Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-02-23
"THr rDoNArIoN."-Two weeks having

"THE DoNATIoN.'-lwo weeAs h"""s
elapsed, since the editor Of the Rhode-lsland
American and Providence Gazette, gave d.
rect. and an unprovoked insult to the young
gentlemen of the town, and by implicaton,ac-
cused them of Incorporate drinking, he has at
last come ou, in whining apology, and begs
them for charily's swee, sake, to forgive him,
and says TO them in effect, gentlemen srs'
when abused you and accused you OF Grimm
al vices, | only meant to say, that you were
very proper and very we'll disposed gentlemen"
Such ridiculous and unmanly department may
be sanctioned, but we doubt ii.
We have but little to say in relation to this
subject, but in Justice to ourselves, and TO the
public, We here declare, that we were called
upon by the officers of the Fuel Society, and
requested to state publicly, that they disap-
proved, and discount enanced the scandalous
insult which was given the young gentlemen
composing the cotlllion party, by the editor of
the Rhode-Island American and Providence
Gazette, and that he had no authority from
incli,lO iluhHS PuDHp VI piNatO hNhhN"'-
edgement of the donation. The article which
we published was written, in behalf of :hc Fuel
Society, in the presence of one of its commit
tee, and approved of, before it went to press.
The names Of tho gentlemen who sanctioned
our proceeding, and requested it might be Civ
en- to the world. would bo published, if we were
not unwilling TO drag them before the public,
and if we were not still further unwilling
10 disgrace them, by nssociatng their names
with the editor o. the newspaper Of which
we are now speaking.
II has been part Of the employment Of the
editor Of the Rhode-Island American and
Providence Gazette, to abuse and insult the
young men of the town, and to offend the la
dies. Last spring he said to them, that they
were exceedingly incorporate, and that no
young man of character would be seen to en-
ter the Public Hotels Of the town, and very
kindly undertook their reformation. Failing
in this-for the doctor was far more deceased
than the patient he next undertook to regu-
late the affairs of the ladies', and accused them
of want of taste, and too great fondness
for the sterner and coarser sex, because it did
not please them TO patronizc with an extraor-
dnary share of lberality, Mrs. Hamblin.-
Nothing suits him, and he sits himself up as
public dictator, the curer Of diseases, and the
mender of morals
BY this course of conduct, he has abused,
and violated the better feelings of the town,
and now, that his consumma,e insoence and
impudenco is resented by society of abused
young gentlemen,he exclalms, 81 cry your mcr-
cies sirs;-l imploro your charity-I conjuro
your forgivencss!"
One more word, and we have done. The
young men Of Providence aro as moral and
exemplary as any others Of the world. They
are remarkable for their intellectual viyaci,v
and thirst for knowledge; and we venture to
say, that in all the cxcelencies of the mascu
line character, they have no superiors They
generally manage their affairs in their own
way, and resent the mpudenco and insole nee
of the Editor ofa public newspaper, who false
ly accuses them, oad assumes the right, of
debating rules for their department. We have
the honor to associate with most of them; many
Of them are our warm personal friends, and
we shall not see them insulted with impunitv.