New-York tribune., 1878-03-15
GINNING FOR 4 CORRESPONDENT.

We do net know what was the offence of
the unhappy newspaper correspondent whom
the Honorable Beverly Douglas, of Virginia.
was searching for with small arms on We'd
nesday From various hints and suggestions,
carefully thrown out by other representatives
of the press, we suspect that he had intimated
that the Honorable Beverly WAS not in
the habit of wearing the blue ribbon
emblem of the Murphy movement; it is
not impossible that he may have stated
broadly the fact that the Hon. Beverly had
been bcasty drunk on several occasions in the
House. Nothing could be more natural under
these circumstances than for Mr.. Douglas to
fortify himself internally with cocktails and
externally with firearms, and proceed at once
to shoot holes into the CORE ,pOndcnt's body, and
imbrue his hands in the correspondents blood,
and say "Sic semper tWdnais' or something
in similar vein in some dead language.
This was undoubtedly the purpose with which
he went a cunning for this miserable cor
respondent on Wednesday morning. Had he
found him he would have wiped out the in
suit in blood, and that would have satisfied
him. But the correspondent, in the most rep
rehcnsble and lOw-tOncd manner, eluded
the wrathfu Virginian. and so doing per-
mittcd that hcro's anger to kndle beyond cor
troll. Nothing could have been in worse taste
on the part of this correspondent. II he had
said in his correspondence, as he might have
done inadvertently, that the Hon. Beverly had
been drunk on several occasions, when it was
notorious fact that he had been drunk
but once-and kept it up-why did he
not accept Tie responsibility like q mani
u L.. tlnt Il,
wanted to imbrue his hands in his blood, why
didn't he step up. as high-toncd gentlemen
always do under such circumstances, and bare
his bosom and say, " "lmbrucw Instead of
this, he appears not to have given the Hon.
Beverly chance to imbruc, but let him rage
round the Capital with his thirst for slaughter
unappcascd
If, under these cXaspcrating circumstances,
the Hon. Beverly Douglas, banked of MS high
purpose to organize funeral, and cheated of
the rapturous joys of slaughter, entered down
upon the floor of the House to drink delight
of battle with lis peers and slay colleague
OF two, or a Sergeant-atA or some such
matter, who shall wonder or complain
1t is said, to be sure, by some of the
poor-sprited fellows who habiualy go into
INC Ilpuoc Noib, sObtI, duu NltuOuU
even side arms, that Mr.. Douglas disturbed
the proceedings that when he reached for
the proboscis of the Sergeant at-Arms it was
with manifcstly vicious intent and that if
various warriors in the ncighborhOod had not
flung themselves upon and restrained him, he
would have incarnadincd that noble function
arys nose. and mayhap, draped his eagle
eye IN black. And what of that Z Was it
the chivalrous Douglass fault7 BY no
means. 1t was all owing to the shameful
conduct of the correspondent who carried of
the blood Mr.. Douglas desired to imbrue in
Ii was wrong in the first instance for the cor
respondent to say-if he did say-that Mr.
Douglas had been drunk several times. For
it seems now to be admitted that he has
been drunk but once. But if, after
perpetrating this wrong, he lodged out
of The way, when he heard the Douglas
had started for him, and let that outraged
statesman plunge like a mad bull upon the
floor of tho House, he greatly aggravated
the first offence When we consider
what this correspondent had done, and
that the Hon. Mr. Douglas merely wanted
to slay him and imbrue his hands in
his blood, We cannot too warmly condemn
the conduct of the former in getting out of
the way, and leaving this wild and turbulent
storm of passion to surge down the aisles of