Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-01-04
TO TILE pURLIC


A few words more--and the Friends of
DR.. Foushee have done with subject with
which you must be almost satiated.-But,
IS the DIR. himself has forsworn any fur
ther Contest with the knights of the Press,
TREND, who knows his worth little bet
ter than these gentlemen do, begs leave to
put III word or two, by way Of replica
toni The DR.. viii not see what he writes,
until he sees it in Print.
The Doctor could not expect to satisfy,
much less to silence, the three or four Ed
itors, who have fallen pell-mell upon him.
Like hounds, they yelp each other on
and though they have lost the scent OF the
prey, they viii so On yelping still. The
llbe al persons, too, who set them on, still
follow At their heels, and whip them on.
shall not pursue these Gentlemen thro'
ali their nderings-assertion is p led
upon assertion. and falsehood upon false
hood, ike "pelion upon Ossa and Ossa
upon Pelion. - viii try to skim the c, earn
or the jest-and, by one or two touches of
The pencil, try to paint these persons in
their proper colours.
Enter first Messieurs Editors Of the
Petersburg intelligeocer," With three
columns of defamation =" lis7,bering at
their back" Yhey forsooth mean 10 treat
the Doctor So frankly" and 50 honest
ly," that even he nself " shall acknowl-
edge their justice and AbefaiuV." They
had s. atcd nothing but 50 ./acts-( facts foun-'
ded upon the best uthorty--facts which
have not been, nor cannot elegant gram
marians , b. contr lverted." TO show now
VIII sort OF Hberalty these gentlemen pos
sess, and what SORT of facts they alledge,
take the following as a specimen They
had said, " that there had not been reg
ular Norther1 Mail received here for the
last fCyfHfght." The Doctor proved that
for lint fortnight. the NJ &" had more fire.
qusnuy arrived regularly than otherwise
that 1t arrived regularly nine days out Of
fourteen" Now, one would have thought,
that upon this discovery, these very Hcrai
gentlemen would have frankly confessed
their SINS, by admhting their mistake. Not
sol hey try to brazcn the matter out, by
giving meaning to their words which no
o.her person ever thought of, not even Me1i-
seipes at the time they wrote them. nit
mh (say they) that it arrived rcguiarlv II nc
days out Of fOurleen - " does this in any
wise do away our assertion that there had
not been regular Northern Mail in 2
fOrtnightl We d'd not say that there had
been no mail IN fortnight. We merely
SAID II had not arrived regularly for fort
night" These Editors, if they mean any
thing at all, would now mean to say that
there had not been for a 70hoie fortnight a
regular mail.-Does any one beiieUe that
they meant to say so at frst-that the
words " a regular mall" meant any thing
more than " me regular mai."-And vet
this miserable sophsm is necessary to help
them out OF the pit which they have dug
Tor themselves. "'Fore Cod" Gas San
enc says) # this be the /rankness, and
honesty, and Hbcrdffy of these Editors, ]
would beg leave never to have any of it
Why could they not have come out &C once,
and frankly confessed, that they were tor
once mistaken--instead OF clubbing and
trimming and ialsfying their own expires
SONS 2" what marvellous powers Of face :"