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Dr. Thomas P. Hunt

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
July
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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J This gentleinan's name has been fa miliar to temperance men for muny years He has been an aüle lecturer on that sub . ject. He is a clergyman and a residen s of the South. The Vicksburgh Sentine 1 took occasion recentty to accuse him ol Abolition. One H. W, Allen, of Grane Gulf, sent a reply to the Grand Bluff Advocate, denying the charge. We guot: a sentence or two, as a specimen of southern refinement: 'The accusation is as false as heli, and its author is a base liar and a black-hearted villain. I know Dr. Hunt. I have known him long and well. He is my relative. Heanabolitionist! No! Never yet did abolition blood course in'our veins.' He is a Southern man in feëling and in principie, and is by far a betíer advocate for the institutions of the South than the scrub editor of a miserable newspaper. I have heard him declare from the sacred desk, that slavery was instituted by the Almighty for the express ■benefit of the slave, and that he verily believed thedoctriiies of the abolitionists emanated from the devil. But the editor, finding that the tide of public opinión, even in his own city, was against him, and that he was losing many subscribers, by reason of his blackguard course, comes out in his next paper with amock apology to the public, and throws all the blame on the shoulders of 'a gentlemen whom he has known for years.' - Now 1 do take this opportunity to denounce that 'gentlemaiï' as a Calurriïiiatirtg scoundrel, and a white-livered coward, and here ram down his foul throat the ac-1 cursed lie. My office is' on Chesnut" sifeef', in the town of Grand Gulf, where I shall always be happy to meet the edifor of the Sentí-'nel, his 'honorable gentleman or any other individual vvho may take offenceat this communicatie?)." To this the Editor of the Semine!, nothing. daüntédthus replies:' "Wewish to be understood as not making any concession orapology to Henry VV. Allen; on the contrary, in order to give him an opportunity of showing his prowess in war, we will again publish Mr. Hunt as a ealumhmtor of private character, a mercenary hireling, an abolitionist of the darkest dye, and a hypocritical scoundrel and fanatic, who would prostitute every manly principie of our nature, destroy our institutions and óür happy country, and glory, smile,' and sing allelujah over lhe dovvnfall, annihilatión and extermination of the vvhole white population of the slave States. # Well, Mr. Allen, this we consider all talk and no eider - mere braggadocia, - You miy be a gentleman and a fighting man, for ought we knovv; but judging from yourcard, we must take the libertv of saying-, that we look upon you in the Üght of a bag of wind. a bellowing calf, a jackass, and a contemptibie scoundrel. VVords are poor weapons, at best. lf If Mr. Allenrwants a ífght,'he ean liafë it,'to-' his" heai't's content. We are not anxious to fight. but we will not avoid one when imposed ut'ion us'. No man can deter us frorh performitig our duty to our fellow citizens, and as long as we have truth to build upon, we dare the threats and defy the powers of all the d - d rascáis and assassins that can be packed frórn here to Grand Gulf."Such isa specimen' of thé languagè and spirit of "the Chivaíry," whoni our Northerh doughfaces so much admire!

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