Loudon Free Press

The statement of the "Loudon Free Press," copied in this paper yesterday, that the Hon. E. F. Foster had come out for Scott and Graham, we are informed is incorrect. Colonel Foster we regret to learn, still occupies the position taken by him at the commencement of the present canvass—that of neutrality. A friend of Col. F thinks that an expression used in the paragraph referred to, might be construed as unjust and disrespectful to that gentleman. This was not intended. We have worked too long in the good old cause together, and we know his power as a popular speaker, and his talents as a statesman, too well, to underrate them, or to regard his present position with any other feeling than that now, to share in the toils of the campaign, and of the profoundest regret, that he is not with us to rejoice over the victory which will so certainly be won. So of Gentry—so of Williams—and so of all Whigs who honestly and in good faith have taken a similar stand. While we believe we can do without them, we confess we had much rather have them with us. We think we may confidently expect to have them all back in the Whig army again by this time next year, when General Scott, by his prudent and satisfactory administration of the government, has shown that their misgivings are groundless, and that he is the Patriot-President, as he has ever been the Patriot-Chieftain.—Memphis Eagle & Enquirer.

We copy the above because we like the manly spirit in which it is written, and because we stated that Col. F was out in favor of Gen. Scott, upon the authority of a gentleman whom we knew to be reliable, and was just from Nashville. We have set out with a determination to publish a paper that will be confided in by all parties, as a truthful and candid Journal; and at the close of our editorial career, be that five, ten, twenty, or forty years, we hope to have it to say that we have never penned a falsehood, knowing it to be such; nor attempted to misrepresent any thing that may come under our notice.