Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-01-08

pubic papers. any ct the correspondence ~.
terrcdto below. The work itselfis going f.ss
into oblivion. except what il preserved ia COZ,
,emptuous remembrance.
MosrrerLto, Oct ~, 1928,
DEAn SIn--I do not write with the
ease which your letter Of Sept. Is.
supposes. Crippled wrists and fingers
make writing slow and laborioas; but.
while writing 10 you, lose The sense OF
these things, in the recollection Of an
cient times, when youth and health
made happiness out Of every thing.
forget for while the hoary winter OF
age, when we can think 81 nothing but
how TO keep ourselves warm, and how
to get rid OF our heavy hours until the
friendly hand OF death shall rid Us ot al
at once. Against this tedium vitr,
however, ! am fortunately mounted on
a hobby, which indeed 1 should have !
better managed some so or 40 years.
ago, but whose easy ambls Is still saf-
ticientto give exercise and amusement
to an Octogenary rider This Is the
establishment of an University, on
scale more comprehensive, and in q
country more healtv and central, than
our old William and Mary, which these
obstacles heve lung kept in state Of
langour and inefIiciency. But the tardi<
ness with which such works proceed,
may renderit doubtful, whether shall
live to see ii 20 into action.
Putting aside these things, however
for the present, Iwrite this letter, al
due 10 friendship co-eynl with our
government, and now attempted 10 b.
poisoned, when too late ia life to be
replaced by new affections had for
some time observed, in The public pa
pers, dark hints and mysteriohs inuoy-
dos of a correspondence Of yours with
4 friend, TO whom you had opened your
bosom without resesve, and which war
10 be made public BY that friend, OF hi
Representatives; and now It IS said to be
actually published. 1t has not yet reach
ed us, but extracts have been given.
and such as seemed most likely to draw
. curtain Of separation between you
and myself. Were there no other mo-.
tive, than that Of indignation against thu
author Of this outrage on private conf
dence, whose shafts seem to have been
aimed at yourself, more particnlItIy;
this would make II the duty of 5ery
honorable mind to disarpoint that aim.
by opposing to its impression, seven.
fold shield Of apathy and insensibiiity.
With me, however, no such armour il
| needed. The circumstances of the timcs.
in which we have happened to live; and
the partially of our friends, at par
ticuIar period, placed US in 4 state of
apparent opposition, which some might
suppose to be personal also; and there
might not be wanting those who wished
tomake It so, by filling qpr ears with
malignant faIsehoods, BY dressing ur
hideous phantoms Of their own crea-
lion, presenting them to you under
my name, to me pnder yours and
endcayoring to inslil into oar minds.
things concerning each other, the moss
desti,ute oftrutfE Andsif there had
been at any time moment when We
were OIL DOR guard, and in temper to
let the whispers OF these people make
rs forgctwhat we had known or eacl.
other fors many years and years OF
so much trial; yet all men who have
attended to The workings Of the I:1. ]
man mind, whe have seen the false
colors under which passion sonctinacs
dresses the actions and lro1ixes Is
others, have scen oIs0 thcec f1I;H
suhsiding with time and III rs