The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-10-09
and wealth of the community.
l am sir, respectfully, SC.
ANDREW JACKSON.
Rev. DR.. BaScom.

The editors of the Rally have made &
most violent attack on DR.. Bascom charg-
ing him with falsehood, toadism, and Other
degrading epithets. The foundation fol
this assault is the fact that DIR. Bascom, in
reply to a private letter from a friend, re-
PEELED some of the ISLANDERS SO Industrious
ly circulated against Mr.. Clay, which he
has since authorized to be given to the
public. 1t is not our purpose to defend
DIR. Bascom from the assaults of the mis-
cradle creatures who vainly imagine they
can make their filthy slime stick. DR..
Bascom needsno defence 1t is not in
their power to damage his reputation or
standing and we know he will look on
his miserable revilers with sincere piety
and pray the Lord to forgive their impo-
tent malice.
But there is something to be said a.
bout the spirit manifested by these con-
temptible upstairs, ,oAo call themselves
Democrats. They, preaching democracy
every day, speak of Mr.. Bascom as one
"snatched from the dunghH" This is
their real democracy. What do these
young upstairs of democracy, who are
themselves a perfect nuisance on the body
polite, and noisome stink in the nos
trils of society, mean by the 'dunghiH? ?"
Bascom was poor boy, without educa-
ton, without friends, without money,
without patrons, who labored as a RATS
man on the Ohio river for the means of
subsistence. The condition was what is
called by these pretenders TO democracy,
a dunghH" Poverty was the lot and
labor the source of this poor boy, and that
is what is ment by the dunghill. The
Rally can give no other Interpretation to
its language for if ever high and noble
and lofty spirit distinguished poor boy,
it was the boy Bascom. Boy as he was,
stricken by poverty, he yet purposed in
his heart to reach the nights of human
usefulness. And his ability was equal
to his ambitious daring. He stands at
the head of pulpit orators in this broad
land, and, though self educated, stands at
the head of the greatest and most prosper
Gus Institution of learning in the Missis-
sippi Valley. This is the boy who by toll
and labor, without assistance, came up
from the "dunghill' at which these pre-
tenders Of democracy turn up their sweet
and precious noses. And this is not the
half that we know and could tell aboutithis
boy from the dunghill. He has not only
educated himself, but by his exertions
greatly assisted in supporting his poor but
honest and venerable parents, and in ed
ucating and favorably setting out in life
the younger members OF his family. This
is the noble work of the boy of the dung
hill, at whom the pitiful puppies who bias
pheme the name of democracy, look with
such affected disdain.
The desperation of Locofocoism is ex-
IRENE. The most sacred character is not
safe from its envenomed assaults. But
there will be stop put TO this infamous
process of villifcation. Generally such
conduct speedily wears out itself and its
authors and it is generally the best poll
cy to leave them to themselves. As to the
effect of this brutal assault on Dr. Basccm,
it cannot harm him but it certainly will
damage its Enthusiastically Com
mo7vedth.