Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-07-25
lPron the New York Tribune.
TROUBLE IN THE FAMILY.


signed to put down all incendiary AbOli-
ton culm;nations, is being put in force at
the South in advance of its enactment.--
Who shall say henceforth that our South
ern brethren are not progressive. wide
awake people, and fully up with the time?
The only mistake seems to consist in put
ting this act in force against Mr.. Douglas
supporters, which is not. We presume. the
entertainment to which Judge D. meant to
invite or be invited. The supporters of
Breckenridge are so overwhelmingly pre-
ponderant in the South, especially in the
Cotton region, they viii not allow the ad-
vocates of Douglas or Lincoln quiet hear
ing Even the Hon. Herschel '. johnson,
Douglas candidate for Vice President, is
not allowed to address meetings in the
State which he formerly represented in the
Senate and ruled as Governor. He tried
it on at Macon ten days since, and was
hocted and grossly insulted- WhereuPOn,
that distinguished champion of Free
Thought, Free Speech, and everything else
Free-free niggers and free soil excepted
Mr. James Pinckney HambletOu. editor OF
the Atalanta COnfederacy. thus pitches into
the rioters:
"GOv. johnson, by appointment, ad-
dressed the citizens of Macon on Saturday
evening, the Goth ult. We have most re-
liable information, that this distinguished
Georgian was treated with great disresPect
by his political enemies. 1t is a blight.
ing stigma upon the fair escutcheOn OF
Macon that such was the case"
"GoY. johnson is gentleman, Geor,
gian, National Democrat, true and tried
advocate of Southern rights, man of un-
tarnished honor and integrity, and a states
man of pre-emincnt ability. And why he
should be insulted and hung in efhgy upon
his own native soil Is more than We can
understand. We can only say to those
that were guilty of 50 foul and cow
ardly a deed, that we are conscious Of the
fact that no gentleman had any completely J
whatever in so damning disgrace as that
offered by the dastards of Macon to so dis
tinguished son of Georgia as Herschel V.
johnson. We say further, that we know
the fact that the parties who were engaged
in Offering insult to Gov. johnson, at Ma
con, are set of nefarious scoundrels, cow
ardly traitors and the basest pOltrOOns.-
If they are not they will prove themselves
to the contrary"
Gentlemen never offered indignities to
respectable citizens representing political
parties, at any time. Honest difference Of
opinion and the freedom of speech is the
essence and quintessence of true DemOcra,
cy. And this spirit of intolerance that is
manifesting itself at the South by the Op-
ponents of Stephen A. Douglas IS the spirit
of eowardice, and can only exist in the
hearts of poltroons and midnight assassins.
If gentlemen differ from the position taken
| by Judge Douglas and his advocates. it i:
their right, as freemen, and nobody ques-
tions it. But at the same time the friends
of Judge Douglas have an equal right tC
oppose Mr. Breckenridge and Mr.. Bell, and
in so doing are in the exercise of theil
rights as freemen. Let political opponent;
meet as gentlemen, and discuss all ques
tiOns at issue freely and fully, as become:
gentlemen, and not assume the attitude o.
beasts and ingrates. and undertake by
brute force to prevent any man from utter
ing his honest convictions. No gentleman
will countenance any other course. And
VIC fearlessly declare that there was not 8
gentleman engaged in offering indignitie;
to Gov. johnson at Macon, nor has suel
an idea entered the brain of any gentle
man in any part of the Statc-nOr car
there be found thorOugh gentleman in the
] broad limits of the Union who will, by
trick or indirection in any manner what
soever, countenancc any indignity to gen
tlemanly exercise of the freedom of speech
"When parties are fortified with trutl
and impregnable principle, they invite dis
cussion. But when they stand upon th'
quicksauds of falsehood and deception, they
are ever ready. by brute force and coward
ice, to override truth and principle to save
themselves from immediate ignominy and
disgrace. If men desire information, anC
desire to act as becomes patriots, they arr
always ready to hear and inform them
selves. But when they are bound together
Dy secret oaths and cabalistic signs, as was
the Know Nothing party. they are always
ready to conceal facts, destroy principle
and disgrace the truth. --..- ..
"These remarks are intended alone fol
that class of men who have manifested 6
disposition to insult, to decry, to misreprc'
sent, and to stlAe the voice of each and
every man who happens net to believe AZ
they DO.
We beg to extend to the Hon. james
Pinckney HambletOn assurances Of our dis
tinguished consideration. He is right Al
book. and we back every word of tn
foregoing. When " find time to drOl
down to Atlanta and make a speech fol
Lincoln and Liberty, VIC are sure he vii
stand at our side with cooked revolver il
each hand and drawn sword in his teeth