The Nevada journal., 1856-05-09

E Ihe democrat reads us very long
homily on Editorial courtesy. 1t depre-
Gates particularly harsh and offensive lam
guage towards one of the fraternity. 1t
lugubriously deplores the want of gentility
in its opponents, and modestly assumes to
be pattern of excellence in all that per-
tains to the courtesies of the craft. We
are glad to know that there has been a
reformation in that quarter. 1t was very
much needed. The time was when our
neighbor did not scruple to prostitute its
columns gratuitously to the publication of
defamatory and scurrilous cards against
the character of one of the fraternity, even
when respectable sheets refused indignant
ly to publish the same for money. But
it affords us no less pleasure than the com
munity to know positively that marvel
lous change has taken place for the better
in our neighbor. Were We not assured of
the conversion from reliable sources we
would have said that sheet had the same
right to read methodistic discourse on
Editorial courtesy as the devil to preach
christianity, and no more. This would
have been harsh comparison, warranted
when perpctrated on savage foe but not
on even civilized black skins.
1t is allowable to fight Indians in am
bush and with their own weapons, but en-
lightened men use more polished arms in
in an open field. Engaged in the good
work to reform and elevate society, it is
gratifying to know that others are disposed
to render assistance. The Democrat can
commence even at the eleventh hour and
do some good, and we are willing to take
its own word for the present and believe
that henceforth it will adhere to the con-
ventionalities in use among the fraternity.
We once gave the public an article on
the tyranny of southern sentiment. We
had in our minds eye at the time just
such biped as writes for the Democrat
and has the check to charge Millard Fill
more with abolitionism. The soundness
of Millard Fillmore no sane man questions.
But the charge of abolitionism strikes
directly at the prejudices of southern men,
and those prejudices carried out on the
candidate Of the American party amount
to virtual prescription of every north
ener, and is tyranny of the most aggra-
waited character. The Democrat knows
what those prejudices are, how they can
be excited, and what the result will be, for
it feels them itself.
A pretended letter of Millard Fillmore.
said to have been written in 1886. is
trumped up to sustain the charge of abo-
litionism. Allowing that the letter is
genuine, not single sentence can be quo
ted from the pen of Fillmore, which
indicates desire on his part to intermed-
die with slavery in the States where it
exists. The founder of Democracy, Thos.
Jefferson, was a veritable abolitionist in
the true sense of the term, judged by the
standard of the Democrat, and yet his
name is the cry word Of the party at every
convention, primary meeting or maudlin
conclave in bit shop. Jefferson did not
believe in the divine character of the Pc
culiar institution, but deeming it curse,
could not and did not favor its existence.
The Democrat will do we'll to recollect
the circumstance which befel the individ-
ual who lived in a glass house. Its can
didate may be the man who declared that
he was wool-dyed Federalist and had he
drop of Democratic blood in his veins he
would let it out; or the renegade who
despised the State which gave him birth
and regretted that he hadn't been born on
the other side of the "clothes line :" or the
little giant who had the impious presump-
tion to attempt to patch the finality meas
ures of ls5O-to improve upon the elabo-.
rate workmanship of such statesmen as
Clay and Webster, and like the crow which
got his feet entangled in the fleece of a ram
in the foolish attempt to initiate an eagle
that bore with ease lamb aloft in his
pounces, receives the contempt of con-
servative men, as a payment for an ex.
extreme effort to prove himself sound
on wool.
When these men are thrust forward for
Democratic honors they may be found as
vulnerable as any of their species. Mean
while fire away at Fillmore, he can stand
the broadside of pop gun batteries.