The daily republic., 1853-08-24

WASHINGTON:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. "a, 1853
The ssSatanic Press and the {" "Ntgger
Organ"
We are much concerned to see these models
OF morality falling together by the ears instead
of illustrating in their outward walk and con-
versa!ions those maxms to which they osten-
sibly pay such respect. ..r. y,
We advert to their controversy for the pur-
pose of recording our protest against either Of
these journals being regarded as exponents
either Of the manners or morals of the American
press.
The immediate cause of the controversy
seems to have been this: some gentlemsn, at
Scandinavian gathering, thought proper to
compliment the American press in the name
of the New York Herald, and thereupon
MIR. PETER MACGRAwLER, whose temper has
been somewhat frayed at the edges by the
failure of his flax, and We may add, his wool
theory, and who was recently rdiculed in the
.Nationa! Democrat under an allegorical wrap
per so very thin that all readily recognised
the distinguished philanthropist who instils
the humanities through the columns of the
Tribune, resents the affront offered to the
press in the most indignant manner. Whe-
ther Mr.. MAcGRAwLER, since he has COM
pounded with the ''colored brother editor -
who aspired to edit a newspaper by him
SELF can find no cisatlantic foeman worthy
Of his steel; or whether, like Mr.. ACRES, he
prefers bringing" his antagonist "down at a
long shot, we cannot say; but certain it is
that he has chosen the editor of the Herald,
now understood to be on the other side of the
Atlantic, and having got the range by an ac-
curate calculation Of his own projectile sour
rility, he opens his battery with the charge Of
Judge NoAH in lS4l, as follows:
Finding himself unmolested in this peaceable
community, either by personal violence, by the
ofthe press, or by the strong arm of the
law, he roved about under his black flag, assailng
Government, Congress, men in high stations, men
in business, public institutions, the character and
credit of the nation, religion, private reputation,
female character, institutions, laws, courts Judges,
and every subject, every man, every place or
thing, at which he could level his shafts
To this fattering character Mr.. MAcGRAw-
LER volunteers the following complimentary
certificate:
''He came to this country some twenty years
ago, and Immediately took the first rank through
the daily press as moral Thug He attacked
theriuid, the gentle, the generous, and the for
giving. No innocence or courtesy was proof
against his brutality. No amount of forgiveness
or NJ tofD
service no simplicity or purity of private life, nc
singlesouled devotion to great idea ever soften
ed his ruffianism. He lived on defamation, SLAM
der, obloquy, beastliness, lies. Of course such
conduct could not 60 unscourged even in New
York. If he had lived further South, he would
have been simply beaten to death or shot. Here
he was simply horsewhpped. Seven times in the
public streets of this city was Bennett horsewhip-
ped. Horsewhpped in open day. and the lash
well laid on his morally scrofulous back This does
not include sundry kickngs out of hotels which
he received, or the crushing ceremony of COM
pany leaving the table when he ventured to sit
down among them. .
The Satanic defenders were, it seems, like
Copenhagen taken by surprise, when this ter
rible bomb exploded amongst them, and him
whom Mr.. MAcGRAwLEk regards as the Bee-
zebub of the concern being absent, the resid-
uary demons take counsel together, and having
made up the following compound of combust-
bes they hurl 1t at the head of their assailant,
who will doubtless reply with a broadside
from the Asneum:
''The particular assault of our Fourierite phi
losophers upon Mr. Bennett Just is in keep
ing with the sort of manly courage and decency
which have ever characterized the Tribune. Mr..
Bennett is now absent in Europe, and if we recol
lect Alright the Tribune has on several previous
occasions availed itself of his absence for ex-
hibtion of its intrepdity. Greely is bold man
at a long distance, while face to face he disarms
hostility from his lack-lustre expression and ap-
pearance of dirt and mbecility. In Congress
he covered like spaniel before the cross-exam-
ination of indignant members; but safely back in
New York he was fearless lion and fierce
tiger. Daily issue of the Herald fifty thousand I"
These are ferocious phrases and portend dan
gerous results. But the Satanic camp seems
to consider itself under no obligation to meet
the gallant MAcGRAwLER in open combat.
They trust to the natural strength of their de-
fences, and content themselves, like the Mex-
can revolutionists, with shooting round cor
ner, and shouting out after every discharge
with great animation. Their war-cry, chosen
to dispirit the enemy, is "The circulation OF
the Herald is 50,000" They thereby either
intimate that their ammunition is not to be ex-
hausted, or initiate the philosopher in Horace
who consoles himself under popular odium by
contemplating the nun,n,os in arcan,. Into
this controversy we may not enter; but il the
disputants tell the truth of each other the grand
jury of New York did not half perform its du-
ties by adjourning without including them both
in the same indictment with the city fathers.
We avail ourselves OF this occasion to state