The Hartford herald., 1885-10-28
Rockport, XIV.

Editor Herald
Rev. II. f.. Richey, editor of the
american Home, Princeton, Kentucky,
preached here on the night of the 23d.
Uncle Jim Williams is dangerously
III.
Mr.. Curg Reid attended the Reunion
at Owensboro. He pronounces it a
success
Uncle John Campfeld, of near Skiles-
vile, KY, is here on visit to his son.
He is 50 years old, but as spry and ac-
tive as most men of forty. He brought
up IL children, each of whom he gave
$50 acres of good land, aud still has
land to spare. He told me that Uncle
George Penrod, whom | know very
well, is in his 92d year, and IL quite as
hale as himself.
Cheap rates, or some other delusion,
tempted me To Louisville last week.
That city is suffering from the effects ol
the general depression of business, tho
they did seem to be little behind with
MeirhdUiing but at the rate those old
lumbering carts We're pushing they may
have caught up by now.
X. Nj. =, Of Grass, Texas, revives a
question which has been vainly asked
for an hundred years by thousands, in
asking the Courier. journal Of the 2lst
ult., "Who wrote the Junius I.etters?''
"There is" says one, scarcely single
work in the llgheI branches of litera-
ture more generally known and read
than these letters" Nothing in Eng>
lish politics ever equaled their polished
sarcasm and their fierce, unsparing in-
vectives. So familiar did he prove
himself with The private character of
almost all the leading men, that the
dishonest and corrupt quaked in their
boots for fear of exposure. keep to
your pantomimes," wrote he 10 David
Garric-and who has not heard of Gar.
ric?-'or mark me, vagabond, you will
curse the hour when you dared inter>
fere!' This was when George iii. sent
Carrie to detect the author by inquir-
ing of Woodfall, whom Junius had
written "I'm weary of attacking set
of brutes, whose writings are really too
dull to furnish me with even the mate
rial OF contention" after which Wood
fol toll a u
Junius would continue to write any
longer. Carrie flew with tie intelli-
gence to Mr.. Ramus, one of the pages
to the King, who Immediately con.
veyed it to his majesty.
1t was then, as the C.-J states, that
George the III said "Who Junius il,
he will write no more" So powerful
was his motive OF secrecy that nothing
could induce him to disclose himself,
though that disclosure, while fraught
with some danger, would have crowned
him with splendid and imperishable
glory" These letters We're addressed
to Mr.. II. :. Woodfall, publisher Of the
Public advertiser, from 1867 to 1888,
and conveyed to him in a manner so
mysterious that even he never knew
who Junius was. They gave an enor-
nous circulation to his paper, but at
the same time put him in personal
danger. Junius promised to protect
him. Said he, when the Duke of
Bedford talked Of bringing Woodfall
before the house of lords: "Have no
fears, | reserve some things expressly
to awe him. | can threaten him pri-
vately with such a storm as would make
him tremble, even in his grave"
Junius signed his letters with differ
ent names. Among them were Atticus,
Mneman, Lucius, Brutus and Junius.
Those signed Atticus and Brutus re-
lated chiefly to the dispute with the
American colonies, and those signed
Lucius, exclusively to the outrageous
dismission Of Sir Jeffry Amherst from
his post as Governor of Virginia.
The authorship Of these extraordinary
letters has been attributed to DIR. Butler,
Wilks, Hamilton, mot Alexander)
Dunning, Lord Temple Lord Sackville,
Lord Chatham and many others.
Little, indeed, is my opinion worth
on question that has been unanswered
so long, but nevertheless, | haye one
all the same, and it is, that il ii was not
Hamilton or Sackville, then it GER
tainly was Lord Chatham that wrote
them, and i'm a moment of triumph
said the "Bible and Junius would be
read when the commentaries of the
Jesuits were forgotten" Literally,
SUGGS.