The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-09-29
Communications.
FOR THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL.
Prca and Practice.


peared in the last JefIersonian. must be
my excuse for my asking little room in
your paper TO notice said effiision-or more
probably ii is the result Of ailiisiun on a
dislempcred brain. am not sure that
coming from SO " immaculate source
itself, it ough, to be noticed, for the glory
of the " immacuidte," may be too reful-
gent for as weak mortaIs as Wings, to
look upon-to noiice-and live. Perhaps
though, | may survive; il ! get rery low,
will send to "fhe North for ply sician,
for 1t takes 4" Northern ply scians accor-
ding TO Professor Hdhnemann's practice,
to cure disease incurred by a Nor,hura
cause. But TO drop preiminares.
Before sir, a publisher should set him.
self up as the censor OF The public press,
he should hmseif be pure he should him.
self be free from blemish and impurly
| take it, this is an acknowledged rule Of
action in ethics then he will be in no dan.
ger Of having said to him: physician
heal myself" | understand from history
that in Old times" wien Rome was
furnishing republic censors were men cho.
sen TO their office for their fitness for the
reason that they themselves were entirely
wiihou. those faults they were Ia discover
and reprove in the public and mofeo.
yer learn that they were not self appointed.
Again, II occurs TO me that IN very good
old fashioned book, (unfashlonahle nnw,a.
days. there is something said about He
that Is without sin among you, lei hun first
cast stone," and IN another place within
The lids of that neglected book: How
canst thou say To thy brother, brother let
me pull out the mote that Is in thine eye,
when thou hyselT behoIdesi moi the beam
tina, is in thine own eye" Among the com
mon place proverbs is one saying "people
who live in glass houses should not throw
stones" Now all Of these references, what
is direct and express in them, and what may
be the most remotely inferred, apply with
full force to the Jf1erso1idn, which sets
if"J up as an ensampler 10 the Wings Of
North Carolina yes. he is To be Professor
nf ethics aud lecturer to the benighied
Wings Of this dars region he is to teach
them no, TO deal in abuse, because forsoo,h
he is so good at giving the precept and en-.
conracng BY has example. Has he never
seen the beam that is in his orn eye
recullcc, some things TINT have been said
IN the columns oe the J, tisrsouian which
show how good he is al " holding up mir.
ror " to guide our poor frall natures by.
Mr.. Boyden gave vote on the no Com.
promise Bill, which Of course the Jeiierso.
Man could not for his life approve, rs he
did Tor his party all that was possible 10
dtfedt ,ha, gentleman. lie then comes
out with long farrago Of ,Ilticaiion and
slonderous epitheis, and while envenomed
with "marce he "sets down" all his
" rceking Imagination conceves against
Mr.. BoydCn md not eylenuatlng the per-
sonallty OF the article, he rather glories in
the ayowmcnt of it. Such philosopher
gnicg his advice Oh Sodom and Go.
mortah rise from he bosom Of the Dead
Sea, and claim teacher in Israel that can
YET redeem you.
have no doubt /, was presumed, that
every Democratic paper IN the State would t
copy that abusive article. am proud as a I
Caroinian TO say, North Carolina Is not T
yet stepped so low in the vernacular Of fish 4
markets, as that her sons, Democratic or
Wing, will give currency to such vilupe. I
rati,e onsloush,s. They may be called on
by way Of retaliation 10 indulge more in a
disputes orlhe kind than they would in cool
moments approve, but they do not often
erdiuit0pSly barb their weapons with the
poison Of dctractnn and defamation; con. I
seqnen,ly, il any Democratic paper copied /
that article have no, seen it; and if they
did, my word for it, they (thc cditors) are +
not Carolinians.
hear tina, Mr.. Boydcn appears as con.
tented and serene, as if the malicious shafts
of the JetIersotiian had remained at home,
+" rceking" in their culver of gall. While
" en- rapport" with The past, II strikes me
the Jeffersonian abused one Mr.. Lippard, Of
Philadelphia, because Gen. Tay lor wrote
him letter Lippard and the Jcilerso.
man for ihat-bu, it looks ito man up
tree as if he were trying to degrade Gen.
Tia, lor, BY abusing the man he had written
to. This mode Of warfare Is certainly
several removes b.lor the guerrilla.
The JelfIrsonian has from time to time
INDUCED in a coarse strain derogatory to
the character of Gen. Taylor and MIlard
Fillmore, trying by perjnred testimony to
make them out liars, no. princlpled men,
and abol,ionsts all this was to be erpec-
ted from Democratic Editor but not from
one who sets himself on the pinnacle OF pu.
ri,y, and proclaims himself Censor OF
morals and gen,ility. In the paper before
me no says Gen. Taylor is "coqu'.'lng
with all parties Without courage or honesty
Mark that, Gen. Taylor this censor says,
is "wi,hou, courage or honesty, This
censor, who is advising and lectur'nS about
4" abuse, &C." says tina. Of Gen. Taylor.
He eudeavors 10 the same paragraph to
prove the General liar; in another place.
he saws Gen. Taylor is "worthy of con-
tempt" and all Of such ba'derdash nils up
two editorials Of the Jeffersonian, the pa.
per par excellence, Of morals and decency. |