Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-10-31
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TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 81, 1925
TO CIVIS.

Greek Scholars you will excuse them for not initiating
your learned example, in selecting a motto from that
language-and if Paul Pry says, we NAV make SO
bold, we would sincerely advise YOU in our future al.
dresses TO the public to stick your mother tongue
This is not learned community, and besides that the
employment of foreign languages in public Tor prirate
discussions, has affected and pedantc air, tie effect
OF the quotation is lost tenths of the public
they can't read H. We have long obsetv ed wi,!al tina;
your frequent quotes of Latin and Greek are for the
most, men whose acquaintance with the learned Ian
guagcs extends no farther than the Dictionary o.
Quotations. So that besides wasting your sweetness on
tue desert airyour learning those who in
capable of reading it, you mourning the suspicion
of being a mere pretender to it. If, therefore, you
really think yourself qualified to enlightcn the public
through the newspapers, by all stick to English
which every pIoughman understands. As yon have
given much good advice, for which ,ye are extreme
y grateful we hope that you will take good part.
Turn and turn about, fair play they say all the world
Before proceed to vindicae ourselves against Your
attack, let scold you liue placing the Editors of
the Enquirer in exquisite dilemma, as your COM
munication reduced them to- Know you not, the ex.
treme and shrinking decacy of those gentlemen, and
that they would not for worlds, 30 say any thing
Which implied preference for MIR. Giles Mr.. Ar
cher? Your communication placed them in extreme
ly awkward they published il, il looked
like hostility TO Mr. GiIes-if they suppressed it, hds
lily TO Mr. Archer, might be Inferred Fortunately for
you and for them, 90 Native Of Powhatann addressed
TO them communication appauding Mr. Giles Speech
at the last Powhaan Court, which euablisg them to
sustain their neutrality, relieved from enbarrass
ment whilst gratGed your parental affection for your
bantling and the public with an opportunity of peru
sing your lucubrations. may think this conjecture
imProbable--but you have idea what nervous gen.
tlemen the Editors of the Enquirer are. But 10 the
point:
And whilst you tell u.s. you contracting the
e"S oil JHdtce, and preparing the toTch OF dcuCe TO
consume, by one contiagraton, the reputation your
adversary beware lest part of the garb of YOUR
own reputation be endangered by the flame"
Really Cirs this is a very bad sentence; Greek
Scholar would think, should have been able TO con
struct better. am afraid you are another exempi
catlon OF the truth of the observation made above
at after all you do really understand Greek Tel,
us CIyis, honor bright. you in fact, Greek Sco
lar Contracting the feuds of prejudice and prepar
ing The torch OF deyice"we grant, Cvis that YOU are
too deep for us-we wish you may kewiss be too
deep for yourself One idea however seems intelri
blc--not very obvious it is true but made little anna
rent by the surrounding darkness You caution us NOT
!
tracing the feuds OF prejudice and preparing e torch
OF device" Pray what adversary do you mean? WIN.
s. Archer If You mean him, let us tell you Civis,
that we are not Mr. Archers adversary nor do we be-
eve Mr.. Archer to be ours OF Tie first at least we
are confdent-aud being confident, we presume fI,e
last We do not desire Mr.. Arclc.'s reputation
Gre, 60 believe it 10 be made of materials so
combustibie to be in TIC least danger of condaara
ton from any quarter.
You say ''we pour ont Inconsistent sarcasms upon ,c
characters fhose who advocates for equity and not
for coryrpon.' YOU mistake Us Cjvisye are friendly
TO equity as well as honesty, which perhaps on meant
But your sense Of propriety seems particuIaly ont
ragged, at cur calling MIR. Archcr's invitation to Mr.
Giles, to meet him at the Court Houses of the District
'chaAenge," "impoGc in purpose, and ungracious in
! language" ''What lyperbolical expression (vou
exclan) uneXamPed in the annals ofdplonac folIyn
Pray Civs, what has djiiomacy TO do with our opinion
Of This invitations and thc language used in describ
ing it, Can be ueyy hyperbolica to coll an invita-
ton ctaifengc7 challenge does not necessarily i'm
ply that there is Gshtiag III will in the case
There may he challenge TO run or 10 11-as for in
stance Eclipse ctntcngcd the woodland 10 ctallenre
friend TO ht Of Backgammon, OF a game Of Whist
is an every day phrase nay, it is certainly often used
ina sense einpbaiiCaily friendly Really Cvis, You
ought TO pay more attention to phiology. Those who
undertake 10 instruct The public ought to take some lit
tie pains in selecting words appropriate TO the idea f
they lave one 10 convey
ere you not now satisfied, that ,yo used lie word
challenge correctly, though Mr. Arcber,s invita-
ton had been conceived IN spirit aud coucIcd in Ian
gusgc entirely friendly and unexceptouablcs In tbe
same paper, in which your article appeared "a Citizen
Of FowIaap," who, the Editors Of the Enquirer assure
the pnbhc friend 10 both Mr.. Archer and MIR Giles
employs precisely the same word in speaking Of the
same invitation. lie SAYS. Mr.. Giles "rcad the ctai
Iengc Of HAT opponent to tic elecloncorug arena who
would neither give, receive an apology or cz-
pI1na'ion' After ibis do you sGr think VIC must
have been lied OF by Inc vulgar, otherwise wc never
could have advanced such uuiastdabo sentiments