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Profanity

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
April
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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A habit of profane swearing is very disagreeablc to most Christian people. Especially is it disgusting whcn yon cali on a public officer to hear a continued stream of vulgar profanity internñxed with busine&s conversation. The practise isfar more common among gentlemen at the South than in the free States. The President of the United States is so notoriously profane that it is said ihe presence of ladics is not suflicient to restrain him. We are sorry to find tliat the Whig candidate for that distinguished situation is reported to be scarcely less addicted to that contemptible vice. The foJlowing' is from the Liberty Standard,' a Maine paper:PROFANITY OF FIENRY CLAY. A gentleman in this State, n Whig, anc once a whig representative to Congress. remarked, not very long since, that he 'should like Mr. Clay better if he did not swear so prof usely, for he would mix it all in witli every thing,and swear when there was no need of it whatever.' And this man was not himself over conscientious about hislanguage. ïhis statement was recently made to us on the most undoubted authority, and by the gentleman t? whom the above 'remadi was made. Shall profanity be voted into the Presidency of this piofessedly Christian nation? The next week's Standard brought us thefollowing cönfirmation: MR. CL A Y'S PROFANITY. We have thetestimony of Milton Clark to the correctness of the late whig representative from this State, who was alluded to last week. Clark was long a near neighbo' to Mr. Clay.is personally acquainted with him, and has often been his waiter at the gambling table and elsewhere. He declares that Mr. Clay's profanity is notorious and gross. Shall another profane sweater be elevated to the presidency of this Republic? Ought there not to be a respite at least of one term? Can any man who believes there is a God in heaven record his vote for such a man? Should lio, be elected, would it not be emplmtically true then, 'Because of swearing the land mourneth?'

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News