Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-09-26
From the Boston Atlas
A LETTER FROM CASSANDRA
TO BULLY BROOKS,

and as hav'nt been anywhere, and an
not much of anybody, l thought the les.
| said. the better. But III tell yor
what it is. I've finally come to the con.
clusion that l can't keep still any longer
| must write letter to some body abou,
something. I'm going to write to Col
Preston S. Brooks, of Canine memory.
who's afraid | aint > and I want il
printed in the Atlas, where l can see how
it looks when it's done. Will you
publish it. Mr.. Editor
Ny dear Col. Preston s. Brooks =
I've just been reading the speech you
made at your reception at Columbia,
and | can't help thinking how gratifying
it must be to a gentleman of, honor,
like yourself, to be so supported by your
constituency. for upholding your cane
IN defence of South Carolina. You
know our Mortimer are not much on
chivalry, and may not see through the
whole thing just as you do; but we
can judge something of the merits of
the case by the qualification it has afford
ed you to perform ''a deed which was
the result of a high sense Of duty.' Oh
my! What would you have done from a
low sense Of duty: That's the question |!
TO crawl up behind the Black Repabli-
can, too, and strike him, when he was all
pinned down and couldn't help himself
That ~as cute ! Now you see, if one of
our bunglins Northmen had been in
your place, 1t would have been just like
him, to buster straight up to his face,
and tell him his business, and, like a
fool, give him just as good chance as
he had himselt--so of course, he would
have been knocked down-and then, he
wouldn't have had any reception, nor
have been anybody but the Nephew
of his Uncle"
How does it feel to strike man by
stealth, and "b'usA to find it fame::'
Perhaps the blush was only the rcaec-
ton Of the roses scattered in your path
''cvery foot Of the way" from Washing
ton to your journeys end. How much
-pleasanter and safer to tread this .'prim-
rose path Of daIliance' than to be olted
over rough road. Through the enemy's
country with such wild man of the
woods on your track, as that Burlin-
game Allow a lady to congratulate
you Colonel, on your happy choice of al
ternatives. And my best connecting
curtesy to You.
OF course, not even the Ithuriel spear
of Chivalry could be expected to quick
en- to life and action one spark of cour-
age in the low ''moral tone of Black
Republicans mind" The attempt
would have been a waste of time, Sir
Besides you might have been killed your
self.
Were you realty glad or are you io-
king:) when you thought the Army hill
was defeated in the House of Reprcscn-
tativcs: Your having voted for it from
a "high sense Of duty must be sufi-
cient reward to de out Christian, with.
out the laurels with which success crowns
ambition brow.
The demonstrations of gratitude on
the part of your constituency, must dis
tress the modcsty of such real Bible
Christian, wishing, in the very spirit OF
the Sermon on the Mount, that the
"pcople of the South might be left free
to go to Kansas, and cut the throats OF
Lane and his abolition comrades"-
When they fully realize the delicacy OF
your feelings, no doubt, for your modes.
tvs sake, "thc learned dullness OF de-
claration will be silent, and even the
venal muse, through happiness in fiction,
will forget your virtues
Another of your Christian duties is,
as you "know the Black Republican
PLATFORM - either to counteract them, or
meet them boldly. Don't you think
you re leetle late? 1t isn't to be expec-
ted of one man to attend to such tre-
mendous crowd Of duties all at once
to carry such an Atlas-load upon his hu-
man spine. Either the spine will give
out, or part of the load roll off Now
you see it has been Just so here. The
most important part of your load fell off
while you were tugging up the hill of
ditiiculty-the Black Republican-the
very thing which ought to have been at
tended to first. | am afraid you are a
leetle too late; and that the Pathfinder $
Rocky Mountain flag will be flying at
the summit, before you can get the hang
of all the planks, or bring your Chris
tan duties to bear, face to face, on this
big, Black Republican platform, every
timber of which is as clear as truth, and
as staunch as virtue. You see you are
not used to this vis-a-vis kind of war
fare.
But there's one thing, Colonel, I'd like
to whisper in your ear. Don't start so
am unarmcd. If you should see this
flag unfurled to Northwest breeze
some fine November morning, don't dc
anything rash 1t wiH surely be there
Freedoms and Fremont's. Yes, "Free
dom banner, torn, but flying" DOM
do anything rash. Your temperament
is decidedly mercurial-and am con
stantly worried with the fear that yor
may get into trouble.
i Now, in case Of such an event as W,
speak of, you, "who have done as mucl
as any other man to concentrate the feel
ing of the South" you, then, just advis