The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-09-17
Consis.emcy--A Comparison.

1t will be remembered that before the Senior
became ostensiblc Editor Of the Eagle, an article
appeared in its columns intended to injure the
reputation of Gen. Taylor and to which we deem
ed proper to make a reply. The Eagle did not
follow up its attack but the ensuing week, the
Senior had the har,lillood TO father the article and
instead of defending himself or his article, gave
us the following as the course he intended to
alopt as Editor. Since that time, he has shown
his hand and it is now proper TO make n compar-
ison between what he has promised aud what he
has performed.
This is his reply to our rticle-arsumcntative,
truly, is it notl
Contempt of the whole community ,'-"party
bloodhounds ,"-"lost to every sense of justice
and muguanimily "-"veriest ignoramus,"-low
in the list of animals, '-"servile party print
"hireling press,"-and many other s%currilous
phrases and epithets ran through its editorials as
glibly as ever billingsgate and oaths came from
the foul mouth Of a London iishwoman.
To these phrases and epiticts he objected
lie promised that he would not have anything to
do with them. For the benefit of his readers, we
will select u choice lot from the last few Eagles,
so that the community may see what reliance is
10 be placed upon his promises aud word. Let
them Judge between the above and the Seniors
and remember, tho, that all those employed
against the Rev. james Anderson were uncalled
for. These ARE tho Eagles:
"Tory, "-"hypocrile. "-"traitor =" -'traitorous
heart, '-"depravity ,"-"iit for the Peuitenliary,'
-"insolencon-'scavengcr abuso"-"infamy'-
ss'-"linr"-'slauderer any quantity o
II similar nature. Now we candidly submit thai
those of ours. which were called for, are as in
above The Seniors in dignity and decency Gil
such terms can be employed) as he is below a
g%enllcmanly edilor-Wnd that is II great distance
dOwn-powN.
But we will hear the Eagie's Senior n little
farther. In the close of the article referred to he
says,-"Our tastes nrc not in this line. We arc
disinclined to any such s~lang.whnng service. We
refuse to dip in any such filthy pool aud we shall
guard against being drawn ia, y " We
ARE not graduate from that school of ethics that
gives the diploma to the most successful moutlel
of slang aud %vulgnrity, and ranks an editor accord
ing to his ability to sprinkle with opprohrious
terms aud scavcnger phrases the contemporary
who honestly maintains u difference oil principle
aud opinion.
From the above we can draw our inlcrenccs,-
His first promise was a lie. lie began Icing ant
no has kept it up to the present day. In this h,
is consistont-in nothing else. This week, h,
tells n tnlc. Next week, he drops it and tells an
other, He never goes back To rectiry mistakes
he keeps strait on, making mistake after mistake
, 80 that il is impossible To know when he is COZ
) rect. lie is, in every sense of the term, a req
ProgrcSsiDe-it is all 90 .allead with him-nove
, turn back, What u beautiful specimen of hi
manily is he, to use the words Of d, A. Robert
I sons reSolution--"to diiiuSo the regenertin
principles Of enlightened freedom aud INTEL
gence among the p%eople1" Why he is so ia
= down in this "fthy pool' of slauder and blocb
Q swrdism, that we wouldn't pretend to reach hir
with a ten.ioot pole.