The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-08-22

Two weeka ago the undersigned replied 10
a Want0n and unproroked attack, made IN
supposed ambush, BY one who used the edi-.
torial department. Of the Senfiaei for that pur-
pose. To show the animus Of the writer, aud
the grossly yituperatiye character Of the arti-
clsss Il was repablished in the Advocate entire,
with such comments as were appropriate to
and evoked by the letter and spirit Of the
article itself Indeed, We forbore TO charae-
terize il in such terms es its offensive person
alities deserved, Tor words conld moi wen have
made the attack more pointed and direct than
il was. Besides, 70 the same pen may be at
tributcd much more Of the same sort, for the
writer Of i seems TO have long indnlged his
meanwhile iacog. At length, however, he
has been drawn from his supposed hiding,
place, and held up TO the gaze Of this commu.
nifty in light not altogether tlattering 10 his
personal vanity and overweening selfsuffi.
cheney. This Standardization against his
malevolent aspeFsions, called forth another
characteristic article in the .Senfiaei of Satur-
day last, in which this chasie, elegant, and
anoiiending writer, complains Of ''personali.
ties, invecliye and billingsgate. Billings
gate, iorsoothl Il is not billingsgate 10 assail
the members Of the Legislature as "little
minded, . and ''liitle hearted, using their
position for base and pitiable ends, remind
ing them with bitter irony how !'their pure,
generous, and manly acts, are regarded aud
appreciated by a Judiciary not influenced by
lor and disrepHfable mofires" There is no
bilhngsgate in all this, according TO the opin-
ION OF this much injured and unoiiending gea-
tleman; but. when his slanderous aspersions
are repealed, in standardization, aud ia terms
altogether too mild for the wanton and unpro-
yoked attack, it is ''billingsgate r. Did it
never occur to him that his glass house might
get broken, when he first commenced the
throwing of stones? Does he claim "a char
ter large as the wind 10 blow on whom It
pleases,a and yet shrinks from counter
blast2 Billingsgate, indeed II thank thee.
jew, for that word. In that particular nc.
eomplishment, the voluble Mrs MOriarty, the
Dublin yirago whose lingual tilt with 0'Con-
nell rendered her name immortal, could
scarcely have rivalled him. No need here to
search the pages of fiction for Turveydrops
and Peeksniifs the realm Of fact presents
a ready prototype of him whose aptuess will
at once be acknowledged.
Renting our retaliatory remarks to the
source from whence they emanate, he seeks
to make diversion from himself to the Court
of Appeals, but this rvse shall not avail him.
Our business Is with him, not the Court of
Appeals. We doubt if that body would feel
itself hatiered by his championship, Had it
suited his purpose he wonld doubtless have
abused the Cour. as roundly as he has abused
the Legislature. His record is, that he has
never been very nice or discriminating in such
matters. He has showa himself to be wan.
ton assailant OF men who gave him no provo.
cation; tradncer Of those who never did
him wrong a stirrer up Of strife promoter
OF bad neighborhood and allthis, while stand
ing behind another, out Of public view, and in
iancied security from proper responsibility,
moving in society, the while, with fair seem
ing, even towards those he had covertly assail
ed and aspersed. Duplicity such as this, is
calculated to excite only disgust and con
tempt. The Court Of Appeals was Incl
dentally alluded to, on account Of the fiat
tering compliments it paid to the ''inteli
geRce Of our law Makers II was all right,
in that LEARNED and impartial tribunal" to
forget its propriety, and in an extrajndicial
manner pay its g tlattering compliments to
the intelligence Of the Legislature, but
radically wrong, in the estimation of this ex.
Judicial oracle, for Legislator to make re-.
ply. Now, it would be well for Courts
and attorneys TO understand that they have
no prescHptive right to insult or traduoe
others with IMMUNITY. They viii be respected
al Autlf eeNtIAl POSITIONS as long as they re-
spect themselves, but when they presume
upon their positions to make themselves often.
siye, they should be held to strict account,
like other men.
The stilted, swelling, vaporing, consequen.
tial air, with which he winds up his philippine
is calculated TO provoke a smile OF derison
rather than anything else. "0n what meat
doth this our Caesar feed, that he hath grown
SO great" Let him step down from his
lofty, self.erected pedestal, and realize that
he is nothing more than other men, It.,
indeed, as much. His assumption, in the
outset Of his last article, that he had ''stir.
red the raneonr" Of the Editor of the Ad.
rocdts, is but the reflex of his own condition
applied to us. His conduct has been calcu-
lated to excite more of contempt than rancour.
. The man who feels the adder's fang
May crush the crawlcr, yet feel no anger
Twas the worms nature,
And some men worms in Soul
More than the living things Of iombsT
II. VASDERFoRD.