The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-22

W- CHARLES NJ MARTIN, of Haynesve,
Alabama is our authorized agent to collect dues
and receive subscriptions for the Southern Press
in Alabama and Mississippi
Ex.Seeretary Walker and the Dir: .daubers.
The SEWARD organs of New York are de-
scending into the very sewers of political and
personal ribaldry, and bespattering with free"
mud the person and the character of ROBERT J.
WALKER. In this rivalry of dirt daubing, the
Tribune of course maintains it's pre- eminence
and with its characteristic blending of meauness
and malignity seeks not only to defame the per-
sonal and political character of its old adversary
but to defeat the object Of his mission also--well
known to be the negotiation of Illinois railroad
bonds in Great Britain .....
That its object in this is the qualification of
feeding fat an ancient grudge," and not the
furtherance of any public end, is obvious to
every one who can conquer sufficiently his dis.
gust to read the Tribune'S diatribe against gen.
tleman not now in, or aspiring to fill any public
station. To speak of such an one as "McSyc
ophant" a q" Jeremy Dddler" and to pour out on
his devoted head the language learnt from his
associates in the British Billingsgate, on his re-
cent tour-to do this, We repeat, is in conso-
nance with the career of the editor Of the Tri-
bune. What though the adoption of such a
course argues an utter absence Of all sense of
decency or shame on the part of the assailant |?
What though the rules of honorable warfare ad-
NIT of the use of no such poisoned weapons, and
punish as felon him who stabs his foe in the
back? What care the apostles of I" higher
law" for the code of honor, or the Anticipated
letters of decency, which they have shaken from
their " free" limbs In the new Evangel of
Progress, where the appellation of" gentleman
is term of reproach-why should any one who
claims to be, or associates with that denounced
class, fail TO escape the sacri6cial knife of its
high-priest fresh from his fraternal communion
with his free.negro friend at Exeter Hall? We
have been betrayed into this indignant protesl
against this abuse of the editorial functions
by the atrocity Of the case referred to alone
Our sole object is to express our utter scorn and
adherence of the prostitution of the press to
such base ends-to pander to personal malignity,
or to drag before the public the private affairs OF
one who has now no connection with public life
ROBERT J. WALKER is nothing to us, nor we
to him. We are neither the guardians of his
public or his private character; but assaults so
scurrilous, so pitiful, as those of the Tribune
90 evidently intended to thwart his private enter.
prise-excite feelings of indignant contempt
which we see no reason for sitting or sup.
pressing. On the contrary, we deem it high
time to hold up such conduct on the part Of
those connected with the public press, who have
crawled, not climbed, up to the height of Z" bad
emnence" in evil doing, full in the public view
The representative of class, the assailant Of
Mr.. WALKER must have set to Dr. SAKE fol-
his picture of the Moral Buly"-ike all othel
DULLES, insolent only when IMMUNITY accompa
MES his outrages.