The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-12-04

The principal writer for the Herald,
furnished for the last number of that
paper very dgaifed article, IN answer
to our as he styles it) +" Grub-street
Production" The patent right of that
piece teeming with vulgar expressions and
despicable abuse, is claimed by him who
wishes it understood that he is too modest
to call himself editor-he whom we had
the AuDACITy to call a bunch of vanity,
and "Uhoscname stands" so conspicuously
sat the head and in the front of that pa
per as PUBLISHER ana PRO RI
ETOR." We have but few words to
say of this 0F 0 ga few words
will be sufficient to convince the public
whnt they already more than suspect
to corroborate what they already know
that he is incapable Of writing THIRTY
LINES and keep them connected on any
subject however simple. This is fact
not to be denied. We, who worked in
his office as an apprentice when he was
the senior partner Of the firm that once
printed this paper, and heard him re-
peatedly claim the pieces, written by a
gentleman who was paid by the column
for his pains, as his own productions
We, who were INSTRUCTED by this same
would be editor, to answer all such as
might be inquisiliye enough to inquire.
who wrote for the paper, that he and
his partner were the sole writer's; know
ing if this was once established, he would
be ENABLED, with little of his abundant
stock Of inpudence, to thrust his more
modest partner aside and appropriate
to himself the honor of writing that
which he NEVER wRoTE-We, we say,
who have witnessed his repeated at
tempts and as often his repeated failures,
pronounce him incapable Of writing
even thirty lines good English. If then
the writer (not the printer) Of the edito-
rial articles that appear in that paper,
would that there should be any credit
attached to his false avowals-his un.
warrantable abuse Of such as nre so OBJ
stinate as not to think as he thinks-If,
we say, this psrverse gentleman wo I'D
have his vilifying aspersions-his un-
holy-his malignant ISLANDERS, credited
we advise him to issue them in different
latitude--in slattude where his own con-
tumacy-his unrelenting vindictiveness
has not become the subject Of frequent,
ofindignant rsprehensions.
This writer sensible of his inability to
rise in the scale Of being, devotes his
time and talents, what little he has, to
the fruitless endeavor of dragging others
down to his own contemptible-to his
own loathsome degradation. In this
illiberal-this unmanly project he fails,
for if he succeeds in lowering them ONE
degree in public estimation, he in the
effort, although apparently fallen to the
lowest state of human degeneracy, sinks
TWO; therefore, the nearer he is to ac-
eomplishing his object, the farther he is
from it,
His attempt to create a sympathy in
behalf Of that concern, by representing
us as endeavoring to break it down, is
surely pitiful; and we pity the obtuss-
ness of his intellect il he thinks an "en-
lightened community" are to be hum
bugged in this way.
When he speaks Of hard names we sup.
pose he has FORGOTTEN the attempt
he made last Spring to hold us up to ridi-
cule by calling US "a mere child Of straD
in the midst Of" our "feens, As far as
this expression relates to our age il is
true; we are in our tcens," and are not
ashamed of it, But could he have
FORGOTTEN while penning that
PART OF THE ARTICLE which complains
Of "hard nan,es," that in other PARTS
OF rnE SAME ARTICLE, he had call