Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-09-26
NUMBER 81.
Prentice and WiekIiGe.

ghe following is probably one Of the most
severe pieces of invective that ever Issued from
the pen of Prentice, Of the Louisville JournSj
The subject is the late Copperhead candidate for
Governor in Kentucky:
We did not think it worth while either to listeR
to c. a. WckliHe's speech here or to get a report
of it. We hear that he wns excessively vindictive
in his denuuciations of us. We can readily he
lieve it. lie is nll bitterness. Take away his
bitterness aud there wouldn't be enough of him
iett to make smull lap dog. lie was bitter
young man, and he is bitter old one lie first
brought himself into notice halt u century aga
by eating off u gcntlcmans ear aud it would
see m rs il the ear, saturated with the vcnam Of
his fnngs had been fostering aud rottiug ppos
his stomach ever since, mixing his breath sstld
his words public nuisance. Al the sccrcIions
Of his body are in his hillary duets and in his
gall bladder He is incapable either of cherish
ing attachment or being the object OF it. lie has
no more genial feeling than hycna or n ghoul
His soul is spider that sticks poison from all
things alike. 1t would seem as if, like Sprncrr's
impcrsonation Of Envy he were always chewing
toad from the manner in which venom is for
ever dripping from his jaw, whilst nwardy he
chews his own mAw.n The hate that coils iu
his soul has its echo in his voice, aud its photo
graph in his mcc. \ thousand disappointed
hopes and blasted expectations rcvcl and rage
and madden in the he'll of his bosGm like SO many
nends in their own Garcrr hell. Wicklihe, duriuE
some brief period, of his life has been throwu
by his hopes of ACKNOWLEDGMENT into co opera
ton with true and enlightened statesmen. hut he
has always iclt himself i'll at ease in their com
pany and made haste to escape FROM it. lie has
felt at home only among maliSuauts ana de
structves How melancholy il is to- contemplate
such being IN comparison with II mau like John
j. Crittcndcn, the one ovcrlowing with all the
best and nobest thoughts aud allrc tions of uur
nature, enjoying happiness and ditusng il around
him, and giving up his great and enthusiastic
soul to the promotion of the greatest good of his
country and of mankind, and the other broodug
ever upon evil thoughts, vile antipathes and iet
cOnspimcies, trusting nobody and rustcd by
nobody. cuvyng the good and fearing tue rivalry
OF the bad, holding himself alOOf irem all tho
sweet aud gentle tympathrs OF his race like "A
beast OF ptcy, lay Jag sttadsl up through every
year store of bitterness tor other years, and
finally, at his three score aud ten or there score
aud fifteen, preparing for the close OF his anost
unhappy life by an attempt to bctray his country
into the power Of M accurscd rebellion. Tho
Thought of what he has been nud is must be IL
coal of fire in his brnin and an enragcd adder IN
his heart One would think that ho might we'll
rejoice at growing bNd for he must feel as il
every hair Of his head were serpent, like thu
hair Of the Enmenidrs. We pity this old naI
almost as much as we loathe aud nbhor him
There cannot live, rs Sir William Temple says II
more wrctched being than IA i'll nHtured aud
malignant old man, who * neither capable of re-
ceiviug pleasures nor sensible of doing them to
others. We advise him, old as he Is, aud peevlsh
liberated and qurt tulons as htt mtuJi ihay b., to
Cod Of the devits Fc(nry' rfatfHg9, 1eeCllI9E .I2
hst hour black despair shall sit like screech
owl over his head,