Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-02-04
COMMUNICATIVE.

10 TIE EDIToR OF THE S K. TELEGRApr
% S'R: recent circumstance have given to your
sen ana your paper notoriety to which pcrhnps
they have ali along bGen en led. You will nil "
the ignorance ct one who boast of no more an
cieht acquaintance with either than the period of
"PrcSbyiers" publication; and Won will ma rdnn tIo
manifold errors into which he NAV be brtravod
even IN the course of the few hastv remarks that
follow whose poor Judgment has never been enlioht
ened by the truths literally scattered over your
pages IN propositions the most brilliant and ORIGINAL
Permit me, sir. in the first place to compliment
You on the facility with which under the epcourapinr
lnlinehcc OF 6ache'S, you have been nst,oated to
screw up your courage to tic sticking place The
transition from the attitude of the humble anolo1st
10 that OF tine proud defer, reiteranp sentiments for
the mere fundamentally in publishing which Won
nave very properly endeavored to atone by an apol-
-ogy TO the Public, IS sudden and imposing.
on now. with all the boldness YOU are canabIs ne
assuming, call upon the Editors of the Public Prints
the authorized organs of the community to ret1nc
IieH statements. Let me not do you Injustice; YOU
isave them an alternatIve-yon require of them to
feract their statements, or to stain their columns
with the.very publication, whose malignant illusions
reused their just resentment and awakened their we'll
tlme" severity fhe motives yon assign for making
SUN lques'' are iudlcrous enough and their rea
spns Tor refusing ii sufficiently plain.
fSr, You undertake land it is believe almost mi
'e[Saiy suspected that you have other and strourer
rsaEOhs than generous concern for the reputn-
soi VI aIT"'eT IN so dolHg) to yndicate the motives
vi that unknown and amIable being called Presbv-
ter from the charge of ice, ID on attempt 10 proye
tat me production OF his pen (mastprly IN its knd
contains no personal Reflections And do Won roolIy
thln< That the common of maturcd and rotiona
iiiaH IS in ITS nature very ducc as to Weld ~,
Its planest dictates, and adopt in their stead The
conclusion to which you woUi conduct it by sucb n
train OF reasoning ths?- for such is the substance
Of your argument
IT is NOT PERsoNAL-you assert
LIST. Because Prcsbyter declares il is not so.
2nd Because Mey Themselves who ss1pposo Tho n
insInns to be personal know them 10 be rllse
jTd. Becausc many whom Il have consulted" do NOT
think it personal.
lake syl5gism it has three terms, and thcre.the
sinilitude ends. '"e
And is tins the mighty effort of mind sels-elcctod
TO en'Ighten by its Intrec Hgl abours our nnjnsiruc
tea community Is This the long series OF ratipcina-
tons which for the last week a learned I.yne has
0een busted IN developing by most complicated and
la0oured process? and good many others do not
hink u personal and every body knows it to bn false
ergo the article Of Presbyte not intended to be
personal. ~ -
Upon this principle it would be totally impossible
10 uteT inIsefood relative to any individual. For #
II ne raise 1t cannot apply; il il do apply it can
HoI DC personals u u be not personal IL cannot relate
10 any individual But 1t seems you have been be-
wiIGeLed IN the mazos Of your own soDhistrv
20 "haG species OF obliquity is an inconsistency al
iUntobic so gIaring that charity alone forbds to cali
~ haT6ler name' hope it is a deviation from, in
Ie1ectna and not moral rccude In one brentb
You protest the innocence of PresbvfeY and relv
upon BIS solemn declaration which you say Won he
HeVe' THAT It was not his design 10 draw sketch of
aHy person whom he bad cUer known or cast raAec
DIS ~ mo charaFc'e' - any nah." And almost n