Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-01-07
From the illinois InteIligencer.

M Roberts and myself, which was com
menced by him, and discontinued by me-
IN Consequence oil the abusive aud ungen-
tlemanly language contained IN his iei-
tiers. Believing that one Of the objects
he had IN view In using such offensive
Language, was the supposlIlon That II
would prevent my making reply, and
thus have enabled him 10 CRAFTY sln'
6ictive feeling by publishing it, and his
misrepresenlatoDs, without correction
or structure IRON me; and believing al.
SO from my knowledge OF his character,
and some hins that had indirectly re-
ceived, that he would do this during my
absence from the state, drew up, pre-
vious 10 my departure, an answer TO his
last abusive letter, and addressed 1t to
Mr. Forquer, and reques ed him TO pub
Iish i. should Judge NJ R. take advan-
,age OF my absence to publish the cor
respondence which had taken place be-
TIVE cen us. Ii was thought that | did
him injustice in supposing that he would
be so los 10 all sense Of propriety as TO
publish the correspondence curing my
absence, and after lie had resorted to the
laws of the country for redress oil the
grievances he complained OF IN IL; and
that too during the pendsncy OF The sui,
which he had Instituted against me, and
in which he bad laid his damages al
$4,000. But whilst the event proves
,hsr [ knew him better than those who
thought did him injustice, It also proves
that too highly appreciated his charac-
ter, and was unaware OF the extent to
which his passions, his preludrceS, and
his vindictive feelings could carry HIM.
He did hot publish the correspondence
as l expected; he did that which
was infinitely more unfair and much
more reprshensible. He suppressed 1t,
and drew up long and elaborate essay,
" for the Spectator" in which he emoo-
died the contents Of the letters which he
had addressed 10 me, in many instances
word for word, and in other cases with
addinons and omissions, as best suited
his purpose, without referring 10 the con-
tents, or even existence OF my letters
In this way he gave the strongest CO.
loring to his view OF things, whilst he
entirely kept out of sight the expiana-
tons Of my conduct, and he exposures
of his, which my letters contained. And
this he did whist was absent from the
state; and with the view that bis veno-
nous poison, thus dIfused, should have
several months operation on the opinions
OF the good people of the state, before
my antidote could be applied.
To show that he was not prevented,
as he asserts, by his official duties, and
the suspension of the publication OF the
Spectator, from noticing the subject
sooner. will state that he was informed |
on the 39th OF april, in reply to writ
ten application 10 the Editor OF that pa
per, that | was the author OF piece |
" hich had appeared IN it over the sigma
ture of Jusuce;" that the publication
of the Spectator was continued up 10 the |
Il h OF June and that his long and eiabo-
rate publication against me was dated
,be Sd, and published the 5th OF AuguSt.
Now this shows that the Spectator
was not suspended until near seoen
weeks after he was informed by the edl
tor that was the author OF piece slgn-
ed Justice !" and admitting that he
IS was called Off to hold some OF the
courts of Judge Younr's circuit, it cannot
surely be contended that he was so
much occupied with "otficial duties"
as not to have t sure IN seven weeks to
write his essay "tor the Spectator" No,
he had ample time and opportunity, ma
ny weeks before the publication OF the
paper was suspended, to have made
his publication, which he doubtless
would have done had it not been
deemed essential to the object to be
effected by his attack, that it should
be made in my absence. Having good
reason to believe this, addressed the
lster 10 Mr.. Forqoer, which was pub
lished, and which, although imended as
a reply 10 Judge MRS. last letter to me,
is yel full answer to the essay he pub
lished on the 9th Of August.
On my returnto the state, found that
Judge MR.. had published long and
lsbored reply to my letter to Mr.. FOR
uuer. shall not now cendescend to
notice the Judges indecorous abuse OF
me, 10 which passion, prejudice and ma
lignlty are not less strongly depicted in
the harshness and coarseneSs OF his cpl
,hets, than in his misrepresentation, and
the weakness of his attempt at argument.
Nor shall l point out all his bubbles
about "minuies" and records" " Pc
aaitiasO and Is forte ifnrnsO q Saido and