The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-07-22


| ..bag Of wind" than he. we should like to
see the individual, that Barnum might OBJ
tain one more curiosity. In all the wishy-
| washy twRddle and nonsense with which he
has bored and nauseated the readers of the
Wing, from time to time, there is but one
bright emanation of mind When we, few
| weeks ago, had the liberality to excuse him
for treating our editorials the produc-
| tons of anonymous writer's" because some
cattle have hollow horns and some men have
hollow heads" he put his wits to work and
made the discovery that ''some cattle have
no horns"!! This his friends should have
engraved on the Monument to be erected
| in honor of the Mecklenburg Signers, to
Perpetuate the memory of SO distinguished
an author. If he is of the muley breed, of
course he will not die of the hollow horn,
but his friends may well have fears that he
will die Of the hollow head. We repeat, that
we will not enter into a controversy with
this anonymous scribbler, the lackey and
penny whistle of the . Wing" in which pa
per we are falsely charged, in no less than
f0ur separate allegations. with giving ''gdr-
bLed extracts" of Mr.. Fillmore's Albany
speech-in plain language, charged with
classifying q speech to injure political OPP
ponent. We have no time to waste on such
game-ond If we had, we should get rs Gre
Cit for 'winging' and 'bagg;ng" wood
chucks. Our time and srace can be more
profitably employed, than by noticing the
weak. silly and ridiculous illusions Of the
anonymous scribber of the Wing. We
care not for his learned comments. his pro-
found criticisms, and his sparkling with
cisms, oyer our editorial articles. We, in
common with others, have enjoyed many a
hearty laugh over them. We have only
turned aside TO notice him, as we do to-day,
when he has been guilty of an cutter and
reckless perversion" of truth. About three
weeks since, he empted one of his charac-
teristic and peculiar Walls of wrath upon our
humble head-and with pompous Falls
taflian swagger, and an Owl-like gravity, in
formed us where his name could be had
at the office of the Whig!! We had but
losing both of them, when we reached that
part of his killing effort. We then fail
ed to notice his abuse, for reasons already
alluded to, although one or two Of our friends
were green enough "a Pedagogpe would say
verdant) to expect reply from us-and as
for his name, we have no more solicitude
about it then we have for him. We can
generally tell the species of an animal by its
sound. Although we may be unable thus to
distinguish between cattle with and with
out horns"-yet there is certain animal
very much ''like mule, only more So"
which discloses at once, when he attempts
to roar, that he is not lion.
"Garbting!" Is the muly headed numb
skull so devoid of sense as not to know that
there can be no ''garbling'' where the UhoLe
speech is given, to speak for itself! We
published along with our comments, the en-
tire speech of Mr.. Fillmore-every line and
word of it, precisely as 1t came in an Extra
from The office Of the "North Carolina Whig,"
paper in which, strange to say, the charge
appears! We have now posted up in our
office the very same Extra, from which the
speech-the whole speech-was put into
type by a gentleman in our Office, the day
after it was issued and sent out to the pub
lie from the ''Whig' office. The portions
of the speech marked in Italics could not
make US liable to a charge of ''garbling,"
because we used the precaution to state in
RI fhof fha ~:
were our own. Nor in our comments ac-
companying the speech, did we take sim
gle extract therefrom, or make single quo
tatiOn, except to refer to the word inca
sure Our whole course in regard to the
speech was perfectly fair and legitimate,
and there was the speech to condemn US, if
if we had pursued contrary course.
When, therefore, we are charged with |
with ian utter and reckless perversion of
the obvious meaning of the language of that
speech" "by garbLed extra cts" it must be
apparent to all that the accusation is made
by an utter and reckless perversion Of
truth.
We have no disposition to do Mr.. Fill
more injustice. But, he is candidate for
the office of President of the United States, !
and it is our duty, as public journalist. to
investigate his claims for the high and i'm
pertant office to which he aspres-impor-
tdnt to the South, most certainly, at this |
time. And the people have right-indeed |
it is their duty to know, if possible, the po-
litical opinions and principles of those whom
they are asked to place at the head of our
Government at time like the present, when |
the South and her institutions are threaten
ed with overthrow and ruin by those who |
entrtain the principles avowed by Willard |
Fillmore, never retracted, but always at
tempted to be practically enforced (see his
votes in Congress) ,Cheneuer he had an OPP |
pOrtunity. So strong an abolitionist is he, |
that he acknowledges in his Albany speech !
that he had Ito a certain extent to overcome !
long cherished DreiHdiceS, and disregard /