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OF the thousand cnlumnies with which
the press teemcd during an excited po-
litical canvass. 1t was a charge, OF
which there was not only no proof or
probability, but which was, in itself,
wholly impossible TO be true. No man
Of common Information ever believed n
s, liable Of it. Yet it was Of that class
Of laIsehoods, which by continued repc-
tition through all the organs Of detrac-
tion and abuse IS capable ofmis eading
those who are already far misled; and
of further tanning passions already
kindIing into fame. Doubtless it serv-
ed, in lis day, and in greater or less de-
gree, the end designed by it. Having
done that, it has sunk into the general
mass Of stale and Ioathed calumnies.--
It's the very cast off slough Of a polluted
and Shameless press. Incapable Of fur
ther mischief, it lies in the sewer, life
less and despised. 1t is 10, now, sir, in
the power Of the honorable member TO
give it dignity or decency, by attempt
ing TO elevate il, and to introduce II into
the Senate. He cannot change it from
what it is--an object of general dis
gust and scorn. On the contrary, the
contact, if he choose to touch it, is more
likely to drag him down, down, to the
place where it lies itselfi


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