Democratic banner., 1848-08-07
For the Banner.

"Amos Petfog' and "Grubbin Hoe" ma,
have erred. For this they are responsible
to the tribunal of public opinion. | am no
their apolsgist.-[Ertrac Grom q commu.
nIatiOnsn tn" '76" signed I'M"
I thought, Mr.. Editor, that I had written
my last communication for the papers pre-.
|viOus to the election. until the appearance
|of an article signed "M." in the last 49,
|~sbounding in just such language as one
might expect from a friend Of "Petfog" and
''Grubbin Hoe" although, he is 'snot their
.|apologist." l cannot promise to follow the
lead set me by "M," It may be because I
have too much self-rsspect, or perhaps it
may be that l can hold no hand with him in
the use Of select phrases, being unfamiliar
with his vocabulary Of words-for he has
established, for himself, a reputation that a
London fsher-woman might envy in that
line, and leave him alone in his glory
With him l neither seek nor shall l avoid a
difficulty, but shall repell in a proper spirit
what l know and feel TO be a wonted and
unprovoked attack, & the public may Judge
who it is that strives 'to keep out Of The
reach Of at danger;' for if he thinks to
bully and hector over me l tell him now
sit won't take" The article signed X. was
altogether respectful to the Wing party and
to all the gentlemen whose m were men
toned, andso far from an attempt { as false
" charged by M to array classes against
each other, every effort was made to allay
the hostile feeling which 'Petfog' & Scrub
bin Hoe had attempted to arouse ; and vet
NJ, with all these facts before him, can say
''that 'Petfog' and 'Grubbln Hoe may have
erred" yet because I have dared to say it
his almighty wrath must be showered down
upon me. Who's he that he. assumes all
this power? Whist meat has this our Caesar
fed on sthat all must bow at his awful be-
hest and do his bidding?" This all looks,
70 me, p though it might be he language of
one Of the s'favored few" who have so long
flower Pike county-whose political
actions lave been synonymous with bigot-
ry and intollerance-who have made and
unnade-who have lavished with no stint
ed. hand Offices to their favorites-in short
who have Utterly crushed the energies ofthe
wing party to the dust, and rode it until it
has become q poor, emaciated, wind broken
and spawned creature, without strength Of
body OF pride Of character, the pity of its
friends and the contempt of its enemies I,
but ! will not charge it upon him for it msy
be Soma Donkey who robes himself in the
aLions skin" / know not precisely how to
stigmaizs the assertions of NJ, for if he
means shat they shall apply to himself they
are doubtless true, if applied to me they are
anmitgatingly false-false in fact, false in
spirit, and false in every particular. / wish
him tdunderstand that unlike him perhaps
! do MT live and breathe and having my be-
it9s conolase or caucus, and that mol
man d set Of men were consulted about
The matter before or sitter it was written !;
hiatt was the o~utpourings of my own mind
hsbase attempt to operate upon the pub.
he mind to the injury ola msritorious young
man, and that 50 fer from accusing the whie|
Of III warned the authors that they
FsIst.kiadling their fires upon strange al
4 tAatH would not tske-sftsr having
zisditbs hisstabls gamsof srrsyipg class
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