Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-06-08
From the Spectator.
THE GLOBE AGAIN.

Falsehoods may be so condensed and
dove tailed by a practised hand, that 1t
requires ten times the space in which they
are asserted to refule them. Of this the
Globe of last evening furnishes a speci-
men.
A writer in that print reiterates the as
sertion, that "Mr. Rhett borrowed the
money 10 carry on the Spectator" With
out adverting to the peculiar delicacy
manifested, in the first place, in dragging
this matter before the public, in a paper
itself established by borrowed means, and
the retailing of what purports 10 be pri
yate conversation to sustain its assertions,
we again pronounce the statement to be
UTTERLY UNTRUE; and we speak what
we KNOW. The Globe is welcome to the
application of its ethical axiom.
But the same short article contains other
untruths, expressed and implied, some of
which we deem worthy of notice and refu-
tation. Says the writer, "the course com
planned of in the Globe, was its defence
of Mr.. Van Buren, against the warfare of
the Spectator upon him;" leaving it to be
inferred that we were the aggressor. So
far from this being the fact, upon the ap.
pearance of the first number of the Spec
tator under its present editor, the Globe,
without just provoca'ion, Immediately
commenced hosti'ities, and issued It's bull
of excommunica'ion : the alleged cause
of offence being that we avowed ourselves
in favor of the one term principle for the
Presidency--not by constitutional enact
ment, but by the usage of the Republican
party. For this an unrelentng warfare
was kept up for weeks; and, though we
were denounced as Tylerites, Mr.. Calhoun
was continually thrust at, and threatened
with the consequences of our political
heterodoxy. And the resident Editors,
not satisfied with their own efforts, the Ia
Tents of an ex-Secretary of the Navy I'M
der Mr.. Van Buren's administration were
placed in requisition, who, in his letters
from New York, devoted his whole aten-
ton to the Spectator, and especially its |
advocacy of the one term principle, which
he seemed to regard with the utmost hor,
ror. "Now suppose" said the ex.Secre-
tary, "the friends of Mr.. Van Buren,
should take it into their heads to retort
upon the spurious organ of Mr.. Calhoun.
and attempt TO ostracize that distinguished
gentleman from the convention, by refer
ring 10 any peculiar doctrines identified
with him, and which a great majority of
the good people Of the I'm ted States night
be prone to consider incompatible with the
existence of the Union" Now, without
commenting on the indelicacy Of these
remarks, coming as they did from most
intimate and confidential friend of Mr.,
Van Buren,, who had but few months
received the vote of South
Carolina for the Presidency, we would d.
rect attention TO the spirit of hostility
they evince at that early day towards Mr..
Calhoun, and their indication Of the point
at which the attack would be made upon {
him, should he be supposed an obstacle in
Mr.. Van Buren's path. The columns of
the Globe for the last eight or ten days
demonstrate, most conclusively, that this
hostility, though yelled in professions of
respect, of admiration, nay, of attachment, |
for its object, only waited the opportune $
time for its manifestation. Its injustice, I
however, is now so manifest as to render
il harmless. {
The subsequent "warfare" of the Spec
tator, which excited the ire OF the Globe,
in the publication of such facts
and developments as were calculated to
the democracy of Mr.. Van Bu-
ren's unavaiIability, and to prevent his
third nomination for the Presidency. The
conviction that our efforts have been, to {
some extent, instrumental in accomplishing
his great object, will enable. US to bear up :
lnder the abuse and the denunciations of
he Globe.
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