The Weekly comet., 1854-10-15
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Thursday Morning, ~: Oct, II, 1864:
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The very talented individual who
Through The columns Of that always
interesting evening paper, the Dem.
Advocate, Of Church ST. fires villain
ous salt-peter at Col. Thorpe, and the
Comet, In Tuesdays edition Of The
same; starts out with the following
sterectyped paragraph of gun powder
abuse, always thurst foremost by every
fellow who gets behind wind mill,
to make "pass at US" We hope
The readers Of the Advocate, will com
nit the following paragraph TO mem
ory, SO as to obviate the necessity OF
it's too frequent repetition. The style
ID faultless,--listen
1fessys. Editor -Moonshine so
eflulgent, bright and beautiful, must
have had considerable effect upon the
weak brain of that erratic genius, the
editor Of the Third street luminary,
yclept "'rhe Comet for who else,
but some demented forked radish
could have displayed, in so small a
compass, as much ignorance as is evi-
denoed in his reply to my comnuniea-
lion of The 3r1 inst. y
Did the author Of The above, ever
read "Chesterfeld 4" If not, we res
pectfully call his attention to the
"nihety third letter, of his fLordship
to his son, IL runs thus /: my (snob-
bish) son; never give up at the Bullets
Of fortune. Never expect to rise in
the estimation Of sensible men, until
you have been pronounced by every
ignoramus in the community an Zig
norant fool or a knavish madman."
This is a very significant passage in
his Lordship's letters, and our apology
for quoting 1t, is to ask the author Of
abuse to Thorpe, and the Comet If
he ever come under the "ban,'' or ever
expects to9 We haven't regard enough
for him. on our own account, to elev
ate him in the worlds estimation, by
calling him hard names; but on ac-
count Of our fellow citizen, the Bee-
Hunter, y we must beg leave to deny
all and singular, The charges preferred
against him; until better evidence Of
his guilt can be furnished than that
now in possession, Of Mr.. IN" or any
one else in this elastic city. We de-
ny then, on the following premises
1--WE hope "M.' will not pronounce
them illogieaD. First because Thorpe
is Southern man-although born in
tho Empire State, still he has lived in
the South over twenty years; long
enough to become fully Unidentified
with its interests. His domicil, il here.
in this city, and from q private letter
received from him, q short time ago,
wee look to SEQ him back, during the
coming month. We believe Thorpe
10 be indiiferently honest-that is to
say, he will average with other men
in this respect. We do not think that
he would suddenly change his notions
in reference to the subject Of slavery
or any other, unless he could see that
it would materially bensft him. We
award him eommon sense enough, to
know that he could not possibly be
benefited by sanctioning the proceed
ing Of an aAnti- Nebraska meeting, or
any other conclave of fanatics; and
certainly do not take it for granted,
that because he made a speech when
called on, at such a meeting; that he
aecessa,ily gave expression to the
sentiments attributed to him by a re-
porter of the lying New York Herald.
Thirdly, 1--WE believe we have no sec
onaly, but this is matter Of moon