Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1882 — Silenced. [ARTICLE]

Silenced.

A slanderer is usually a bully, and a bully is always a coward. Years ago, when Henry Olay, of Kentucky, was the Whig candidate for the presidency, a stage-coach in which were six or seven men was whirling through Ohio. The conversation, as was natural, took a political turn. A tall, muscular man, seated on the middle seat, from whose coat-pocket protruded the hilt of abowio knife, made a ferocious assault upon the character of Henry Olay. Opposite to the assailant sat a swarthyfaced, broad-framed man, who apparently, had been indifferent to the conversation. Just as the ferocious stranger had finished a paragraph of bloekgaurdism against the great Kentuckian, the ■wartliy-looking man said, with a severity that attracted all eyes: “Sir! do you know Mr. Clay personally? Have you ever lived with him? Has he told vou, sir, every motive for every act of his life?” “No,” answered the ruffian, with a hesitation that showed him already cowed; “I never saw Mr. Clay hi my life.” The swarthy man glared at him a moment, while his face grew blacker with indignation. “Then vou are a scoundrel!” fie said. The bully muttered several incoherent sentences, and then subsided into silence. When the stage-coach arrived at the next stopping-place, the passengers learned that the swarthy man was the great Whig orator, Thomas Corwin.