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Mason, N. H. (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
nsult, and you must fight me! Certainly, was the quiet reply, I will fight you if you wish it; but I don't see how that can mend the matter. If you kill me, I also shall smell badly; and if I kill you, you will smell worse than you do now. We have not yet been able to understand what our Disunionists, North or South, really expect to gain by dissolving the Union. * * * Three valuable slaves escaped, do you say? Will slaves be any less likely to run away when they know that, once across Mason and Dixon's line, they are safe from pursuit, and can never be reclaimed? Every slaveholder is in continual ap-apprehension, say you? In the name of wonder, how is Disunion to soothe their nervous excitement? They won't stand it, eh? Have they never heard of getting out of the frying-pan into the fire ? Do let us hear how Slavery is to be fortified and perpetuated by Disunion! Provocation. The excessive confidence of Whigs in the election of Henry Clay. Reply. There is an o
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
dollars, and intends to make the same disposition of more as soon as he has it to expend. Whether he ought to be guided by his own judgment or that of the Express man respecting the time and manner of thus testifying his faith, he will consider in due season. He has never had a dollar which was not the fair product of his own downright labor, and for whatever of worldly wealth may accrue to him beyond the needs of those dependent on his efforts he holds himself but the steward of a kind Providence, and bound to use it all as shall seem most conducive to the good of the Human Race. It is quite probable, however, that he will never satisfy the Express that he is either honest, sincere, or well-meaning, but that is not material. He has chosen, once for all, to answer a sort of attack which has become fashionable with a certain class of his enemies, and can hardly be driven to notice the like again. Provocation. An allusion in the Courier and Enquirer to Mr. Greeley's diet, at
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 21
ly, too, the highest reputation in all her relations. Provocation. To what a low degree of debasement must the Coons have indeed fallen, when even so notorious a reprobate as Nick Biddle is disgusted with them.—Plebeian. Reply. All the notorious reprobates in the country were disgusted with the Whigs long ago. They have found their proper resting-place in the embraces of Loco-Focoism. Provocation. Our whole national debt is less than sixty days interest on that of Great Britain, yet, with all our resources the English call us bankrupt!-=– Boston Post. Reply. But England pays her interest—large as it is; and if our States will not pay even their debts, small as they are, why should they not be called bankrupt? Provocation. A charge that the Tribune sacrified the Right to the Expedient. Reply. Old stories very often have a forcible application to present times. The following anecdote we met with lately in an exchange paper: How is it, Jo<
Broadway (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
tle besides; he has never had a dollar from a relative, and has for years labored under a load of debt, (thrown on him by others' misconduct and the revulsion of 1837,) which he can now just see to the end of. Thenceforth he may be able to make a better show, if deemed essential by his friends; for himself, he has not much time or thought to bestow on the matter. That he ever affected eccentricity is most untrue; and certainly no costume he ever appeared in would create such a sensation in Broadway as that James Watson Webb would have worn but for the clemency of Governor Seward. Heaven grant our assailant may never hang with such weight on another Whig Executive! We drop him. Colonel Webb had been sentenced to two years imprisonment for fighting a duel. Governor Seward pardoned him before he had served one day of his term. Provocation. A charge of infidelity, in the Express. Reply. The editor of the Tribune has never been anything else than a believer in the Chri
China (China) (search for this): chapter 21
rty distrusted it, because in sentiment and feeling it was thoroughly Protestant. The extreme liberal party disliked its opposition to their views of marriage and divorce. In a word, if the course of the Tribune had been suggested by a desire to give the greatest offense to the greatest number, it could hardly have made more enemies than it did. In the prospectus to the fifth volume, the editor seemed to anticipate a period of inky war. Our conservatism, he said, is not of that Chinese tenacity which insists that the bad must be cherished simply because it is old. We insist only that the old must be proved bad and never condemned merely because it is old; and that, even if defective, it should not be overthrown till something better has been provided to replace it. The extremes of blind, stubborn resistance to change, and rash, sweeping, convulsive innovation, are naturally allied, each paving the way for the other. The supple courtier, the wholesale flatterer of the Des
Ephraim (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
only perpetrated two new calumnies upon me of any consequence since Friday evening. Ephraim, said a grave divine, taking his text from one of the prophets, is a cake not turned. （Hosea, VII. 8.) Let us proceed, therefore, brethren, to turn Ephraim—first, inside out; next, back-side before; and, thirdly, 'tother end up. We are under the imperative necessity of performing on Samuel of this day a searching operation like unto that of the parson on Ephraim of old. That will suffice foEphraim of old. That will suffice for the vituperative. We proceed to those of another description: Provocation. A Sermon by Dr. Potts, denouncing the Tribune as agrarian, &c., reported in the Courier and Enquirer. Reply. It is quite probable that we have some readers among the pew-holders of a church so wealthy and fashionable as the Dr.'s, though few, we presume, among divines as well salaried as he is. We will only ask those of our patrons who may obey his command to read for their next Scripture lesson the xxv
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 21
ts his life, his newspaper, or his business in that spirit, will be misunderstood, distrusted and hated, in exact proportion to his fidelity to it. Perfect fidelity, the world will so entirely detest that it will destroy the man who attains to it. The world will not submit to be so completely put out of countenance. My task, in this chapter, is to show how the editor of the Tribune comported himself when he occupied the position of target-general to the Press, Pulpit, and Stump of the United States. He was not in the slightest degree distressed or alarmed. On the contrary, I think he enjoyed the position; and, though he handled his enemies without gloves, and called a spade a spade, and had to dispatch a dozen foemen at once, and could not pause to select his weapons, yet I can find in those years of warfare no trace of bitterness on his part. There is no malice in his satire, no spite in his anger. He seems never so happy as when he is at bay, and is never so funny as when he
Monterey (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
ussion; when lo! the only sound was made by a dumb old woman, whose tongue was loosed by the excitement of the occasion. The rest had all stood with mouths and ears wide open to hear the great noise, and so forgot to make any! The moral we trust our Whig friends everywhere will take to heart. Provocation. The passage in the President's Message which condemned those who opposed the Mexican war as unpatriotic. Reply. Picture for the President's bed-room: is this war? Monterey, Oct. 7, 1846. While I was stationed with our left wing in one of the forts, on the evening of the 21st, I saw a Mexican woman busily engaged in carrying bread and water to the wounded men of both armies. I saw this ministering angel raise the head of a wounded man, give him water and food, and then carefully bind up his wound with a handkerchief she took from her own head. After having exhausted her supplies, she went back to her own house to get more bread and water for others. As s
Lake Superior (search for this): chapter 21
respondent stated, jocularly, that Mr. Sawyer, of Ohio, lunched in the House on sausages. The weak member has since been styled Sausage Sawyer—a name which he will put off only with his mortal coil. Throughout the Mexican war, the Tribune gave all due honor to the gallantry of the soldiers who fought its battles, on one occasion defending Gen. Pierce from the charge of cowardice and boasting. In 1847, the editor made the tour of the great lake country, going to the uttermost parts of Lake Superior, and writing a series of letters which revealed the charms and the capabilities of that region. In the same year it gave a complete exposition of the so-called Revelations of Mr. Andrew Jackson Davis, but without expressing any opinion as to their supernatural origin. War followed, of course. To Mr. Whitney's Pacific Railroad scheme it assigned sufficient space. Agassiza lectures were admirably reported, with from ten to twenty woodcuts in the report of each lecture. Gen. Taylor's n
Dixon, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
you must fight me! Certainly, was the quiet reply, I will fight you if you wish it; but I don't see how that can mend the matter. If you kill me, I also shall smell badly; and if I kill you, you will smell worse than you do now. We have not yet been able to understand what our Disunionists, North or South, really expect to gain by dissolving the Union. * * * Three valuable slaves escaped, do you say? Will slaves be any less likely to run away when they know that, once across Mason and Dixon's line, they are safe from pursuit, and can never be reclaimed? Every slaveholder is in continual ap-apprehension, say you? In the name of wonder, how is Disunion to soothe their nervous excitement? They won't stand it, eh? Have they never heard of getting out of the frying-pan into the fire ? Do let us hear how Slavery is to be fortified and perpetuated by Disunion! Provocation. The excessive confidence of Whigs in the election of Henry Clay. Reply. There is an old legend
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