Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-05-08

We have never yet seen u "eorporal's guard"
of Wings who would not support the veresi
Abolilionis. that ever spou'ed his hyrocrisy
at Negro Convention, If he bore the name OF
Wing, rather than vote for Democrat. Han
nibal Courier.
a erosser libel upon the Wing party was
never written or published. We marvel that
the Wings Of Hannibal, and of Marion county, |
will allow thenselve to be thus malgned by a
she,, in their mids,.-St. Louis lnteIligencer.
You would not wonder at the silence of
the Wings, if you knew that they have
learned to laugh at the Courier's absurd
statements. 1t may fairly be presumed,
also. that Democrats have learned that no
confidence should be placed in the paper.
How can .hey, when, protesting to supply
them with information, it habitually feeds
them on stones like The above p! What
does the Dem ocra,c party gain by such
published statements
Our ncigh5or declares that he never saw
corpora's guard" o! wings - il. e., he
never was acquainted with single Wing,
who would not digrace himself, and belle
his principles, for the sake OF any asplrant
for office, who might choose TO call himself
II Wing No child ut school, in his first
essays at composition, ever eked out three
pages of ioclscap with more bald and sense
less assertions. Ii there is Il Wing AboIl-
Zionist in this county, or any oil the sur
rounding counties, we have not heard OF
the man and if there is Democrat who
has read the paragraph and believes it, we
Lave not heard of that phenomenon, either
nor should we be at all startled by the in
formation that the editor did not believe
himself when he was penningit.
That paper wrongs its subscribers, when
in return for their money, it lays before
them as facts, things which are not facts
and from these draws false conclusions
-, There should be honesty in public, as wei
us in private lie. A paper should be
guardian of morals, not their delier. !
man NAV assert that the Wings are all Ab
oIitionists or that they are all black; OF
that, TO Il man, they are liars and swindlers
- but, by so doing, he would only rende
, himself contemplate, and his influence,
he ever had any, should leave him with tn
- moment that gives ut,erancc to such
n insane statement but when man become
-, noted for hab,ualy dealing out such a
/ serlions, his word is made less poweri'
r than burnt flax. Why should not Il new
paper be measured by the same rule! {
II the machinery that moves our great K
-. public, every country paper forms an int
- gral part; it has its field to labor in, al
-, limited as that may be, the country new
of paper, has its part of great work to PC
es form. Upon the press rest the liberties
-, the land. 1t is no excuse for misrcrresent
N ticn, to say that the influence Of count
paper is comparatively small, and that a
pcalS, in bad faith, 10 the passions, can {
no grca, harm. Truth and honor shou
: be everywhere they ,hould pervade pub
as wei! as private life. If they had be
I adhered to by the press, the Union wor
If. not have been rocked to its base by I
's- tempests of popular passion which ha
~. repeatedly swept over it. II is this dealt
n in misrepresentation by the party newsI
pers, which works the worst mischlcls Il
''n threaten our country.
FRS O, where is the strength of the gr,
om Democratic party, when there is MOTH
of left to stay it lrom'lalling. but SANDERS pill
on on slandersl 1t is fallen in this Stat
',h its days Of power are gone like drea
1t is the agony Of departing political
Try that produces suc' convulsive mis- shaping
you ralsehood as we find in the article quot
10, above from the COurier.
RS; See the advertisement Of the editor Of
uur Bloomington Gazette.
Nothing la. been more common with cert
ne democratic papers aud orators, than to cha
gil; the wings " it'll being abolitionist,. We sho
'aw like to know where in their estimation, stat
md Robert Rantoul, the great leader of tho den
God cratic party in Massachusetts? BY coalition
rat! the frcosoilers ard democrats, he was elec,e,
ON fill Daniel Webster's place in the u. S. Sen
'gei for while occupied ly Mr.. Winthrop, un
|er' an appointment by tha Governor Of Massacl
ope sets. Rantoul was Senator ten days, anc
er', tina. short period he got such taste for the
gifts fee, that he has since thrown aside all his
What mer principles, and united himself with
ire Phillips, Parkers, and others, against tho fl
The tive slave law, AMI in favor Of its resistar
. to Cheek by jole with him are found Senator
SUI ward, of New York, and John Van Buren,, |
lnds of whom have recently addressed letters to !
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