The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-05
qualification OF the Wing Press.


The habit Of using coarse language, and resorting
to gross vituperation, soon becomes a necessity
Indulgence renders it chronic distemper. To
those who nre attacked, calm reasoning AL sober
discussion are Fat, insipid, and unnteresting their
palate requires tho stimulus Of personal invootive
and unb,idled license Of abuse. We never had a
more beautiful Illustration of this principle than is
afforded by the whig country papers of the last few
weeks. After having blackened General Pcrcs's
private character to their hearts oontent-pro we'd
to their own satisfaction. that he is drunkard,
coward, q gambler, boaster, brawler, an
bodiment in Short of all the vices and frailtcs to
which flesh is heir-they are now turning, for wao,
Of better victim, On their own candidate, and la
boring. with undiminished zeal, TO demolish hin,
they demolished his rival. They have begun with
his well known reputation as . gentleman, which
the democrats never thought Of questioning until
these whig organs assailed it. Now, however, that
it is boldly asserted by the journals which advocate
soott's elevation to the Presidency, that the hero
of Lundys Lane is SO utterly devoid Of courtesy
and respect for the female sex, that he offered a
wanton unproyoked insut to lady who sought to be
civil to him, the question how can such man
be fit for the Office Of President 10 sprnging to the
mouth Of many . politician. Many q whig, who
has hitherto regarded General SCOTT with feelings
Of esteem, Is now beginning to question the pro-
priety Of showing respect to who, according to
his own friends showing, is wanting in respcc.
even to females, and has SO little command ore
himself rs to wound the feelings of lady by an
upgentlemanIy allusion to her husband at public
breakfast table If oar firm defence Of General
Scott against his whig traduccrs provo ineicacious,
these scandal moDgers may appropriate to them
selves large share of influence in procuring his
defeat.
It was, we believe, the Memphis Iaqsirr which
first agreed to give publicity to the story, its al
,hors the socialist abolitionis Of this city, having
lacked the requisite courage to father their OF
spring. The Washington Telegraph and New York
Tribune eagerly caught it up OF second hand, and
we find it in some half dozen funny little whig
sheets throughout the oouthy. Let US, In return
for their kindness in advancing the cause of our
candidate, give the poor fellows the benefit Of .
notice.
Docs anybody know the Columbus Inquirer,
queer sort Of newspaper, full of boarding school
nstices, and quack physic pu0, Published on aver
age wrapping paper, with second hand type, by
Mossrs. Tagrag & Co, Eve beg their pardon, Rag
land) We beg to recommend it to the favorable
no;ios Of tho pEsie, &c spss.ao sgsfss: nss.sn-
sAcIy Il Offers tic readces :" gsstuitoas advice" on
a variety ef subjects, from methodism to matri-
nony-. exclaims agains. the blarney Of the dis
unionits, which will do well enough for " the big
men who want to obtain power" but not at all for
little men like the editor Of the Inquirer and dis
poses Of General Perce's claims as a candidate by
the gastronomical remark, that " he smells Like an
orion, and astes like cheese" OF its literary at
tainu EMS an opinion may be formed by the follow
ing criticize on recent author which we clip from
its columns -" Tho deleteTious sweetness of hi
constyations the reundness of his paragraphs, and
tie judicicus secretion Of his expansions, are I'M
equalled in tho all ais of literature"
There are some very shameless PEOPLE at Lowell.
if the Daily Jo,1uol and Courier, published at that
place, has any circulation. The first thing which
catches the eye taking up the paper is an adser
tiacmeBt Of doctor, in capitals, which, If
irserted at all, ought to have been consigned to
fome obscure corner, who're it could not call the
blush TO the female cheek; and, turniog to tao
very next page, second dose as conspicuous az the
other, meets the view. We had better opinion Of
our Lowell friends The editor Of this paper Is q
terrible leveer; in language more suggestive than
classicsly elegant, he inyeighs against some old
family Of the reigbborhoo5, calling them "dlgnidcd
fog epds 81 departed responsibility" anil vouihsass
to become the biographer of The last descendant of
psp-fpoon memory" lie is NJ adept at metaphor,
and tescribcs The abo FLORISTS as eating their owe
butte,ed words which, unlike the usual product OF
he obmD, ere "bafd and bitter" The judicious
nTraI ineDt OF matter 10 perhaps tho most striking
feature 10 tbs amiebo Scott organ, as will DO
1, ON the blowing exracti-
az. III, WIZ GENIAL Commit GO NEE. at head
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III, sch IN he ApplsfoD street church Dsxt sabbath
a- Abde~ Pollen, for assault ana battery vas hned
81 and costs Paid
Hbiss, parsons, and yowdics, ALA oae beg Iht