Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-09-15

TO iaseSt iadiedai tor party IN tho Offensive son.
lance ot ours TO which his remarks nllude, Mo-,
ossnredly he docs"
Is toe editor ofthe Spectator ignorant of the fact
mat weeks oso, we expressed cur belief that the al,
isdgad Jefferson letter a forgery, And thus ex.
plated "A far as it possible, the wrong we had
unconsciously done, when in the firm cony elton OF
ts being genuine, VIC published 1t rs such? Can II
DC possible that knowing this he would stoop TO the
htlencss OF representing political adversary as
sisting in the attempt to palm forgery upon the
Public, knowing 1t to be forgery? We canno, and
do not believe the Editor the Spectator CAPABLE Of
such mcanness IL IS incompatible with all VIC have
seen aud heard of him. The mputation proceeJed
unquostIonably from ignorance and as our paper has
limited circulation in his immediate country lie will
doubtless take pleasure in correcting the Impressions
10 our prejudice he has thus produced. But pro-
cseding from this source, the gentleman mus, find
himself IN rather disagrecablc prcdicament Those
VINO set up FOR commentators upon political transac.
lions, should lcas, be acquainted with the facts
they write about.
Next the eruditc editor Of the Spectator INDUCES
IN hom,ly upon moral cause and effect action and
reaction We should be objectionable to deprive our
readers of the benefit ofthc learned speculation /,
follows:
Perhaps DIR. Wing is only mad with us because
We say TINS trick will 'recoH upon the party If So
We say to him, that 1t is q truth a. certain ne tho
Sun shines, relation 20 human conduct and ,fT,irs
That derives its authority from n higher source thnn
individual dicta, that unfair and decep,iye mnons
When once detected, will tend TO defeat rather than
dement, the cause II was cssayed to advance IL s
In the moral in the natural world that action md
reaction are the same and be should as well blame
Us because the Suo shines or the world turns round
as for this assertion"
As far our individual Improvement WAS u,odi.
tated by the worthy editor. we te nder him our pro
found Acknowledgements. We trust that the seed
VIII not have fallen upon soil altogether sterile.
instruction SO valuable and so iiegantly ras Paddy
says enforced. cannot but rebound to the prof, o.
poor neophytes in politics, like ourselves Far from
0'G"g the learned editor for the instruction he h..
SO gratuItously dealt u.s. repeat our acknowledge
ments and sense Of his condescension
One more extract.
what the gentleman means exactly bv scertnjp
Federalists white washed in Jacksonis1, ,e,c,;,r-
old Democrats what Dsns0cracy means, we camel
exactly understand. But we will assure tb,s gen-
tieman, under whatever disguise he may eek to palm
himself upon people of Old Virginia as political
teacher, they Will never own him."
We would have the sage editor of the Snectstor
know, that we resort to ''disguises" That at
least IS no part Of chara cter 1t was reserved
for his sngacity to discover what had no existence
we publish paper In that paper, we say what
we please If any man reads it and is instructed by
It, well But we set up to instruct man. We
VIII not 6e guilty of the presumption, of setting up
lot poticai teachers, when such learned Thebans
our contemporary of Warrenton, are in the field
nor can we hope to be owned in that character by
virginia when the labors of another far superior
IN reasoning so much more attractive in stylo SC
modest in preenson, submt ed to her preference