Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-08-24
nm WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
.5.7M7NcToN. N. C.. MONDAY. AUG. 30. 1858

WRLMINCTON. Ne 0'' -
F0on of the wilmington Journal calls PTeotiGe Of the
Louisville Journal "'tNG mo- P Seg who is thus grossly
oay stands the very head ofthe PROFESSION
in hi. e0uRs r yybe tights s the soatha brilliant at
tainments and natural ga ;2 T 81 prose OF
Second to no paper in the Union We confess
nrse at the rude language OF our mdmannered cotem
@ rnceedipg find it only in the supposition that
mr. Prentice rendered himself obnoxious by his earnest
able and triumphant support OF the principles OF the Amer
Is It possible that this can be the Yet know of
no other We suppose of course copy of the journal of
yesterday viii be forwarded to Louisville cotemporary
Wilmington Herald.
II is really pity that the Herald cannot quote
even tOo 4ooraS from the Journal correctly and with
out Interpolation There is no such word as old
in the article of the Journal. 1t equally care
less about our meaning as about our words The
editor of the Louisville Journal is a man of widely
extended reputaon-o of long experience and Of con-
coded ability and whose age, by itself, should
command respect But connected with these advan-
ges and the influence which they confer we must
not lose sight of the responsibilities they impose
His age precludes the excuse of youthful warmth
his experience negatives the charitable srrposition
that he could have erred through want of knowledge
his very abilities as writer, prove that if his
words were calculated TO produce and did produce
state Of feeling inevitably tending to riot, was not
from any inability on his part to use language equal
~ forcible, yet wholly unobjectionable. The very
considerations brought forward III his favor pre-
cisey those which leave him totally without shelter
in wrong doing.
Mr. Prentice has been long before the American
public as a political editor Few readers of news
papers have failed 10 meet his repaEtees quoted
by the press, and no one has seen single one
of these or can urn to single instance OF his w.t.
of which the whole point did not consist in its Bit
terness in majority of verging on brutality,
never restrained by the slightest consideration for the
feelings Of Others but rather intensified and gloated
over in proportion to lis power to wound No men,
Der of the American press has ever used as harsh
and as totally unchristian language towards its pot
ical opponents the Louisville Journal and there is
none that could have less to object against he
employment of ret&latory language, so tHat upon
this score the Herad's depreciation of language
is as totally uncaed for as would be the voluntary
assumption of the defence of professional bully
or gladiator.
The language of the article from which the Herald
misquotes tay0 WordS as it does by interpolating an
other between them we suppose carelessly negatives
was because of his advocacy of Know-Nothingism.
1t was not. 1t was because we most honestly and
sincerely believed and still believe that he premed-
tatedly, knowingly and perseveringly, for weeks,
nay, months before the election, departed from the
line of argument in favor of the he advocated
and in place thereof INDUCED IN a tone Of nvective
of infammaory appeals and suggestions which
could have had no other result than that painful
one with which the public is already too familiar ;
and wisht 10 be distinctly understood that we do
not speak of these nvectives rs stipng up the pas
sons of those denounced by him. or as affordng any
justification Of their wrong-dongs We allude to
their effect mainly upon the minds of those who
acted with him. HIS appeals against the obnoxious
classes not being founded upon considerations OF any
supposed political necessity for their exclusion, but
calculated and intended to create personal hatred
towards them. The artful inuendo-the cool sug-
gestion to take possession of the polls and make
others stand back-the half-expressed but fully un-
derstood invitation to supply uy force anything that
might otherwise be wanting, leave no doubt on our
mind of the truth of the concluding sentence of one
of our paragraphs as follows
But we do say that the X. N. city government Of
Louisville has been CriminaIly negligent and that
there are leading men in the X. n organization
must lie, and does lie, in connection with these mel
anCholy affairs"
The Louisville Journal nearly mobbcd some
time since in connection with the Infamous Mat
Ward case, and knows all about such things. 1t knew
the material it haa to work upon, and it did work
he shedding OF hnman blood he destruction O.
property-the disturbance of society-the driving gu
of women and children from their humble homes, OF
roasting them in them, ere serous-yea, terrible af
fairs and the man who wantony, for partzan pur
poses, pursues a course whose direct tendency is Il
produce such state of things, cannot escape con
domination, nor can any language we have employed
be considered any harsher than the occasion demands
The Herald may rest easy about copy being sen
to its Louisville contemporary We send one ever,
days. though, to tell the TRUTH we don't suppose tina
any paper in Louisville cares three straws about tn
opinions remarks Of the press in place dstan
and so totally apart from it as Wilmington is
But that is neither here there.
o. The glory of American Law, the principle c
all law, is the protection of Individual rights-th
guarantee of individual safety and in pursuance
this principle, society, in it's collective capacity, be
comes the plaintiff in all where any Of its men
bers, the weakest is outraged in person. lbert
or property. blow struck at one is blow struc
at ALL for it tends to weaken the sanction and sacred
ness of that bond to which all look for protection
Were this otherwise, minortes might well ceas
to live; to become unpopular would be to cease
have rights, or to dare exercise them. 1t is tn
boast of the Southern States, that even slave
person of different and inferior race shall have jul
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