The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-21
A sCATHING REBUKE-A LOOKING
GLASS FOR SAG NIGHT EDITORS.

A SCATHING REBUKE-A LOOKING
GLASS FOR SAG NIGHT EDITORS.
The following article from the Louisville
Journal, though aimed especially at the Louis
vile Democrat. will apply with equal truth
and force to all the Sag Nieht Loeofocos, who
are nOU so winningly solicitous for the ere
organization Of the gallant Old Wing party, "
and so fulsome in their praise of the Sage Of
Ashland" and the "Great ExpOunder of the
Constitution" Let every Sag NIGHT Locofo-
co editor and politician in the country read
it, and feel themselves hit between wind
and water" Let them read it and behold
themselves as in a looking glass:
For our own part, we look with much in
terest to the organization Of the Wing party.
Though opposing them in their policy OF
government, and differing from them so en-
tirely, both as to men and measures, yet we
have high regard for their sincerity and
patriotism. Their great leader, whom the
whole country regarded as bold and gal
liant champion Of what he considered right,
infused into his party something of his own
characteristic bodness.
While We opposed the Wings we respected
them.
We shall recur to this subject again.-LOuis.
rifle Democrat.
We too shall recur to this subject again,
and we shall recur to it in such manner as
to make the editor Of the Democrat ashamed
of himself if he is not as. destitute of shame
as he is of truth. He Joined the Democrats
in July, 1914, and from that time slandered
and vilified and tradueed and libelled and
lampooned the Wing party so long as there
was Wing party. There was no vile charge
which he could invent, or others could invent
for him, that he did not hurl against the
Wings every day of his life. He protested
hundred times over that they were abolition
lists Of the very worst description. He says
now that he had high regard for their sim
certify, yet, year in and year out he charged
them with being as false as the father of lies
and seeking only to impose upon and cheat
the nation and jpggle themselves into power
He says he has high regard for their patri-
otism, yet he published thousand times
that, IN every controversy, in every dispute,
between our own country and foreign
power, they Invariably and as if by law of
necessity took part with the enemy. He as
severated in every possible form of assevera-
| ton that they were the legitimate successors
Of the Tories ofthe Revolution, that they
inherit Tory principles, that they would at
any time betray their country if they could,
and that the whDle object of the organization
was to piunder the treasury. He talks now
about "the great Wing leader whom the
whole country regarded as bold and gallant
| champion of what he considered right" yet
he charged thatgreat leader perpetually with
abolitionism, he accused him Of perjury, he
represented hin as utterly unprincipled, he
called him a dotard, he branded him as an
instigator of murder he presented him as
gambling with his own slaves, he stigmatised
him as q Sabbath-breaker and brandy .drink
er, he said that the great leader might be
found any Sunday in his parlor at Ashland,
his shirt-sleeVes rolled up, the cards on the
table, and the brandy bottle handy.
If the editor of the Democrat tells the
! truth now, when he says that he had a high
| regard for the sincerity and patriotism Of the
Wing party, and if he tells the truth when
he proclaims that he looked upon Henry Clay
as bold and gallant champion of what he
considered right, then for the greater por.
tion, the far greater portion of his life as an
editor, he was habtually and daily and
knowingly as vile a slaDderer, as base ca
| lumDiator, as shameless O traducer, as afro.
cous vlifier, as infamous liar, as ever
polluted Gods atmosphere with the fetid
breath of his mouth and nostrils. If it is
| fact that all his black and horrible denuncia-
tions Of the Wing party as the enemies Of
their country were uttered against party
| for whose sincerity and patriotism" he had
"a high regard" and if it is fact that all
his atrocious and abominable abuse of Mr..
| Clay was leveled against a man whom the
whole country" himself included, regarded
as a bold and gallant champion of what he
considered right" then has his editorial ca
reer been one of unparalleled and unap-
proachable infamy. When an editor ae-
knowledges, that, during his whole editorial
life till within the last year or two, he was
a calumniator and villain. what confidence
or shadow of confidence can he claim or ask
or expect from any human being for what he
may assert or Gsseverate now or hereafteri-
What fate does he deserve unless to be re-
pudiated and scorned and loathed and kicked
by the whole race of mankindl
Souri, CARoLNA.-The N. Y. Herald ex
presses the opinion that South Carolina will
participate ia the Cincinnati Convention
1t says the people are actually becoming ex-
cited upon the important question whether