The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-15
AMOS KENDALL.

We have for some time half suspected that
Amos Kendall was suffering from visitation Of
Providence that would entitle him 10 admission
into lunatic asylum Every week furnishes
evidence to confirm our conjectures. We can in
no other way acc Junt for his recent as the
conductor OF newspaper. 1t would be charity
to think him insane. He some years since was
distinguished for the vigor of his pen, which he
never failed to WELD with great effect in the
party contests of the day. Not that he was ever
more honest, more scrupulous, or more truthful
than now-not he but what we have to say for
him is, that formerly he lied with discretion, and
vilifed in reason. He then possessed the art of
making his calumny and lies tell in their effects
upon public sentiment. His style was piquant
and agreeable, and his services to his party in
valuable. But 80 demented has the creature
become, that he has barely common sense and
English enough left to string his lies together.
The respectable and judcious portion of the party
| to which he belongs have been compelled by self
| respect and regard for the public sentiment TO
| repudiate and dsavow the mad rawlings Of the
maniac, while the Wings quote and circulate his
| tracts and writings for the purpose of bringing
his party into disgrace.
We lave formed the above charitable hypothe-
sis upon which to account for the conduct of Ken
dali because we unwilling to believe that any
sane man, with one foot in the grave, in view of
eternity, could employ his days and nights in
hathhing malignant falsehoods for the purpose of
! injuring man who had been his benefactor
/ We, of course, have no means of ascertaining the
cause of his arrangement 1t proceeds, probably,
from dsappoi ted ambition, or, 1t may be, is
merely the mbecty which has resulted from
misuse of the moral and mehtal faculties. In either
case, we cannot refrain from the exercise of feel
| ing of pity for hin, mingled with disgust and alb
horrence. We have sometimes fancied that Pc
culiar species Of the tapeworm had made him the
victim of its cravings. Like the old man of
| the sea about the neck of Sinbad the Sailor the
monster of which Kendall is the victim, we have
imagined, has fastened upon his vitals, and can
only be appeased by incessant offerings of calum-
ny, lies, and all uncharitableness.
Let any one read the following article from
Kendal's Expositor, and we think that what we
have said above of the author will be deemed
mild and charitable. On the suppositon of his
sanity, no language could depict his character.
To call him scoundrel would be to extenuate, if
not to praise hint would be placing him in
long category, where all that is pre-eminent in
wickedness, all that is demoniac in human ma
ture, would be confounded with the vulgar herd of
common knaves:
From the Exposition Of Tuesday.
A DESIGN,
To illustrate The character Of the Wing party.
AT the top of the sheet put the name =
"WHIG PARITY
Under this place the figure of double man,
with face each way; one side representing
Henry Clay, with pistol in one hand and pack
of cards in the other, and the other side repre-
sentng Theodore Frelinghuysen, with Bible in
his hand Below put the words:
We fgM Nth both carnal and spiritual aceapons
Under this divide the sheet into two columns.
On the left put cut representing Henry Clay
shooting fellow man in duel on the right
Frelinghuysen praying for sinners
Below this Clay at the card table playing
game Of brag; and Frelinghuysen at the COM
munon table partaking Of the sacrament
Then Clay in brolhel kissing the lewd wo-
men; and Frelinghuysen amid his pious sisters
in prayer meeting.
Clay looking while his overseer whips a
negro man; and Frenghuysen walking arm in
arm with black dandy.
The whole to be nterspersed with appropriate
sayings from the mouths of the two candidates,
and concluded by grand procession Of WING
clergymen who support the ticket escorting their
JUGGERNAUT, Henry Clay, in the shape of
Old Mex, to the temple OF Civil Power while
Frellnghuysen, with angels wings on, sits beside
him ON the same car, with this motto:
.OUR HEAVEN IS POWER, THOUGH
The DEVIL BE IT'S GOD"
THE HARMONIOUS DEMOCRACY"
From the Clohe of Thursdoy evening