The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-03-21
BLAsPHEMY AND MALEvOLENCE.

BLASPHEMY AND MALEVOLENCE.
"The ruling passion strong in DEATH" has be-
come proverb in our language of most ex-
pressive kind Animals as well as man exhibit
this "rulng passion strong in DEATH" The most
poisonous and malignant reptiles even in death
manifest their propensity to strike their fangs or
their sting into some object. And so it is with
the Locofoco party. Condemned by an immense
majority Of the people in l040-l45,OOO- and
perceiving that 7" the sober second thoughts Of
the people, about to be expressed through the
ballot box upon the Presidential election, sustan
approve, sanction, and confirm, that decision Of
condemnation, and that they are about to be not
only condemned to death, but branded with in
fanny they have become desperate, their rawlings
infuriate, their malignity awful, their desire to
inure, to stab, to bite to poison, to malgn, most
distressing. They seem to be actuated by all
the evil passions of the spirits of darkness, and
become more and more Infatuated as evidences
multiply of the certainty Of their doom, the re-
coil upon their own heads Of the blows they aim
at their opponents and the futility of their at
tempts to injure those against whom their malice
is directed
We have been led to make these remarks by
reading, as we do regularly, the Globe of this
city, speech of DR.. Duncan lately delivered in
the House of Representatives, published and cir
culated in immense numbers, and series of
Unlocking and miserable tracts, one of which is
entitled "Henry Clay's Duels," (Tract No. ! y
another, Mr.. Clay and the Cilley Duel" (Tract
No. 3 y and lastly, Providential Dispensations,"
(Tract No. A. We know not where, among
all the emanations of poisoned, polluted, rib
bald press, can be found anything $50 crammed
with diabolical Ingredient" gangrened with
malevolence-so noisome with putridity. The
tracts are the reputed productions of Kendall's
pen; and no one can doubt it, unless they may
suppose that his Siamese twin, Blair, had hand in
them. There is no other human being who could
think of disputing the palm with him in the con-
coction of such deadly materials. Macbeth
witches are NOT human beings, nor are the Flu
ries-fhey are only fabulous beings-Blair and
Kendall, realities.
Fortunately, such malgnty carries its own an
tidote with it. 1t is well known that certain
amount of laudanum taken into the stomach
proves deadly poison, but taken in much larger
quantities it is rejected by the stomach, and hence
it is that otentimes people who are determined to
kill give too large dose, and their malice is
thwarted by its anxiety to accomplish its object.
And thus it is with these tracts Mr.. Kendal's
extreme anxiety to kill has caused him to admin
lister his poison in such quantities to prove its
own antidote. He must, we think, have entirely
the people of the United States, and
supposed them upon par with the people of
Italy and some other countries during the mid
die ages, when poisoning became an art and sci
ence, and the dealer in the most deadly drugs
was scarcely looked upon with contempt much
less with horror.
Gansevoort Mellen, ESQ.,, in his Grafton to the
Locos of New York last Friday evening, INDUCED
in the following personal Renaissance:
"As for myself come from stock the wo-
men as well as the men of which have, from the
first organization of parties manifested prefer
ence for and sympathy with the Democratic
cause
The Tribune says he would have spoiled this
story if he had stated that his paternal grand
father Major Mellen, one of the famous "Bosion
IT, Do~t, mos Wb;o 70 ,ko l,,t anJ -. :.