Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-07-28

umofs6e at NE Tor expressing the behei,
that The " free, temperate, and fearless, !"
manner, in which his political character
has been portrayed, has alone produced
his intiammatory publication.
Mr.. Blackwell says all men are now
agreed that the state bank policy was
wrong, and are united IN winding it up,
only disagreeing about the means, still
you find Mr. Edwards decrying thai sys-
iem." The people will ind on retlec-
ton, that Mr.. Edwards is not so much
opposed TO the bank, as be is to the ma
nagement thereof. Did mol Mr.. Black
well participate largely in this 1t he
did, The Tree, temperate and fearless
discussions" of MIR. Edwards, has pre-
scented Mr.. B. with gIsring mirror 10.
which he can see the detormity of his
political visage.
What. talk of labored and impassion-
ed speeches, and oil cheap sning our IN
dsrstandings really Many Will recol
lect Mr.. Blackwell's stump speeches at
The muster; and whether they were less
iabored and lmpassloned, than Mr..
Edwards i" free and fearless discussion"
oil bis legislative conduct, lei hundreds
testify. And as to MIR. Edwards cheap
enng the undersl anding, | am inclined
to think il there is any thing IN tha,
ihese lawyers are by tar the best hands
at tie business. Lawyers, it is SAID,
deal IN sophistry more Than other men;
and according 10 celebrated lawyer, il
is 10 be regretted, that whilst the prac
tlce oil the law unfolds such a luminous
display of talent aud learning, there
should be such an unfortunate obliqnily
IN The pursuit of logical Induction ;---
and probably we do not know a more
glarlng instance Of set OF men whose
understandings are more frequently
eheapened, than jury, when exposed TO
the tedious and lengthy harangue oil an
artul lawyer. Whether Me. b. at
tempted to cheaper the understanding
an his muster speeches, | shall not pre-
tend even TO surmise but, as il is said,
when bis mind was carried back from
she stump to the jury bar, was he not
in his element? Was he not heard Sc
veral times to address the battalion in
his legal style, to wit: " Gentlemen of
the Jury 2" As to the vain. boasling IN
puted to Gov, E. recoilect that be intro
duced little humor into his speeches,
as pleasing as it was conciiating. Gen.
Duacan, too, i, will be remembered on
the same day, spoke OF his exploits in
the army, when very young. Now MIR.
Edwards in his vain boasting very hap
PLY speaks of old bacon, old whiskey
and The good old ways, and carries The
mind back to period during last war,
IN the tolls and dangers oil which, he
participated with many OF his hearers.
Mr.. Blackwell says, "he is by no
means the man whom | would have
chosen for Governor; but considered in
reference to his competitors, had made
up my mind TO support him." Here,
then, he acknowledges the superior ta-
Tents OF Gov. Edwards, and am most
happy to bear testimony in this single in-
stance TO the openness, candor and sin
cerlty OF the formidable author OF this
famous hand-blil Alter bearing, how
ever, Mr.. Edwards free, temperate
and fearless discussion" of his political
Character, he backs out Or was il on
ly when he read the Crawford affair,
that he found Mr.. Edwards character
s. irretrievably gone! lost forever -
Wonderful discovery and that too a. so
late period as last April Why more
than year ago, every school boy in the
Union had read the Crawford affair. Is
it then to be wondered at, good people,
chat so many OF US have been dipped by
that transaction, seeing that, like The cha
meleoD, II has assumed every hue and
shape, and accommodated itself to time
and circumstances
1t is also asked why Mr.. Edwards labors
SO much to prejudice the people against
the Legislature whether it is IN revenge
for his defeat there? Now there is
strange obliquity in this charge. Mel
ther Mr.. Black we'll nor the people will
believe for moment that Mr.. Edwards
intended TO arraign both friends and foes
indiscriminately. 1t canno, be belev-
ed that those who supported Mr.. Ed
wards, have been singled out by him as
objects of revenge. Among them are
some who participated in the present
ruinous policy, others who stood firm
against it; and probably not a few OF
his most inyeterate enemies, who honest
Iy resisted that policy. under which the
political character of MIR. Blackwell and
the state also, had almost been ire
trievably gone"
He also asks whether Mr.. Edwards