ch abuse, but it seems from your silence to
have met with your heart's approval, and gave "general
satisfaction," at least to _you_! It is true that you were
absent at the time of both these publications, but it does not
follow, as a matter of course, that you were not the veritable
author, and that they did not find their way to the "Democrat"
office at the same time and in the same way that your "Baltimore
Correspondence" got there. The "Junior," as he styles himself,
claims the fraternity; and were it not that he is too well known
in Fincastle for any sane man to believe that _he_ wrote the
articles, he might have the credit (if credit there be attached
to it) of so low, malicious, and lying articles. But he is known
in Fincastle to be a brainless man, and to be incapable of
writing a paragraph on any subject. He is known to have no use
of language, and to be incapable of applying epithets to any
one. So that, if _you_ did not write these articles, they were
manufactured at "Irish Corner," in Fincastle, your "Junior" not
being able to do it, for the reason that he is wholly incapable.
My opinion is, that the articles were manufactured by the "Great
Mogul" of the Anti-American party in your town, and if he will
only avow himself the author, I will make some disclosures upon
him that will make him wish himself back in "Swate Ireland,"
where he "lives, and moves, and has his being;" no disclosures
are necessary--his books, and his person, damn him to
everlasting infamy. He has the filthiest-looking mouth, and the
most offensive breath, of any man in the Valley of Virginia. No
man who knows him will meet him square on the pavement, or place
himself in a position, if it can be avoided, of meeting a breeze
from that great reservoir of all nastiness, his mouth! It is
really a wonder how any human being can LIVE, and emit all the
time a stream of such overwhelming and uninterrupted STENCH! You
must permit me to christen this man as the But-Cut of Original
Sin, and the Upper-crust of all Nastiness!

It may not set well upon your stomach, that being a "Minister of
the Gospel, and having the care of souls," I should seem not to
place implicit confidence in your denial of any participation in
this unprovoked war upon me. I will be candid with you, and
though it is possible for me to