The Portland daily press., 1863-10-02
Distinctive Crack of the Slave Whip.

Distinctive Crack of the Slave Whip.
We do not assert that the editor of the Ar
gus is lacking either in moral honesty or in
common-sense, but we do assert that only a
knave or fool would publish such an item as
the following which we clip from his paper,
with the slightest expectation of disturbing US,
or of deceiving any intelligent reader:
4 The Press refu es TO publish the communication OF
Its CORRESPONDENT who attacked Lieut.. Bradbury
through its columns has become satisfied that he
did Lieut. ear nJnsce anJ = the Pros will
change its mind. by refusing TO let the correspon-
dent make the am'nde honorab e. me fiess Shout
answerabIe for il. Perhaps such M anness is not
surprising IL is fast TO d. inju tce 10 brave SOL
der but for it 10 repair the injury ike drawing
teeth
The item here copied is more than direct
rfalsehood, while it indicates all the low and
despicable qualities which enter into the COM
position of brutal-slave driver, who attempts
by the crack of his whip to coerce his equals
if not betters, into submission to his unreason-
able demands. That heartless, disloyal and
tratorous sheet-a paper as venomous IN ITS as
sauts upon the government as is printed
North of Mason's and Dixon's line-in the
first place made an unprovoked assault upon
Judge Cony and his family, by setting forth
that he refused TO allow his able bodied sons
to go to the war-thus impeaching his aud
their patriotisrn-while Bion Bradbury had
sent his son to expose his life and TO receive
wounds ia battling for his country. a man
would have been ashamed of such an assault,
but no sense of shame is looked for in those
who control the organ of Copperheadism in
this city. Ii as true to its reasonable instincts
as loyal patriot is to his country.
Every reader OF the Press knows this paper
has repeatedly stated, that our correspondent
was mistaken in saying 1t. Bradbury had
been in no battles; aud that he proposed to
place in our hands the money which he offered
for proof of his mistake, subject to the order
of the person-Mr. French-furnishing that
proof and yet the Argus, with a malignity
equalled only by lis meanness, conceais this
fact from It's readers. and labUrs TO make them
believe that, while the Press has allowed in
justice TO be done in its columns to a brave
officer, il refuses to allow reparation to be
made To say nothing of the base falsehood
oil snch a course, perpetrated with no other
purpose than to prejudice its readers agaast
the Press, we would ask attention to the con-
sisient grace with this graceless sheet COM
plains of us; a sheet that has grossly mallgned
our own gallant citizens who now are laboring
in their country's cause. Who has forgotten
its gross assaults upon Gen. Shepley, and its
recent intmauons that he is the mere hireling
of corrupt administration, allowed to rob
and plumber as an equivalent for his fidelity TO
the authorities at Washington? Who is ig-
,norant Of its malignant attack upon Capt
Miller, the Acting Mayor Of New Orleans
one oil our own citizens-whose family friends
among tire most worthy in the State-are
here in our midst? Who does not remember
how that scurrous sheet assaulted him in his
absence, representing him as rolling in wealth
and luxury at the expense of the Government,
in reward for his devotion to the cause of an
unworthy administration? A more wanion,
unprovoked, malicious course has seldom been
pursued by dsloyal paper towards loyal men,
than has been pursued by the Argus towards
Gen Shepley and Capt. Miller, and when the
facts are spread before it disproving its char
ges, it stolidy ard doggedly refuses to retract,
and yet has the consummate eiirontery to
charge the Press with swiftness to strike the
innocent and unwillingness to repair dam
ages
- In closing this article-the severity of which
isjnstified by facts-we direct special attention
to the implied threat in the above item from
the Argus. "Perhaps the Press will change
" its MUD. BY refusing to let the correspon-
dent make the amende honorable, the Press
shoulders the responsibility Of The libel, AND
"wILL BECOME ANswERABLE FOR IT." In
deed! Another suit threatened, is there! Ii
bellous to refuse to say for the half-dozzenth
time, that 1t Bradbury has been in battle, and
was wounded in discharge of his duty? This
is rich, and perhaps proves that the writer in
the Argus is neither fool nor knave, though
we do not see il in that light.
We had not the slightest reluctance in the
world TO letting our correspondent speak in
his own language, until we learned that a
squad of copperheads in this city-some large
and some small toads in the political puddle
some big and some small bugs, including some
huinbugs, on the political leaf-had detern-
ined that we should plaster and whttewash
Bion b. adbury's sou in the way prescribed by
them, aud then we just determined that we
should control our own columns Instead of al
lowing a coterje of semi-trators to do it for
US. Ii those gentlemen wish TO be trotted out
and have the lions skins stripped from prec-
ious set of donkeys they can be accommodated.
We rather think il will be found more amusing
for us and the public than it will be for them.
We notify them, and particularly the editor of
the Argus, that if they do hold the slave-whip
We are not their slave aud its crack, rung out
from the Argus office, has no terrors for us.
More than this: We advise them, as the friends
of young Bradbury, to let him alone. Already
inquiries are becoming rife, ,chy he should
need so mnch and such special whitewash-
ing To high-minded, honorable man so
much OF il must be offensive. Their persis-
tency is suspicious suspicious to
his disadvantage.
Andrew Jackson on Secession.
An original letter of President Jackson has
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