Democratic banner., 1850-11-27

DR.. w. B. Adams, Danville.
GO Col. William Priest, New London.s
Ma. DRAp.R-Sir: / very much regret tha
your undying malevolence is such that you can
not refrain from using my name in the periodica
issues ut your 9Th. shall never deem it nee
essary to notice any thing that comes from you
unless it is calculated to place me in an improp
er position before thep public. had vainly hoped
that when you had once given vsntto your spleer
and malice, in your first communication, in which
you had made foolish and vulgar attack upor
me, you would at least rest contented with the
laurels you had won, however mean and infa-
nous others might regard you.
In that article you made charges and insinua.
tons which have since been proved to your sat-
isfiction, hope, to be unfounded. When an
individual makes assertions which he knows to
be untrue, he is deliberate liar. When he as.
seTts any fact to be true, about which he knows
nothing, he is no less culpable. In your hot and
angry controversy with the Mayor, you seem en-
tirely to disregard the rights Of armed neutrals.
You seem so anxious to provoke controversy
with me, that would really crafty you, if !
possessed one spark of that ambition that urges
you so zsaiously to enrol yourself in the list Of
individuals satirized by the poet, when he truly
rays: 1'a IS a'.
"Hot, enviOds, noisy, proud, the scribbling fry,
Burn, hiss bounce, waste paper, srIsK, land die
You suggested falsahood when you attempt.
ed to convey the impression that it was through
my advice and "under my tuition ~ that the May
or vetoed your darling bill. ! was not in The
county at the tine, and had not been for several
weeks before The first intimation i ever had
Of the subject was an application from the Mayor
to defend him against contemplated impesch-
ment by the board of council. have always
felt so little interested, dear sir, in any thing
you can possibly do. that have never yet taken
ike pains even to examine the provisioas OF the
setoed bill, or any other introduced BY You be-
fore the board. But when you took the liberty
10 refer to my name in SO personal and ungentle-
manly manner, thought it was possible. you
might be doing me injustice unintentionaly. /
therefore set you right in short article, at least
dignifed, under signature you had liberally be-
slowed, and which you could not fail 10 under
stand. Instead Of acknowledging your error,
and enforcing stronger claims TO the good char
acter you eternaliy boast Of, you gave ample rea-
cons for others 10 "impute intentioDal wrong" "
by your base resort to subterfuge and evasion.
New charges and actual TeiteratioSs came forth.
You took the liberty to say that no siaeeTe or
honest man would differ from sou, and at the
saus time expressed .'the best feelings" for in.
sincerity and dishonesty. Away with such stuff !!
The fact is, truth was a stranger to your bosom,
and when You became sensibie Of your condition,
you became like some other creatures who only
need to be known to become contemplate.
.awhen some home truth has stung their solemn
EsSssgsanes they dstermined-to Be fools.n n
Now, sir, cne word in regard to your last:-
Frsa de- beginning ofthis matter, you hGve been
feasea 70 designate me as the Mayor's attorney
.-sr the reason, presune, that at his request,
Iescs aapeated to defend him before the board,
where hsppy to state there was spirit of
jss.ies b be ether membsrs, that should be a
sNsres Of SHANE 70 the ignobls scribblsr who now
makes pretensions to "Common Sense" You
deny With shameless front that the fact stated in
hs csFtifcsteof Mr.. Conder and myself is true,
wen Il has been asserted By three individuals, i,
"a viii MT b dsaied BY one single individual
psssent, however they may dislike to testify to-
Jour ignominy. You indirectly charge me with
being interested against you. Harbor not the
bought tfhat / am private enemy. You are far
Lsasafh the dignisy ofrsvenge, and only deserve
b notiag finger Of scorn and contempt. In
deed if your former course in regard to myself,
bad bes1marksd with any. of tbs charscteristics
H the gentleman, your present condition, might
ehallenge NY pity and compassion. e,, ~
You stated that ths certificate was amutilsted, I,
sxPmged and intsrlinedi" !" % obtain the signature
pf one disinterestsd man. Sit, II there Be blood
u your system, let your checks be suffused with
eanss Whsn you learn thatasvsry sraSion and
lefineatien thefsin, with The bare sxception Of
IL L.