Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-03-03
From the Richmond Des,...,
John Mitchell and the Fac tionists. p0'ch.

NO man IN This country eActteS cur admiration
his talents, eloquence and courage more ireouanrN
than does JOHN mitchell. the celebrated Irish rafn"g
who now edits The Citizen. paper published in He
York.
In the midst of Abotitoniss, Free-Soers, and r..
tic fanatics black, yellow and white, he boldly u
equivocally and triumphanty defends the institute,
of slavery When he first arrived in New YorE ~
Abolitionists and representatives of every detest.m
faction and vile clique united in chanting his nrae
and in attempting to secure the influence of his hT
liant talents and fame. Unseduced by their pb;sn
trhopc batteries, he lost no time IN administering ~
full castgations to the leaders OF all the fraemeso
yipers and buzzards in which New England is So ~.
life. He laid violent hands upon the Anti SlaEp"O
Society and it was like assailing q sanhedr;m
skunks, copper-heads and hornets. They have dou1
nothing since but empty bushels of billingsgate uU
him. No decent man can now approach an apt
slavery meeting without holding his nose fo,
amount of chloride of lime can neutralise the odors1
ous illusions of GARRISON and BEEcHER. For W.T.
thew have done nothing but howl, yell, basnba~S
and execrate JOHN mitchell for his gallant vindcat;
of slavery They have called him, among comrr
mentary sugar plums ga bag" viper"~"a Con-,
vct.-"a toad'-"a suicine"-''a rattelsnaken Il'
drunkard"-'a wretch an impostor"- besaaa.
innumerabe other attering epithets which thew hsSs
heaped upon him and which are too tedious tomen;O.
THEoDoRE Parker, BEEcHER and GARRISON travel H.
over New England making him the text of their %
lures and sermons. The Fourertes, Vegetarian.
the Boomers and the rest OF the pack, howl incesan
w at Mitchell But with satire, humor, wit and al
Guence, almost unparalleled, he brushes the wbJ.
brood in every issue of the Citizen. He has sniksi
BEEcHER's muzzle, annihilated PARKER, and ev~
week scatters the smaller hounds of the pack asif
were chaff In the last number OF the Citizen spea
ing of the effort first made by these Infamous faction
isis to elevate him to the Skies and their subeOuA
attempts to drag him down (when he ridicued and
denounced them) to their own degraded level, heieeI
! ingly and eloquently says:
IThus we have got rid of our Fictitious celebrity
and we feel the lighter and the better for it, Wesan
now upon our own feet; and 1T IS whOesOmer than
10 be blown up to the stars by the puts of fools
The many real friends of ourselves and of our cans,
whom we have met with in America are our friends
still and it is but right TO say that in GLOWING
anticlpatons of the tune freedom expected TO fn
in this great Republic, We are not disappointed
is land where the atmosphere IS truly free and clear
where the pretender is to find his level and the
true man his recognition. 1.-THE Editor Of the City
was at first lifted far higher than his deserts he
now perhaps, depressed somewhat lower 1t istha
operation of seesaw and is quite certain to end
placing him in equillbrio. This is not country land
we congratulate the very meanest of our assailaRk
upon the circumstance where the authorities" will
come, under false pretence of law, and smash your
presses and steal your types, and wreck your Offices
If you write nonsense, as too many of you d. your
penalty will be only neglect; if you write criminal
nonsense (Which is just possible) public opinion will
punish you in its own way in the long run. For it's
really free country and gravltation, and the other
moral and physical forces of nature at liberty
act. Thus your see-saw may lift you high and sink
you low but at last you will find your place.
We understood Republcanism before came
New York we knew what we had to expect and
knew that of the aptes instruments and strong
est safeguards of Repubcanism was Parrhesia or
freedom ofspeech. So we fearlessly launched this c
tzen of ours upon the wide ocean of Opinion
l. Where the tides are fresh forever,
/ And the boundless currents free.
We do not repent it. There is no need to be afraid
of any or all possible conflicts and collisions of sen
tment of all the whirling eddies and crosscurrens
that the infinite fountains of human thought and life
TO create in such boundless The strong
swimmer delights in them Only they who have no
poe-star to look to for guidance heart 10 buffet
the waves, are in danger of sinking.
1t is true, that in this living and life-givng ocean
of liberty many strange fishes are bred and even
Shiny monsters enough, barking like the sea-d,gs Of
Scyla, gurgling, grinnng like sharks vomiting inky
streams like cutie fish, blowing and squirting like Ten
thousand grampuses AS we look upon the shoalSO
our strange contemporaries, and hear their dscord
ant noises, and the uncouth aspect of Them show
ing their teeth, upbraidng, threatening to worry u.s.
we think of Schlers Diver, and the grlsly sights he
saw
~, - shuddered, when under my shrinking gaze,
The dragon, and dogfsh, and sea-salamander.
And saw the huge kraken and magnfed snake,
AND the thOrnback, and ravenlng shark,
Their way through the dismal water take;
While the hammer-fsh wallowed below il the dark,
And the rive-horse rose from its lair beneath,
And grihhed through the CRATE of his spiky teeth
Worse than this even and more formidable 10 any
, swimmer, bather, or diver,-some of the creatures
are unclean; their utterancesS fare unsavory and 50
foul do they times make rhe currents of opinion
(Which ought to be fresh forever) that one might
sometimes fear the common waters turning into
a common sewer and fruitful mother of dead dogs
, AnathemG
Yet we are neither afraid, nor yet too astidiOus-
We accept we glorify, we:revelin freedom. Doubles
3 pond OF goldfish in a royal park would be better
regulated and better hammered concern than the ocean
cryps of the Atlantic. But give freedom before
all things Freedom, though Graded in storms that
sweep from pole to pole, and rocked upon tides that
s sway and heave beneath the Sun and Moon.
Mr.. Badger aud the Observer.
MIR. Badger has made an able speech in behalf Of
the Bill for the organization of Nebraska, with
clause declaring the Missouri Compromise nOPe7.
tive and void. What will the Fayetteville Observer
IL On FIonua