The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-06-23
The Heralds Bad Humor and Worse
English,

bec9ne klnQ OF ScaVenGerS cart, inlV
which any one who chooses may throw filth
and dirt. It's editorials exhibit neither
wit, education or knowledge. Any man
who has been bred in the society OF
rowdies and vagabonds, and has enough |
skill in penmansliip to write his name can.
in few hours, produce enough snch edi-
torials to fill the little sheet, inside and +
out
Those who write its editorials seem anS
ious to create the impression that they arc
engaged in controversy with us; and to
make some show, they reply to our state:
ments and arguments by personal abuse.
They no doubt like TO be noticed by us;
tfor it is lifting them out Of the mud where
| they are wallowing and placing them, for
! the time, in respectable position.
~ rs a specimen of the elegant style, 1
profound depth, and especially Of the ex.
eelleut grammar of the Herald, we copy
the first two paragraphs in its last editori-
al columns:
The readers Of the H5raM have no
/ doubt observed that, for two weeks we have
/ been doing all that could be done, to get
our neigAbors of the Spiatto do single
act Of justice.
! The Spirit having published and sent
abroad u most uncomfortable, unynitigated
lfalsehood, manufactured TO order from
whole cloth And it being of that. char
acter calculated to do injury, we have.
therefore repeatedly nailed the lie to the
counter, and asked our ueis hbor to make
to his readers some explanation or rctrac-
ltioa, but without avail"
Now it is bad enough to be abused al
fall; but to be abused in such outrageous
grammar as that, is more than we can
bear. Tie Nerald's usual course of fight
Ting ui-. throwing mud, was rather over
.taskiug good nature; what then must be
the result tzwbenwe are charged upon with
whole columns ofmnrdered English?
e SO far as the truth or falsehood of the
tabove extract is. concerned it is an idle
! waste of time to reply to 1T. The Heratds
ALLEGATIONS stand in about as much need
Il of rcfutation in this community, as docs
iIJo. Smith's bible. The person who writes
!, Its editorials now does not seem to have
'fthe faintest conception of the difference
between truth and falsehood. He jumps
into subject and siaps and slashes about
/ him like boy in a yellow jackets nest,
and in thr end hurts himself worse than
anybody else Aftcr concluding an arti-
Gle he writes heading over it, for the
same reason that the painter, after attempt
ing 20 paint horse, wrote under it. This
is horse" For example, he wrote an
article in the last Herald, about sour
neighbors os the SPIRIT" and placed over
It as q heading, .The Mails" The cap
) lion has about. as mach to do with the
wretched grammar and idiotic attemps at
fWlb Which, OH1- iIiO LsC'o ottt dtefSiOs
generally have to do with truth.
The Republicans and Negro Equality.
The House of Representatives of Con-
.neetlcat has passed a: bill giving negroes
The right of suffrage. 1t passed by q
i strictly party vote-eyery Republican vo-
!, ting in its favor, and every Democrat
, against it. The Cincinnati Enquire,
Il speaking of it says:
i The same committee that reported the
a negro suffrage bill have proposed another
amendment to tie constitution, which re-
! auires Foreigners to remain in the State oi
I Connecticut twenty -one years before they
t are allowed TO vote. UGer the operation
s of these laws an ignorant aud filthy negro
slave just escaped from Southern pIanta-
S ton, will vote immediately in Connecticut;
f but the most intelligent white European,
although he may have been college pro.
fessor in Munich or Berlin, will be compel
led 10 wait twenty one years. The achite
r foreigner is prescribed, 'disfranchised in
Connecticut, while the negro is petted, ca
essed and allowed to become citizen al
once. e1 4ai %
III This action in Connecticut and other
New England States, by Black Republi-
tcar, legislators, uffords the most conclusive
proof of the truth of the charges of the
Democracy-thatth the Republicans are in
flavor Of absolute negro equality with the
white, politically and socially, and that il
! is, in fact, the only distinctive feature Of
fthe party. Hereafter, no man who has
b any regard for truth will venture TO deny it.
ID lao gzo2 THE FLOODS. p
1p East, West, North and South'-every-
> where there has been heavy damages by
! floods; The. Mississippi, Missouri and
.dtheiry tributaries have been everaowing
sstheir banks every few weeks 70. several
months. 4 Entire towns have 7beeninun-
, dated, and the inhabitants have been COM
4ueled to desert them Toleepy all the