Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-12-04
Vulgar COnceit.

! That prince Of puppies aud HutUcrat of itoTs
John W. FTncy, in his Philadelphia P,~s Of 0ctp.
! Ter 9Th. publishes TN address in Nindlcailun uf
/ the principle Of popular sovereignty, aud IN reply
to the assaults Of the Leconpton organs, from
which the following is an rHlract
ass Mr.. Buchanan i in the habit Of reading all
ihese journals, H. has all these ehaIgcS |
wonder bow hr tlt IN reading them. | think |
know aud ii lee bad been called forward in "a court
Vt ii,1ii'C to 0hswrI. pHd,r Vdth. lie mculd have
said. aud think lac will yet say before lac is SUM
i IHni!cd IT, III. inal account
! All thu" Ci.atgrN aIr ba>clv false. Fr7'v IL
Dgi.P n" "'i .fp'y". Z, me INT me. III, "'hnatib
| Is NJ "a T.. oHcr ME. never helped him pccuni-
erIv but once ~ NV life, aud That debt he has re-
ua'd I" me with compound interest. lie has spent
aud sIC lilccd more money for nc than am worth
10 day. never had blood relative that was halt
- d. voted (" me Furnev. never assisted his
.tHi!y. IL Started his Ia ,r In Lancaster 90 wears
! az" without i t"lrtr from mr. He bought the
I,an<p'.'"iiH vim Lis own haid-rarnrd means,
wb"h | was the lnusi unpopular public man IN Phil
adcIphii; wlru EJih people and politicians were
against rlr; when my own friends there could have
been Iut into an omnibus; and he TerSevetcd in
working ;1r me ill TIC II ruined nian, and went
t. Washi, gt"n t. retrieve his fortunes, which lie
would have !"n, had !ic not fuuIishly given up
cry thing in tho w"rd Int his wiics property, IL
support nc, rather tgn have il H1id ilu lac left
n,ral Pierce win packets full. Besides never
was II ANY a.si-:lEc. I" Iornry in Washington.
IT," Virgins delegation in Congress we've always
against me; ai'l was. elsewhere pnwcriess tnhclp
Inn. H. va Z, ..;,d I" the cirrkshp because he
bad be- "a iiu''Mriking rdI:"r and an honest man /;
'hd WI. h" got i'rr l., thought at n"bodl bni me,
ana h.d IT, vili,; wt,l ny tItnds--t thinking Il me
!i;-i g;d ri" lie 81, NY true. CONSTANT mn,cI-
h>!i, rpnti,ii. Eici. I. wont dc for You, Bennett,
Pryor. Wa,ic. n:td Ncu,.r, Ia tain about the For
rest letter. aud ,n,h ;,1l-,i,-" knuw Fmncy bet
!'r i!.ti. all I" you, and even il were dlsi"srd to
hiTCN q ti'u." l.I have IT," often defended Inn,
'ui .n"M lis hcaIt t." vel, I" De made "a party to
vorr jbrs" r.H. l,r, not only upon the Forrest
ici''r. bu; Gien c''I act # Iii, hir that concerns
~. ihhh'. ti.,i" Is E"i an accusation now made
2:.i:iiS him that d.. thi rrti.t " Ill ten ll.l l"T.t
u.or H. authors, aud assist Instead Of hn ting him.
In tiir air"l, 81 vulgar concc!t. this precious pro-
tUrvt7H f1I5 ~ TlTacT. II Is The n0ncSNCh Of Ian
ty- III" nonlar,l If eclfprai,c 1t stamps its M.
thor H. ii. klrg ni til" Narc'sii>cS. How he stu
ines himself! How be- safes his appetite for sweets
on the ton-tc.r q s".i 1ratuiLtion-thc sugar lu1
Of differentiation.
"lIc that H. l. Iha w. WAS elected t" the
C..rh,It,t hc,n'i>r lac had been Woodworking ed.
iI"r aud an honest man" Slaksi"arr was nearly
always light IN his estimate If human character.
lie ha,s. C"ilctit in weakest bottles strongest
works " lac says, There not uuc " i>c man among
twenty will praise himself" How severe. then. the
sentence this skilfu di-,tcior Of human th"rElts
has pronounced upon the creature FrImy. It's
"Inu poor miserable, dcludrd rgnti-t, your dirty
body is So feeble, your thy mind tlcrrrit, that
your vile conceit entirely ",clw crs you and trans
forms yea into an cInbodim,nt Of dri,clinS vain.
glorinusnc>> You patent ass. -yOu branded d't'
YOU incllGhle icn"ranu, wrap yourself srill
more Sufucalinsly in the robes If Your invuucraL'
vanity. keep the noisome sirnch If your peculiar
individuality within the compass If those r"l ct,
that ii may not infect the air and turn tn stomach
If those Of your fellow men. whose i'll luck HAY
bring them Ltrr ,"u, feed Yourself upon the VA
pors Of Your vau;,t until blatcd and pnt:id With
lusiful passion for your oWn vile cnrcasc, yon sink
into the charnr.hGu|c If society CONFUSED If the
political rimIs vhnSc tutor you have been, and
whose assoc late YOU ara
There are persons who would liz Ir''s:Tnr On
the ground if their vanity did not hold them MP
In what n ptla.nirr Of olscuiiy would YOU rot
have BEEN long since, poor Forncy, had your india
ted vanity not come to yuur issue. We quote
again
"Ics, not only rr1n III" Forrest letter. bu; upon
every net Of Ia. HE tiat concerns III" public. there
i- not an accusation nw made against Lin that does
not rrcoil with trn-i Id force upon its authors. and
assist instead # hurting him"
Modest, truly l@vatcr la, we'll SAID. liz who
gives himself ans # importance, exhibits the ere
dcniials of impotence" Here is case in point
throughout the entire extract We have given above
We behold the ltmpous assumptions Of lLncicd
greatness III >idrnt-makcr Spcaks--a War
wick is hca:d Ia power behind the throne is
disclosed. And v here, in tic history Of men, as
pring To Lc considered p"L''r men. there TO be
found Letter authenticated credentials of iInpo
irncc in the possession Of the aspirant? Com
scuns cf his own deserved insignicancc, h. Sc, rs
10 escape from i: by tie L"mbast of IL sctprdiaw
which only rruGorS his mental and moral dcgrc,iH
ton more consi iru"Is Had the dCSpicablc ProcH
rcr particle If honest shame in his nature, the
bnl ning blush brought to his check at the mention
of the Forrest letter" would have scorrhcd the
sheet nion which he rrrn,d Lis lying and villain
Gus address," Yet this low apostle Of scurriny
ESSAYS thu defamation of our venerable Chict Mag
is,rntr. aud conserving with his ruilianly cumpccr
lirndcrick by vrnrmm4 tAlsrhnud+ and fish market
abuse. strives to lesson James buchanan in the
tna,ion'f thc Arcriranp people. Forney and Bred.
crick. par noIi. Frdtrum.'