The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-05-14
FAREWELL.

nc JUNIOR EullOF Ol the 4NdtChcH iSS
Trader mentioned, few weeks since.
that see rtain" Editors above this Match
ez) were paid TO abuse him, and intima-
ted, at the same time, that they CHEESE
certain Editors) were the instruments Of
enemies Of his who had not the "cour-
agen to confront him in newspaper |
war. This renowned individual, in ano
thfr article, determines or reduces the
number ofthese ''certain Editors" two,
and threatens TO strike them from his
exchange list if the offence Of "abusing"
him is not discontinued. Since the
al owe awful and terrifying limitations,
we discover, unless an unusual miscar-
rage. has occurred, that ne have been
stricken. from the exchange list Of the
Natchez Free Trader. This is, surely,
an awful calamity TO befall one in our
destitute condition as to obtaining means
I of enlightenment, and, this fact of our
having been deprived, at one fell stroke
OF the Juniors pen, of the felicity Of Pc
rusing those Editorials which have so
enlightened the world and afforded us so
much delectabe enjoyment, is an eviE
sore evil which it will take time and an
extraordinary quantity Of patience and
.'christian fortitude and resignation to
reconcile US to. However, notwithstand-
ling the bereavement is great, notwith-
standing it has been sudden and unlocked
| for, we will endeaYor to feel "chasteued
to the rod" and look for consolation in
the conviction that "God tempers the
wind 10 the shorn lamb and that having
been so sorely bereft in this one g4eat
particular, we will be recompensed. if
not in. this world, in the one to come.
Farewell! not "the neighing steed,
and the shrill trump not alt, or our last
hope Of earthly happiness; not eUery
source of peace which this sublunary
and decaying sphere affords; but. fare
areIU Ham Claiborue's Editorials! Ye
are gone, we fear forever, from our
sight Who can tell what ills the heart
has to bear; what wOunding Affections
are borne by many encased Sh mortal
clay! Who can tell the mutations which
come eyer the fairest, the brightest
dreamy the care-worn, suffering habi-
tan We are almost tempted
in 5bf our agony to cxclaju
N ever thus from chiidhood's hout
1--WE seen my fondest hopes decay
moan out a lamentation TO which Je-
abs would have borne no compari-
Ham Claiborne's Editorials are
~ ''Gone glimmerins
Through the dream Of things that were,
4 sctooBoy's tale, the wonder OF an hour
Some may be disposed to think we are
oyerrating our deprivation and that we
yalu0too highly the elfusions of the Ju
Nor ditor of the Free Trader:-but tc
prove Many unprecedented mind that such
is not tfE case, we will ga tale unfold
| 1t seems the Junior" attended the Fair
of the agricultural and Horticultural
Society,"" held at Washington, Mi. on the
29th ult. The Weekly Free Trader o
the 9TH instant has three and half CO
) lumns devoted 10 description Of this in
teresting exhibition. The Junior wa
there, and in his description, says, "we
did succeed, by unusual eloquence, il
persuading one gentle being TO pick par
Of therib of a very young pig, but it wa'
4 not till we had assured her IL had been fcc
a exclusively on STRAWBERRIES"
Now just imagine the enormity OF ouI
deprivation unless as in the present in
] staAce,b the kindness Of a friend, in tn,
5 fact that the Junior should cause a young
! lady to eat piece of a pig, because i
: was "fed exclusively on Strawberries; :
: and that we should not know it; that We
} should not read his own poetical accoun
; of it; that an ezsAser of Congress
should indite scription'' ant
that we should 6sdsS the privilege
of Perusing his own q words bou
it. Further along he 81
We also tasted, Just tasted-for having
no cup, we borrowed ihimbIe from