The Arkansas banner., 1844-03-20
COM MuNICATIoNS.
For he .aYaconsas Baaner.

If come eTS0tIOH, 0UerHedr0, Oetlceen SABlNuS Sj and BEN, on the night of the 21st of Feb- ! ruary.
 a Ben.-Hail-Gre Sabinus hope you 5 are well. Have you seen the last Gazette !? AThere have given .'John Smith'' dig which
 2 l think will finish him.
 q SabinuS-The Devil you have! Yes, l
 have seen it; and have read the paragraph, ayou alude to. with surprise and ortifcation. Bcn.-Oh Sabinus Now how you talk s He he he! Now you jest! Surely was
 witty, and sarcastic, and elegant. a !Sabinus.-The Devil you were! No such a thing sir. It is the flattest and foolishest
 a thing have ever seen,-not even excepting EWeller's Temperance Rhymes. The latter Npart of your paragraph, where you tried to s3be witty and sarcastic, is contradicted by the Aformer part. Thus your stroke at him recoils Nupon yourself A short paragraph which kcontradicts itself is contemptible; for 1t Hshows the writer to be incapable of two con
 Executive ideas.
 A Ben.-Oh Sabinus spare me--spare me a Sabinus.-Spare you, indeed If had a Atoad-sticker, Ed spear you. a Ben.-What IS the matter. A .Sabinus.-Matter Why sir you are utter Ely ignorant of the first literary production of Mthe age, and yet attempt to lug discussion Eof it's merits into a newspaper paragraph. HWas there ever greater presumption! H Ben.-Oh Sabnus you frighten me al- mmost out of my senses!
 H Sabinus-ssOut of your senses" Itwould
 Ebe well if could-or rather yoatr senses out aof you; for then might hope to kick some 4decent sense into you. As it is, have a Hmind to kick you out of the office, and not Hallow you to be editor for the Real Estate & Bank another day.
 N Ben.-Mercy, Sabinus! What have done
 1 Sabinus.-What have you done2 Why Hsr, you have disgraced yourself and injured
 E me. Don't you deserve to lose your ears. Hsr?
 Bem-Mercy-I pray you, mercy-Oh 8Sabinus
 a Sabinus.-Y ou beg well, but you don't
 adeserve mercy. See, sir, what you have Adone Y ou come out in that little paragraph nand ask where .sJohn Smith'' found ''IHe
 Hglom of dark'ning oak trees.o Thus, in ef-
 Eject, saying that if such phrase be in ''The
 SHymns to the Gods,'' it is not good poetry
 M
 Hthat 1t is one of the most brilliant and sublime
 Nconceptions embodied in the English lan- aguage. 'sTo bring light out of darkness"
 Ais very brilliant and majestic idea but to Htraasf form darkness into light-to make them
 soae, is the very soul of sublimity itself Do
 Nyou not know that glo,c means shining heat
 aor brightness Then the idea@ssWithin the
 2 shine of dark hing oak trees,'' is perfectly
 gorginal-neyer entered poets head before As'Darkness visible'' was pretty good in its hday,-and old Milton fourished upon ''dark with excessive bright''; but .sshining dark Eness' takes the shine of.'the whole capoodle,' J them all in the shade, and crowns Sabi- { nus with immortality. Gods what an idea Hssshining ddrknessin
 # Ben.-Now l see it! Now catch the sbeauty,-the originalHy-the sublimity of A the idea Ah-Sabinus, what fortune it is E to have such a guide as you in the hidden nways of this world. How stupid in me not E to lake before! I'll rectify-I'll come out 3 in the next Gazette, and recant. tSabims-.No sir! you shall do no such thing. Your blunder has gone forth, so let S it go. must trust to the ignorance of your readers, and the fact that no editor in the State has a copy of "The Hymns to the Gods" It would only make the matter worse to call attention to it. Ben-(On his knees.) Oh, Sabinus, in Humility and contrition of spirit, implore your forgiveness for this unfortunate error. s l know have no merit of my own to plead !; s but for your own sake forgive me, in order ; that Imay pluck up spirit enough to serve you in future Ihave frequently said things for you 5 which did not believe myself, and which asubjected me to the ridcule of every body, except my brother strikers; and am willing now, down on my knees before you, to take an oath that will never again think, speak, or write, except at your command, and under zyour direction. Have l not always obeyed s syou when knew your wishes Have not Sslandered any and every body whom you wished slandered , Whenever you have A had to point your finger, and l have parked sas readily as your cur Remember too, that 5 this false step was occasioned by over zeal Fin your service Will you then forgire me ; aOh Sabinus, do!
 Sabinus.-Well, then, forgive you, this stime; for you are right useful to bark for me < and the most humble and obedient of my , sstrikers. But beware Another such blun- der, and you go out, bag and baggage. There aare several other little fellows about town awho want your place very much.
 3 Ben. Embracing S's. knees. .)-Thanks, aoh my patron and saviour!
 s Sabinus-Come-com nauseat- Hing.
 a Ben-l'm done. Nothing but what you awish. have one more favor to ask of you { will you get the Real Estate Bank to forgive lime; for she is very careful of your reputation. Sabinus-When forgive you, you are forgiven. and the Real Estate Bank are :, one. But when you,write again about "John
 sSmith" lll direct you.
 Ben.-What do you think of what said sabout the numbers of ''An American," which ssyou wrote for our paper?
 a Sabinus.-Pretty well, with slight ex-
 sception. You ought to have said they were