New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-03
FROM BOSTON.

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sidera.eIy come into relations of correspondence
with Illiterate, by JOve! More iiterate even
than The Htrald! / hadn't an idea oft had
an impression that you knew how to write among
Won at least. At any rate, you make your marx,
as my poor, dear, funny little fellow-citizen, DIR.
| Homes knows to his cost. But do you suppose
that | should have lent the duler of my two
ears to the suggestion made TO me in the lobby OF
the Boston Iheater on that First Night Of my dear
Rachel (dear, alas in more senses than one had
| had the remOtest idea that you were inveigling
me into a correspondence with the principal
| Kno,c- Nothing journal in the country! 1t ls
clear case of obtaining letters of credit under false
pretenses If public justice were not so very ex
| pensiye a luxury with you, l should feel tempted
to treat my self to little at your expense pour
"encourager les autreS to let others know what
| they have to expect
| And then, l suppose IL must De so; because,
tbouph Fraser is published in London, the initials
&C. A. b. affixed to this article show that it was
written in New-York, or, at least by New
Yorker and of course il must be taken for granted
that he knows. BY the way, it was odd that this
circumstance should have escaped the notice
of the only one of your neighbOrs who had slice
of plumbcake given it, and that ii should have led
its readers by way Of copying and commenting on
il. to suppose, (unntentionaly, of cOurse,) that
it was the production of genuine Cociney, who
had been giving himself up to the study OF the
New York newspapers, all within the chimes OF
Bow Bells. Still, / shall give you the advantage
of your previous good general reputation for the
humanties until can have an opportunity OF look
ing into the matter myself. The next time 60 to
New York l will examine you all IN your accl-
dence, and treat you accordingly thereafter.
And talking of accidence, puts me In mind OF
prosody. / am afraid Mr.. &. A. b. must have lost
ground in this branch of learning since he went up
for bis degree at Cambridge, or OXFORD, what
ever it was or he would hardly have given the
line from Virgil which the NewYOrk reporter Il
wonder if he were of yOurs) gave so funniy
from Mr. Webster quotation OF it, thus: " Adsum
oui feel; in me, me eonDertite terrum" am afraid
ne would have been pucked for his little go as
badly as Door Pendenns was if he had not been
better up in his Virgil at that time. 1t could not
have been Mr.. Websters mistake, for though, like
a greater man he had but 90 little Latin and less
Greek" he was too conscious OF his classical
ipfrmties not to verify the scraps of learning he
delighted to botch upon the web OF his speeches.
The ONLY time he yentured beyond the apron
string of the Dictionary of Quotations was when
he fell among the "captatores rerborum." who
gave him such drubbng that he never ventured
upon a spontaneous quotation again as long as he
lived.
have not looked into Virgil these dozen years
1.-THE more g the pity y, but will bet Mr. b. what
he pleases that the line he has twisted all the music
out of runs thus:
Me- me! ASsum quiJeci' In me eoHrertte (er'um"
But NAV as well verify, as well as Mr.. Web
ster. So come down, old Heyne and let US see
what you say to it. 1t is just as have given it
above, except that Heyne has no notes OF admira
ton and puts " Adsun qui fec" into parenthe-
ala. And / will leave it to anybody if my
| punctuation is not the more emphatic
| the two / presume Mr.. Il. must be-
| as Hamlet said Osric was, Spacious in
"the possession of dirt" from the iberality
with which he throws it about Cn fact as
grandson to the richest man IN America, he mas a
right TO be SOY So liberal indeed is he, that it,
| upon a rigid determination, conducted on the
pripciples laid down by Mason in his treatise on
| that exercise you should find that he rightly de-
| scribes You and your paper, / should advise you
TO secure his services at once as one transcend
emily well qualified to be your colta5oratetr.
How could you hit our poor little Professor OF
Comic Anatomy 80 hard last week. lou hurt our
feelings here, do assure you. DR.. Holiness wit
is "a much an article of faith in State street and its
purleus. as Mr.. Websters intellectual, moral and
| financial superiority to all the rest Of mankind.
| In fact his tests pass current much more readily
there than did the notes of hand OF the great man
! for some time before the Baltimore Convention
killed him. The features of the grimmest OF Bank
Presidents relax into smile when the little Park-
man Professor bares his scalpel aud proceeds to
the autopsy of a joke. It is wrong in You thus
tn try TO shake the received and established
opin:ops of large and respectable body of men.
| Thev 90 to his funny lectures; they even buy his
poems; in short they believe in him. AS Dir.
| Webster once said, 'where shall they go" if you
take DIR. Holmes away from them And he is by
no means the worst kind Of man neither. IhOugn
il NAV be true that the Apostle saw bis case,
among many Others in vision, when be speaks OF
those (Romans xii. 81 who think more highly OF
themselves than they ought to think, whenever,
AS the same Apostle saith in another scripture
Zeal. Vi. 81, "he deceiveth himself :" still be Is
not SO much to blame for it as the lnludlclous
friends and indiscrminate presses that nave taken
turns at bellows TO help puff up his seli.iniiaton'
And if YOU thought his case one demanding treat
mept. was it necessary 10 take harpo0n 10 make
the wholesome puncture with Would net pm
have been sufficient
Won will find il hard to believe, | dare say, but
| T have no question of the entire sincerity oil Dr
| Holmes in the opinions and exhortations OF MS
| Grafton. [ don't suppose you have the class Oi
neople among YOU 10 which ne belongs. But we
| have sort of men who by dint Of feeding on Ihe
Dailu AdreriSer for long course OF years nave so
sssimjlsted into their own being the substance OF
that respectable diurnal that they are, to all In
tents and purposes, made out oil IL aud hotnuig
| else Ms Mr. Alcott tells US we are all perlpatetc
uios potatoes beeyes, beans cabbages or chickens
according 10 the diet with which we every day
create ourselves anew. These worthy gentlemen
resIL believed what Mr Webster told them
of the danger OF the Union and of the neceS-
s;,v Of saving il by the passage OF the Com
nronise measures and the supplemental sacr-
hce Of poor Sims and Burns. Some few Of them
ba5 their ewes pricd open by the repeal OF the
Missouri Compromise but the mass OF thcm-oi
whom DIR. Holmes, doubtless, is one-can siiil only
see through the spectacies OF Inc DeHy haSeIhse.'
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