The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-10
Bennett and Pryor.

Everybody knows who JAMES GORDON
BENNETT is, From the time when, a quar-
ter of century ago, he started the New
York Herald as the organ of the fer
popui, to the present, when his paper has
become a marvel of enterprise as we'll as of
audacity and inconsistency, his name has
been as familiar to the mass as half our
presidents, and two-thirds of our politicians.
Everybody don't know who ROGER A.
PRYOR is. So we will tell them. Mr..
PRYOR is young Virginian, hardly thirty,
at present representing the fourth district
of bis native State in Congress lawyer
by profession, sometime an editor, and al
ways politician. He has been connected
with the Virginia press, and was, for time,
editor of the Washington States. While
editor of the States, he had more or less con.
troversy, and many sharp personal passages,
with BENNETT, of the Herald. Mr.. PRYOR
was not slow to assail BENNETT at his most
vulnerable points, and the old sores of the
latter underwent many skillful and exceed
ingly severe probings at the hands of the
former. Upon coming into the present
Congress, Mr.. PRYoR was one of the men
marked out by BENNETT for the fire of his
rank and file of subordinates. The rather
emphatic colloquy between PRYOR, H1cK-
MAN and McCLERNAND, few days since,
furnished the Herald with a pretext for a
characteristic attack upon Mr.. PRYOR, who,
the next day, in the House, administered
that most bitter and scathing slashing of
bis satanic majesty" together with bitter
illusions to his domestic relations, which we
have already published. This speech of
PRYoR's did not appear in the Congressional
report of the Herald, nor was there any
editorial allusion to it until some days after
wards, when the following paragraphs ap-
peared prominently in different columns Of
the editorial page:
Pryor, of Virginia, did not yesterday brutal
ly assail, with lies and libels, the character of
any lady in private life. The "land of chival.
ry'' ought to rejoice. See Congressional re.
port.
the House of Representatives, calumniate, in
his own beastly language, any person at all.
See Congressional report
Upon referring to the Congressional re.
port, we find the following choice interpola-
tions, scattered about wherever breaks occur
in the debate:
Roger A. Pryor, the beastly liar and Sian.
derer of the benign Mother of Presidents,
didn't say wcrd.
Roger A. Pryor, the base liar and calumnia-
tor of the home of Washington, said nothing.
Roger A. Pryor, the liar and calumniator of
Virginia, made no speech to-day.
Roger A. Pryor, the shameless liar and Ca
lumniator of the good old Dominion, did not
open his mOu3h.
Roger A. Pryor, the brutal liar and libeller
of the generous land of chivalry, did not speak.
Roger A. Pryor, the filthy liar and calumnia.
tor of Virginia, made no remark.
These delicate compliments were, of
course, interpolated at the Herald Office.
Upon the appearance of the paper at Wash
ington, Mr.. AsHMoRE, of South Carolina,
moved the expulsion of the Herald reporters,
and said of bis resolution
1t was based on the outrageous attack in
that paper on members of CHS House. He
presumed that every man had either seen or
heard of it. He was free to say it was the
most infamous and libellous attack ever made
on any man in any deliberative assembly, and
in which every man must and will feel per-
sonal interest. 1t called Mr.. Pryor " filthy
libeller." Lest he should do injustice, he had
obtained certificate from the telegraph Oper.
ator, with the consent of the Reporter, in which
it was said that those words were not contained
in the House report of Monday, as prepared
by the reporter for the Associated Press. The
reporter III this certificate says =" These in
terpolatiOns have placed me in disagreeable
position with the members" MIR. Ashmore
said that that reporter had made fair, candid
and impartial re port of the pr0ceedings-but
in it had been interpOlated, in one of the lead
ing journals, most vile and Infamous assault
Oh the gentleman from Virginia, (PryOr,) such
as he had never known to be made on any gen.
tleman in any quarter of the world. It became
the duty Of the House, however innocent the
reporters may be, to expel them entirely and
BOT allow anything to go from them as author.
ised. II the House were organized he would
introduce resolution 20 have the reporter of
such paper expelled, never again to be admit
ted so long as this building stands.
The Herald was defended by two promi-
nent Republicaus-CoLFAx, of Indiana, and
Grow, of Pennsylvania. Mr.. AsHMoRE
finally withdrew the resolution for the pres.
ent.
The Herald thereupon again scatters the
obnoxious quotations throughout the pro.
rceedings, aud de6es the House as follows:
As Mr.. Ashmore threatened to move for the
expulsion of the Herald's representatives if
what he deemed offensive was again published,
we expect some fun tomorrow.
The services of the Republican apologists
are thus acknowledged by the Herald:
Messrs. Colfax and Grow volunteered as the
champions of q free press.
No further action was taken in the House
either by PRIOR or his friends, in regard to
the Herald assaults. Rumor, however, says
that the affair will be settled in another way
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
states that BENEFITS son, JAMES GORDON
BENNETT, Jr, will call Mr.. PRIOR to an
acoount after {. manner recognized by the