Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-06-15

ing; close by Credullty stood Suspicion
and Ignorance; Suspicion was repre-.
sentcd as a tin1id man, rather advanced
in years, and as if agitated by some SC.
cret inquietude, silently exulting in
some supposed discovery, and his at.
tendant, Ignorance, as stupid old wo.
man. SANDER also stood or tramplcd
on PROSTATE Virtue; in her left hand
she carried torch, and with her right
she dragged along By the hair Of the
head Innocence, who was represented
as a female child Of great personal beau
ty, frequently making the most piteous
appeals to heaven as She is forced along.
Envy preceded the devoted child, with
a malignant look, and meagre visage,
as if exulting in the wide spread deyas-
tation of character. This group is fol-
lowed By Flattery, a young taounting
and dancing parsonage, with a long.
and sharp rroboscis, ready to snuff M
the pestilef1tial vapor which continual
ly exudes from the exulceratory body
of SANDER. Such is a faint sketch Of
the picture ofS.ander, drawn by Ape!es,
and it would appear that time has not
washed away any of its hi1cous dcCor-
nifty; but, like the hog in the mire. the
more it works the more it covers itself
with the filth Of human depravity, un-
til it is completely covered in the dis
gushing sink ofimpurity. The ancients
represented SANDER under the figure of
female, not thinking that any thing
bearing the name Of man could be gull
ty of so weak and so mean vice. But
oh! how fallen are our degenerated
days! Man, now, not only sinks into
the weakest and mcanest vices of the
softer sex, but stimulates them to deeds
at which the heart of Woman ought to
revolt, and at the commission of which
man himself should trelnble.
But under whatever garb SANDER ap-
pears, whether male or female, hypo-
cracy is the cloak which covers the de-
forinity Of the foul fend, and by which
it too often succeeds to insinuate itself
into the confidence and friendship Of
the unsuspccting; and viper-likc, after
being rcsuscitated, turns on its bene-
factor: and darts its poison into that
bosom which had kindly warmed it in
to life and being. Emboldcned by sue
cess, and too often by the laxity of our
laws, and the for.earance Of an indig-
nant public, the caIumniator, in hisSlis-
honorable and malicious conduct, spares
neither age nor sex; poisoning the We
ry atmosphere in which he moves,
with the nalignancy Of his falsehoods;
creating distrust, where confidence was
placed; and hatred where friendship
existed. Innocence and virtue, are the
targets at winch his poisonous arrows
are pointed, and his whole aim is to le-
vel to the ground, all the barriers be-
tween virtue and vice, innocence and
guilt; and to bury every honorable and
virtuous principle in the eternal, vor-
tex OF infany, into which he has sunk.
The English language has not words
sufficiently strong to depict the base
ness Of the wretch, or to pain, in prop
or colors the heart of the william who
attempts to rob the innocent and virtu-
Gus OF that which he himself has not
a good name. Such monster should
not be permitted to live in community
with civilized man--hc is worse and
Tar more dangerous than the midnight
assassin; for him you may be prepared,
but against the tongue of a liar no one
IS safe He walksabroad the unpunish-
cd ruliian in the midst Of his crimes
rebel againstlaw and morals-at home
a lIar-in courtaperjurer-inthe streets
bully--on the field coward-in the
city MISUNDERSTANDING is upon him
disgrace marks his foot-steps--dcspair
pursues him to the grave, and when
he is dead, his burial place is a mark
for the traveller to point his finger at,
and say, there lies slandcrcr wretch.
O. r.
The new Board Of Aldermen in the
city Of New York, it seems, are equally