Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1858-12-22
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The Press" and its Gang.

"2hc Press, in the outset Of lis career
'proiessed to be Democratic, and to be
supporter of the administration OF ia,
friend and patron of its editor and upor
such tdlsc prctcHccs, obtained favorable no.
tices from the Democratic press generally
ofits advent into the newspaper world
But this hypocritical friendship for the
Democratic party and the administration
established 10y it, lasted only until an op
Iportunity presented itself for the dieap,
pointed asprant for Senatorial and Cabi
net honors, who controlled it, to discharg,
the concentrated venom of his nature
which ever since his discontinue, hat
been ranking in his diabolical heart up
on all those who had in any way inter
tered with, or failed to recognize his pre-
tentions to being one Of the rulers of the
nation. Since that time, his hostility tC
Mr., Buchanan and the Democratic part,
has been not only unremittiug, but like
the fostering gangrene, each day deepen
ing and spreading.
To enable him to carry out his unworthy
designs, he has called to his aid, talents
equally prostituted, and much superior in
this ovocation to his own and now pos
sesses, in the real editor of "THc Press, q
imam Friday" who while he is marked by
all the servility necessary to do his mas.
ter's bidding, has the capacity to "out
lIerod llerod" himself, in the spirit of his
abuse. While Forney vilifes the admin
istration and its friends in the common
style of blunt blaclguardim to be seen
in the letters Of occasional" the imam
Friday" does 1t With the classic elegance
which preyades an article recently found
in "1Hc Press entitled "Bigler and his
Boswell" " to which we intend more partir.
ularly to allude.
This article seems to have been called
forth by few remarks in this paper upon
the departure of Senator Bigler for the
seat of government, which we had not the
vanity to suppose would elicit even a pas,
sing notice from much less aristocratic and
autocrotic papers than 'Mc Press" We
were therefore somewhat surprised that il
should be made the subject of long par
agraph in the last letter of "Ocoasional''
from Washington; but judge of our as
tonishmcnt when our eyes first fell upon
the elegant essay of the ''man Friday" rp,
on the same subject, which followed in
"7he Press, "Ofter many days"
Happy Friday TO have been the parent
of such bantling! And with what eustc
did he parade it for two days in the col.
umns of "Thc Press" First as inside ed,
itorial, and rcxt as classic efiusion ,r
the outside. Truly he gave the subject all
the Importance it demanded and We
trust his readers have been duly edifct
thereby. No wonder so much time had e
be devoted to this elegant essay, and thatit
appeared so long after tho article upon
WHICH IL was NOuluCu. Ie mountain
was in labor" and heightened period Of
parturition was necessary to perfect thi,
wonderful production.
But poor Friday" evidently over shot
the mark. lie sets up an enormous i'm.
age ofstraw, and then nearly annihilatcs
himsclfin attempting to demolsh it. The
article upoh which his structures are made
deserves no such fattcring criticism as he
has taken so much pains to bcstow upon
it; and the veil which covers his real de.
sign, is too transparent TO deceive even
the most superficial or obtuse readcr.-
Even the hostility to Senator BlGLER
which perv0des every line of his essay, is
not the only object OF the 'man Friday"
and his master, in this weak attempt at
ridiculng that gentleman, because he
happens to be man from among the pco.
pie, and chooses to minglc with the peo
pie, instead of associating with upstart ar,
istocratic snobs-of course we do not
mean like the imam Friday" and his mas,
ter. That there is an ulterior design de-
sign in all this, is not hard to perceive
Forncy who has to regret that it has not
been his fortune to be either "born great.
or to have greatness thrust upon him, "
has determined that he will be "great" at
all hazards, in spite of his utter lack of all
the essentials ol greatness, And although
the people Of Pennsylvania though their
representatives failed to recognize his
claims to greatness in 1857, by refusing to
elect him U. S. Senator and although ho
failed to obtain from Mr.. buchanan the
post in the National Councils that his am.
bition coveted, yet he has not given over
his determination to force himself into
place and power, no matter how much it
may be against the will Of the people. .-
But he will find that however much he
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