Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-09-27
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marty in this State is beginning to stir ;,seIs
The counties of LoudowS, Roek6ridVe and Sao,,
,~vlvaniG, have already called meetings tn go
delegates to the Richmond Convention. Tb;s
is cheering. "Concert and Perseverance, q. on,
motto and the Old Dominion viii vet redeem
itself from the influence of a Faction. thai has
long disgraced the State and inflicted mortal
wound upon its prosperity.
"a FooFs my fhene-Les Satire be nv ssrgn
BYRON.
Jackson p~aper-perhaps better known as the
serylle copyst and lmltator of Duff Green, for.
cibly reminds us by bis late conduct, OF one of
those contemplate beings which too frequently
infest the private walks of society-men who
unable TO attract attention by the profundity or
acu.eness of their remarks, are yet ambiiious
Of being noticed, and feel themselves on most
occasions, compelled TO quarrel themselves into
that enviable distinction among their neighbours.
And yet one might have supposed that even
that valiant Knight of the quill, had already re.
ceived a surfeit of the honors to which such
errantry conducts. For impudendence though
great, may be brought to the blush; stupidity
though gross, may be made sensible of its weak
ness, ard the late notifying defeats to which
that amiable editor has exposed himself, thro'
either a want OF ability or ~veracity to sustain
him, might, one would have thought, have
proved a salutary lesson to him, if he possessed
capacity enough to profit by the ~caustic admo.
nltions OF experience. He however affords ano-
ther illustration to the many lamentable instan
ces upon record, of the pertinacity with which
ignorance rushes TO its destruction, and though
tottering to its base. yet smiles with an idiotic
complacency at the dangers which surround it.
We had hoped that the "obscurity of our
print" would have protected US from the attacks
OF this formidable Goliath of the adverse party;
we had supposed that one who had 80 Courage
ously broken a lance with the Editor of the Ma
tonsl Journal, and had pronounced the horri.
Die word of Craven on his late zpager of ba.tel
with the Republican, would have been placed
beyond all competition with honorable men BY
q forfeiture of his Hberam ega,n. or if disposed
again to appear on the arena, would at least,
Ike honest Francisco, in the play. "unsubdued
by defeat" have disdained all humber oppo.
nents. But in this we have been mistaken. Not
even our "unlnfuential print" has been able to
escape the adventurous proves of his quill,
Tha. mighty instrument of little men
whose astounding energies, when welded BY
this Knight Grant of Faction-and Quixote in
polltics-like the proboscis of an Elephant, can
with equal facility "tear up an oak OF pick up a
pm" In his last weeks paper, he has chosen
TO assail US in a style of low and vulgar %scurrili.
ty, that might have discredited any other Jour.
nal, than one whose only pretensions to notice
with its own party, is the violence of its Zeal,
and the unblushing impudence of its assertions.
Though our humility could not have led us 10
anticipate the honor, We shall scarcely shrink
from the obligations under which it has placed
US. There is perhsps as little real danger to be
apprehended, as reputation to be acquired from
a newspaper controversy with the talented edi.
tor of the Virginian.
But perhaps We are hasty in ascribing tina,
dignlhed tissue of abuse, to the os,ensibLe editor
OF the Virginian himself. II has been before
hinted, and we believe not denied, that there
are a STEW needless youths" who have access to
ats immaculate columns, and dictate its Del.
pho responses.--certain deputy editors
II thank thee. Jew for teaching me that word'
who occasionally ''scribble for and CONTROL its
pages" at other times hiss on their sagacious
principal into personal collisions with his bre.
thren, and then laugh in their sleaves at his
good natured credulity-pliant intellect, and
"consummate folly" Naughty v~arlets! How
teelingly might the worthy Editor address them
an the language OF the Frogs in the Fable "Ah
Cruei BOYS! consider l beseech you. that though
tnis may be sport to you, it is death to me.n
We must confess, we rather reqret tho, anv
circumstances should have thrown us into col.
lislon, with this stumble disciple of the Tele.
graph We surely can derive little pleasure
IN exhibiting to the public gaze, the weaknesses
OF an opponent, whose hostility is laughable,
whose malevolence is contemplate. Neither
shali we institute any comparison between the
respective courses pursued by our s,uninauentiaI
PRINT and the widely extended Winchester
Firginian. II disposed to make a contrast. we
might dwell with a malignant pleasure. upon
me character, once respectable. which its editor
mas forfeited by the reckless and abandoned
course which he has pursued-his prof;gate dis.
regard OF truth-and shameless impudence of
defamation. Does any journal in the commu.
my sustain a less eviable reputation Has apy
been more grossly devoted to purposes of Fac.
-Falsehoodl Has any more
eagerly culled, or more industriously oropapa.
ted the thousand little calumnies which are al.
ways circulating in the corrupted atmosphereo
poitics-calumnies which men of honor despise
and men OF sense laugh att
"Oh J-y Sd for a momen, think.
What meagre profits spring from ben and ink,
When thus devoted to thy shameless dreams.
VINO will peruse thy brostituted reaus2
U pen pervertedy PAPER nnsabbt,ed
Had Sd still adorned the counter aide.
3 D er the desk-o, born to useful tolls:
Been taught to make The baber 1vbich he soi,.
F~ioughed-delyed or piled the oar with Iusty
limb,
He had not sung Of VS. nor Of him.
NJ BYRON.
but 20 recur to the original grounds of this
r""oVersy,. In a previous number of our pa
r. we spoke OF the existence of a Faction in
ms state, (which had long exercised an lie.
6"'nste influence over IFS sentiments and opin.
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