Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-11-01
Tuesday, Oct. 80.

GrThc editor Of the Providence Trans
crpt has found another sho, in his locker for
the Burmah Mission controversy, although
we must confess that its operation is only that
Of spent-ball. He says tina, he replies be-
cause he had no other subject for a leader
Way did he not fall back on the Buffalo plat.
form, where he 50 valiantly stood year and
half ago Dor has the union of the conf'ic-
ting elements in New York annihilated that
great moral Forum? Probably i. has, as
| Immediately after this marriage ceremony
took place, the words 4" and Free Soil Advo-
cate" suddenly disappeared from tho head of
our friends papr. AS he claims 10 be a
censor in regard to marital rights and proprie.
ties, why did he not brand that union as
I"wrong," and reserve to himself the prvil-
ege Of 'denouncing the perpetrators to this
time Z" Ii is true he stood az God-Fathcr at
the christening in the Western District in this
State, and gave away the bride; but did he
not consider that an unnatural marriage i
Was it no, great sacrifice Of principle when
iouely Free Soil, IN al her rirgin purity,
was handed over 10 the embrace Of debauchcd
Locotocoism Had he no compunctions of
conscience then ard did not the &C, Of laying
the pride Of his life and the last consolation of
his declining years on worse than Burman
altar, cause him no sleep!ess nights, no har-
rowing dreams, no awful visitings of phantas-
magorial spec,res' Speak out, thou ancien,
warrior thou Priam of the age I! Thy Pat
roc'os, the ancient Democracy, is cruelty slain,
and thy Hector, the youthful Free Soil, was
barbariousIy murdered at modern Rome, not
by being dragged around the walls of Troy,
but by the embrace Of the galvanized corpse
Of Patroclos. Our friend will yet, like his
great prototype of old, embrace the knees Of
the murderer OF his darling idol, not for the
sur render Of the carcass, but for comfort in
his lates, days.
We should no, have digressed 90 far from
the main argument, did we not know the
classic taste of our fliend, and feel satisfied
that he would be more a, home on ancient
ground.
But to return; he says ,ha, We have raised
cons derablc dust, so much, indeed, as to rem
der very indlstinc, the object we have in view.
We probably hare raised dust, and our friend
is suffering from the effects Of it, Tor his ey cs
are 80 confused tha, he has lus, the object o.
riginally IN view and if pe have wandered, ;,
i, has been caused by following has circuitous
ramblings.
Our friends vision 10 so oblitera,ed that he
canno, distinguish argument from fiction, or
truth from romance, land then he complains
,ha, ue did no, confne ourselves to the quss-
,ion, tu; simply reiterated our former asser-
tioDs. We not only repeated our former ar
guments, but we gave our reasons, logically,
for the position which we assumed. and which
he has no, rcfu,cd, or ever attempted TO re.
fu,e. Ills difficulty is he sees through glass
90 darkly.
Again he says
And wha, was our article II was a plain
unyarnished fact, stated with eplgrammntlc
.brevity, and not with such a waste Of words
as more poetlcal writer would have en-
pluyed IL lr.ped no, syllable against mis-
siols, nor the character of this devoted mis-
siUuary, but simply complained Of that one act
tha, robbed our periodical press OF one OF It's
most brilliant contributors.
:. llo no, only complained, bu, he denounced
one Of the parties a. having done great
"aroag," and he cio,D,cd hc ptir,hgc 10 a.
aonncc tie popctraioy 10 hp nme. These
were his words, and his language IN the o.
uginal paragraph, was vastly more objection
able than he mere COMPLAINT wholly
incKt tsdblc II hc eau con,irce IS tia, be
has any mord, EVIL Or rc'is iogs right grossly