The Rodney telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1838-1840, 1839-05-11

specially offer few hints to " KARA', BY
way of advice. She is free 10 confess that
her own composition is far from being per-
feet, but at the same time believes it not ia
be seriously Objectionable. She leaves the
liserati Of the age to honor 6 KARA, or con-
denim him rs his merits deserve. She con-
ours with Cicero in his opinion Of compost
ton 80 Non ignore quac bona sint, Geri
neliora passe doctrina, ct quae nor optima,
dliquo modo ncui tdmen, ct corrig; posse.
iperceive "KARA", that you have an al
most Unsuitable thirst for elevation, and you
seek for promotion in public esteem; and in
some degree like the man who had a hundred
wives, are jealous of every one about you.
You cannot bear the idea for any thing new
Tor even common) to be limited in your pre-
sencc, unless you be looked upon as the
Slion Of the group. | have no objection
to this. Believe me, sir "KARA'., l have
no mean opinion Of you. have even re-
garded your friendship as sincere, and as
yet have no good reasons to believe it other
wise. Your beauty, it is true, is something
less than Adons; you are not powerful
reasoner, either by induction or analogy
you are neither Divine, a statesman, a
philosopher, nor poet-and get ypu are a
genius! You are not Racera Coke, a
Mansfield, a Chatham, or Bfike-and net
you are genius! You-are neither Cicero
Demosthenes, an Euripides, or Socrates
and get yon are a genius! You are not
a Polio, Cesar, Curiatius Maturnus, a
Brutus, julius Secundus, or Quintlian-
and get you are a genius! You are not
Ihucycides, Plato, Tacitus, or a Horace
and get you are a genius! You are not
a Varius, Virgil, Saleiu. Bassus, Ho-
mer, or Marcus Aper-and get gov are
genius! You have never written PELHAM
or WAvERLY, SKETCH Book or an OIL
YER TwIsr-and get you are a genius !!
You have never Numbered and lightened in
the Senate of the United States, nor epen in
the legislature of your own state-and yet
you are genius! You have never defen.
ded Catiline, a Quinc,ius, or an Archias
and get you are a genius! You have
never in thought visited the heights of So
phocles, of Milton, of Pope, of Byron, Scott
or burns-and get you are genius! You
never produced TEMPEST, CARO-, Me-
Ola, or THYEsTEs-and get you are a
genus! You have never electrified the age
in which you live, with the CLEAN of beau
t'ful fancy, or the lightning Of powerful in
tellect; neither has nall or forum trembled
beneath the thunder of your eoquence, nor
have you delighted the mind with the might
OF FULLY, or the sweetness of Maro-and
get you are genius! You are neither a
Clay, Webster, an Everett, a Calhoun. nor
TUE CR1spUs VIRUS of Mississippi-nnd
get you are a genius!
1t was my intention when l commenced
recalling the names of eminent men. to have
given birds eye view of your own abili-
ties, and the powers Of your own capacious
intellect-but have not leisure at this mo-
melt, nor room in this place to do SO. Great
men are always uppermost in my mind,
(when my thoughts run on mankind } and ]
shoul3have to seek out from the vast multi
tude of the living and thousands that are
dead, all that is lofty and sublime and all to
the converse, in order to find your proper
level. Your gallantry is certainly unboun-
ded-and although you do not strictly ad
here to- the. maxim nequid minis, YOU will
most probably never make the pinnacle on
on WHICH the fame of Cnlius or Calvus re-
poses, the footstool of your glory. If the
youth of Abydos were here, he would GER
talnty be SO far outdone by you, sALLANr
:" KARA, that although his HERO should
raise the burning torch from the tower be-
yond the Hellespont-the signal of her love.
and the beacon to guide his approach.-he
would not dare to visit Sestos again! He
would not dare to brave the ragings Of the
Dardanelles, while this modern offspring of
Cinyras and Myrrha held the winds in
chains! If you are really PHlLocrErEs.
you may remain in Lemnos, with your i'm |
ury removed from the ankle to the brain |
and | will not be an Esculapius to heal your
wound If Troy can not be taken, or Hec-