AMERICAN LITERATURE.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 409, 21 November 1868, Page 6

AMERICAN LITERATURE.

The intemperate and reckless language used by a large section of the American press is well-known. Mark M. Pomeroy, editor of the Democrat, published daily in New York, affords an example. He wrote a life of General Benjamin F. Butler, and the book is selling in large numbers. Here is his language:—"Never, in all the annals of history, was there so beastly a man, so corrupt a politician, so big a thief, so unprincipled a robber, so extensive a swindler, so lying, debased, and cowardly a knave, such an insulter of virtue, innocence, and womanly goodness, so speculative an executive, so rotten, venal, eorrupt infamous, sneaking, contemptible, brutal, incompetent, universally despised and detested an individual as Benjamin F. Butler, who has graduated in every school of vice, ami become a leader in the ' great moral party,' as the party he belongs to claim to be." In another part be says that Butler is " a living evidence of rascality cor: ruption, double-dealing, trickery,fraud, swindling, cowardice, bank-robbing, spoon-stealing, woman-insulting, houseplundering, enemy-aiding, countrybetraying, Government-sucking, treas-ury-filching, soldier-killing, prisonfilling, God-forgetting, hell-deserving, truth-ignoring, virtue-wronging, negroloving, vice-caressing, man-deceiving, law-destroying, church-pilfering, bul-lion-bagging, cotton-stealing, diamondfinding, vessel-clearing, crockery-mark-ing, town-sucking, enemy-helping, powder-waisting, officer-murdering, spite-loving, nation-disgracing, friendforgotton, and all-detested thief, robber, braggart, plunderer, bag-eyed bullion beggar, and the most detested, corrupt, selfish, false-hearted pet of perdition in all annals of crime and infamy, past, present, or to come." Can you, Mr reader, reckon how many libels there are in these extracts ?