The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-08-23
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From Me Lynckbwg Yirginian.

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FUTED.
We have never known The Loeofoco
presses TO exhibit more daring reckessness
Of assumption or more flagrant disregard
Of the courtesies and decencies Of life, than.
with few honorable exceptions, they have
done in the presen, Presidential contest
ln $40, il is true, they branded Gen. Har.
rson, who fought his country's battles, as
coward" and sneered at him as "grua.
n.y." filter 10 wear peiticoal than a uni.
form, and TO WELD dis,aff than a sword
they held him up TO public reprobaiion as a
iieeatious Seducer in private life, and en- i'm
beetle 10 official statlon--as being 10 day ca.
ger 10 reduce "poor neighbor white men
and white women TO slavery, End to.mcr.
row not less anxious to llberaie the blacks
from bonadge-yet, although 10 | sac, these
and countless host If similar sauders q.
galnst q veteran Patriot Soldier we're con.
stsnily ,eeniug in the Locoloco papers,
they had not, as past occurrences show,
reached that "lowesl depth, beyond which
there is no lower Deep" Of vulgar defsma.
lion, to which they are now rapidly sinking.
We regret this course, since II The war Tor
he mex, ninety days, is to be carried 90
by them With butchers ceayer and the
savage tomahaWk, it will become necessary
not only to repelI their assaults upon the
Wing candidates, but to resort to tie lfx
talioniS in reference TO their own. Thus
sr, the Wing papers, with occasional ex.
ceptons have confined themselves TO re.
view Of the public octs cf Messrs. Polk
and Daias-and We do not know indeed %
single instance in which they have inva.
ded The sanctuary Of private life, or dis.
entombed old charges long since proved to
be false, aud consigned by public opinion TO
the grave of forselluluess and lnfamy.-
Going beyond the acts Of his public life.
however, etiori5 arc now lndusiriously
made to convict Mr.. Clay OF conduct
10 his professional career and III his so.
cial intercourse OF which, If be had in.
deed been guilty, tho tan OF prescription
would long since have been pu, upon
bun ty an outraged and indignant public
opinion. No gentleman would have fecog.
nzed him in the streets, OF permitted him
10 share 10 the Inequalities OF his hfeside.
Yet, so far from this, what man has ever
turned his back upon Henry Clay OF shuh.
cd intercourse with him, IS they would
have done had he been gGmbler, a
5abchcc or a Sriadier, such as he is dep
ted in some Of the Locoioco Journal
The Charlottesville Jtfersonian has 81
a Willingness 10 be somew bat couspIc1
10 this warfare upon private reputaliE
republishlng from an old file of the
lnglon Telegraph a calumny uponHs
tauop Of Mr.. Clay, irhich at The hmc
original oPpeQrance, ,ros proceed te.
teriy faise, and which, While II as
three lourlhs Of The newspaper
the present day, has been lYf
most Of The generation ypFSstI
rary with the accusatisE "
editor Of that paper \ not him
the finale Of that inVssgal,
suited in the triumphant vIe
Clay. For our oSn part
published similqf chars lseQlla
Mr., Dalas--a s.,Orge ~ lsaonesty as
lawyer Of recep occurrdoke, because. We
know how np, ategallons OF this sort are to
be Invented, andtse do nopknow that is true.
But Il this relentless warfare is TO be pur.
sued towards the whig'candldates, We say.
i" L,y on Macduf,
And id 10 be'Eho lrst cries hold enough!
Il $50 part Of our present purpose, how,
, ever, .&sepy 10 these false foul charges, to
, which We have thus incidentally advefted
for Che purpose Of protesting against
coffee Of conduct SO injurious 10 the char.
acter Of the country, aud so derogatory 10
: the reputation Of the press itself. Our dc.
! sign RIO correct the erroneous impression,
, lndustGeasly disseminated in reference TO
/ tho course and opinion Of the ahig candI.
, date. on questions Of great public interest.
. has been frequently stated, for exam.
! p hnd We almost every day hear il reit.
, Ied, that Mr.. Clay pioldied instructions
| n voting for the Bankrupt Law. Even if
the statement were true, we do not per-
! ceiye with What grace any Calhoun man
could urge such an oct as an objection 10
Mr.. Clay, seeing that Mr. Calhoun and the
entire school of South Carolina politicians
entirely deny The right of a So Legisla.
HIEuct Senafors~vGT 1T Is
'essoe, correctly states tho
ASHLAND 18th July, 1874.
4 haze inst rereiyed your favor