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I! 3VTk. Editor:—The Cincinnati Gazette of ; last Monday contains the following item:amThtin it 1For the Danner.! “The Madisonian is the name to be given ' Re ! to a new daily paper, to be commenced this jtio dav in Madison, Indiana. The editorial de- \ yc: partment will he under the control of Messrs. lt;rat! B. F. Foster and B. F. Reed. They are to lt;artbe aided by contributions from Dr. \V. Da- j mn vidson and J. L. King, and a Cincinnati ladv.”me ! da; ! deiFrom what source the Gazette derived its*information I am quite incapable of conjecturing. But the connection with the Madisonian, which the .article ascribes to me, i ; is purely ideal. 1 know that in Madison, iiere, by some sort of instinct or impulse, all, ‘-lc the unappropriated and anonymous prodigies | ^ol in verse and prose are ascribed to ine, just as ; J*,0' infallibly as ancient prodigies, of all sorts, 'jve were* attributed to Hercules, by cuimnoni^fl consent of Greek and Barbarian. i cr.Ltin‘The tiling, I know, is neither new nordeanalirare,But wonder how the devil this come there.I say again, I am to have no connection ,^ I |with the “Madisonian”—no more than I had c]( with the Letters of Junius, or am to have Pr' with the next Gazette at Hong Kong. 1101It is certainly a compliment to be mention- j lir' cd in connection with the names in the Ga-. cp zette article; but then I am not more entitled c,{ to that honor than I am to a connection with ; an the names of St. Paul, Mrs. Caudle, or Don j -^r Juan. ionAnother Cincinnati paper states that the I un I whole four of us arc “ Uni verbalist Preach- , nKThis is rich news to those who know eomej^ of us. To have just discovered that I am a : fin parson, is quite as surprising to me, as the discovery, for the first time, was to the fel- j low in Rabelais, that he had been a poet all his life, without knowing it. It will also ! an; startle the shades of my ancestral Presbyterians, of two centuries lineage.ers!” ionintheeubvJoI inculcate no other Universal Salvation than that which pertains to the State here, and not to our state hereafter—the Universal Salvation of Whiggery, as I think, the orthodox, evangelical Christianity of Politics.ofsetMiI disavow th is connection, not because Ishould be ashamed to be associated with ! D.Messrs. Foster and Reed. But 1 disavow, because I wish to disclaim, in advance, the authorship of yet unedited and unpublished articles, which, without this disclaimer, and under the erroneous impressions incited by the misinformation of the Gazette, might, could, or would be imputed to me. I have no wish, no right, to have the credit (or discredit, if any) of the sentiments and opinions which are, as yet, only brooding in the unformed and undeveloped state of their first conception, in the various intellectual organs of Messrs. Foster’s and Reed’s phre-terei^jDotheThaftala IkilyfusvothclHiininnlncrv. and to which their nress is to rrive
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Madison Republican Banner
Madison, Indiana, US
Wed, Jan 06, 1847
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