Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-07-11
LYNCHBURG VIRGINIAN.
WEDNESDAY NoRNING...JuLY II. 1855.
The Washington Union on the Know Moth

ings.
The organ eff the Pierce administration at
Washington in its issue of Friday, indulgesi in a
slanderous and abusive TRADE against the Amer
lean party. 1t has never been onr lat 10 meet
with a yiier specimen of yituperaties tksn Is fur.
nished by the Unions article. 4 foreigner who
knew nothing of our politics would suppose on
reading its sourrilous inveetIve against the Amer.
lean party that it was speaking OF an organized
band of thieves. robbers and outlawed traitors
The editor whose moral sensibilities are 50 dread
full, shocked at fhe enormities Of Know Moth.
ingism and who thus gives vent 10 his Yirtuous
indignation is no less a parsonage than J. ".
Forney. the man who some years ago attained an
infamous notoriety by attempting 10 snbofn n
witness to swear away the eharaeternt \ lady
Abuse from such q ban Is the highest eompli
nent that could be pau to the deceaoy, integri.
ty. honor and patriotism OF the American patty
snd they may we'll be proud Of all tie 'itnpera
ton showered upon them from that source. They
NAV be sure that they are right asloag as their
standard of public and private morality differs
from tha, of J. W. Forney. The following Is a
sample Of Forney's ratings:
The idea of opposing the democratic party
has now become a paramount emotion among eel.
tain classes of politicians. To CRAFTY this feel
ing, they seem to have agreed 10 part with MI
those qualities which have been supposed To de.
nifty manhood. 10 strengthen society aud 10 IN.
eoire the ambition of the rising generation
Would Heary Clay have ever believed that Chr.
les :. Morehead would be willing to bow the knee
10 a party which riots in the most earraptlng
oaths. exnlts in the most relentless prescriptions.
and boldly defends the most glaring deeePtlohs!
Or thut Humphrey Marshall. the gallant soldier.
whig of other days, would cater IL a crowd that
plots in seeretsilenoe7 Or that in his own district
the CLAY banner should be truilsd in the dust. OF
be thrown aside for the signs aud mumneries OF
a conspiracy which hides in aud haunts the
celers sud the alleys of our CITIES aud our
towzs
VIA. wouh Danietsi'ehster think of Massa
ohusetts. tried like a captive at the chariot wheels
of a victorious party whose war-cry is hostility
t. religious liberation, whose victims are some Of
the FIRST men in the nation, and whose victories
have been achieved by means II the basest coal
itiaRS with the enemy 81 that lfuon which he So
eloqaentiy defended What .5uuidhe say ftie
silence OF Choate aud Of Everett. N this the hour
of the degradation of party which he - gallant
" attempted 10 rescue from abolition absorption
by this bold aud manly patriotism ! The present
sense Of the humiliation which averwhelms the
wing party heenly as il - felt by many Of thu
former friends 0 Clay and ! ebster, by those who
still follow in their footsteps aud glory Ia their
example, would feebly illustrate the inefable
seorn and Indignation that would be certain IL
oyerwhelm the know-nothing plot, i Clay and
Webster were alive to give u~ttersnoe 10 their own
sensstiaas.a
The American Organ in commenting ON the
Unions hypocritical professions of admiration
and yeneration for the memory Of Daniel Web
ster. calls attention 70 Tire fact that one ofthe
first removals from office made b. the present
Administration was ihut Of the brother Of Mrs.
" ebster, who. after the decease of her husband.
gen erously devoted his whole salary 10 her sup
port. a beautiful commentary this ON the eulo
gies now bestowed ON the great statesman OF
Massachusetts by the Pierce organ
That, the Washington Union, Of all the pa.
pers in the universe should assume to itself the
guardianship of the fame of Henry Clay and Dan.
lei Webster, is one of the most astounding man
ifestations of impudence q effrontery were mem
Der ever to have witnessed. These illustrious
Wing statesmen in their lives experienced 10
more malignant and INSCRIPTIONS persecution
from any quarter than from the central newspa
per organ of the Democracy. 1t would be diff
cult we imagine for the Union TO point cut one
single instance in which it ever gave Clay or
Webster credit for an act of public virtue or of
patriotism. 1t 'loathed THEN lives, but now for
the accomplishment of vile party purposes, it
hypoositically essays 10 'gild their graves The
Union says that if Clay and Webster were alive
their ineffable scorn and Indignation would oyer.
whelm the Know Nothing plot. The aadaeity of
Forney never soarelto a higher pitch than this.
1t would be presumptuous in any living man to
undertake 10 say what they would DO were they
alive, but thatthe u ash.ngton Union should ven
ture to speak for tie august shados Of Henry Clay
and Daniel Webster is a stretch of folly ana pre-
sumption of which we had no previous conoep-
ton.
The key to the article upon which VT have
been commentingi is found in its closing para
graph, wherein Forney exhorts President Pierce
to exterminate the inoendiary end traiterous
Know Nothings. Afew offices we suppose are
still held by members Of the American party at
Washington, and these are wanted by the Union
editor for his fayorites.
Il new Railroad Schenle.
we find In the Alexandra Gazette, of the 9th