Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-08-31
COMMUNICATED.

COMMUNICATED.
The Campaign Of 1881 in the Ca,oiinns-roiM
renar6s, historical and critical, on Johnson's
Life Of Greene. To ,oi,ich as added an .appe,a-
dr., " Original Documents, relating to the
History IF The Revolution. BIZ, IT, Lee.
| Messrs. Editors-A perusal of the mastery
Address that was laid before the jackson Con
vention at Fredericksburg, which recently an
peared IN the Wing, accompanied with an ed-
torlal paragraph, bestowing on it the need of
praise II so emnently deserves, and attributiDp
1t to the author of'The Campaign of 73I - i'm
| pressed me with an ardent desire to see that
work, that might enjoy the intellectual feast
OF handsome composition, and vivid thought
upon larger scale than that from which had
already derived SO much in the narrow compass
OF a popular essay. Having procured the gra-
tiIcatIon, will not dsparage one performance
IN extravagant praises of the other, by SAVING
that my expectations were more than realised.
greatly regret that there is not subject in
the whole work sufficiently isolated and BRIEF
10 ADMIT OF extraction as n specimen, withou;
impairing It's effect, and consequently doing in.
justice to the entire work. The only passape
that now recoliect aftera rapid perusaI which
approaches somewhat to these two QuaIities of
brevity and abstraction, as to admit of de
tached reading, is the following, which offer
YOU as candidate for place i'm YOUR paper.
Though 1T be minor circumstance of the prjn-
cPai theme, mere side glance of a keen eve
relaxing from its critical and penetrating scruti
ny OF subjects more worthy of its concentrated
energies, much may be inferred i'm favor of the.
entire work, If the adage be true that ssfi-on, q,
ttttfe aoe 6noic ,ci,at n great deal meansn pro-
less not to make review Of THE Campaigns:n
leave thatto the critics. Inmy opinion, however,
II continues much better than il begins. Another
remark has struck me so forcibly that cannot
suppress 1t. Judge .'ohnson's ssSketchesn are
so completely demolished. that he will have TO
rely upon bis critic for The Immortality which
he sought TO obtain from his own pen, its com
PieXIon however, will be materially chanreJ
perhaps TO somewhat the reverse of that he was
gambling for.
Page loO:-sWriters whose works are destined
To delight and inform the latest ages of mankind
often give beauty and interest to their compositions
ny expressive power of contrast. The episodes Of
Homer, the shield of Achilles particularlv glow
with TINS charming quality; and every reader re-
members the pleasant and cheerful description
winch Duncan gives at noon, of the castle in which
he rs to- be murdered at night The force of this
mode OF writing has been perceived, and employed
by the eloquent of all ages They oppose 20 the
strenuous and angry occupations of war, the mild
and joyful colours of peace: the stern and cruel
habits OF ambition, TO the tender and blooming eai-
cites Of love. Active and aspiring characters
are made to long for tranquility and brows encir-
ced by the inhaming diadcm, to thfob for the pea
SAINTS repose.
"Gives not the hawthorn bush sweeter shade
| To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,
Than does the rich embroidered canopy
| To Kings
! With equal grace and equal spirit, FIR. John
son will be found to acquit himself. While
Cornwalls IS urging bis fierce pursuit, and Nor
gan, faint, but dauntless, anifnates his weary
troops; while the Catawba, swift and Drumming
toams between the hostile bands, its shores echo
ing the clash OF arms, the shouts of warriors,
and the neighing of inpatient stecds, the atten-
non OF the reader is led back by our author, to
one OF the humblest occupations of peaceful
NE, where he beholds General Greene, as in
the days OF his youth, watching "the ebbing
gram vanish from between the miIl-stoDes.n In
thIs eager and stormy period he is discovered
seated by the side Of hopper,n on the banks
OF the Pedee, content, (p. 1911 to s'guard the
MIL during the process Of converting the corr
| into meal"
/ Not yet content; from this estantalizino situa.
ton, we are hurried forward to one of the mos
perilous and awful incidents that DANGER eve,
, ontrived or vaIor encountered: