Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-05-18

poor thing for in the commencement
ne said &observing the cast interest man
ifsssed by the Society Of Friends led him
to embark on the occasion,'' there's the
scat out Of the wallet" plump. But
~e envied him not, we said he wrote
his t'fiistory" (but he didn't the last
piece over his thought signature thus it
says ''no reflections are cast upon the
committee" mind that Sutherland,
we did not wisi, to detract from him
the merit Of IT, it was not "giyen to
you Sutherland to see this vision and
'History" ard reflections thereon
and prop thereto but l tell you the & His
tory and reflections" were asof as hot
nsush' he wrote them no other man
car write such stuff it looked like him,
1t read like him, it was altogether like
him and ras altogether his. What !
complain of is this, he had a right to
write his "History and reflections"
and SO had we to write ours and
when he saw his "lIistory' eclipsed
aye, 'Athe rag taken of the bush" by
ours to come out in print and Willy US
land get help at that and endeavour
to make the respectable" ''dear'
'sweet'' people think we didn't write
our '1Iiistory'' aud thus endeavour by
sschicane" 'sfinesse," Lawyer manage
ment, 10 rob us Of the reward Of our
literary labour is too much and l cant
bear it without putting on a long face"
sln fa,tb," says Sutherland, ''there
IS some mistake in this matter, howe
YER I'll put it in my note book daily
JOURNAL now, mind Hook if this vision
turns out to be true, it will only bene-
tit US; it will give ~publicity'' to our
tour 'seelat," ''stamina," and in adj
dition thereto, our glory will be en-
creased; they'll call you d ~prophet,' =
a "secr Of Visions" a dreamer Of
dreams. Besides, If our "History'
stakes the rag off the 6ash," (you admit
you seen that,) and our names are to
Il, will not that be enough, will not
that convince every body We wrote
it? Proof ''unconfoundable'' as the
'ssprofession'' would say. How can
can any man prove he wrote any thing
but BY writing his name to it? Wen
get men to prove the writing Of our
names to it and that's enough; besides
It's common for big men" like ns, to
employ secretaries to arrange the pa
pcrs Gas they call it,) and what cares
any man who writes our "iiistorys" a
pretty how de.do to be sure. IL that
doctrine is correct, then a man, if he
! is so unfortunate as to be unable to
write, may "grand travcl'' all over the
face of the earth and then can have NJ
.sHistory'' and predictions thereon"
Hook that will never do, that doctrine
wont go down with the world. A.
Iga,n, will the insbccilc have no more
l4ense than to put his name to such
Flow" "vulgar,' ''abusive," 'sungcn-
ferous- stuff? My word Tor it, he'll be
afraid popularity" (the god he bows
Ito) will make hsns "boggie," as did
the angel make Balaam's css. No
iiock, the cur ! know has little sense
and less principle; but he keeps his
eye on the "popular'' vane, (see he
even consulted Matthew ID. Springer
on the probable ''poPularity'' Of the
going after 'spoor' ssinnoccnt Archy,"
ere he'd stir one footJ and he'd soon
be told such ''vituperative course,
would not be POPULAR it would set
people examining into his den,erits,
land as to capacity they know already
he has none; his ''iIistory and reflec-
sions thereon prove this. His char
ac:cr will not bear scrutiniziDg; his
~nightly Eabits,'' wont bear cxamina-
ton; HOOK all is not gold that gilt
tiers. All are not Friends that say
18th month 18th; all are not temper
ate that huzza for Temperance Socie-
ties. al are not Simon Pures that
call others hard Eames. al don't
write their o.rn Histories and refiec-
tons thereon. and scurrilous attacks
upon others, that charge their neigh
bors with not writing their Histories
al are not free from bad habits dai.
.ly and nightly too that charge 9TH
ers with bad hasi:s.' an are not
righteous that play the timc-serving
sycophant. and u,l.n!loscedly conclude
their Histories and hypocritical 'rc-
Elections thereon in the name of.God
eternal in the Heavens Hook, my
word for it. the contrary is the fact.
In this varyin. world we are forcibly