Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-12-11

Yours truly, }. L. ii.
From the Knickerbocker, for November.
Gossip with Renders and Correspondents.
There is not little amusing gossip
in the missive of our correspondent
at c., Indiana; 'as par examp.':
y HAVE some good times in peru
sing your Gossip with readers: and
especially did enjoy myself hugely
in reading some extracts from the
memoirs OF WILLIAM DELANEY PAT
TON, with whom | formed an acquain-
tance some years since, during a resi-
dence in Belmont county, Ohio, inn
media,ely adjoining The bailiwick in
which the aforesaid WILLIAM DELLA
NEY exercised the junction OF High
Sheriff. He is veritable parsonage,
| assure you. His Memoirs are
somewhat grandiloquent, certainly;
but | think he could be equaled, If not
excelled, in this Hoosier 'ked'ntry.'
q have looked in vain for a copy OF
an Address to the Patriotic Voters of
the Fourth Congressional District,
written by JOHN G. CHAPMAN, an un-
fedged lawyer, during an exciting
Congressional canvass that shook the
hills and Jared the rivers Of Indiana,
about the year OF COP '35. 1t begins
thus: Man, vain man, cruel, credu-
Ious, prejudiced, pusillanimous, and
egctismr and the author concludes
by exhortiDg the free and enlightened
voters, to approach the polls, and
vote for RARIDEN with reverence,
and dignity, and contempt' The
address abounds in the most fulsome
Iaudations Of his favorite candidate,
and CHAPMAN followed it up by divers
voluntal v appeals 10 the voters afore-
said; till RARIDEN, who could not
breast the storm oil ridicule called
forth thereby, sent him a message
that ne would cow-skin him, if
he ever heard of his writing anoth-
er line in his behalf! ! am sor-
ry | cannot find the address; but
&c uno disco omneS. | have said that
CHAPMAN was unfledged when he
wrote for the patriotic voters, or
rather to them; and compared with
some OF the efforts OF maturer years,
it is as a Satyr TO HYPERIoN. A
friend has promised me one of his
efforts when prosecuting a poor
devil who was indicted in the Elkhart
Circuit Court, and who had, as he
averred in the indictment, with force
and arms, al the said county Of Elk
hart, feloniously stolen, taken and
carried away one quart Of a certain
spirituous liquor, commonly called
whiskey.' The same friend promises
me TO reduce TO writing and send to
me a speech Of 'our hero,' when CAL
led to order in our State Senate
You shall have it.
Let me give you (for | infer from
the Gossip that you enjoy a laugh
after dinner) a speech that | actually
heard. In the Autumn Of lS43 |
made my 'star-entree' into R
county. in this State, with license
in my pocket, obtained about six
weeks before, that authorized me 'to
practice law in the Circuit and Infe-
rior Courts OF Record in the State OF
Indiana;' and between you and me,
dear KNIcK., that same license and
nine one-dollar bills of scrip on the
White Water Valley Canal Company
were about all | had in my pocket
] found ita land of thorns and thistles,
inhabited by a set OF GoD-forsaken
Arabs, who were disposed to sneer at
a young gentleman who wore store
clothes and kept his boots BACKED,
albeit he BACKED them himself. |
left after having siaid one year, dur
ing which ] rather lear | Appeared
on the stump for CLAY and FRELlNe-
HUYsEN more frequently than | ap-
peared at the bar Of the Randolph
Circuit Court in behalf of any un-
fortunate clients who chose to deliv-
er themselves up TO my tender mer-
cies. But | wander. The attorneys
were illiterate men, who read the
speeches Of Philips. Curran and EN-.