The Evansville Daily Journal

The editor of the Banner of Liberty—a small paper published in Middletown, N. Y., and which is known in this State by the efforts of the editor, Mr. Beebe, to prevent the passage of a prohibitory law—has become indignant. We might say with propriety, he is very mad. His feelings have been grossly outraged. He don't like Edward Everett, he don't think much of the Mount Vernon Association, and is thoroughly disgusted with the New York Ledger.

He says Edward never did amount to much, but as he was called great, and as he never did anybody any particular harm, and inasmuch as he could recite at least one written and well-committed speech—for forty or a hundred times—with a pleasing suavity and a charming grace, the Banner man had no objection to his passing among his "supercilious and superficial" admirers as a very great man. But Edward has fallen! Read the Banner's account of how it happened:

One of the flash journals of New York, with the name of which we will not disgrace our columns—which weekly pours forth its putrid floods of filthy slime, to poison and enfeeble the minds of youth, and enervate the intellects of the weaker sex, has hired our Edward to "perform an engagement" to write for its columns a series of articles to be called "The Mount Vernon Papers." The conditions of the contract are that, in consideration of this disgraceful job, the proprietor of the flash paper aforesaid, is to pay $10,000 to the old woman's association which is pestering the country with importunate beggars to raise funds to buy Mt. Vernon, the home of Washington, from the heirs who bear his name, and make it a public common.