Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-02-12

lIat viii presume you to be man OF Ge-
ency, and treat YOU as such. however IN
authorised such presumption may be, by
ne general character Of your conmunlca-
ron The opRr0brious epilhels If :" tyc-7v-
ita-ilg" [" one 81 led, " hybocyfncat, ttr-
jtinl," lop 81 TED" g sca1taious" are re-
turned 10 my very candid cores pondenl with
"a. comment. They are terms in which /
10 not profess TO deal, and which do not
gain admission into the columns Of the pa
per, in which my communication appeared.
However it NAV affect your delicate sensI
bhitics, or however indicative Il may be Of
= ignorance or impudence," / still persist
| in the assertion that read with mixture
| Of" pity and contempt" the paragraph in
| the Argus, TO which | alluded-io every
| compassionate man must of necessity con-
| dole with the party reduced SO low, as TO
| adopt such shallow subtertuges for It's sup
port and must at the same time desrise
its wickedness and malice. ! am not the
" counsellor" which Mr." Candor" imagines
have not arrived to that honor /; and there
! fore hope that he (agreeahle to rrOmise)
will have" some respect to my assertion"
/ have not Sir a knowledge of all the COM
municants tor the Gazette-but have the
vanity to believe that l possess sufficient
discernnent to determine from the letter
and spirit of production, the views and
sentiments of its author-Of course am per-
feCtly adequate to the decision Of the ques-
ton, whether any particular communication
be Of foreign or American origin. The
f! " damning fact" which you sdduce with
\ great degree Of pomp and soemnity, unfor-
| tunately for yourself, happens 10 be an flEb-
J erai, rnfoanded and Infamous talshOod. can
trace my ancestors back three generations.
: They were all Americans by birth, and A
mericans in principle. do Sir in the
sincerity Of my heart affirm that the Argus
and its nominal Editor are the passive tools
! of a Faction not Of " seven tenths" of
the u. States but faction, who would
| delude, deceive and ruin (if possible) the
whole U. States. | ask you Sir, if there be
not factous party in the district OF Maine,
who subscribe for large numbers of the Ar
gus, and urge them upon poor people, TAX
ing any thing for their pay and others, who
persuade people to subscribe, that can
scarcely procure subsistence from day to
day Whether you can answer this inter-
TogatOry or not knozy that the affirmative
is true-vou say that you should not have
noticed this charge, but for the opportunity
of exposing its fallacy. looked for the ex.
position but 10 :" bartwiunt monies mus
ridiculas nascetur % You tell long story of
a" sage legislator ofyour acquaintance and
(probabIy) party, who committed an eyre
gious blunder, mistaking wrong for right as
almost all the Jacobinic faction do.
am, Sir, totally ignorant Of the embar-
rassed situation Of the Gazette in 1864 and
5, presume upon reflection you will find
Yourself in an error. 1t is the ArgHs you
mean. i recOllect 20 have heard of the
"ofGcious interference" of the sheriff at the
Argus Office some few years since and in
all probability, before the CONFUSION, which
that interference OccssIoned, ceases, he will
Be compelled to interfere again and call to
his aid the auctioneer | forbear animad-
version on your observations relative to the
Editor Of the Gazette He stands or falls
by has own merit-and needs not my praise
TO assist him. He would feel himself as
little hattered or assisted by my commenda-
ton, as he does injured or insul.ed by your
iHUectiUe. l regret that the sudden and
unexpected influx of business would not
suffer you TO pursue your animadverslons'
on my communication with that seriousness
| and come Xion which the truths, it contain
ed, demanded-I hore, when YOU have lei-
sure, that you will resume the subject.
HONESTUS.