Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-03-22

Two on 'Chdnge, Win Flckle Emmons anu |
Tom Sawyer, and pertinently enquire of the !
occupants Of the fashionable promenade,-
"what say they Of US in Bagdad'"
A week or two since, the Editor Of the Bull |
letin, having grown somewhat restive, and not !
being prepared TO make direct attack upon
us, set his Jackall at work, and directed him |
to find fault with our grammar. Tho mandate
was imperative, and tho animal commenced |
his ardous undertaking. In this praisewor-
thy employment, he was backed by Mr.. Jenks
the editor OF the Bulletin and Mr.. Nathaniel
Greene. The latter individual, had been rem
dered indignant, by US, because we took the
liberty to review .Namby Pamby Grafton of
his. delivered on the 8 h of January; and find
ing that Mr.. Jenks' Jackall, was ready to
serve the whole corps editorial, and to perform
for them " all the hard and dirty work." be
descended from his high estate, as editor of
the Boston Daily American Statesman" and
suffered the editor of Pickle Emmons' paper,
grammar, was Of course fallen upon with avid
ity, and Pickles writer, undertook to make US
guilty Of violating the rules of Lindley Murray.
To do this, he seized upon an article, published
in the Cadet, on the lst inst defending Messrs.
Webster and Everett, and endeavoring TO rspsl
the scandalous attacks, which had been made
on those distinguished gentleman. The first
paragraph Of the articil was seized upon and was
| thus written, and thus it reads:
Tho fores DING paragraphs, are too low and
vulgar, TO attract ono moments attention. and
we should suffer them 10 escape us, did they
not come from a quarter which has heretofore
been entitled to some respect; first because
the gentlemen editors, who conduct the paper
on the face Of which they are recorded, have
| uniformly made, and sustained some preten-
| sions to the character Of we'll bred gentle
man."
! None. but tho I" most stupid Of tho stupid"
( would suppose that the whole sentence, related
to anything else than the paragraphs" but
as tho ignorant jackanapcs alta ched to Pickles
| paper, could not carry the anlcedcnt through
sentence of twelve lines, he pronounced the sem
! tcnce bad one, and " full of false grammer."
=" hoNS hio oSsS''iohe Soou,h NV Suheu III huc alu
Of jerks, Greene, and company. who Topped
Off the four FIRST lines Of the sentence and made
it read as follows.
Because tho gentleman editors who con
duct the paper. on tho face Of which they are
recorded, have uniformly made, and sustained
some protensions TO the character of well bred
gentlemen.
Thus, after disjoinling sentence, they per-
verted It's meaning, and made us say, that the
editors of the Statesman, were recorded on
the trio, and company, to perpstrato SO woa-
derful decd we know not-we care not-and
they are welcome TO all the honor TO be de-
rived from such mode of warfare. Several
other sentences were dsjo:nted in tho samo
lasnner; and, after having been approved ofin
their mutilated shape, they were sent to Pick
les paper, by the trio and company, and pub
lisled The next day, they were transported
to the Office Of the Bullctia; -inductcd to that
| paper, and presented 10 the world, accompa-
MED by the commendatory remarks of Mr..
I Editor jerks, who recommended them 10 the
notice Of the world, and pronounced the origi-
nal romarks which accompanied them happy
and rich, ingenious and forcible and pregnant
with pungcnt satire-Af,er all this had been
accomplished, the Bulletin, and Pickle En-
mons paper, were carefully mailed. and sent
TO one of the newspaper Offices Of the town,
where they are daily read, 10 visitors, by the
editors of publication. at the head Of whose
pages, ,often flourishes the portrait Of the Coll
umban Phenix.
| We arc incensed with ourselves, fer aving
wasted so much time on the subject. and i our
readers will exercise their patience for mo-
ment, we will retro TO our closet, and pot
again annoy them.
| The individual who writes for Pickle EN-
mons paper, has on several occasions, labour-
ed to arrest our notice; and when no found,
that he could not prevail upon us TO notice him
by putting, no commenced abusing US, and cast
! at US sundry vollics OF his incohcrent largon |
and ribadry. As yet he has proved unsuc-
TO place him on the turnpike to Immortality, |
that we thus obiqucly in,pat-, that such a
lump OF mortality, as he is, exists, to breathe a
pure atmosphere As ho may be anxious to
know, why wo have no, condesended 10 notice
him, we will simply state for hu satisfaction,
that tho iniirm,ics of his head, and tho baser I
qualities of his hart protect him, and furth hsr