New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-09

there are strains in his style which Indicate no
mean proficiency in the theology Of the Hard,hsu
persuasion; and that part Of the Grafton n which
he chastises Anti-Siavery clergmen, has a hish
polemc favor. He is the avowed foe OF religion
in politics. as it "gilds but to decOy," Increases
60 the ipcemency ofcampaigns, slsers churches.v
and daggers families" To "theoogaster,"
he shows not morsel Of mercy. They quit ths
Z" sinners complaint" I've are told) "to bewaI
{" the National iodispensabes" and to " sauce the
Almighty" The theologasters" are such in.
duarous criminals thatwe have nOroom for CON-
plete catalogue of their naughtiness. They rant
"and sputter;" they /" luDge into society" taeJ
4" lamm the conservatism" they make Christianity
ga Crcehi cup aud lIellenean bowl" Indeed.
go intense 10 The disgust Of Dir. Tenney, that in
order to do Justice to his feelings no treats himself
to triae of basphemy, and exclaims that " tho
" blood of Calvary is below par" in "pios Bos-
" ton" and in "yelpiDg Kansas" Clearly, this /" an
evangelical creature quite little DR.. Lord 10 hls
own way His colocation of " sllck-braned preach
ers" with "oly-moutbed demagOgues" Will, no
doubt be highly sOlacing to the Hanoverian divine.
We think that we are proof against the agones
of mortified vanity; if it were not so, We should
not here confess that, according to the eloquent
Edwin, we are in the same'category with ga now
to be pitied clergy" Mr.. .Tenney characterizes
Editors as "sly, ripe rascas" who "peddle out
/" lies at three cents apiece" He mourns for the
vanishing ofthe staunch old gazetteers," aud calls
US oil {" a motley clan Of Grecian Antenors." We
have, in our day, received few honest a0d great
many left-handed compliments, but We were never.
if our memory is faithful, called Grecao Ante
" nor" before. We not sure that We like IL.
We are tempted to get into passion. Ii Dir.
Tennty could only have been satisfied with his au-
sion to us and to our kith as I" sly, ripe rascsls'
we might have borne the imputatlOn with meek
ness. But we do nOt-we own tive do not fancy
the name of Antenor. We feel as we suppose the
fish-wife did, when DR.. johnson called her " an
" adjective" There may be a great beard of de-
traction under this classical muller. Antenor is
said to have suggested the wooden horse to the be-
segiDg Grecians; but then he was Trojan. In
what mine Of classical lore Edwin discovered q
Grecian Antenor, is more than we know; but we VOW
to have nothing to do with wooden horses while the
dear, delightful breed of wooden heads is extant.
We are not an AntenOr OF all; and if we must he
called BY name out of Lempriere, we prefer, for
private reasons, that it should be Jupiter. And,
while our hand is in, we will, as the notsres say,
extend our protest. We traverse all Edwin's ale
cations, and are willing to go to the country. We
are rot lighter than hydrogen" we are not
backer than Erebus;" we do not "pOuni up
rags and daub them with es;" We are Lot, TO
the best of our knowledge, " Like Theramencs of
" Old" we do not "prowl and snarl Like hyenas
% round the crib Of liberty" and We are Motive
are positigewe are nOt-abandoned enough "tofeed
90 the righteousness of mercurial seusibility;"
and when we are, instead of continuing TO deluge
" humanity with the pressure of al accommodating
50 infamy," we will try the taste of hemlOck " like
Theramenes of DID," and so rid this Nashville
lawyer of our presence in world which seems 70
be little too small for him.
Still numerous are the gems of this Grafton,
while our space has been already occupied princi-
paIIy, it must be owned, by Edwins octosyliabic
words. We can therefore only say, and we do it
with considerable alarm, that Mr. Tenney calls for
more mOnuments-for statues of Samuel Adams,
William Writ, Baron Steuben, John Chanpe,
Ethan Allen, Isaac Hayne, and " three of our
Presidents" whose names are not given. As
respectful admirers of several of these great men,
| we protest against introducing them in any of
those queer soupturesque attitudes which are now
prevalent AS Mr. Tenney justly observes " q
pyramid in our hearts is tougher than marble"
and must be very painful affection of that rather
sensitive organ. But we do not think that sculp-
ing" would be the proper remedy. On the con-
trary, the more statues we have recently SEEM the
scker at heart have We grown. And while speak
ing of monuments We must congratulate this Nash
vile lawyer upon his good fortune. To use bis
own neat words, "ravens may croak his death
" knell and buzzards chant his eptaph, yet the
"jargon of their eulogums cannot inumbrate his
"sepucbre." In certain qualities, we believe that
this Grafton will never be equaled; and that il
will, with our present assistance, secure for its au-
thor very pretty Immortality.
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