The Whig Standard

From the Louisville Journal.

LYNN BOYD

The last number of the Hopkinsville Gazette, referring to Lynn Boyd's recent letter on the old bargain slander, says:

"We can assert most positively that we can prove, by one of the most respectable citizens of Hopkinsville, that Lynn Boyd declared to him that the charges preferred against Mr. Clay were utterly false and groundless, and were gotten up for mere political purposes. And we defy Lynn Boyd to deny this fact."

We have no doubt that Lynn Boyd will very soon, if he does not already, regard this letter as the most unfortunate act of his life. The miserable slander was denounced by those who were instrumental in getting it up, and has long since been regarded by all intelligent men as too dead to be revived by any galvanic efforts. Mr. Boyd has evoked its ghost, and it will haunt him through all the future scenes of his life. His is the unenviable notoriety of being the last man, professing to be decent or intelligent, who strove, in order to subserve miserable partisan interests, to perpetuate a foregone, dead, and stinking calumny against one of the noblest statesmen and sincerest patriots this country ever produced. Mr. Boyd's worst enemy could not wish him a harder lot than he has voluntarily brought upon himself. The bargain story will be to him henceforth what a tin-kettle tied to a dog's tail is to a dog. He has applied the brand to his own forehead, and no time can efface its impression: He has tried to impose on the people what he himself has denounced as a lie, and he is, therefore, unworthy of the seat he disgraces, and of the constituency he dishonors.

We should say that the Journal gives it to Mr. Boyd some in the above. But what measure of punishment is too great for one who reiterates for political effect, what he has himself declared to be a charge "utterly false and groundless?" He deserves to be impaled in a paragraph, as he is, and held up to the gaze of "an admiring world."