Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-02-06
For THE SPECTATOR.

~On AhE SPECTATOR.
Mr.. Editor-I noticed a communication in
the Stauhton Spectator of the 10th ult. over
.he signature oil Democrat, which he seems
W ohihk Is satisfactory answer to a query
pfoPounded by Wing to the Democratic par
IN FORMER number of your paper, asking
them what course they would have pursued
in the New Jersey contested election. if thew
had held the certificates of election, instead Of
the Wings &c.
ms Democrat commences his very simon,
lar answer, by saying, that if the Wing who
ProPouhded the query could by some purify
ing process be converted into Democrat.-
"hat Sir. democrat, your ideas must be
confused surely you are not so credulous as
TO believe Tor moment, that modern demo-
cratoi the Tom Benton school, can be produ-
ced by the publication of any living creature!
NO, sir; subjecta Wing to any kind of pu-
riiyng process, and the longer you operate
upon MN, the more pure he will be and of
course less hike Democrat. But if you had
changed Your phraseology little, and said by
some bespatterlng oradulterating process,you
would have been entitled to some credit for
candor at least. You talk about Democrat
falling away, degenerate, &c. How can a
man fall that is down already9 / will not
pretend to define the exact position your par
ty now occupies but if the sense of seeing
ana hearing can be relied on, they are bowed
down so low at the footstool of his Majesty,
mat falling much farther is out of the uues-
tion. \ ou also say something about Dem
ocfat getting down to where modern Whiuuc-
ry begins then declare himself candidate
Tor Congress, and at the polls be rejected by
the sovereign people; wonder YOU did not
say the poor dear people, who come in for such
iarge share OF the sympathy of your party,
especially about election time. Your notion,
Mr. Democrat, about modern Whipgery, is
correct to certain extent, viz: every Demo
crat who turns Wing must start from the
same low ground which you and your party
now occupy; SO far, you are correct, but no
farther. l believe and thrust you have candor
to admit, that any man who attempts to throw
oil the yoke will find that he is doing an up
nil business, for the very first step he takes
towards reformation all the squib batteries of
van Buren,, Benton, Kendall, g. Co. will o.
pen upon him Immediately. But let him per-
severe; success to all who have determined to
be free. And although appearances are some
what unfavorable now, may we not hope ere
long to see you, Mr.. Democrat, making an eff
fort to get out of the slough? Try it; come
uP-l Will say Tor your encouragement that
such should be denOminated sschoce spirits. -
There is one admission in that clustering
communication of yours which surprised me
a little at first sight; but as the saving is,
"murder will out''-and the far-fetched ex-
presslons used by you, and the many difficult
ties you seem to have encountered in yonr
vain attempt to blacken the Wings, is evil
dence sufficient to prove, that you know by
experience, that the portion you have quoted
from the sacred volume is true, viz: "The
way OF the trangresSor is hard" Ii might be in
iefred from what you say that You do not think
1t altogether impossible for "a Wing to have
charity. l have no doubt sir, but that the
Wings have charity enough for you (for it
covereth multitude of sins) to believe that
a"sober, second thought would have sup
pressed the greater part, if not all, of that
ranting production which you have sent forth
TO the world, as an answer to fair question.
You have also alluded to certain distinguish
ed individuals In a sneering manner, with a
nope (but 1t is vain one) of bringing them
down to your own democratic level. With
the dead / have nothing to do but Won are
Wofully mistaken when you say that Messrs
Rlves and Tallmadge have woven a certain
article OF manufacture which you have allu-
ded to-. They are anxious, have no doubt,
to obtain sufficiency of the article to cover
the stains they received on their political
character while in connexion with your par
ty, but they did not weave it. Oh, no, Mr..
democrat; the article was woven long before
they got out of that mire in which YOU are
now sticking fast. You have also been throw
ing some of your old dirty chaff at Gen. Har-
rlson; but 1t will not stick, for you know, and
every body else knows, that he has rendered
tenfold more good service to the country than
you ever have or ever will do; therefore he is
not fit subject for your animadversion SO
think the Wings in the neighborhood of
MOUNT SOLON.