Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-08-15
For the Standard.
II FOr ChE OGanuAfu-
THE "STAR" OF THE 9TH INST

THE "STAR" OF THE 9TH INST.
Messrs. EDIToRs: Have you read the Star" OF
Thursday last the 9th inst? If not, get it forth
with and read it. You ought to read t-you and
all the hands in your printing Office. 1t will do
you good. Study the argument on Mr.. Barringers
letter; mark the ability with which Mr.. Rayner is
disentangled; ponder on the picture it draws of
you digest those wholesome remarks, you will find
they apply to you admirably: You are mean,
contemplate creature without any veracity; and
if you demand proof satisfaction for this delibe
rate insult on my part refer you for proof to the
Star, and in regard to satisfaction, you ought not
to require it, because you know the Star says you
are beneath the notice of --everybody land
what the Star says is Gospel truth Now, excuse
me- gentlemen, but am an old-fashioned, plain-spo-
ken man, and admire the Star. I know have in
suited you grossly, but you deserved it, because
a monkey of Sam; and there is but Sam, and
Sam is great, and the Star is his prophet; there
fore you should not vex the one speak irrever-
emily of the other Do you perceive the force of
my reasoning? have learned my mode from the
Star. By the way, wish you would print the word
Star, every time in Italics 1t is true the ItGlic is
a sneaking, thievish, beggarly-looking, slouching
type; but then it is forcible impressive attractive,
to know by what right you demand that Mr.. Ray
ner should publish ''priUate" letter? Mark the
word gentlemen, priuate letter. 1t seems (from
the Star of course) that this priU0te, amin
portant letter, upon public and important matter
therefore Mr.. Rayner had right not to publish it,
even though it was soriite' for publication by Mr..
Barringer, with an cypress injunction, in the body
of the letter that it should be published order
to set all parties right" I trust you observe the
force of my reasoning. But if you wish to see
specimen of brilliant reasoning ON this question,
where there is no lodging or shutting, mean
evasion, any thing of that Sort just get the Star
of the 9th How [ love the Start for it's manli-
ness its love of truth its charity, the piety of its
tone, the meekness of it's exhoratons, its readiness
to correct errors to take up the of the weak
its wide, humane, open, unselfish platform! Moth
small or contracted Hl<a he CT ami
Never lying, equivocating, excuse me, gentlemen0
trucking, toadyng, playing the lick spttle acting
the small fry and still smaller potato, (excuse me-
gentlemen.) fawning, cringng, crouchng, praying
Disappearing, snorting moaning, in short-going
to he'll generally, like the STANDARD! No. gentle
men, you never find the Star acting so, tell you
and L Jacob Pussy. tell you gentlemen, that you
ought to be ashamed of yourselves!
Allow me to ask you who wrote that stupid
attempt at soit" (that is what the Star calls IT'D
titled the death and Burial of Sam?" The Star
cannot see any point but pint of whiskey in these
two lines:
"Death, like love, levels all ranks,
And lays the Aepard's crook beside the gizsard."
Consequently neither can T. Though must confess
that cannot find the slightest allhsien, directly
indirectly, to whiskey in either line but the Star,
with its usual acueness, says there is and that is
sufficient for me) 1t is settled then, that there is
" no point," and you ought not to have put them
there; 1t was very wrong, very wrong indeed
AL how the Star lashes you, tears you to pieces,
dismembers you, kicks you laughs at you! How
witty it is! How insuperably, superlatively and
overwhelmingly funny How when it
chooses! Just observe that expression "gra66le!''
How cutting, how forcibe! ''Grabble in dirt!"
What strength, what bri!liancy With what crush
ing effect must it tell upon you and the wretched
writer of that miserable piece! How l luxuriate
in that expression! Ail-there's music in it
Gra6bS there's nature in it'll 1t resembles the
cry of the stately turkey-gobbler, and brings the
barn-yard before my mindI Ali wonderful in
genuity of the STAR! Star did 1 saya GALAXY!
The name ought to be changed. Wonderful GAL
any! Miserable SrANDARDI " CRADLE! "-exce-
lent splendid go it Galaxy A"gra6ble! Vl0e
le grGbbLe!
Do not occasion me to write to you any more, or,
with the assistance of the STAR alias GALAXY will
certainly cut you into minced meat.
Affectionately youf3
JACOB PUSSY.