The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-11-03
Com municatiOns.
For the spirit"
Civility is Cheap -Slander and Ca
lumny Of Whole Communities are
the "FOuleSt Whelps Of Sin."

lumny OF Whole communities are
the 'sFouleSt Whelps Of Sin."
1t is pretty evident from many indica-
tions that public indignation is reused
against the folly and wickedGess of the
Editor of the Consolidated Republican
The insolence of this holy bully, "who has
stolen the livery of Heaven to serve the
devil in," will no longer be tolerated. IT.
has been suggested that the electors of
Monroe, conscious of their own worth,
conscious of the dignity of their situation,
should act in his case, as gentleman
does who is assailed with foul language
by blackguard loafer in the street, and
pass on without apparent attention. That
he should be left to the expectation of
that corporal castigation, which he so
richly merits and which his pachyderma-
tous hide is capable of feeling.
4 Monroe has practiced too much for
bearance already. Her forbearance and
generosity have met but a poor return.
l"Whils the patient will suffer, the cruel
will kick" To be reproached with ig-
norance by such a herd!!! Suppose our
ignorance to be gross. Suppose it to be
beastly, how would these fellows know it?
We would then only be on level with
themseives!!! To talk to them about
} orthography, etymology, syntax, prosody
and punctuation is all labor lost 1t is
: like discoursiug to plain man about the
meaning of the Egyptian hieroglyphics
before Champollion had discovered the
3 art of deciphering them. asifIA
As to the hierophant at the head of this
! establishment, who publishes his name as
editor, we have no reason to suppose that
his course mind. his animal nature, his
= obtuse moral perceptions, leave him any
sensibility to shame, any adequate con-
ception of the decencies and proprieties
> belonging to the character of the gentle
4 man or the christians. In the whole circle
: of literature it is difficult to find better
portrait of him, than the one in Grainger's
II truant school-boy: IAN
.Ths most ungentle of his tribe was he
No generous precept ever touched his heart
n With concord false and hidsous procoiy
r He scrawled his task and driveled o'er his
I s part" I5vaaH 9E. iaJg- 9zafla = 3E
r This is the scamp to publish to the
!, world that the electors of Monroe. coun-
IN ty cannot read!!! We have not songht q
: controversy with this worthless, contempt
BILE fellow. We long. bore his taunts Iand
: his impsrtinence in silence. But we arr
o now determined to show him that war i.
r, game which two parties can play at
!. : Say Mr.. Scandal Hoss. do you want any
more of it! Are you.satis6edi ia
wi ."Tommy come tickle me, I'll tickle you.''
N Having expressed our contempt for th'
talents and a.tainments of this fellow it il
j. but candid to admit that he has two fac
'e ulties in greater perfection than perhaps
!. :, any other living mao. We mean tn,
fe faculty of believing without evidence ant
of the faculty of hating withcuta provoca
D. tion.
= In less than two columns of his filth,
- Sheet" he claims God Almighty as be
it longing to his political party, and pounce
" upon our worthy and amiablc candidat
for Congress, and calls him '.profane,
drunkard, gambler, Sabbath breaker,
and asserts that he does not attend tn
= preaching of the Gospel and does not pa,
i "deference" to its ministers, that he care
n, nothing for the religion of Jesus an,
is curses "most fendishly" by that adorabl
t name. Then be calumniates the elector
- - of Monroe county by Wholesale. as. fs.
~ If tits urged in mitigation, that he ma
" have received some real or fancied injur
llt from Mr.. Spriggs, that he is actuated b
os personal malignityd and revenge agains
!" that gentieman;l We ask what provocatio
. did he ever receive from the people Q
of Monroe county; did they ever .injnre 0
AZ insult him? But is there nQtignorancc il
). Monroe county? Yes, alas, alas, ignoranc
!" every where, ignorance enough to make
.s wise man ashamed, and a good man sor
D. rowful. But the atrocity of the calumn
consists in representing that, as peculia
to one locality, which is only common t
:. the whole State, the whole nation, tn
whole christian world. @ otl
a When this stigma was Grst cast upo1
IS the county, by certainly, the most dsso
is lutte and licentious press that ever degra
ID ded and debased the morals of chris
is tian people, it was too lightly regarded