Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-23
MARCH 18th 1858,

DEAR SHIN your last issue, | see some unfair
remarks upon an article written by me, and publish
ed in the Univ. Mag. Your remarks are Unfair be-
cause ohey attribute 70 me wrong M mot1 1x1ssruI v al
sion" "6ecause it is the ,cork Of q North Carroll
man, ana ne has the bOtdneS8 and state pride so to
advertise himself" Now disclaim any such an at
tempt-and defy you or any one else to prove it
from my critique, by legitimate rules of logic.
The place of the Authors birth, his boldness, &
his state pride had 10 part whatever in calling forth
my remarks-lfhe had ticed in the lordliest mansion
IN England, or in the poorest howell in n. eff he
had been as bold az a lion, and as full of state pride
as an egg is full Of meat, it would have mattered
not, l should have made just the remark l did, pro
Vlded he had come to N. c. Univ. and published
such q book as the : Literal version "A man can
write as many dull things as he pleases and no one
VIII care, II he will keep them to himself. But if
he print them, they then become open to any re-
marks, which may be made upon them-Besides,
SIT, such pieces OF literature call for animadversion,
they should not be allowed to take a place in the
State Literature, and corrupt the whole mass
The politician keeps his eyes upon the political
SKY Oh the state, and if be spy u speck, as big as a
man hand, rising above the horizon, he immediateiy
sounds the alarm in a Stentorian voice, and thus
wards OH the danger-You, yourself, keep q g skin
! ned EYE" upon the moral armament, and if you see
a whlskey barrel looming up, or the smoke of a
~diStilery rising sullenly above the trees, threatening
destruction and desolation-you swell the notes of
alarm until they are heard by all the foes Of whis-
key throughout the State; the Hassell's the Wellers
and all the friends of old Rye and Vineyards are
Immediately smothered with paper missives-You
are not to be blamed for this, but praised rather and
must l be reproached as a "VAGRANT" because
l sound the alarm when [ see the offspring of a
mans brain, afflicted sorely with the small pox, ma
KING Its way to the Literary nursery? all the chill
dren OF that place would have suffered from the ep-
idemic-I think | am bIameless-If we suffer rot
ten materials to creep into n. Cs monument of
Literature, like Babel of old, it will tremble to the
A ! earth. and pVer1oStinp confession ond cboroo Dr;U
follow the tall-Such, sir, are my reasons for wri-
ting the crltlque, are they not valid? They are as
valid as yours, for d%eclaiming against dram drink
ing, &c. Yours truly, SYPHAX.
y. Is. The " rory 1crcdh was q Typographical
error-It should have been iuy wreath-You know
4 that the eds. Of Jag. have no proof sheets-Hence
s such mistakes often occur.
4 We might say Of the above-Er pede Her
: Cullen - but we are not at all ill-natured.
We have no disposition to make a seriou,
matter Of what was intended for a playful
E passage of good humor. BY the time "Sy
= phax" dabbles in ink and types as long a
: we have, his beard will be better grown, an,
l. he will have a little more -- experience
But we stick to what we said, and we leav
Z others to judge of tho " unfairness" in tn
premises. He is a prejudiced juror sittin
on the case. If be didn't mean to curl hi
is lip at the "Guilford" affixed to the unfortr
er nate translator of Dcmosthenes, he didn
mean any thing, which we think quite likel,
ii All that about State PRIDE boidness'
n :" lordIiest what dictionary is this word il
i'd mansions" "a book in print being publ
be property, &C., a debt of gratitude is due IS
te, phax" for the astonishing announcement al
J, for the eminent literary service he has re
US dered the State by sounding the alarm. Blu
then, If hedares to send his book to N.
IN. Uniy.," then it is his peculiar duty to "con
rattle the bones" over his devoted head, wi
:" the proficiency of an african S~erenader."
y We assure our young friend that we all
ded only to that heathenish name he assume
+ in ~callinghim a esyagrant.n We hope he
stop taking agly names if he don't want
q be classed with ugly folk. But we beg b
not to drop one and take another, whose /
ia siness it is to dive into :. rotten materials
t. that would be dreadful. Come, friend i"
phax," let US bury the tomahawk benea