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Domestic News September 24, 1828

The Hillsborough Recorder

Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina

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Editorial in Norfolk Herald criticizes the hypocrisy of party newspapers that once denounced General Jackson as a reprobate, tyrant, and ignoramus but now praise his presidential claims with sycophantic adulation, calling it a moral stain on the nation and press.

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The sober minds of both parties agree that the slander, invective and falsehood with which the party newspapers teem, are most painfully disgusting, sickening, and abominable. Yet all this is not so insufferable as the moral taint and infamy of those presses, which are now loudly singing the praises of the man who, but four years ago, they were no less zealously engaged in denouncing as a reprobate, a tyrant, and a ignoramus. Yet, we will defy the most inveterate opponent of Gen. Jackson to conceive stronger objections to his claims to the presidential office, or terms of more decided abuse of his character, than are to be found, ready cut and dried, in the files of those very papers that are now among the foremost in urging his pretensions to the presidency, and the most assiduous in offering him their adulation! Such prevarication and sycophantic meanness are a reproach to the moral character of the nation, and to the age in which we live, as they are a stain upon that of the press.

Norfolk Herald.

What sub-type of article is it?

Politics

What keywords are associated?

Jackson Presidency Newspaper Hypocrisy Political Slander Party Presses Moral Taint

What entities or persons were involved?

Gen. Jackson

Where did it happen?

Norfolk

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

Norfolk

Key Persons

Gen. Jackson

Event Details

Criticism of party newspapers for their hypocritical shift from denouncing General Jackson as a reprobate, tyrant, and ignoramus four years ago to now praising his presidential claims and offering adulation, described as prevarication and sycophantic meanness that reproaches the nation's moral character and stains the press.

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