Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-11-13
sIsrsnDrts E>afsz Gasatta.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER IS.

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s,n. same being who now edits the Alexan-
40 (,,azette--and once edited the /" Virginia
,.szette," before it turned out to be a flaming
). patrfoe under the auspices ofMr Liver
more. lie IS TO be reporter or the Congress
soasI debaec, .or those who viii buy OF him.
iIbe man is d Proteus, except that his man
snsrs never change to those of a gentleman -
yer6nar Sat '--RIcH. ENQuInER.
70 me nothing can give more pleasure
,ban such occasional little proofs Of great
vorli6ca,ion. II the worm turned nor we
.boud NOT have positive evidence that It
FL, the az guish of the tread. Cowper, if I
remember rightly, allows US to destroy
.Diders, and noxious ms ects that are trou-
bcsome or Injurious, tho,
BE would not number in his list offriends
TIE man who Meedtessly treads on worm.
This is a humane principle. To destroy or
mysx them, from heedlessness or in the
vartonness Of cruelty is most unjustihable.
We're MAaer Richie quite innoxloos he
would be quite undissurbed He might
weave webs and catch spiders I'LL his days
should be spun out, were nc not IN our way.
Hunlbly as all think Of his abilities they
should not be TOO meanly rated:
The man that cannot for his life from twenty
Subtrat eighteen and find how much re-
maias,
may have wit enough to burn the temple Of
Dana, or frame newspaper 6b that may
shake an empire. Such ought to be watch
I'd and their movements exposed. Disa-
srseable as the drudgery OF such task may
be, felt it drsy imposed by patriotic
consideration. The sheriff takes TO plea
sure and receives 40 honor for oaiNng he
culpris to the piliary but such duty ausS
b.dischayged BY some one. Disconnected
hom types Master Richie would be one o.
the most harmless Of Hneu but, SO Ill quail
fed tor corrcct jedgmtnS are the mass i
hsrcaders, that, if unchecked in tn pro
fulga,;an of his cruditi.s, majority o
them may ascri5e 20 him the possession Of
real talents and rec.itudc of political prin
siples. Hence the duty OF cassi9ation.
am as avetse, Mr.. Richie, asyou or
any man can be, 10 personal editorial quar-.
sss. Editorial dis9uisitions en- important
political Subjects managed with the falness
and freedom of gentIemanly debate are nei-
iher unamus;ng nor uninssructive TO the pub
lie. accuse you not OF frequent editorial
alterations but attribute the forbearance
more to the want of weapons than disposi-
ion. In the management of these you
are wise. You either avoid them with
great discretion, or undertake them with a
CHRISTIAN like fear" Yet sometimes, when
he mortihcationis excessive and comes to q
head, it bursts out in paragraph like that
above quoted.
Bysour general expression that | write
i0rthe Virginia PATRIOT you may give me
credit for much thar do not deserve. |
90 not edit the Alexandria Gazette. I
scarcely know more than you do what is
going into this paper. Business demand
log temporary residence here, to keep me
A g5HI idleness, to which am by nature
@pA' prone, | spend an hour or two every
oay 10 reading the mail papers and CURSOR,
yaotieing passing events. In doing which,
1.-THE point of the pen sometimes Pricks
your sore parts, tho the pain may make
you roar out, the punctures are of a healing
Nature. Silent s,,hrnissinn ,.:nnld more