The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-16

darkness, and thus subserve the great interests u
the country at large.
TIE LITERATURE AND MORALITY OF POLIrICS.--
On another page will be found two articles froa
q Philadelphia democratic journal, giving an 40.
count Of the editor Of another Philadelphia jour
nal, also claiming to be democratic. We print
them as specimens Of the literature aud morality
of politics. One of these articles is entitled "A
Hypocrite Upmssked," and the other "a Poiid-
cal ProAigate." The paper In which these ara-
cles appear is tie Pennsylvania formerly owned
and edited by NV Forney. The person agans
whom they are directed is said Forney, now edi-
tor and proprietor Of the Press.
Forney, it seems, in speech at a meeting held
at Reading, and published In his own paper, de-
nounced the President Of the United States and
every officeholder under him, from the highest
to the lowest, as bad and corrupt, but more par
ticularly the officials in Philadelphia The
Peapasyyanian retorts OH him in perfect tempest
Of vituperstlon, which would overwhelm an o.
binary man, but in which Forney will swim like
duck In puddle. According TO this writer,
ForDey is man of hypocrisy and alsehood."
who practices the grossest impositions." He
ia possessed of uublusbing effroatery;" swell
skilled in all the trickery Of elections and prac-
ticed in the art Of deceiving the public mind, he
becomes dangerous man, since, undoubtedly,
he acts reckless of truth and honesty" be 10
unworthy of public confidence" he "pursues
an immoral course :" "reckiess Of truth and
honor !" "total want of honor in social
life )" "he works for pay )" was once
a parasite 10 besot.ed power y we
could recite charges affecting his personal integ-
rity;"l "the grossest frauds practised by him
against the government;'' his personal bad faith
in private transactions" "dishonorable and ua-
trustworthy "a traitor to almost every friend;v
"has abused Douglas heretofore as he nov abuses
Buchanan "If he was honest in advocating Mr..
Buchanan for President, on the score of his emf
nent services, purity and talent, what can he be
now, when be deprecistes bis aforementioned ser
vices, &c. Hence, Mr. Forney wilfally Lied to the
whole people of the Union for years upon years,
or he is wifully lying now. He was profigate
in the campaign Of 1856, or he is now most
abandoned profgate, preparing for the campaign
of 1860" "John W. Forney is corrupt, unfaith-
full and false, devoid of honor, of principle aod
Ut friendsbip-a traitor to everything which hon.
orable men regard as indispensable to the char
acter Of a gentleman"
But we must cut short these elegant extracts
and refer those who have q taste for such reading
10 the articles themselves. We have not space
for any more of such gems in our edito-
rial columns. We have quoted enough,
however, to exhibit the character of the
whole, and to present the reader with
some choice specimens Of political literature aud
of the morality of the party politics Of TIE day
1t is thus the leaders abuse each other; and the
bert Of the joke is thar it is so much their natural
element they do not consider it abuse at all.
After the swollen, muddy torrent Of vitupe,ation
from which we have taken few bucketsful as
samples, the Pennsyloanian coolly says, with
natchless aaivetf, eve do not condescend TO
abuse Mr.. Forney." What then, we should like
to know, is abuse? If such be the gems of tue
party press in the great and enlightened city of
Philadelphia-the second in the Union
wha. must the character of the party
journals for polite literature be in the less
polished and more remote regions Of the West?
When these journals and politicians blacken each
other after this fashion, the chances are that the
public will believe both sides, and exclaim-
Arcddes -blackguards both. There are
those who expect healthy public opinion to
flow through such channels. But the expression
which they give it is like impure water soaked
by dirty sponge-it comes out more filthy than
it went in.