American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-05-27

y6gufe--us nae!odiors period---no conclusive reaso
eIing-no lofty sentiment. If the future numbers
= Commentator be like the one in which he has ma
C his debut, they will be jumbles Of misrepresentation
). sophIstry and defamation. in language that wou
: hardly be tolerated in the theme of clever sho
boy.
i The conclusion must think. force itself upe
all who read the productions of Calm Observer an
: Commentator, that they are written by the san
y person.
7 Commentator alias Calm Observer sets ont in h
critical abors with patry trick. an attempt 10 cajo
Fair Play by flatteris his understanding at the e,
e peDsc OF his honesty. There is, plainly. s,ruug
] IN the breasts Of the Black men between hatred ,
Fair Play, dread of his powerful pen, and linge
/. ing hope thst this wandering sheep may be lure
back to the Pencader fold. The effect of this sru,
sglc is most Iudicrous. The mercensries threate
land caIoe, abuse aud compliment, charge with sit
'sler views and possess profound respect for hin
: lin the compass OF q few sentences. AS an exampl
,Iof these curious Inconsistencies among which III
Doctors par,isans founder, refer TO an artlcl
: lin the Watchman, signed X, Y. Il,
Il The fase character Commentator gives of Sull
'iproyes that he feels his force, and drcas the dscc
'lsure he threatens A witness comes before fh
, people, this critic at once exclaims Fellow Citi
zens, don't creti, him, he makes silly admissions
his composition is "prose run mad,o but, though
all this be true il by no means follows that Sully'
evidence VIII be all lie, for, certainly il require
no proiundty of intellect to observe passing events
note them in the memory, and faithfully recoup
them. An a,temp, to ridicuc, brow beat, ard ex
cite prejudice against witness, about to glue hi
testimony must be ascribed 10 fear that Suy vii
establish charges which the fifteen know to be true
| We ale not very solicitous about vdicane Sui
lly's character as a writer. The motive which i'm
PEELED him to write was not the desire OF gaining
name as an author. He has too much sense 10 ex
pect extended and durable fame from few news
paper essays on subject of local and temporary in
terest. Alas, Commentator, in six months Sull,
and you and your humble critic will be forgot
TOR ;--the newspapers in which we fondy fancy VT
hgure, will ere long be devoted tognoble purposes
Except some half dozen preserved by hosrders o.
Journals, and these will be in inglorious obscurty
covered with dus and cobwebs, never TO BE- LOOKED
into but TO refer TO election returns or old advertise
ments. You have not hit Suy in vulnerable par,
lie 49, your defamation notwithstanding, well edu
Icated man, oil strong Judgment, who has expressed
his ideas IN the nervous, simple and unadorned style
proper for narrative Any unprecedented man, who
reads the number you have decried, will concur
with me in this opinion. But if sully tells us the
truth, as he no doubt will do what matters II whe
Their he does IL in "prose mad" or in dlction
the most polished and ornatee
Commentator charges Sully with making the sill
" admission thai he wished TO conceal the trans
actions Dover" If you will, Fellow Citizens, re-
cur to sulys first number, you will find he only ad
mlts that he hoped the unhappy differences in our
parry would have been hidden iom our enemies,
discussed, certainly, but. calmly, among ourselves,
Just as every reat friend TO de mocracy hoped. If
dissensions and hatred gendered by the present
unhappy discussion in the Waterman. if the demo.
cratic party exhibits the pitiabe spectacle of house
divided against itself, be i, remembered that Messrs
Du Point, Thomas, Reynolds, and their friends did
not6eSin the newspaper controversy. These gem
emen had resolved to preserve digni6cd silence,
notwithstanding the ISLANDERS whispered against
them, until the meeting in June for they rightly
thought the conflicting parties ought TO accuse and
defend not in the Waterman but at the Red Lion
The bitter and malignant attacks Of men, who care
nothing for the interest of democracy, have render
ed the defence oil these gentlemen in our newspaper
unavoidable.
Commentator charges Sully with insolently cal
ling The people of Delaware " creduIous." To con-
vict the critic of wful Misrepresentation we quote
the passage in which the word occurs. SuIly alter
noticing the alarm sounded about certain family
and assigning the reason oil this Ridiculous out
cry, the desire of the faction get men out of their
way who are obstacles to the all -grasping ambition
oil unprincped Office hunters, writes thus: /" If.
these men could only be removed, Why then the
road TO Office would be free from obstruction und
he poor crdalous people would soon see the dis
views Of the patriotic faction" Sully
has only said, if the people of Delaware proscribei
this family to CRAFTY DIR. Black and his par,izans
they will prove themselves credulous indeed.
What is there insulting IN this ?
To Suily's charge againt DIR. Black and his ad-
herents Of having opposed Mfr. Haslet at the late
election, Commentator has not made even plausi-
bic answer. How does he meet it, by attempting
to relute that conclusive proof of the accusation the
return of uOtes last fall in Peucader? No--he
merely states that the great body OF democrats in
our county supported Mr.. Haset--this they GER
tainy did and the Black faction did not do. But