The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-09-19

who is daily villify and ablslag Mr.. Cisy5n
the columns Of the Ystk Aai0Fa. South,
worth is a oeeAE ~ q yer aerves
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Literary Su6alev,a, he absolutely forged letter.
with ex-President Jefferson's name to il, in high
praise of Mr.. Clay and the tariff: The base for
gerry was soon exposed, and Southworth called
upon for an explanation. He could give none,
and his miserable conduct was saddIed upon the
whole Wing party! The Richmond Enquirer
and the Globepft harp upon it. -,
Alter Southworth's paper ran down in Provi-
dence, he came on here to the seat of Govern
ment and correspondent for several papers He
always had deal of gossip to retail, and was a
wonderful manufacturer of the article. At the
time Lawrence, the maniac shot at General Jack
son, Southworth wrote post haste to New York
THAT he knew all about it, and more too He had
discovered that Lawrence was bribed or set on
by Governor Pondexter to assassna,e the Presi-
dent! andof course his letter set the whole coun-
| try in commoton. Governor Poindexter wrote
I TO New York and obtained the name of the wr
ter He ascertained where the lbelous mis-
creant lodged, and undertook to call on him but
Southworth was all of sudden taken desperately
sick-took great doses of medcine-shook dread
tully-smothered himself up in the bed clothes,
and could not possibly see anybody He how
ever found means to write begging, apoogetical
letter to Governor Poindexter, which had the
effect to release him from his sick bed.
1 Southworth continued Wing, though. despsed
by Mr.. Clay and the Wing party from the time
Of his forgery OF the Jefferson letter-un,i some
timesinl 1876, when hebegan to foment iealouses,
by writing for various papers in different parts of
the country, between the friends of Mr. Clay and
the friends of Mr. Webster. Soon after this he
became a furious Locofoco, and received his re-
ward in an appointment under the Van Buren,
administration. In 1910, among other Locofoco
papers, he corresponded for the Baltimore Repub
caD, and he it was who, in a letter TO that paper
proclaimed thata log cabin a barrel Of hard cider
and a small pension were good enough for Gene
raj Harrison, and that he ought to be satisfied
with them, instead of presumng to run for The
Presidency against Mr.. Van Buren,! @
After the election Of General Harrison, hear
ing that the old chief had said that if he could find
out who was the author of The log cabin and hard
cider letter, which had rendered him SO much SER
vice, he would give him an office, Southworth,
with unblushing impudence, got himself intro
duced to the President, confessed to the author.
ship Of the miserable letter, and asked for an
Office therefor!
President Harrison died, and it was left for
such person as John Tyler to give one Of the
peoples offices to such creature as s. s. South
worth! sa..A
For time he wrote for the Evening Post, un-
der the signature Of !" Joha Smith, jr,, of Arkan-
sas," next for Mumford's Standard, and then he
became the New York correspondent for the
Madisonian Of this city. aa
More recently he has been writing some Of the
most foul and contemplate libels about dstin-
guished Tennessee Wings, such as E. J. Shields
and Bailie Peyton, under the signature of SWIM
Carroll, jr, of Rutherford county," and published
in the Evening Post. He has also, as we per-
ceive by the last received Nashville Wing, been
writing budget of miserable personal vitupera-
ton and abuse against Mr.. Shields, who was re.
Gently in New York, and made speech ag anst
Mr. Polk, and sending the same to the Nashville
Union, tit sewer for such vile creature to wal
low in Mr.. Peyton, without knowing the author,
has felt compelled to place the brand Of FALSE
HOOD upon one of the slanderer's statements in
relation to Wise's singing insult to Polk.
Noo Southwort is writing, under his old sig
nature of John Smith, jr, of Arkansas" for the
New York Aurora, in praise of John Tyler, and
in his vilest vein of vtuperation against Henry
Clay He is very brave and valiant--knows all
about the Cey and Graves duel-saw it ALL
and more too just as he did in regard to the Pon-
dexter and Lawrence conspiracy elh
And this is Tyler officeholder, fed clothed,
and retained in of the peoples Offices to slam
der and malgn Henry Clay In two months