Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-04-22

Some person writes letters from Washington
to the Winchester Virginian. They are the
most amusing specimens Of the epistolatory
style that we remember ever to have seen. We
propose to give few quotations. in order that
the brilliant metaphors!-happy allusions!-cor-
rect fgures! and sterling good sense!!! of the
writer, may have all the advantage that the cir
culation of the Gazette can afford him.
Speaking of Mr.. Beae and Mr.. Lucas, Of the
House of Representatives, the letter writer says
"They are regarded as fixed stars, around
whom revolve many brilliant orbs, borrowing
{" their light and rejecting their lustre." Mr.. B.
and Mr. L. will not thank the letter writer for
thus putting them sky high. They would doubt
less be just as willing not to be considered as to
be I" fixed stars"
The letter writer says that Gen. Jackson is
seated upon ga throne based upon the hearts
of a nation indelibly engraved upon the
thoughts and the minds of the people"-which,
we take it, is a curious thing enough; but the
curiosity of the thing is heightened by the fact,
that in the same sentence we are told that it is
not, after all, throne on which Gen. Jackson is
upon which Freedom has erected her own
" temple, and over whose dome floats the star
spangled banner dropping its graceful folds
in festoons around its four and twenty CO.
lumns while the winds Of heaven bear its
bunting in every ocean, upon every sea, to
every cline" There's for you "Heard you
ever the like before?" But halt!-hear him far
Their: This man, wearing these honors water
I" ing these laurels by daily devotion to his
" country's interests, growing green in his old
age in the affections of the people, has been
slandered and vilifed because a soulless mass
of Manmon has required bow from Morde-
=" Gail Verify gallows has been erected, and
+" Hannah swings in the wind-a monument of
" the fall of arrogance-an exemplifcation of
" retributive justice.'' If this is not Gaping
the Climax" we know not what is or can.
The letter writer, a little farther on, informs
us, that however "the followers of hundred
" banners wave their pennons in an individual
/" camp, still the old flag will fly, though its folds
F." are occasionally, like the twinings of the vine,
f" wrapped around the Hickory tree by the blasts
+" of the sirocco of wild enthusiasm, mistaken
F" zeal or abject venom. The time will come
Z" that time will be presently here-when its pa
triotic folds shall kiss the breeze unhurt amidst
+" these elements, uniform by these whirlwinds,
" unruffied by hurricanes of party rancor and
disappointed ambition"
We are absolutely struck with amazement at
the astonishing beauty of this whole passage!
The flag is first wound like grape vine round
a hickory tree by, among other things, the {" 81
rocco blast of AFFECT venom,"-and then its
" patriotic folds" are declared, amidst " ele-
ments" and " whirlwinds," not even in danger
of being "ru67ed" 1t is " to kiss the breeze un-
hurt and untorn!! What potency points the pen
of the Washington Correspondent of the Win
chester Virginian!
Extract Of a letter from, a gentleman liuing in
the Western part Of Virginia, to his friend in
alexandria.
How in the name of conscience any man
can now support General Jackson, am utterly
at loss to say. assure you, sir, when came
L. Al