Litchfield enquirer., 1844-08-29
PERSONAL ABUSE.

The whole tactics of our opponents, to whatever faction they may be attached, or under whatever name they may range themselves, have degenera- ted to the most ferocious, the meanest, the most grovelling and despicable personal abuse, calumny and misrepresentation. From Amos Kendall and Joshua Leavitt, the two well matched chiefs of the islander parties down to the lowest subaltern who assumes to lead squad, foul mouthed abuse of our candidates and mean representations of their opin ions and their principles are their daily labor No feeling of honor restraints them, no high-minded motive seems to govern them, no sense of accoun- liability and responsibility manifests itself, but a foul malignant spirit, rife with blackness of dark ness and malicious cunning, appears to have taken entire possession of them. Here is little specimen from the H0rtford ISles in relation to one of the purest and best men in the country:
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 "The hypocrite Frelinghuysen, nominated by the coons chloride of lime'' to neutralize the stench of Clay's debaucheries and other crimes, turn out to be, instead of real chloride, addi- tion of filth to the coon hole of Whiggery From the Newark Post we perceive he has already taken the stump and is alternately addressing coon meet ingsand Sunday schools-in the one praising up the oirtues of gambling and dueling Clay, while in the
 latter with the gravity of hristian he effects pie ty and righteousness! Out upon the hypocrite!
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 Such stuff needs no comment It is only spec linen of the style in which contest for great prin- cipes is carried on by the Joshua Leavitts of the press To be sure the bona .tide Leavitt does not attack Mfr. Frelinghuysen quite so boldly as his ally of the Hartford press-his efforts in this par ticular direction are more covert and insiduous- but from the monster blunderbuss at Boston, its daily Chronicle of lies and libels, down to the fus sy little popguns whose feeble echoes infest every town and village, each one according to its capaci- ty Is loaded to the muzzle with villainous charges against his great associate and friend Henry Clay.
 For ourselves we believe there is feeling in the breasts of the American people that will resent these insults and outrages upon our great Statesman and Patriots and this feeling will manifest itself at Who does not remember the vile attacks upon the these poachers on the domain of an honest reputa- ton, and an honorable private character, coupled with his name. And who can ever forget the re- buke the people gave these plunderers at the polls A mans good name is too priceless gem to be tempered with by interruptions demagogues, and we have yet to learn that high minded voters will suffer those who have devoted their lives to the service oftheir country, and whose deeds are writ ten on every page of her history, and show their beneficial effects in every workshop, in every field, at every water all and in every vessel that floats, and at every 6reside, have yet to learn that the voters of the country will permit such men to be abused and yilifed, without administering potent and effectual rebuke. They will not suffer Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen to be Eed do,c, by the Kendals and Leavitts and their kindred vi- pers of the press.