Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-11-02
AERATB EDITOR.

An IRATE EDITOR.
The ostensibIe editor of the GFenltefd
Republican, lets the public know, IN his last
Issue. that he Is CUT of hunlor-that hels
'.riled that his unusually placid tenFer
is greatly disturbed and gives notice for evez
~ body to ..stand from under. The cause
Of this mental tempest Of Daniels :, We are
mainly given to understand lies in some Of
the editorials Of the journal For any
thing said -of, or about. the editor and
'isnany valued friends, or about his or
their political acts. in fair and just and
truthful spirit Of criticism, Daniel says he
doesn care a groat not q Continental
''cuss -ah no, not he. That. We are to
infer, he could patiently endure. Butiwhen
it comes 70 vile personal abuse that he
won't stand-fhat forces open the safety
valve. and Daniel, with expanding nostrils
and flashing eyes, Yalorously exclaims, It
must ceose = not hereafter-nct in a
year, o: a month. or a week-but 'i"'paecli-
atelyf' We hope he wont doanything rash.
and We trust his many valued friends viii,
for time al least. restrain his impetuoSity,
lest he colIapses his ..biler' aud brings de-
struction upon himself
But, seriously speaking, it Is not 50 much
with the editor Of the Jouraot as with
certain individual whom he charges with
writing tog our columns, that the editor Of
the Republican has lost his temper Il.
B. Swoobe' Is the thorn il his side . He
Is the individual who. II IS alleged, more
particularly, Is guilty Of 'yituperation and
personal SANDER ofour citizens and neigh
bors, through the columns OF the Journal.
We are not the apo!ogist or defender Of Mr..
Swoope lie Is able to take care of him
self But as the : low, dirty personal abuse
OF respectable citizens and neighbors' Is al
legged 10 have been made in our columns, We
would be wanting in manhood if we did noJ
pronounce the charge unwarranted and IN
true in point Of fact We have never made
au attack upon the personal character or
pstcgte reputation OF any private citizen in
this 81 any ether community do We
intend 10 10 80. Bat. in regard to the po-
lirical positions and opinions, aud the public
ats anu AbAHS> dLf1 ~ 1LEo u tAAcS4S ~
newspapers, public speakers. and public Of
ficisis, we have spoken plainly and freely,
and we intend 10 do so as long as free
press and free speech are tolerated in this
county-an oligarchy and a despotism and a
| tyranny, like that which has muzzled the
tongues and the press in the Southern
States, being alone sufficient TO deter US from
exercising this right-holding ourselves a
menable for any violation Of that Constitu-
tioual prerogative
But let US see how near our neichbor' 5
practice comes up to the standard of his
| precepts. In the very article in which he
charges US with 'yituperation and person
al SANDER Of our neighbors, he attacks one
Of our citizens and calls him an 'i.respon-
! siJle public and pirate defanter' '..Glthy
acretch, a common nuisance, . 'horrjJle
md Tecoltiag detoyp,jty, Of whom the
| hundredh part has necer been told - and
yet, the editor who uses these sloHderous
epithcts towards his ''neighbor' has the
brazen faced audacity to lecture US on per
sonaI slander. 20 thou hypocrite 7! 30
thou viper" ''7ho" blind guide, which
strains at a gnat, and swallows a camel,
first cast the beam out of thine own eye,
and then thou shalt see clearly to pull the
mote out Of thy brother eye.