The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-10-22
PORTSMOUTH, o, FRIDAY EVENING. OCTOBER q, 1852
The wings In Bad HumOr-Tremen-'
dods Fail in Feathers!


The wings In a Bad HumOr-Tremen.
dods Fail in Feathers!
The Tribune and Clipper, having nowi az
| litthinks, secured the Scioto Couiity Treasury
teat for another year, supposes itself licensed
10 blackguarl and abuse every democrat who
has the audacity to express an opinion tha
does not tally with its own. That delecta.
BILE sheet of Friday evening thought prope
to speak Of the democratic torchlight process
sion, and Of the speakers which addressed
the mass meeting after the procession had
tdispersed. It is particularly severe upon oul
esteemed fellow citizen, E. w. Jordan, ESQ.
to whom il alludes as very arstocratic per-
son, except about election times, when he
| falls desperately in love with the wings, but
afterwards courses and abuses them" We
need only say that every whig who voted
Ifof Mr.. Jordan for the "high and responsible
tofleec( Prosecuting, Attorney" knew thar
he was a good and consistent democrat and
as for "cursing and abusing" his political op-
ponents, no one, either, in private chat or on
the public rostum, has been more moderate
and respectful towards them than he Such
stuff, however, is to be expected from this
penny whistle of the whig party, and it is
probably somewhat excusabIe from the fact
that it got terribly frighteneda few days pre-
vious at the way things were working in
Wayne township; and as it had nothing to
brag ofin the whole county, nor in the Slate,
nor, indeed, in any State, and as it was ex-
pected to blow away on some sort of tune,
nothing seemed more appropriate to Its d.
minutive capacity than to blackguard some
Of our respected citizens. Had it told the
truth, no one would have noticed it, except,
perhaps, TO wonder at its unusual magnanim
ity. Had it only slandered the living, it
would have done nothing more than that in
which it has been engaged for the past three
months, and which every one expects Of ii.
The same thing has been done by its party
from the days of Thomas jefferson to the
present, and, of course, it must follow in the
footsteps Of its "lllustrious predecessors"
But, not content with giving its fuss and
feather candidate all the glory otTHREE WARS,
thus stealing laurels from the tombs of the
gallant dead, and robbing brave men who are
living, it must, TO be consistent in its Lilli-
putian course, scratch about among the ash
es of Revolutionary patriot for something
with which to SANDER! This i. does when il
asserts that franklin Pierce's father eulogized
"old John Adams and his administration for
passing laws to drive all foreigners out of the
country at pleasure" We have noticed this
once before, and We now again pronounce il
a gross falsehood, without even the least
shadow of evidence to sustain it.
The Tribune and Clipper is displeased, also,
with the remarks of Mr.. Huston before The
meeting. Mr. H. took the. unloarrantabls
liberty of quoting Gen. SCOTS own words
at Canolton, KY, as reported in the Cincin-
natl Times, neutral paper, in which he sta
ted that he had been caught, for the first time
in his life, in certain unmentionable condi-
tion. The Tribune & Clipper remarks, in
lis peculiarly cutting manner, that "as Billy's
mind never gets higher, he is excusable," and
also, that he ought TO be renumcrated ~
OF course, then, if Billy ought 10 be " renu-
merated" for quotation, how much more
exceeding renumerated" ought to be the
classic author, Gen. Scott, when we take into
consideration the fact that lie was speaking
to number of ladies?
The whole tone of the Tribune and Clipper
betokens the desperate condition OF the whis
party in this region. The time was when
democrat dared not burrah for his candidate
without meeting with curses, If not kicks
for his presumption. Now things are differ
ent. The half dozen democrats that lived il
Wayne township in "a, have swelled il
numbers, slowly, it is true, until the host
in '52 make the palnpeted and treasury fe,
wing leaders tremble for their ascendency.-.
We can tell them that neither their black
GU aidism nor their false doctrines will saw
them in short time TIE democratic ban
ner, with Liberty, Equality and Progress
sion," inscribed upon it, will continue t
receive supporters, until democratic princi
Piles shall pre- vail not only throughout th
! Union, but throughout the world.
: The whig organ here grinds desperately
but dolefully, about the recent election
1t thinks the whig party have great reaso
TO feel encouraged! Pray, sir, at .wha
From majority Of from four hundre
and sixty 10 six hundred, the whig part
of Scioto county can now claim but thrt
, hundred and twenty-one. Pike county h'
!, given ON increased democratic majority; an
Jackson, which the wings have claimed sln'
the erection Of Vinton, has gone decided
democratic. Lawrence, in the heart Of h
iron ngion, where the wings have alwa,
made capital on the 'protection" humbu
has given greatly reduced whig majorit
and the democracy are wide awake al
working manlully. Even old Ross, from