Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-09-17
From the Richmond Emo

FROM the tllcnmOnu Enquirer
The Wing press very sick of Rev. MIR. Foss.
They love the SANDER, but despise the slanderer.-
They stick to the lie, but loathe the liar. They pull
down the slave steaers flag from their masthead,
but love still the voice of their captain-his " good
mouth filling oathsn-
for it comes to pass oft, that a terrible oath,
with staggering accent sharply twanged off, gives
manhood more appreciation than ever proof itself
would have earned him." among companions con-
scious of little virtue or courage of their own.
Those strong words of Mr.. Foss, covenant with
beln league with the devil and so forth. applied
to q constitution which they never did have great
consideration for insensiby tighten the bands which
unite the abolition Free Missionary" to the coy
Southern partisans, who love his " soul confirming
oaths" but affect to shrink from too close contact
with him. Time was when the literary missiles of
MIR. Foss and his slavesteang companions, were
ripped out If the mails and publicly burnt with eve-
~ mark of indignation and contumely. Time was
when the publishers of these missiles at the South
were summarily ornamen'ed with full covering of
Mr. Graham's tar, and of General SCOTS feathers
But all that is changed Times changed. South
ern protesting fidelity to her institutions. not
only do not shut the door to the entrance of these
missiles amongst US but 60 after them gather them
together, and themselves publish them with large
type in the conspicuous positions of their newspapers
calling them CLINcHERs, when supported by the
oaths of confessed savestealers and insolent fugi
tive negroes. We say fugitive negroes, because in
the absence of contrary proof it is obliged to be in
ferred that MIR Foss' eight co-swearers of his
own avocation and communion slave-stealers and
slavesstolen.
Not many days since the Wing press Of this city,
published variety of documents, certifying Rev
Mr. Fosss character for pety and all the rest Of the
virtues These were pronounced clinching proofs
of that wortys title to Southern respect and South
ern credibility; and the reverend missionary stood
before the Virginia people endorsed-exutiagly and
triumphantly endorsed, christian and gentle
man, by the unanimous voice of the metropolitan
Wing press. What shy that press now? What
can their large types now blazon forth--of the mis-
sionary for spiriting away fugitive slaves Of FIVE
years standing theirs " for God and Humanity -
him whom runaway Bib writes upon his list of
friends 2"
What saw the same press of the Independent Dem
ocrats of intending to represent Gen
Pierce as an abalitionistthe disclaimer of the same
sheet from which they take MIR. Fosss- fabrication.
of the Interpretation they placed upon the alleged
speech That paper and the Era, hold him out as
an extreme Southern man in his views. That paper
pronounces the fabricatiOn--whieh the Southern
Wing press pretends to regard reality. raw
head and bloody bones reality--a a sham. a
trick will-o'-the wisp and any thing but an indi-
cation of the speakers real sentiments and conyc-
tons
We wish the Wing press of Virginia joy of their
abolition allies and afhIavit-furnishers We shall
continue to felictate them upon the company they
friends--the missionary who steals their negroes.
and supplies oa,hs in return; and of the editor who
nvokes eternal punishment upon their heads for their
great sectional SIM but protests against the uses
which they make of his abolition publications.