Washington telegraph., 1850-06-12

all luCdIudte HeHu he over cndT8en
veins had swelled to bursting, and the
thick black blood was trickling from his
temples-his bloodshot eyes cleaned
with an unnatural lnstre, and his mouth
and beard were covered with red foam.
Collecting all his strength he hurled the
empty glass at one of the party-and the
next moment staggered into eternity.
From the Gazette and Democrat
To THE EDITORS OF THE BANNER
GENTLEMEN: l regret that you found
yourselves under the necessity of publish
ing in your valuable paper the communi-
cation from the Abolitionist of Harrison
county, Ohio, intended | presume for the
private benefit of our representatives. /
think you give it degree of notoriety
and importance that it by no means de-
serves; an attention that might be given
TO better men and better cause. You
publish it, l imagine, to meet what yon
believe, the desire Of the Hon. E. w.
Johnson, as expressed in his last publish
ed communication to you. That COM
munication in character is hasty and in
considerate, manfestly written under
great excitement, in my opinion not
fair indication of Mr. Johnson's views,
containing language and sentiments in
which he would not indulge as our repre-
sentative upon due reflection. there
fore believe ne would upon second
thought consider the publication of such
documents PROSTITUTION of the press
Mr.. Johnson certainly cannot be ignor-
ant of the fact that We are in almost daI-
ly communication with the principal
places and leading journals of the day
and that so far from being ignorant upon
the subject. the people are generally well
informed as to " hat is going on; and l
candidiy believe prepared to pronounce
a better judgement upon the vexed ques-
ton, than is likely 10 prevail in Congress
He says many things transpire that we
know nothing of, that may be true-ig-
norance is sometimes bliss; but we 20
know that Congress during the present.
session has been fruitful in almost every
thing except sound practial action; and
the sooner such a course is abandoned
the better for the country. l .hink it is
Shakspear that says "the coward dies a
thousand deaths before his time" |
must think towards among the people
are scarce, or the congressional action Of
the few months past would have pro-
duced great mortality; for at Washing
ton, the Union is dissolved every day, and
by some means it RECEIVERS itself every
night; aud presents the same bold front
in the morning-and thus the diurnal
work of dissolution progresses, and God
knows when it will stop-nor do l know
what would become of us if it were not
for the recuperative powers of the old ship
of State That communication is not,
in my opinion, true exponent of the
sentiments and opinions of our neighbors
in Ohio; and conceding for the sake Of
argument that we are ignorant as is as
sumed by MIR. Johnson, (as l understand
him, and he will find many to agree with
him, as Arkansas unfortunately is below
par abroad the means of information he
proposes 10 afford us are questionable,
calculated to excite prejudice and induce
us to visit upon all innocent people the
sins of an obscure fanatic, who only for MIR.
johnson, would perhaps, never have been
known beyond his own neighborhood
That the author of that cOmmunica-
ton is not to be depended on, is eviden-
ced by what he says of Gen. Cass. "that
he could not be elected surveyor of a
road" &c., when Ohio cast her vote for
him against all individual at that time, OF
great personal popularity. 1t he was
thus mistaken as to one point. he may
have been on others-and presume he
is in error generally-for L cannot be-
lieve the noble State of Ohio will en-
dorse his views. Mr. johnson seems to
be displeased, thai his circular was not
responded to, by an uprising OF the peo-
ple in favor of the convention, and he
has sent this and intends sending other
documents upon which he expcts US TO
take action Now this, likewise, is a
passionate remark of our representative
for he certainly does not expect any res
pectable portion of the people OF Arkan-
sas to act upon such a contemplate pro-
duction. What is it? A private letter
from an obscure fanatic some where III
Ohio, to MIR. johnson, in reply 10 some III
tempered and hasty remarks CONTAINED IN
Johnsons circular, threatniHg, as ne nm
derstood them, to dissolve the Union,
throw the South into the lap OF Great
Britain and play the Devil: Ihls chaP
in Ohio thought all this was easier SAID
than done-and if done, he thought II
would not help the Shareholder mnch.
Now concur in this last sentiment, Tor
believe the remedy not particularly mol-