Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-07-08
Anot Their Word.

We are constrained this week again
ito employ portion of d ur columns in
a controversy forced uHon us by the
Editor Of the Lncoln Journal, very
much against our will, and as we be-
lieye to the detriment pc the Demo-
cratic party. But al there is. no
choice left US, we viii proceed to de-
Ifend ourselves to the best of our
ability, only asking of bur readers a
candid hearing, whilst BIe proceed to
dissect the Journals foq IF OF five col
umns Of pointless editorial, whichwe
conceivp shows a dispotition to in
Ijure, without sufficient point or
meaning so to do. The first of his
remark + We shall notide IS this
I"This j. not, as the 0bserrer con-
ceiyes, a personal controversy be-
tween i and US in which b the public
are uni ltereStedy but a political one
Involving great questions" &c. 70
prove bis incorrect, it is only neces-
sary to quote the Journals own words
on another occasion:
q The differences exiting among
Den ocfats with regard to the Com
promise is one Of opinion merely, az
fecting Ino principle
He as said the same in substance
time after time, and now because we,
in the exercise Of cur 4nquestiona-
bic rights and best judgment, differ
with him OF that measu4 e, he would
have US arraigned at the bar of public
opinion, although we have told him
in advan bee that we only differ with
him as tnuc ID as Gov. Trdusdale does,
and no more; and he well knew that
any missiles he hurled at Us, en-
Iseoneed as we are behind the Old
Hero, wpuldhithim as we'll as us. This
clearly proves that the cofltrovers y is
entirely personal and malicious on
his part or that be does mot believe
Ehat be said about there being 10
principle involved; or if there is, that
he is tH e advocate Of Judge Ca mp
bell and the assailant Of GOV. TT GUS
dale and US. The next r pint Of the
Journal which We shall nolioe, is this:
"The Democratic pafais getting
into a st ate Of confusion did dist rac1
ton; D emocrat is array9d against
Dem ocrat, which if continued will
tear the party to pieces ] nd end ii
total defeat. For this stat e Of confu-
sion thefsisno justor adeqd ate eau Be.
Ali 4ay J GU SO? Thisis strange.
language in The mouth Of one who
has been for weeks seeking a contro-
versy wi h a brotherdemocfajic press,
whose Only oddenee it sdems is, In
being found arrayed side bJ side With.
the can bidate of our parity on the
great iss ue between the tfo parties.
If there is,no just or adequate cause
fer a ference, why assail JUS 50 per-
'severingly, fit is not to GRITTY some
feeling ou dare not publicly ayow?
The i cmainder of the Journals
article The whole of it, i'd facts
devoted to getting up fIlse issue,
under which he seeks to escape the
reai one. All he says about new plat
forms, new standards, new tests, the
historical account Of the state of the
country during the tendency Of the
Omnibus bill and after the passage of
the ConI Fomise, the Nashv1 lle Union
and Arnefica IN, Gov. Brown, the De-
mocratic Convention just before
which he says he wrote '4ong and
strong article-yes, "strongl' was the
word-on the Compromise, Maj.
Farquhara on and B. w. Cbifds. is all
entirely foreign to the cor troyersy |
between ! IS, and only designed as so
many blinds behind which TO screen
himself, al I'D evade the questions we
propoundef to him in our article, to
which he pretends to be reHlying,-l
He thinks that in the dust he has
kicked up about all these things, he
may escape; but he is mistaken. We
are not to be led off on sol false al
scent, but repeat the questions We
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