The State guard. [volume] (Wetumpka, Ala.) 1847-18??, 1847-06-29
The Selma ncporfer.

Nv has"si'Ss iulfulndunB CitoiuiS
who presides over this fugacious bant.
ling, seems 10 take on considerably at
an article that appeared in the Guard
few weeks since, in which constituted
an exposure Of one Of the basest false.
hoods that ever was promulgated upon
moral community By The publisher Of
public journal. We would not have
noticed the Insignificant non compoop.
if il had moi been for The bonblst and
vituperalion in which he SO freely deals
He seems to be quite netlIed at being
told shat he published a falsehood, as
eliminating from a correspondent, when
it was at the time believed by every in
jivilnal in Au.auga eonnty, that no less
than his Majestic Sapicncy J. l. Q. V.
K. Chapman, principal editor &c. &c.
himself, was the perperator OF this in
ert deed. And in return, when we un
dertook TO point out bis gross falsehoods,
he hurls back such vulgar and low bred
viluperatlons as no plantation negro
would use on any occasion, and conse-
quently We least expected il from one of
such high atsociations and peculiar arts
Of instruction as this Jcnbast writer, 10
Impress upon the community. One
would have supposed him genius of
a superior grade from hts tone, and that
the birth and smoke Of The pine.woods.
to which he is so nearly connected,
would have been loo functions for him
TO have remained in thai = high circle' Of
which he seems IN think no one but hin
self has the privilege of being mems
ber We did not wish 10 inlure this
fellows feelings when we published The
falsehood OF his, (of which we will ap,
nrehend much danger Of his ever get
ting over but wished to trea: j, as ii
Justly deserved, 10 be coniradicied and
the iie stamped npon it. The author OF
the first communication has rot been
found, and we are Of the impression he
never will, in conse quence Of. the burns
ing shame which il has caused him.
Certainly the people of the pine woods
will give him medal for his exiraor.
binary discovery, 10 screaming our
place of nativity and perhaps feel less
anxiety as regards bis own nob'e SELF
They will feel proud to think that they
have such an instructor, when they find
1t oul, and may appreciate it better in
future than they have heretofore, and
gasp for information from an instructor
of such high origin. Though there is
one thing that se must give this English.
man credit for, las he says he is no ''Po
eiry and Song" man, and thai is, his
candidness in acknowledging that he
knowingly published won't say
lie, (for that would raise The English
light bread in him)-but a malignant
pefverslon of the truth; and oh! what
sympathetic feelings he enter,ains for
others, as he is of The ''Lion and Armorn
stock, when others Of The fraternity are
OF the land Of Poetry and Song" You
need never entertain much fear al 10 the
individual alluded 10, for he is what The
editor Of the Reporter is not, decent
man. Heis beautiful disciple TO ridi-
cule an Individuals man who, when in
this place, rendered himself obnoxious
and The otj ct of ridicule, by under,a.
king to contend with a gentleman, who
had more sense in one moment, than he
ever had in his life, and was the butt Of
all ever after.
We OF course should not venture be-
ing educated In a clog house," (where
many more honest, upright man Than
the imp of The Reporter was educated
to expose snch mlstatements, emnatng
from ont who has been educated in such
magnificent and Lion andArmorn STYLE.
We were almost astonished at our own
weakness, and hope that we will not.
soon, again pepetrate The same act upon
the elionette OF sLion and Araor" order.
The complexure turn OF this vacuum
in the annals of truth, deserves brass
medal from somebody, Tor his discovery
of the Whereabouts Of our origin, as W..
were OF the opinion that such lofty
minds SCARED in other realms, than that
of the back piney woods" whers, if
this fellow was to be seen, the l'nle
white headed bl ais, OF which that coun>
try so profusely abounds, would mistake
him for an are, and never again world
they be seen onl of The yard" without
letting their ''mamas know iin We will
turn him overto our friend of the Ga
zet,e, and let him afford some amuse.
ment TO his readers in future, as he has
neretofore done.
The National WING,
A new paper recently commenced publ
cation in the city washington, requests
all its brothers Of the press in the United