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Profane Swearing--the President

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Day
12
Month
September
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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Messrs. Èditors: - You cali on yoür Washington Correspondent tp cantradict, if ho could, his remark that Mr. Tyler was a profane swearer. I nm sorry that ït is not m my power even to quaJify the averment a of fact so notonous, and so painful to' good men. That I did not refer to ït from auy special hostility to the President, your readers must be aware, from (he fact I havtf always commended his administrative policy it was possible for a friend of Northern right and free labor to do so. Í do not belong to his party nor to the party, of bis opponent?. " Alloiv mö to add a few other statement respecting this vice, profanity. l have had, I think I may say, some pecuïar opportunities of associating with educated men,and statesmen, in vanous parts of our country, and noticing their habits in this ies)ect. And I must 6ay, thtft, with one exception, 1 never heard so much profane swearing in my whole üfe, in any body of gentlemen, ns I hear among ths members of Con?ress. There are some men, of high standing, who are peculiarly nototious for this vulgar, as well as wicked practico. I have f requently heen shocked by oalhi used in the debates, in the course of this session. I thmk such conduct, in our public men, is a fair eubject ot public adimadversioc. The exception I refer to was the great SiAveholder'ö Cowvektion, at Annapolis, in January last. [ never heard such horrible profanity, in my life, save from the members of thot body. I remarked it to a distinguished citizen of Marvland, liimselfa member of that body, and" a man of pure lips, at least. "O,: eaid he, "you mast remember that you are not in New Englartd, or New York." "No," thought I, "nor among those whtf can claim, as a body, to mingle in the society of civilized.not to eay refined and Christian people." I think that, perhaps with the excepción of Charleston, S. C, the farther ontf goes southward, the more frequently is the ear saluted with profanity, in what is termed good society." At least, my observation, andi information, so far as they go, prove it.

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