Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1817-12-16
COMMUNICATIONS.

MOI long since, as 1 was examining Duug6t
Of newspapers, cast my eye on one stiIed
Liberty Hall, and Cincinnati Gazette"
For some time was at loss for such an as
ISOLATION of ideas, as would form an intimate
connection between Liberty Hall" and Gin
cinnati, to the exclusion of other parts of the
Union at length discovered that the Edit
ors OF Newspapers, and other great men in the
Western Country had given it as their opin
ion, that such had been the recent improve
ment in governmental science, in the western
wilderness, that in future ii is TO be consider
ed the only place of rational liberty, and
New England the only place of Slavery.
Having settled this point, | proceeded with
avidity to examine the paper not doubling but
should find special entertainment under so
charming title. Nor was disappointed,
for soon discovered under the head of Emil
grafton, that the editor had given the lash
sharply 10 that insolent Yankee, who wrote
the letter from Cincinnati, describing The Tin
shops, Blacksmiths, Shoemakers. grog drink
ers and gougers. For he denies that there
are SO many tin shops in Cincnnati-he de-
MES that shoemakers and blacksmths obtain
SO high wages as the writer of The letter as
Serts, but he does not deny that they give
great price for the ir stock. Now am re-
luctantly compelled to admit, that this makes
against the Editor, and has tendency TO
discourage the emigration of mechanics =; but
ne makes amends, by informing US that, there
are no large beach trees in that country i'm
portant indeed easier far it must be, to
cultivate land which has no trees on it; but
have not yet teen informed that it is 4 mark
OF rich and strong soil.
But what raises the indignation of the Edit
or, and perhaps justly. tor the truth is not al
ways 10 be spoken) is, the following passage
IN the aforementioned letter.
q And as it respects the habits of the people,
think large proportion Of them are bad drink
Ing AID fghtng carried on 10 great perfection.
Scarcely day transpres but hear the horrid
sound Of murder issuing from the lips Of some half
murdered wretch A scene like this occurred yes
terday-L flew to the spot from whencs the cry is
sued and you may Judge what were my feelings in
beholding full six feet on the body of small
Ter one, ctet0ing has hand with as much deberaton
as you would piece of roast beef. After he had
satisfied his savage appetite, he stuck his finger in
the mans eye and tore it from its socket
My feelings were such that | found il difficult
to regain my lodging. Biting and gouging are the
only modes of fighting practised here.
Here The editor rises in the majesty of his
eloquence, and proclaims the whole to be false,
by saying that (" the scenes he describes never
occurred in our streets" Unfortunately the
letter-writer does not assert that they occur
red in the streets he only says that he saw
and heard them; perhaps having heard of
. Liberty HGP' he was excited by curiosity
TO visit that famous place, and was iher wit
ness of what he describes. should fake it |
upon me to defend the Editor aforesaid, were
ii not tor strange, traditional, species of log
ic, by which these stubborn Yankees endeav- |
our to arrive at truth TO wit, if man of I'M
impeachable integrity with whom they are
personally acquainted, and whose yeracity
they never doubted, should assert that, he saw
a man gougc out an eye, they would believe |
1t true, Notwithstanding a newspaper scribler |
whom they never saw, and who might have |
been mile distant, should deny that the fact |
took place. ] am sensible that according to
the rules of S0estern philosophy this and many
other old rules ought TO be reversed, but |
cannot persuade these Yankees to think so.
Just as had finished the above sentence.
a shrewd old man, who bad seen the land Of
promise" asked me how it came to pass.
that 50 many the western gentlemen have
but one eye" AT this was rather confused.
but recoliecting myself, told him, | believed
il was the fashion, and referred him TO the
Fox who had lost his tail in trap.
have noticed with no small pleasure. that
he Editor OF the Western Spy also published
III Cincinnati has stoutly defended himself
against the Eastern Argus, and has copied
from that paper the following paragraph.
: Nature as well as fatal experience would
convince the Citizens of Maine of the mistak
IN notion of migrating to the zrestern 0ciIds."
The Spy contains some keen remarks upon
his passage, but will add few more. The
writer in the Argus, must have been not only
gnorant of Nature, but abomnaby stupid, or
le would never have hazarded such remark.
FOR what is more natural, than for man of in
instry TO leave his neat cottage and paternal
a thousand miles with his
amily-set down in wilderness under a
hovel-exchange the practice of sending bis
children TO school, for the more fashionable