Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-02-08

sres described were different from any
thing that had occurred in that body
ard yet the application has been made.
shall therefore leave the public TO guess
on at its pleasure, while l enjoy in secret
the humorous consequences.
There is great pleasure too, in wit
Messing (incog) lhei various efforts
that are made at detecting the author OF
piece which one has written And truly
have heard of divers shrew6 and saga
cious coDjectures respecting the identity
of Simon Snorer, Esq. The lawyer, the
statesman and the divine have alternate.
ly been named, with great confidence.
The caustic wit of one, the profound
knowledge OF another, and the grave and
powerful satire of the third, have all been
detected in the production of one who
processes 10 be nothing more than mere
dreamer. But after all the surmises
which have reached my dormitory, none
pleases me SO well as that which attri-
butes my dream to the ablest writer
and statesman of the STATE, and whose
neously supposed to emaDate from the
" rhetorical pen" OF one who stands al
most unrivalled among the political
writer's of the age. If any one thinks pro
per TO consider me a silly dreamer for
feeling elevated by this fauering circum-
stance, let him write piece which shall
produce similar effect-and then see
if he do not rise an inch in his shoes.
But there is no pleasure without its
alloy. | could scarcely have time to
gain an equilibrium after the Intoxicating
eff CT ofths high, and uDintended enc,
MUM, before | heard my essay placed
the credit OF several persons
"Alke unknown to fortune and to fame;''
nothing 10 the renown Of the Dreamer.
This was damper, and to add 10 tie
hnmiliating perplexity, | learned tbatat
least one person was charged with--or
rather received credi, for--being the an-
thor, on the strength oil having written
few OF those ordinary pieces which any
body can write-if they have the Wit
this person (who lives in a certain vii
lage) affected 10 wave the question:
looked silly (no doubt thioking he look
ed wise y aud evadsd direct negative
by all The shifts and turns, to which the
real adthor might have resorted, in order
10 keep he delicious secret to himself.
nave heea a no small pains to devise
. mode by which this Outrageous con-
due, nigh BE- a once punished and pre-
vented, without exposing myself to the
public view-for | have great repug
nance to making my person common !;
and at length have concluded on issuing
in the manner of other personages equal
ly important, my solemn
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas divers con lectures have been
publicly made with regard to the author
Of certain pieces published under the
head of =" the Dreamer," and whereas
sundry evil disposed persons, not having
the right thereto, have had the temerity
to CLAIM them Indirectly as their own
and whereas the said pieces were written
by myself and no other person, have ho't
hit to issue this my proclaim ion, strictly
enjoinng and forbidd;ng all persons from
conlectnring, surmlsng and guessing al
the author OF said pieces: And do
moreover, positively forbid and nhibil
all persons whatsoever, from claiming
or admitting said pieces TO be theirs, I'M
der pain of being amply and suitably
punished in fn'ure dream.
Done at my Dortnitory, this fifteenth
night of Incubus, in the year of
Dreams five ,hous nd eight hun
dred and twentv-nine.
SIMON SNORER.