Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-14
southern Newspapers Again:

erary productions they are. In recurring to
this subject again, we promise not to wea-
~ BY repetition, and are quite sure that
something, perhaps, amusing will turn up.
Particularly have we recently been enchant-
ed BY fresh drafts at the living fountains of
The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer. The angels
who trouble these waters forhealing ofslave-
holding the nations bear the great names of
Ritche, Tyler and Wise; and their constant
splashings in behalf of John Leschsr keep
the RichmonNB Bethesda in perpetual mud
die. To drop metaphor-or to make way
for a most magnificent display of metaphor
by Ritchie, Tyler and Wise-we win give
the following names, bestowed upon Mr..
.Goggin in the lambent leading article in
the Richmond paper Of March 23:.
"a rara avis is he! "A bird of song of
his own, but a hoarse, discordant, croakipg,
stif1ed sqaal, with which it is his delight
to mar the music of every otbersong. No
Valentine blesses his year of solitary hate.
He has neither roost nest, nor egg; claws
be hath, and strong beak, ard coat Of
feathers, such as they.are, of many dingy
and glaring colors, but for the most part
turned wrong side out, and resembling the
chicken known as sthe frizzly.'"
Our knowledge of poultry is limited,
but it can not be an improvement TO any
chicken to be afrizzly." After finishing the
chicken, Mr.. Goggin is called "an Ishma-
stclite, wandering, desperate, and houseless
"of dark nights, in the hopes of petty
"theft; and sometimes venturing upon
RECKLESS crimes" Its then asserted that
Mr.. Goggin "winds." That he "worms."
That he "wriggles." That he advocates
'the absurdity of all parties; the imprae-
liabilities of all policies; the complexity
"of all faleshoods; the mad tumble of all
"hypocracies." What an unfortunately bad
person!. He prepares, we are told, "a sort
"of Fort Moultrie grog, mixing and pipe
smoking, to divert the mind from the real
"work in progress, the death groan and
"the clash of arms!' This may all have
some meaning, and it sounds as if it
should have; but what that meaning is we
can not pretend to say. We are, however,
to have something savager still; "Venonl-
"ed vengeance never had ghastlier glare
sin its eye, nor a keener edge upon its
"sword, than the Opposition candidate
"(Goggiu aforesaid) rolls and flames, and
'sfashes, and waves in the hysterical de-
alight Of his rhetoric slaughter of the afore-
'said Democracyp Whata Goggin! No
Goggin ever did anything of the kind be-
fore. No Goggin ever before "famed and
s6ashed, and waved and rolled in hysteri-
zeal delight of rhetorical slaughter" We
should like to see it-even in menagerie,
at two shillings admission; ;'or even at two
shillings and sixpence. - ]
The Enquirer then asks to what Goggin
is opposed9 aSimply, and consistently,
Sand determinedly, and mortaIly, and
''morally, and selfsbly, and contemptibly,
sand ever, and forever, to living by his
"own labor" Good heavens! What an
uncommon notion for Virginian gentle
man of the white kind, a member of toll
ing. laboring, hard-working, assiduous class,
which disdains to get its bread, save by
sweat of brow, and bending of back, and
hardening of hands! What has happened
in Virginia that Goggin should be selected,
and personally anathemized and placed
upon the gridiron of martyrdom, because
he is opposed to living by his own labor?
And now for tremendouse witherer:
aPublic life as he would make it-a sin
ecure and scofing-a fountain of tester
ing corruption-'a bad dictionary of idle
ness bribery, peculalion, powers assumed
and abuseLjust powers ignored and per-
verted-pragmatical empiricism and profit
gate extravaganza gone to pi.'"
o hobbling and emasculating conclusion
"Pragmatical empiricism and profigate ex-
"penditure-gone to pi." "Can the aspir-
'ing blood Of Lancaster sink into the
"ground? We thought it would have
mountedr'
Mr.. Goggin no sooner rises from state
Of 'pf than he receives the following !
Shakespearean compliment which floors |
him again, with two tuns of heloes-count-
itg their armor-atop of him!
"He would strut and swagger and play
the part of a very Octavius among the pi-
rates of Crete and boast the lieutenancy of
some perfdious Pompey. Trust him nev-
sr for Metellus!"
Of course not. We are not so fond of
trusting Virginia gentlemen, no matter
what aliases they may give. The Enqui-
rer concludes by pointing at him the
prophetic finger of scorn," and predicting
that he will probably be hung or come to
worse grief. Goggin having been laid out
cold, general massacre ensues. Of one
Crenshaw it is said:
"His gesticulation is leaden; his argu-
mentation is light"
Which finishes Crenshaw.
OfLittleton Tazewell:
"He was fine, forcible aud funny until
he reached the peroration. He oyerdid
the thing at the end, and reminded the
audience of that flight of the American Ea-
gle in which the venerable bird fell and
split his neither parts upon rock"
Which finishes Tazewell.
OfMr. Woodfn:
"There was Mr.. Woodfn of Bucking-
ham present, who made an infinitely tire
some speech. He was, we understand, one
Of tie Democrats whom disappointment
drove into the Know-Nothing culverts in
'55. Me miserum!"
Which finishes Wood6na
After this dreadful slaughter, we leave
the field of death, with awful forebodings
of the final massacre.
And now, one more charming little ner.