Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1840-12-19
"THE MOUNTAIN LABORED, AND
BROUGHT FORTH A MOUSE!n

II lew uub, ui4cdilho an" CoUiu9SH sCne tli % ~
relation 10 ouIsel in which he calls us pink, an
ass, cur, and other like inconsistent names
which he seems To regard as overwhelming and
invincib'e arguments, establishing beyond contro-
versy, that scenes Of drunkenness were never en-
acted IN the log-cabins alias "couacil chambers
ofthc loaerng division Of the Wing party and
! that Martin Van Bmen was opposed 10 the late
war. Such reasoning is Just what might, with
proprety be expected, from one possessing, as
does our neighbor, so great peachgat for TiPpe-
canoe Cabins, where the understandings Of men
we're won't to be addressed in the following clo-
qucnt strain ofarguments:
"Om Racoon has II great big tail,
With ringlets round the hair
The squirrel has bushy tail,
The possum's tail is bare"
Fill Up your gourds with cider hard,
YejoiIy souls and true;
Each man shall here receive reward,
That votes for Tppccanoe.
Whskey, sure is very good,
But cider is much better;
We caught our Racoon in the wood
He's such Pretty cleltur.
We are certainly indebted to our neiehbor for
the information that he had administered to us an
excoriaton FOR otherwise we must have remained
ignorant oflhe fact. We presume be dignifes The
eusion that appeared in his paper Of
the 10th inst, with the title, excoliation; il so
he should, when lie desires to have such articles
thus understood, adopt the plan Of the boy who
having drawn the picture Of horse, wrote over
it, "this are hoss," for without this his excoia
lions can never be recognized.
That oul peighbor should regard US as laboring
under halucination is very natural. The nrox
icaled Glan as he saggcrs along magines that all
uttrvr ot;topS. s-4~:ns an senfAend and az
motion, while he alone is steering straight; to the
blhhe and gay, every thing seems JOYOUS and
bright; to the melancholc all cleation is dark
md sombre picture; and we doubt not that our
leighbor's convictions of our insanity may be
accounted for on the sane principle
Our neighbor says that we are endCavorng to
xtricate oursc!f from the dilemma into which
We have been placed by our remarks IN relation
. log-cahius. Most potent logican, we are in
10 dilemma. We asserted hat lie Harrison log
abins had bean made the faucs Of drunkenness,
md debauchcry, aud the history of he late cleo
ion supports our assertion. II for this it will graf,
fy your childish pique, to write US down an ass
Why, then andss viii write US down.
The strongest evidence you can give OF your
sanity'' sir, is silence on the subject Of Tippe-
anoe cabins, aencefor,h and forever.
We conceive that anything more from US on
he subject of Mr.. Var Buren's opposition to The
ar would be supererrogatlon. The evidences
re gave in our last paper, Of the Galsity Of this
barge, were not, as denominatod by the editor
+ the Republican, CARRIED extracts, but full and
ntire paragl apis treatliug the same spirit az the
ntlre context of the documents from which we
loted. We challenged that editor TO adduce
ny word or act of Mr.. Van Bufcn's in opposition
, the war. This he did not do, nor can he do
, unless he quote from the forged life Of Van
urcn. pTporting to have been written by Crock. {
t.
We repeat without fear Of successful contra
ction, that our statements IN relation to Van 1
uren and Mr. Clinton, are substantially correct. q
c man Mr.. Editor, produce the documents I
pass. II
MORE EXroRTING Of SPEcrE.--From the Pr
yulIe we learn THAI the ship Leila Higgins 4
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