Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-02-13
"Ihe Hyena Of the Press A"

Inc dyena OK the freN
In the New York Tribune of Saturday last,
We noticed an article, dated at Washington,
in which the patriot statesman, General Cass,
is maligned, lied about, in the most coarse
IDENTIFY from the pen Of Horace Greeley
No one else could have written it. 1t i,
his to the dotting an 1 and the crossing a C.
But even Greeley, whose political rancor is SO
Intense as to cause him to follow those VIII,
do not think as he does beyond the portals Of
the tomb, IS ashamed to claim the paternity Of
the monster article he has given to the world
and deceitfully dates it at Washington But
what harm can the foul aspersions of the htti.
Greeley do the great Cas- As we'll NAV the
gnat seek 20 destroy the elephant by buzzing
around his snout, or the small insect put out
tic glaring light that attracts by striking the
flame with its tiny wings. Bennett has been
called "Lucifer Of the press" ard his paper
the SATANIC press, we think it was the
TriJ1Rs that furnished this title-but Greeley
IS the HyeDa Of his profession, the brute who,
fearing the living, follows the corpse, ripping
open the grave, and tearing to pieces the fair
name Of he unresistiDg dead. And this is the
person from whose heart flows the worm wood
and gall poured out in the columns of the
TrtbHHs upon one of the purest and ablest OF
men, whose name will be reverenced by gen.
erations yet to come, long after the memory OF
his calumniators shall have passed into Oh.
livion, and the last sheet of the bad journal
that mahgns him, though printed on brass
shall have rotted or rusted away
Lewis Cas- needs no defence at our hands
The history of his country records his nam Q,
without spot and blameless, upon its fairest
page; but We feel it duty We owe all good
Ilen to hold up to the scorn and indignant Of
the country the man who would disgrace our
profession by villifying, as Greeley has, one
who is a credit to our common country. and
who has won the love and respect of the good
and honest of every land, and Of all creeds
and all parties. 1t will be remembered th at
when the news of the death of the late Hon.
Ioses Norris reached New York, Greeley
spoke Of Linn in the most disgracsful and con.
temptuous manner, true to his character, saw
ing Of the dead what his craven heart prompted
him to withhold from the living. For such
hyena-like conduct he was held ND to the
scorn of the country in just terms by his neig b.
bors Of the press; but we know of none whose
pen pierced deeper than that of Douglass, the
black man, whose heart, it appears, is whittier
than that of the pale-faced man of the Tn.
tune.
Frederick Douglass, in writing to his paper,
says:
II was in Pittsfeld, n. III , twelve wears
ago-a stranger detested, Stunned by saint
and SINNER, with no one to befriend me-the
botel closed against me-no house to shelter
me-homeless and breadless and in this con-
di'Ion the late Hon. Moses Norris found me
waking among the tombs in the. graveyard
behind the town house of Pittsfeld He spoke
TO me, and invited me to his house, and treated
me like man and brother. Let no man
say that the man is always sunk in the politi.
ciIn"
= This Frederick Douglass was a fugitive
slave at the time he refers to and not a man
Of the ranting abolition Greeley faction would
give him either food or shelter. But the man
"feeley denounced while living, and who he
Pursues With fend-ike malignity even beyond
Tue grave, took the Ioor slave and treated him
like man and BROTHER The living Cas-
can expect nothing good from the Hyena that
las torn open the sepulchre of the dead Norris
20 One side Of yesterdays PHILADELPHIA
Pennsylvania is filled with wha. purports to
be " Important Know Nothing revelations; a
full history Of the recent transactions of the
COUNCILS in Pennsylvania; the proposed amend
lnents to the Constitution; decisions of the
State councils on mooted questions; proceed.
ings Of the late State councils at Pittsburg.
&c, Accepted from their own official rec.
ords" This publication gives the names of q
number Of prominent men 10 Pennsylvanis
and other States who are leading Know Moth.
mgs The Pennsylvania also pours oil of
utnol on the back Of Hon. Simon Cameron.
II The Harrisburg Telegraph has run up
this nag already at the head of its editorial
columns:
FOR PRESIDENT IN 1856,
HON. JAMES POLLOCK.
Oh PENNSYLVANIA"
II is said that the editor of the telegram
wants fat office from the Governor
BIhe Mayors Of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
aud Philadelphia, have initiated Mayor Wood
Of New York, In opening complaint books I"
tits an example worthy Of imitation every
where
BLACK SPIRITs AND WBIrE.-Ths Boston
transcript says, a certificate of intsntion Of
marriage between black man and o white
woman. was issued ON Monday