The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-02-10
fHE HERALD GETS MODEST.

AS We eAPoCteu tue correspondence :
(D between the Herald and the Spirit has
been brought to close. The last issue
of our neighbcr up street says this is ow-
ing to indecent and les0. flung language
Very well, sir. If you have been whip
ped at your own game, we cannot help it.
But is it true that We have used indecent
and ls~. flung language! Let us see.-
The Herald says we commenced the on
slaught both in front and rear" Now
because we used these same words, and
applied them to him as an editor, we use
''sndece~t, loao flung, lo,0, vulyar language" ;"
Oh my stars how Immediately modest
the Herald editor is becoming all q. once.
1t is all right and proper fer him to say
we commenced the onslaught in front and
rear. But for as to use the same words
and apply them TO him as an editor is
dreadful, dreadfaH "a disgrace to the col
un1ns of a paper claiming any rsspecta-
bility.' Grant it, and it only proves il those
words had not appeared in the Herald
they never would have appeared in the
Spirit. He says such Language may do
at the Five Points, New York, or at Old
Town, Baltimore" This is strong Ian
guage, and the reader, who had not seen
the Spirit of last week, might suppose that
we had really said something not fit for
ears polite, which is not true. He seems
perfectly Mortified at the idea that such
language should appear even as quota
tion in any respectable paper" Well
we are rather sorry that we quoted
tho words front and rear from the Her
aid. u
But let as look little into the inmac-
alate nodesty ofthe Herald, and see wheth-
er it is entitled to set itself up as the pink
Of perfection and deceney:
The Democratic opponents ofthe Le-
compton Constitution "are destined to fall
and SO verify that saying ofhigh ansiqui-
~, that the OK knoweth his owner, and
the ASS his masters crib. '"-Rerald, No.
| l.
In No. 9 We have the modest anecdote Of
the Buffalo miggers
when Democrats grow manly and
out spoken, there is hope that the race o
dougataces may come to an end Her
aid, same No. And for particularly Sc
lect company, some anecdotes on the 4tf
page of the same paper might be read
"How disgraceful to the Nation, and
how much more so to the President
when We find him in his messages giving
garbied statement, surpresssng the truth
and what is worse, for mere party purposes
and selfish motives embodyiag in thatdoc
unent barefaced fasshood ~ Herald, No
8.
| "Shame, shame! on an administrators
that can so far forget the plainest principle,
of common honesty and for mere part,
purposes thus stuhty the truth. Sham,
on the northern dough. face, who thus
erouches and qusils before the Southern
lash and thus makes himself srilling toe
for the monster slavery.-Same No.
"The Spirit feels hit somewhere in tn,
neighborheod of the gizzard, or it wouls
not make so much fuss and feathers abou
nothing ~ Such men "coult
be moulded by the most unskillfnl potte
into vessels of honor or dishoDer, but mos
readily into vessels of dishonor. - Herat,
No. 4.
"He sports too many white feathers il
his tail" x sit the Spirit
pitched into as, called as to an accom-
for every editorial we had written, reprint
ed extracts from our editorials, and com
menced the onslaught both in front ant
rear. ."--Herald, No. 5.
1--WE have heard of Satan rebuking sin
but we doubt whether his Satanic Majest,
could have mustered brass enough to face
any reasonable man with any such propo
sition." In plain words that the Spiri
editor has more brass than the Devil.
'Impelled as it we're by hellish naalscs,n &c
&c.-Heraid, No. 6.
Bat we have not time nor room t.
quote further from the pure, smooth ant
chaste language Of this modest editor.
But let us see how this controversy be
gan. We copied, after the third No. O
the Herald was issued, several extracts
from that paper, as the Herald editor il
the 4th No. says "withsut disputing .
single proposition" advanced by him.
But for SO doing,we were attacked in tha
Same No. 1. in the roughest manner
using such language as "dough-facs
dough heads, dough-souls. all dough, yes
sells Of dishonor courage oozing out a
fingers ends retiring from the contest,
&C., &c and yet admitting we did n9
take exception to a single proposition h
advanced.
To this article we replied in jocala