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

| A SCATHlNG 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 Nicht Locofocos, who
are now so winningly solctous for the ere.
organization of the gallant Old Wing party"
and so fusome in their praise Of the sage Of
| Ashland" and the "Great Expounder of the
Constitution" Let every Sag Nicht Locofo-
co editor and politician in the country read
1t, 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.
Ierest to the organization Of the Wing party.
though opposing them in their policy of
government, and differing from them so en-
tireiy, both MS to men and measures, yet we
nave high regard for their sincerity and
patriotism. Their great leader, whom the
whoie country regarded as bold and gal
liant champion Of what he considered right,
infused into his party something of his own
Characteristic boldness.
, Mnl,e we opposed the Wings we respected
We shall recur to this subject aeain.-Lou;s.
Uaic Democrat
We too shall recur to this subject again,
and we shall recur to it in such n manner as
TO make the editor Of the Democrat ashamed
OF hiinseli IT he is not "a destitute of shame
as ne is of truth. lie joined the Democrats
IN July. 1874 and from that time slandered
ana vilihed and traduccd and libclled and
iampooned the Wing party so long as there
was n w nlu pnriy Thor. u
which he could invent, or others could invent
10, ,,!, nin that he did not hurl against the
Wings every day OF his life. lie protested
.'unareh Tunes ovsr that they were abolition
ists OF me very worst description. lie saws
now that he had high regard for their sim
cer'ty, YET, year in and year out, he charged
them with being as false us the father of lies
and seeking only to impose upon and cheat
tne nation and jnggle themselves into power.
ne says he has high regard for their patri-
otsh'' yet he published q thousand times,
,hat, IN every controversy, in every dispute,
between our own country and n foreign
power, they invariably and ns If by q law of
necessity took part with the enemy. lie as.
severoted in every possible form Of asscvera.
tlon That they were the legitimate successors
OF the Torres OF the Revolution, that they
inherit Tory principles, that they would at
any t,ne 1etrny ,helr country if they could,
Ah" .hat 'he Who'e OBJECT OF the organization
was TO Piunder the treasury. He talks now
ABOUT tine great wing leader whom the
vhoie country regarded as bold and gallant
champion OF what he considered right" yet
ne charged that great leader perpetually with
heoiitionisin' he accused him of perjury, he
represented INN as utterly unprncipled, he
cared nm dotard, he branded him MS an
ihsusntor OF murder, he presented him as
gambling with his own slaves he stigmnised
MN rs Sabbhth-Dreaker and brandy .lrink
err I've said that the great leader might he
icnnd any sunday in his parlor at Ashland,
his shirt-sleeves rolled up, the cards on the
taDle, ana the brandy bottle handy.
II the editor OF the Democrat tells the
truth row, when he says that he had n high
regard Tor the sincerity and patriotism of the
he proclaim, tbot he IooteJ "o ' III ~%c"
as n bold and gallant champion of what he
considered right, then for the greater por.
eJ,,r h. ~, eIIeI p"riioh OF ms ne as an
knowingly rs vile n slandSrer, os bosc on
lumniator, as shameless n traducer, as afro
eiIus winner as infamous liar. as ever
breath Of his mouth onI a., Win me ittid
fact that all his black and horrible denn,cio.
tons of the Wing party as the enemies of
their country were uttered against party
CO. b;,,h ra,. s,"Inny nrH paIfl''ssn, ne mad
his atrocions and obon,;noi,,n ol,nso 80 NJ
N,"s WIS leVeIeu against man whom the
""oie country, nilnSeii included, regarded