The Shasta courier., 1860-03-17
SHASTA COURIER.
How is 1t!

For many months past the New York Herald
has been recognized as sort of semi-oficial
organ of President Buchanan. And yet, lately,
we find the Standard and National newspapers
Of this State publishing various articles cacula-
ted not only to enlarge that feeling of loathing
which all honorable men have for Bennett as an
individual, but to injure the President himself in
the estimation of good Democrats. If Bennett
be the vile thing that the editors believe him to
be, it seems like attack upon Mr.. Buchanan
to publish as fact-whch the Standard did
short time snce-that he, Mr. B., absolutely
took to his bosom this blackguard of the Amer
lean press, who had abused him grossly
than any pot-house politician in the Five Points,
and resoutely determined to appoint him Amer
lean Minister to France, and would have done
so but for the fact that it was ascertaned GER
tainly that the Senate would not disgrace itself
by confirming the nomination Now who be-
lieves this monstrous statement?-tha Mr.. Bu-
chanan desired to appoint James Gordon Ben
nett American Minister to France? Not We
And yet the Standard absolutely published the
statement And now, not satisfied with this
covert attack upon the President, the same pa
per gives currency to the statement that the
Herald, which has been recognized by the Pre-
sident semi-official organ, and whose editor
the President desired to appoint Minister to
France-accordiug to the Standards St Louis
elaborator of news-is being glorifed 5y the
Aboitionists for the facilities it renders them in
disseminating their incendiary doctrines through
the Sonth
Now is it not reflection upon the Democra-
cy, the honesty and the patriotism of Mr.. Bu-
chanan to say that he had recognized as one of
his organs paper that was receiving the pIau-
dts of Abolitionists for " aid and comfort rem
dered them? But here is the last covert attack
upon the President which we find in the Stan
dard, taken from the Charleston Mercury:
There are two things which the public are
vainly looking for in the Herald. One is notice
of the resolution lately adopted by the radical
Abolitionists of this State, thanking James Cor
don Bennett for affording a safe and reliable
means of sendiag the most ultra Abolition doc
uments AL over the South. The other is a reply
to Pryor's searching fusiiade on Bennett, in the
great Congressional debating club. Bennett's
policy has always been to " take the bull by the
horns,p and show his utter contempt for person
al attacks by publishing them in full to the
world. The very boI6ness of the act seemed to
pull the sting out Of the assailant. But where
is the HerdldS sublime confidence now Nota
line about the radical Abolitionists nor a word
of Pryors withering sentences The fact is,
Bennett is getting old and sensitive. The human
cuticle does not tougher with age like that of
the rhinoceros. For the first time in his life,
-t. g.. Il
and energetic man, knows what it is to feel the
lash whick he has long laid, with savage plea
sure, upon the backs of AL who did not suit his
whims and caprices. Even his audacity has at
last net more than its match, and the practiced
impudence of the Herald falters before the glo-
ri6cation of the Abolitio-ists and-the indignant
scorn Of the young Yirginian.