Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-09-28

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The sIandercrs or MIR. shunk--The Pitts
burg Gazette.
The Editor of the Pittsburg Gazette has ad-
ded one more link to the chain of falsehoods
and calumnies, which unite his name to all that
is notorious for cantlng hypocrisy, black.heart-
ed malignty, and INSCRIPTIONS villalny. His
paper of Saturday last, comes to us freghted
with load of ialSehoods, which we would
scarcely have expected, even from the renown-
ed vender of counterfeit Brandreth Pill labels.
The Gazette charges upon Mr.. SKUNK hos
tility to the Protestant religion, and enmity to
the introduction of the Bible into common
schools; while in the yer city in which this SLAM
der is uttered, it is as well known as any fact can
be, that SKUNK is himself Protestant, and that
he has never lost an opportunity of urging the
adoption of the Bible in our common schools
The Editor of the Gazette knew he was PEN
ming deliberate falsehoods and he knew too,
that in his own city and country where the facts
were known, his slanders would be treated with
contempt. But these fasehoods were for use
accomplish the designs of the .fiieen Whigs
who bought this traitor to betray the Anti. Ma
sons, whose organ he had been, he has been
guilty of falsehoods so base as to defy the Eng
lsh language to produce terms sufficiently
strong for their protection.
! For the purpose OF informing such Of our rea-
/ ders az are not familiar with this mans charac-
ter, Of the kind of person our opponents have
selected to Go their filthy work, We will furnish
a sort Of deguereotype likeness of his character
In the first place, he is a man, who, to a grea.
ter extent than any individual whom we have
ever known, makes vaunting profession of his
piety; plcty which he has ILLUSTRATED in va
ricty of ways First, he was engaged in the
laudable effort of countcrteiting labels for DR..
/ Brandrelh's Pills ; and when accused Of it, he
denied in the most solemn terms having been
guilty of such an enormity, appealing to his
standing as an officer of church, to prove his
innocence Nevertheless, the truth vas elici-
tel, and Deacon WHITE was proved TO have
been engaged, as principal IN the nefarious
transaction.
Again, he succeeded Mr. CRiAG in the Pitts.
burg Gazette, in company with II Mr. GRANT.
Here he was most violently opposed to Ma
sonry or slave holding. The prospectus which
he then issued pledged that the support of the
Gazette, while under his direction should never
give its support either to a Mason or slave.
holder For years he was most lavish in his
abuse of HENRY CLAY, and his paper was the
political organ of both Abolitionsts and Anti
masons. But it was not in his nature to be
true to any friends. 1t finally became desira-
ble for the CLAY Wings to break up the Anti.
masonic organization in Allegheny county
: This they could not do, unless they could gain
over their organ. The we'll known dupllcity o
WHITE afforded the basis for an arrangement
' Fifteen Wigs Of Pittsburg agreed to buy ou'
> Mr. WHITES partner, who was too conscIen
tious to violate his previous pledges, for three
H., thousand doH0rs, placing his half in WHIrT',
y hands, provided the latter would enter into stip
ulatons, in writing, that the Gazette SHOULD
t come out for Henry CLAY This contract ha.
" been published repeated ly--the deed in which
I the pous and conscientious Editor of the Pats
n burg Gazette, sells himself to tine support of
u man whom he had two months before denoun
ced as a murderer, gambler, and robber Such
y" in brief, are the claims to responsibility posses
= sed by Mr.. WHITE II a man whose whole lif
;" is but one series of gross hypocrIses, and un
'" principled attacks upon private character, Cal
- assa with effect, the reputation of such maj
=" as FRANCIS X. SKUNK, then indeed has hig
~ character ceased to be ofvalue.-Argu'.
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