Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-08-08
N A S III " IL L F. !:
MONDAY MORNING.. AUGUST 8, 1859

MIcRoscoPIc.-The Daily Gazette of Friday
last publishes portrait of disappointed
politician (name not given, but supposed to
be oHe, or all, of the editors of the Dnaoa and
Anaeriean), and among other things utters the
following remarkable words:
Gan must now unite in crowning our artist
as mouarch of his kind"
This. as everybody will see at glance, is
deliberate. premeditated stab at the we'll
earned and brilliant professional reputation
of the gifted SkEGGEs, whose daring genius
conceived and executed the magnificent full
length portrait Of our Military Editor. We
see how it is Aetuated by that
ssMaHcnant envy which pHrsaes with hate
And damns the worth Il cannot initiate"
the Gazate's artist On has thrown down
hisawkward graverapd taken up his. still more
awkward pen, and has attempted, through the
columns of that paper, during the temporary
absence OF the editor at PAT WALsH's to blast
the character of SXEeGEs by insinuations and,
'.The base mepdAey of hints %
The editor en- his return should have sup
pressed the article He should have blasted
the miserable attempt in the bud. But he
suffered it 20 90 forth to the world. We did
not expect this of the Gazette. When we saw
II the tepA.r memories the boarded recollec-
tions of more than quarter Ola century
rushed like an Alpine torrent upon our
mind. and for moment We lifted up our
voice and wept. For more than quarter OF
a century we have striven to be the guide,
philosopher and friend of that journal, and
were wholly unprepared for such an unnatural
return for the long years OF prayerful solicit
tude we have felt in its behalf. We must be per-
snitted TO say ia the heat OF virtuous indigna-
ton. that we would rather be dog and
bav the moon-aye, we would rather be Il
dozen dogs aud bay all the moons of the
solar system, than be the perpetrator of SO
monstreus An act of ingratitude! But we
have dashed away the tears that momen-
tariIy blinded US, and are resolved to show
the world
GHoH sublime a thing ii Is
To suffer and be strong"
After all the darker features OF this thing
is much relieved by its unutterabie absardlty-
The monarch Of his kind" That may be
so; but hang his kind. Compared TO the
artist OF the GazeIe, the immortal SKEGGEs is
as the condor of the Andes to the beetle that
vexes the drowsy ear of night with its idle
hum; az 1.-The bald first Cesar'' to the chat
tering ape; as 0lympian Jove to the ourang-
.outang; as the flaming
q Suu-steed, FIRE eyed and meteor-nlaned,
Weighing the reGng stars, }"
to the pale phsntoR q the extinguished glow
worm. Row futile and Intellectual then must
he that artists ATTEMPTS TO sully the fair fame
of the unapproachable SKEGGEs! The light
ming may have rent the iron wreath from the
marble brow OF the scLptured AriOsto, but
The. laurel wreath which SKBGGE's genius weaves
Is OF the tree no bolt OF thunder cleaves-"
And hence, the undying SKEGGEs will be
crowned va th green wreaths OF amaranth and
:asphOdei by the admirers of the beautiful and
sublime in art HRnumbered centuries after
the sol Gis.cI1t artist Of the Gdzete shall have
20 Sunk to the vile dust feeRl whence he sprung,
Uuhuuored aud unwept though not unhung."