Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-12
Prentice aad Joau Jones.

These two knight Of the quill now and then
have bou'. Tho following is sample of the
blows, which Prentice deals:
THE Court fool assails us with a perfec; hurri
cane of missiles OF all conceivable descriptions. II
strongly reminds us OF the sort of warfare, which
IN the little volume Of rhyme, that he published
when he lived 10 Kentucky, he exhoried the dead
poets 10 rise up and wage against mankind. John
Jones evidently considers himself dead poet, and
Is following out his own eIhoraton. What could
be descriptive Of his attack on us than the last
of the following sian=a,, which we find in hs book,
page 18Th
80, sascs, poets, OF another day
We, who shveTing sat In smoky Ion,
And now art shivcTins low IN filthy clay,
Hard by thy grinnius skulls, IA accents soft,
Receive the honsge OF a voi'Iy scott
For food alone send cody strains aon,
And cease when bid, In fear Of rowns enrsgDl
Rise from your orlbs, wronEd, insulted, and
ragged!
"Embaitllug with thousand hosts stand forth
Ilurl volumes. pokers, oAdH'bsrs at their hearts;
STRIFE Ike Colossus Ger their breasts, audJrohi
Fly thick In air your poisou'i feaiher'd darts,
Combusubles that strike the heart, and smlrts;
seize stintish, pitcher, AMI your Sfo1ls IN rage:
Dash pipes AMI crates, and fowls, aud eHrranf faris;
SAY all around. until reformed, the age
DoesjusiieS to the poet, and the gifted cage"
Now that we are speaking OF John Jones's book
of rhymes, there are Two little matters con-
nocted with u 10 which must take occasion 10
cal his and the public attention. We must premise
WIN saying, Anat, ditnOuSn soma OF our distant
brethren Of the press have doubted whether the John
Jores who wrote the rhymes that we reviewed a
few months ago, could possibly be John Jones oil
the Ma1isonian, We kn0p, know bssluelu and
eertainiy that he is the same-that John Jones the
rhvmer and John Jones the editor IRE not too John
Joneses and ItCO fools, but John Jones and one
fool. Why, his volume Of rhymes now in our po.-
session was obtained from one of his nearest tec-
tives-his haii-broher and he says that the Thym,l
and the Court foo" are one and the sam. person.
ige-and surely he ought TO know. Well, we
now want to confront the Court fool with oae oi
his fasehoods-and n most abomnably dsgraceful
one too In u reply through his Madlsonian, some
time ago, TO a remark OF ours about his book, he
I'D not da'e TO deny that he the author or the
book, but he said that he was "born at least zoo
miles from Kentucky" Contras; this with wha, he
siys IN the preface Of his book: "He Ithe an,horl
hopes the public, particularly the west, and more
particularly Kentucky. HrssATvE STATE, to which
he now returns, after long residence IN the far
West, will indulge this, his greatest amustment."-
So either in his book or his Madsonln, he tells that
most shameful Of all possible lies, lie about his
birth place Add 10 this, that, either IN his book OF
10 his Madisonian, he lies about his name, for in
the former he writes himself plain John Jones, nd
in the latter John Jones' Now, Mir Tyler's od
tor, for aught we know to the contrary, may be an
honest man personally, but, until he can explain
what is that has rendered il necessary for him &
change his name and TO lie about his birth place
we would not trust him about our premises at nigh
without guarding our hen rooSi and sheep cot with
spfng.g guns and bull dogs.