Editorial Independence

We like independence in an Editor. - We like to have a man come out with his positions, whatsoever they may be, without fear or apprehension, and let them go for what they are worth. Our neighbor of the Journal is such a man. And it gives him a great advantage in arguing with his opponents. Fact, statements, and arguments, which other men would be obliged to combat in half a column, he can despatch in half a line. -The objection to Mr.Clay that he is a duel list, and has tried to kill men in a duel, is met by the assertion that he is an amiabie man who has nothing of the spirit of murder in him; our testimony from his own hired man, that his slaves are governed by the whip, is met by the assertion that the Quaker who relates the fact, cannot be depended on: a statement from the Eraancipator is met by the assertion that Rev. Joshua Leavitt is a dishonest man, &c. &c. Being thusutterly discomfited on every side, we turned the Editor over to Dr. Lyman Beecher, on a point that every duellist is aLheart a murderer, because he tries to kill, and only fails for want of skill. Butto our utter astonishment, we find by the last Journal that our ally, Dr. Beecher, is utterlly worsted and prostrated! The Editor of the Journal says the Doctor was insane when he wrote that! Hear him:"Dr. Beecher's discourses appear to us to be vsanting in some of tte essential requintes of a sound mind. There is a head strong rashness of assertion, a tone of self-confidence, a zeal uatempered by charity, and, it seems to us, a deplorable want of true humility." But not only is the Doctor upset, but the Editor declares, thal "among a tiousand of the learned there is scarccly a saneman"1. We shall be obliged to haul off, and forbear all controversy with him of the Journal. We supposed we could staad our ground among the smaller kind of men, who, like ourselves, come at their conclusions by reason and argument; but who can stand against an intellectual ginnt who demolishes "a ihousand of the leanied" in a single line?