Middletown transcript., 1869-02-13
Another Letter from slnap,..
Correspondence ofMe Mdlletown transcript

Mr.. EDITOR. it within the province
of Philosophy to account for the fact that
human nature can bear with complacent
serenity any amount of fattery however
fulsome, but not the least particle of plain
honest truth? A little Of the latter has
raised furious storm of editorial indig-
nation in the Masonic Hall, and Court
Street in Chcstertown. The Kent News,
generally sober, staid and courteous, wakes
restive under the application of simple
Sinapasm, while your more irascible name
sake actually boils over and does some
body the honor of publishing entire, an
article, which but for its wrath, would
never have gained admission to its col
umns.
Well may we wonderingly ask, in the
language of the old Mantuan Bard, slight
ly modified
"Tante ne animis pueriliJus ire?
Can wrath so dire in minds so micro
scopic dwell? But let us congratulate
ourselves. end has been attained -
Old Rip Van Wrinkle has been disturbed.
The town is aroused from its inglorious
monotony-at least let us hope SO.
There is truth, says the Transcript Sc
nior,-your Senior-not of the Boston
chap, at the other hub"-in the fact of
the old grave yard but the world is left
to infer that this is all that was true.
This is really too bad of your Senior !
Was it not asserted that there was Bank
there, and that its present officers are men
of integrity? And is not this true? Is
the Court Street Editor 't some cion trans
plant" that he can SO deliberately ignore
the virtues of his fellow townsmen How
are we to account for it? Yet stranger
still in the same paper in which the ed
itorial thunder (brutum fulmen) is launched
at your devoted head Il find an editorial
under the caption of ''Public Spirit" in
which comparison is drawn between the
Esprit of progress evinced by the citi-
zens of Hanesville and Chestertown. The
Editor decides for Hanesvlle? More of
the spirit of progress in Hanesville than
in Chestertown! And what is Hanesville :?
Two dwellings, one store, and smiths
and cartwright's shop combined, is Hanes-
vile! But who can deny the transcripts
| statement
"Whom the Gods would destroy they
first make mad" Beware, dear Senior,
whatever you do, don't get mad. Our
more quiet friends of the News are de-
cidely cool. According to their account
Sinapis has not uttered word of truth.
There is no old grave yard, no Bank, no
trustworthy officers. There was no can
ming business--no abortiye effort TO get
iaIn
at all. Is there no Missionary in the Del
aware forest who could be induced to visit
Masonic Hall and labor for the convic-
tion of these dear men? They are in the
condition precisely of the unfortunate Ma
laysian who would not eat because he did
not understand how rice grew. His in
credulity was measured by his lack of un
derstanding, and he starved to death. By
all means send amissionary.
Sinapis would tender his compliments
to the Chcstcrtown Editors, with the most
positive assurance that he is not an exotic;
no cion of the Delaware forest" but a
genuine son of glorious old Kent, to be
far more glorious when she shall assert her
independence of the little string oe houses
on her Eastern border, which has sought
so long to hamper her enterprise and con-
troll her energies.
Further, they may be assured that such
is the honest sentiment of ninety of every
hundred of her citizens, outside of the
town.
AS to the terminus of the Kent r. r.
at Middletown, which the Senior Trans
Crypt astutely opnes to be the motive of
this correspondence, it is all moon-shine.
1t was not thought Of The fact is the
Il. 20. X. X. is myth, and wiU so ne
main until it is freed from the paralyzing
influence of Chestertown. The road would
now have been in operation, but for this
maglin influence.
The charge of your abandonment of
your State rights principles comes with
an exceedingly i'll grace from those who
have persistently for years aimed to tram
pie upon the rights of the people of this
clique-ridden county.
Perhaps your mustard" was stronger
than the patient could well bear with pa
tience, but it was of that kind so shrewdly
guessed by the Transcript Editor; it was
a small seed, it grew in the marvellously
fertile soil Of Kent County, and an apt
emblem of that faith which looks forward
to the extension and reconstruction" of
the little town by the energy aud intelli-
gence of the people of the county.
If there was too much vinegar in the
cataplasm, the Editor can remedy the mis-
take by throwing in little of his aH-caU-
lie.
Should another application be needed,
we may undertake the task of ventilating
the subject of bogus votes manufactured to
defeat the ridge route of the Railroad, and
other appliances to secure a majority in the
Board of Directors, in favour of the curve
into Chestertown.
1t is easy to call names, and quite smart,
but Mrs, Fidget can whisper a good deal
about the doings of this town clique that
neither the News nor Transcript dare
whisper.
Why the Hotel has meagre and poor