The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1837-12-02
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SLANDERERS OF THE CITIZENS OF WASH
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we fnd our duty to step aside from the holy cause in
which we have embarked, to notice the SANDERS daiy
published by distant prints upon the people of Washing
ton Paid to traduce, there set of Infamous ndi.
Vduas who take up their residence in this city during
the winter in order to cater to depraved taste by the
retailing OF ISLANDERS against the females of the Metro
polls
Day after day cowardly villain scrbbles off his
quota for the New York Herad and we regret to see that
the editor of the Richmond Whg paper always respect
able and cautious has lent his the petty stories and
gossip that pervae the circles of Washington during the
session of Congress- We cannot republish the article
which have found in another paper, attributed to the
editor Of the Richmond Wing Its terms not yelled
by the garb and language of decency but the libel pa
raded before the public in all the unbshing erontery Of
original sin.
The Gallery OF the House Of Representatives pointed
out by the editor of the Richmond Whig of SO
much niquty The writer for that paper is wiser than
we and we should know something of the abuse, for
has been fortune to be regular attendant to the
debates for the last three years. and during that pc
Rod, have witnessed any thing that would shock the
feelings of the incest sensbiity We have seen beautiful
women eSCoTteu Sdant ana pOHe aUendanS---
We have the smile Of fashion, and heard the badnage
of innocent mirth in the gallery, but have
any thing that would give color to the bold and unbls
ing charge brought against the ladies Of this District by
tie ungaant editor, correspondent for the Wing.
If families to be debarred attendance at the
Galleries by false clamor cannot amely permit the
prescription to be issued without protest There are
writers who attend here visiters during the win
ter, and some who reside permanently among u.s. who
would like exceedingly to the gallery Of the House
cleared of the gentee portion of the SEX in order that
they might stand safe ground with the balance who
would swarm there, when it discovered that but
blackguards attended the debates.
We do not apply these remarks to the editor Of
the Richmond Wing The history of that paper is too
well known to US, and feel persuaded that its conduc
tors have been imposed upon by erroneous reports.
The people Of Washington honest upright and cor
rect; and institute parallel between them and the
inhabitants Of other cities. There may be strangers here
at certain times, who dare to practise their Infamous
plans, while freed from the restraint of home and honor
but the natives of the place not the perpetrators of
these guilty Deeds and where is there the city that sin has
not visited! The wall of outraged innocence of DETAINED
character of abandoned and ruined beauty comes to our
ear from every city of the Union Washington is not the
grand and central point to which niquy wings its flight
passions QeOaSeO, or OnerWlSe, the
human heart meet in diabocal conclave.
We alluded TO the correspondent of the N York Herald
In of our late numbers copied severe editorial
from Mr. Noah of the New York STAR relative to the dis
gushing immortality of that paper Mr. Noah it
paper which female should her eyes on fill
ed with the details of designations, seductons &c., all
CLOSED over with the hue of poetry and calculated to soft
en- down the bitter degradation attending crime. But
yet the New York Herald is subscribed to, read, and
quoted here. We feel confident that citizens have
not been apprscd of its tendency but have been induced
to take it through morbid curiosity to what the no.
toous Washington correspondent of that paper says daily
of our brightest and best citizens
The private sanctuary of home and family is pervaded
by this mscreant scribbler and his SPIES Not party
takes place, but the Herald has description Of or rather
exaggeration, intearded with the repetition of con.
versations overheard by eavesdroppng. The cowhide
has been suspended than the suspected
individual and Ike his employer Bennett, he may yet
boast of his whipping per week.
Finally if the city of Washington tainted in its mo-
rails has become by the ndiscrimnae admission of
all descriptions of people to the Inequalities of the place
The well dressed loaer is invited once because he leaves
his ennamelled card, and is esteemed gentleman until
he dsproves the suspicion Afterwards he is "cut-rage
then takes possession of him. and defamation follows
He finds vent in the columns of filthy newspaper,
whose silly editor pretending devotion to the SEX dis
plays his chvay by publishing the SANDER of the vile
upon the fame of woman.
We pity the editor and his villanous correspondent
The following find in the Public Ledger of Phiadel-
pha from which will appear that this system of espon-
age is becoming nsolent and extensive as to have
called down the of several highly respectable
papers.
We readily give place TO the following sentiments, as
those Of manly and honorable mind, character which
the editor of the paper from which we quote them always
maintains Dastards of two kinds; those worthy of
notice. and those unworthy oft:
"A Mean Lastard.-The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Patriot, expresses proper indignation at the
conduct of some caitIf who has been writing com
muncatons for New York paper, defamatory of some
of the most reputable females of Washington city 1t is
added that the knave is suspected and if detected he will
be severely punished.
We can scarcely conceive degree of retributon ade
quae to the offence of poltroon of this character An
anonymous scrbbler and too who devoes his epis
ties TO the indulgence Of malignant feeling and base nu
endo is the meanest of all the wretches that crawl and as
they not unfrequen they should be dealt WITH when
ever detected with little clemency possible das
ard of this description time since, greatly annoyed
some Of the most respectable families Of Philadelphia and
although frequent Efforts made, he succeeded in
escaping detection He cannot yet however, consider
himself wholly clear of the consequences of his nefa
rous conduct his handwriting has been treasured up
by many an innocent father brother, who will not fail
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