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Excerpt from A Review of the Late Canvass and R. Wickliffe's Speech on the "Negro Law"
You are not unapprised, my countrymen, that since you pre sumed to elect me to the Legislature over RW ickliffe J r. That. I have been the subject of unceasmg ridicule and denunciation, both in private and in public. So long as the Wicklifi'es coir fined themselves to sneers and unfeeling depreciation, I have stu diously declined noticing their unprovoked attacks; believin that such exhibitions of mortified vanity would, in the eyes of al honorable men, sink them - not me. But your late Senator, not satisfied with denouncing me from the 1ost1um, and through his organ the Observer 82: Rep01ter, as if exasperated by my forbear ance in not replying to his philippic against me, has undertaken to prostrate me ln the favo1 of the people, by publishing what may be termed a book to write R. Vvickli?e, J 1. Into a majority, and to destroy me politically fo1 ever. Has the Obseiver 82: Reporter forgotten that his ungentleman - like attack upon the Hon.. R hawes was resented by almost this Whole people? Defamat1on of that elevated gentleman has caused one Wicklifie to be ostra cised! This last attempt to defame me, though a politician of low degree, can hardly elevate another W. In the affections of the same people. This 1s not the fi1st time that your late Sena tor, losing the dignity which partisan wa1 fare ever imposes upon chivaliic gentlemen, has volunteei ed to pour out his pmsonqus ma levolence upon the head of his destined victim, regardless of truth and decency. His calumnious letter upon Amos Ken dall, drew from that gentleman a retort of such bitter irony, scathing sarcasm, and damning truths, that all a1 t1es moved tq pity, cried spa1e him, Jumusl - though Gods and men acknowl edged the Justice of the punishment.
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