Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-01-22
Id. CarmDbc,l aud tI,e Press.

This very important Individual, who
succeeded last fall in being elected il
this District by sixteen "negro votes
is at present occupying no enviable
space in some of the s'nusc-papers." In
some remarks in the National House OF
Representatives, a short time ago, he
took occasion 20 sneer at, and express a
contempt for the press, which kind OF
touched "Old Drab," of the n. Y. Tf-
6une, who pitches into Lew this wise;
"And, you, Mr.. Lewis D. Campbell,
you. too, must have your fling at the
public journals. You have made many
weak speeches; believe US, when VIC say
that you never made a weaker one. Is
this the reward which your grateful
heart bestows upon newspapers for boil
stering you against facts, against con
victions, against your own persistent
plumbers, into a quasi 'respectability?'
Think, for a moment, OF your foolish
utterances covered up, passed over.
treated with an unprecedented and hard
ly justifable charity, and then reconcile
your sneer with the vulgar gratitude due
from a drowning man to those who have
saved him"
The Commercial is even more COM
~plimentary:
"Our old friend Lewis Campbell took
occasion, in the debate to which we have
called attention, to express anew his
miseraqIy-silly spite at the maze papers
He, a specimen Of statesman, made 'of
shreds and patches who never as editor
or Congressman was more than a flip
pantparagraphist. presumed to speak of
the press-which unfortunately manu-
featured him, and has made many another
of his kind with less trouble than he has
given-as a thing of rags, lampblack
and OIL 1t appears to be quite impos-
sible for Campbell to behave himself
with the slightest discretion. His mar
row escape from humiliation at the Oc-
tober election should have taught him a
lesson as to propriety. But he will lot
consent to learn. Matters less instruc-
tive than rags, lampblack and oil, occu-
Ply the small amount of mind that he is
able to concentrate
Then the Cleveland Herald comes
down on the "Butler Ponoy," and after
currying him over pretty well, applies
the following anecdotc:
"This iH-tempcrcd outburst reminds
us of a story which we may have told,
but which will bear repetition.
ga man in one of the counties of
Northern New York was very anxious
to be elected Sheriff, and, although not
Just the man for the place. he had among
his friends one politician, whose influence
was deemed all-suficient; but, ever with
that, the candidate failed an election
After his defeat the unsuccessful candi-
date met his Woodworking friend, and
was very petulant under his defeat, even
finding fault with his warm friends, who
had done their best to get him elected.
This abused friend, smarting under such
treatment from a man not really worthy
the labor and exertion made for him,
turned Indignantly on the -Would-be
Sheriff, and said: Mr.. c., if the
Almighty had done one half as much
for you as 1 have, you would now be
Sheriff of the Universe
evil our snappish Congressman ap-'
ply the moral?"
We think the constituents of "Little
Lew" had better request him to resign
and com home, and not disgrace them
any longer. He cuts a more ridiculous
figure now, than two years ago, when
this request was made by his constitu-
ents from Prehe County, accompanied
with a threat of burning him in efigy.