Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-05-06

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should be imposed upon. In the next place it was
said by US, that the General read law with the late
Mr.. Benjamin Bourne Of Br,tol-when. in fact, he
was a student in the Office Of the late Oliver Arnold
that was too distressing, the Journal could not
bear it: they rauted, foamed at the mouth, and made
horrible grimaces,-and said they, are we doomed
to be thus everlastingly cheated-poor fellows! we
pitied them to the very centre Of our souls. In the
third place,-the most ~calamitous of all our sins Of
Omission or commission,' I'VE asserted that Gen.
Varnum was a native Of East %reenwich. -Ye
Gods protect US, said they;-are we doomed 70 eter-
nal imposition-spare us everlasting Alla-spare as
good prophet, spare us, spare us! And last, though
worst Of all, we had the misfortune to assert that
General James Mitchell Varnum, was a brave Of
hcer Of the revolution-and a native of this State;
this was too much and the Journal Indignantly
pronounced it a sheer f~alsehoo1, and revolted at the
idea that any other state than old Massachusetts,,
should generate a soldier or a scholar, or present to
the world one solitary ray Of genius. Rhodc-Is-
land produce an orator or a statesman ridiculous
said they--the thing is utterly impossible! But
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thought and action-the slight sketch of Gen. Var
nun, published in the last numbered the Cadet, was
inaccurate, and as far as our inaccuracies were
pointed out by those arho kneu, we fastened to cor
rect them, and should have felt exceedingly grate-
full If any gentleman had furnished US with an au-
thentic memoir Of the eminent gentleman, whose
history we proudly recorded ON the face of this pa
per. But as no one pretended to say our sketch
was incorrect, any further than the photography of
the Generals name was concerned, we were not en-
abled to point out our errors or to correct them
The Journal, it seems, obtained the facts connected
with the Generals life, from an authentic source,
and as they were willing to have the public sup
pose that We either wilfully or stupidity imposed
a false statement upon the world, very kindly at
tempted to correct our mistakes through the me-
dunn OF the columns oCtheir own paper. We care
nothing about the course they have thought proper
to pursue in relation to the affair, but if they were
in possession OF facts materially different from ours,
and such as would present Gen. Varnum in his
real character, common courtesy, to say nothing
about decency, ought TO have instructed them to
l'N'N N'"'S ~ ~ Jul SisPoodi, anu ~ We IL C.
fused to use them, then it would have been quite
in time for the Journal to publish their own Biog-
raphy.
The affair, Independently Of the reverence due
to the memory of a man so distinguished as was the
brave soldier i'll question, is of itself but little conse.
quence, and would not have been noticed in this
place, had it not been to show how greedily compe-
titors seek for an opportunity to conflict with a CO.
temporary. We srrogate to oursel,e no credit for
having succeeded in restoring to the possession of the
present generation, the history OF a man, whose
memory will ever be revered by the citizens of
Rhode Island, and whose sainted shade now repos-
es, quietly and silently with the ashes Of those pa
trIots and heroes, who achieved the independence of
our Republic. But we shall take to oursel, es the
privilege Of saying, that if we had not wandered
through the gloomy mansions of the dead, and res
cued a name from the approaching grasp of forget
fulness, which ought to be written in letters Of gold
on the tablets OF the state, General Varnum would
have been suffered to repose neglected and forgot
ten, till the last dread trump shall wake the sheet
ed relics of his ancestors.
That the memoir off eneral Varnu,n, as set forth
In the Journals correct, we are not prepared to al
NIT. and as we are determined to have it record.
ed as it should be, we have taken pains to collect
materials from indubitable sources, to enable us to
record a faithful narrative of this patriot, statesman,
and soldier. And in carrying our design into extcu-
ton, we shall not be retarded or accelerated by the
sneers or SCOTS of our contemporaries.
We seek not a quarrel with any one all we ask
is fair and honorable competition, and the privilege
of correcting our own errors and plumbers. We
wish not to tread upon the toes Of our neiyhbors-
we ask that they will not tread upon ours. Here
we leave them, as we approached them-in perfect
good humor-satisied with our own labors, and
trusting that the publick will not cease to sustain
US.
The Judieiary-The appointment of the Hon.
SAMUEL EDDY to the Bench OF the Supreme
Court we fancy will be acceptable to the commu-
nifty, generally, for however warmly and sincerely