, 1842-09-17

No threatning tyrant's darkIing brow,
Can swerve him from his Just intent"
OH Us vile ~ttalucers of tuman mo-
tives2ye reptile >critics and ignoran.
knaves-spit forth the phlegm Of your
presumption and folly. Stick your FL
thy bills in the mire ofyour own rotten
ness and corruption, but aspire only to
asperse the fame of your equals. At
tempt not to calumniate those who are
above your low attacks, and who look
down with disdain upon your efforts at
defamation. What though we torture
your added brains to secure the means
of injury to your superiors-can you.
"he pe4pe Of an hom"-conceived in the
very womb of infamy-indulge the hope
that your limsy reports and idle calum-
MES will ever gain public credence?
Such were the reflections that inyol-
UNFAIRLY passed across my mind a few
weeks since, upon hearing the unprovoked
criticisms and childish constructions that
a publication Of mine in your paper Of .the
10th ult. had elected. In almost every
village that is scattered through. our
country, there is invariably to be found a
"Select circle of contemtible apes, who
in attempting TO initiate those whom ma
ture and education have formed as their
superiors, would arrogate to themselves
the privilege of criticising that which is
beyond the grasp of their little under
standings, and ~offrowing into contempt
whatever does nolacoord with their ri
diculous ideas of propriety. Go on ye
presumptuous aspirants in folly ard in
madness. Your profound disregard of
truth-your utter restitution Of sense, of
principle and of decency, entitle you only
10 that dignifed contempt which you
have ever received at my hands. Con-
tinue your vile vituperations and IN
founded SANDERS, until by your unceas-
ing prosecutions and teeming falsehoods,
You 'stink in the nostrils" of every de-
cent community. Discharge each shaft in
the culver of calumny, and give full play
to your hate and envy, until you have
exhausted the "waters of scandal and
let loose the fountains of corruption.
Remember that wealth can never afford
a shield to infamy of character, and to
innate ~depravity; and though it presents
an object for the homage of the syco-
plant and the idolairy of the fool, yet is
despised by the virtuous and wise, when
acquired by the suiferings of the impOv-
erished, and amassed by the unfeeling
a%varice of a Mylock.
There is certainly no one trait in the
human character more worthy ofour con-
tempt than that disposition that ~inclines
men TO the abandonment of a virtuous
enterprise, from a fear Of the sneers and
criticisms ofthe world. / have howev-
er at all times placed too high an esti-
mate upon the sentiments quoted above,
from the ancient latin bard, TO be thus in
fuenced and am determined that neither
threats nor calumnies can drive me from
a laudable purpose-that Of giving to the
world the experience of a life fraught
with interest, and from which many val
liable lessons are to be obtained. / have
not been actuated in thus coming before
the world by any ambitious motives, or
by a desire to acquire for myself a nOto-
riety as a newspaper %scribbler, but have
been simply influenced by a wish to
guard others against those fatal rocks up
on which my own hopes have been ship
wrecked. To me the past has been one
uninterrupted chain of disappointment
and chagrin, and the future presents but
one vast wilderness of wretchedness and
unchanging wo; and in selecting from
my life such incidents as may Interest
the world, it must not be thought that ]
have any ambition to crafty or any sell
fish purposes to subserve. In my last
communication it was my object to point
out the consequences of youthful indit
erection and to portray the evils of tn
fling with the affections Of a delicate and