National Republican., 1883-04-16
COL. MARoEL1.us THORNTON
Wipes Up the Editorial Floor with Col
A. Il. Lamar In tIis Minds Eye.
Di,patch to ne Philadelphia Press.


Di,pa,ch to ne Philadelphia Press.
ATLANTA, GA, April 14.-Friday's Macon
Telegraph contained an unwarrantable attack
on Col. Marccllus Thornton, of the Post appeal,
of Atlanta, alluding pointedly to Thornton's
estimable wife, widow whom he married in
Washington and who was worth $2,000000.
To-day Thornton says editorially:
In Yesterdays issue Of the telegraph and
ltcssc-iesy. of Macon, Col. A. r. Lamar, its ed
itor, hiss some discourteous reference to the
editor Of this journal, calling him by name.
Not only this, but tho domestic relations of
the editor of this paper are sneeringly drag
ged into his most ungentlemanly article.
Tho miserable beast being outside the pale of
the code of honorable gentlemen renders IL
necessary that he should be answered in
this manner Any man who in his political
or journalistic controversies, refers to the
private relations of an opponent is a misera-
bic cur, and such we pronounce the creature
Lamar. He is not only oblivious Of the de-
concies Of personal propriety, but he is vile
cncroacher upon the domain Of public morals.
Such an unwarrantable transgression is, how
ever, fitting thing for A. II. Lamar to do.
At Columbus, Ga, at the close of the war,
without going further back for his record, he
was proven TO be coward and fugitive when
boys and ministers of the gospel took to tho
trenches against the invading foe. With tho
consistency OF paltroon he then lied about
his cowdce, adding falsehood to craven fear
aud dcscrtion of duty. Asan editor and poll
tician he has been as recreant to manly duty
and principle as he was as a soldier. Notlong
ago In tho case of brother editor his supe-
riOr every way, he again failed TO DO on the
field of honor. The oscavenger of partisanism,
a vulturous ghoul of private, inoffensive,
helpless character, using the tactics Of the
hyena in raking up venom as q weapon of
warfare and political dict damage to any
cause he champions by his violent insolenco
and malignity, an incorporate advocate and
brutal foeman, the name of A. X. Lamar is an
excrescence upon decent journalism, stigma
to Tho party he professes to champion.
The protection Of the creature himself from
private scar 3alouG commentary and recrimi-
nation no so contemptibly tries to accord to
others, Is due TO the forbearanoe that gentle
lDen everywhere practice, under q code of
social athics, as binding as it is universal
among Christian people, and the man who
trantcends In this particular will deserve, as
he will sursly get, the condemnation and
scorn OF oil right minded citizens.
The atticle TO which we refer could only have
emanatsd from the brain of the depraved and
degraded inebriate WHO, after having been
picked oat of the cutters Of the streets of
Washington oity, and for two years sub
sisted upon the bounty of his benefactor,
turned upon him like the viper that he is and
inflicted wounds with his envenomed fangs.
Nor did his base ingratitude end here,
for when that benefactor died, ghoul that
he is, he fsttencd upon his corpse.
This enmity was aroused by his discharge
for drunkenness from n clerkship in the
democratic house Of representatives. Again,
with tho same care for being unprincipled,
he made unoalisd.fcr hipgs at gentleman
who spSst his money and wasted his time in
New York trying to got him position on the
national democratic committee with Hon.
Abram Hewitt. 1he editor Of the Post-Appeal
never did A. r. Lamar any harm, and the
miserable repTotatc Is dismissed to share his
own acquired contumely.