The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-29
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violence OF Party eelias gin I'D I;mes.
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violence OF Party eeliAs IN I'D Iimes'
4 contemporary says:
''lr apu 5t,caton now before os, issued N 1907
we d " sShnstoa charged ~t.a h.vins t1n5es
..a IA. pubi,c non.y with being kso,otas
p.tJsF.i, beng hypoeute.' and Win hsNicx
incumbent President vas assaulted for ,haeins
so,rrisitd ,hs scene Of 'f"otn'"s "h'eh ""'h'"s
fos bsgaa,'"
A volume nigh, be filled with similar speei-
mems Probably no man was ever the subject
Of more en- venomed and scurrilous abuse than
the Father Of His Country, a fact which we
can scarcely realize, when we look at the halo
OF glory which is now thrown around his
name. As TO E1P ERsoN, he was more coarsely
vitupera,sd than WASHINGTON, and no story
was too sross or scapdaious To repeat In con-
nsction with his name. The preachers of New
England, the WARD BKECsRRs OF that DAY
and generation. used to preach against Ton
JRrvPRsor ~ vehemently A. against the
Devil, whose principal agent upon earth ne
was believed to be. Since the days or witch
craft. no one had appeared on this continent
vho r.vs suoh trou BILE 10 the Puritan clergy
A. thu ZEN tlemsn In the red waistcoat Party
sp,rit was scarcely more tolerant in the era OF
MAptsop. one of the most amiable and pacific
of humao beings. but who was roughly han
died by those pious souls who considered II
no wrong, though ministers of a religion which
forbids men to speak evil of dignities and
commands them to obey magistrates, and rem
der a TO CAsAR the things which are CasAR's.
20 dsnounce and revile the Executive in
spirit Of acrid Intolerance and vulgar invec-
tivss, and 70 stir up their congregations to
disloyalty and treason.
We are all 30 much accustomed TO yenerate
the good old times, !" that we are reluctant to
v1-aa in
relsn ,lsss In former days as in our own,
whereas il was a thousand times more so. In
England, whose parliamentary discussions
are justly held up as model Of dignity and
strength which our own congressional and leg
isiAtivs bodies nj ght initiate with great advan-
tags, the virulsnce, coarseness and vindictivs-
mess OF party always have surpassed any bru-
taiitiss ever recorded in the political annals Of
America. Neither men nor women are spared
in the political con tests of Great Britain. We
Justly hold In this country that the journalist
who could be tempted to reflect in the most
distant manner upon q woman is olackguard
too dstsstAble and irrsdeemable to be counIe-
napcsd in the 10 west grades Of civilized life
And At this moment, in the most abusive and
passionate con tests of the press in New York
and othsr large cities, when there seems moth
ing 100 hard for the dispu tants 10 say of each
other, and v here they speak without any fear
OF personal responsibility, we have never yet
seen a discourteous allusion to woman, whose
sex throws about her a panoply, which the
most vindictive and violent respect. We know
OF no fact which more clearly shows that, per-
sonal and abusive as the party contests of
America may be, there is infni ely more re-
nuemsnt and ehivalry among our political
giadiators than in Great Britain, where there
never have been any scruples about attacking
the character Of any woman, from the Q ueea
to the lowest subject, and sometimes from
running 1t for ever. whenever political enemy
could be injured, or a political purpose gained
thereby.
Distance OF time, as well as space {" lends
anshantment to the view" Human nature
has not gone backward within the last GEN.
fury, even if it has not much improved But
its outward manifestations are more decent
aud respectable. Even polemical verjuice is
more literally sweetensd with courteous
words han at the early settlement OF this
country, and il two pulpit di.putants now
were 10 beabor each other with such UNSEEN
ly expectations as was the style a few centu-
ries ago they would probably be taken before
the civil magistrate and bound over 10 keep
the peace.