Staunton Spectator

Truth Will Out.—The Washington Union and Senator Douglas are complimenting each other in the most vigorous billingsgate, and the public will soon get to know how corrupt both of them are. Here is a specimen of how the Senator replies to the Union:

This man, Wendell, and his hirelings, whose whole object is to filch money from the public treasury by their lobby operations, are attempting to control the politics of Illinois with the view of securing the election of men who will act in harmony with them in their speculations to the exclusion of the Democratic party. Follow the lead of the Washington Union, and the corrupt gang who control it, and you will rend the Democratic party asunder, and not only break down those against whom its denunciations are hurled, but disgrace the Administration which it professes to support, whilst it covertly makes war upon the leading declarations and recommendations of the President and his Cabinet. I have never opened the Washington Union before, because I have had such loathing, such contempt, such disgust for the corruption that hangs around it, and the corrupt purposes for which its columns are used by the men who rule and control it, that I do not wish to trust myself in an expression of my opinion in relation to it before an audience.