedom Shrieking Propensities and Southern Associations.

It will be readily remembered by all who are in any way acquainted with the political history of Lewis D. Campbell, that he has always sought in all his acts and speeches to associate his name favorably, (as the highest mark of distinction,) with that of some southern slave holder. Hear him on the floor of Congress and this peculiar idiosyncrasy shows itself in something after the following style: "I would say in reply to my particular friend, the Mr. Blue Belly, of South Carolina" I suggested last session to the Hon. Mr. Churnhandle, of Mississippi"—"I fully concur in the position assumed by the Hon. Timothy Corkscrew, of Louisiana""In conversation with my friend, the Hon. Mr. Tightbreeches, of Kentucky, in which Hon. Adolphus Scissortail, of Alabama fully agreed, that the proposition of the Hon. Mr Clovertop. of Tennessee, before the committee of which the Hon. Mr. Duckleg, of Virginia, was chairman, was not the proposition of Hon. Bucktail, of Florida; and I now appeal to my friend, the Hon. Mr. Dogberry of North Carolina, to bear me out in this assertion."

And, Mr. Speaker, for the benefit of my freesoil friends at home, and that my southern friends may fully understand me, I would say that I am willing to wade in southern sugar and molasses up to my ears for freedom!"

The first scene here closes and Mr. Campbell is seen hanging to the arm of the Hon. Mr. Turtlesoup, of Mississippi. For the sake of brevity we omit the second scene of the drama, which is rich beyond description.

Now we object to Mr. Campbell professing to his constituents to have such a dislike to southern institutions, and at the same time having such a holy admiration of Southern characters, the result of those very institutions. Could any demagogue go farther in giving the lie by his acts, to his profession? Well might a correspondent of a New Orleans paper say that Mr. Campbell's principles were the result of location, and that were he a southerner, that very fact would make him a fire eater.—What are the professions of such a man worth when the facts stare us in the face, that he is more the tool of the slave holder than the advocate of free principles? It is said, and truly said, "that it is not the cow that bellows the most, that gives the most milk." So with Mr. Campbell; when in Ohio. he is certainly bawling for freedom, that he may gull a certain class of his constituents; when at Washington, he hugs and admires the slave holder, as far superior to the northern man—Dayton Empire.