The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

THE WHIG.

In spite of our determination not to be surprised at any thing which might transpire, however extraordinary, yet we could not avoid being surprised as well as amused, at the following editorial article in the Whig of yesterday.

"The Republican of yesterday attempts to establish that Gen'l. Harrison was a supporter of the "alien and sedition laws"—and what do you think, gentle reader, is the proof? Why, that the general expressed favorable sentiments towards Mr. Adam's administration!! Here's logic for you! Let us illustrate it. Mr. Ramsay entertains favorable sentiments towards Cincinnati—ergo, he approves and advocates all the murders and crimes ever committed by its citizens."

We were surprised, because we were taken by surprise. We were amused because we were in a good humor--and it bro't to our mind many amusing incidents. We are fond of similes, and whenever we get hold of an odd paragraph, our fancy is immediately put in requisition, to search for something analogous. Sometimes she is a little capricious and becomes unmanageable, and sometimes forgetting herself, she runs a wild goose chase after "Jack O'Lanterns." But in this instance she has been peculiarly dutiful and felicitous. Who has not cracked his sides with laughing when engaged in playing blind man's buff, at seeing a bandaged urchin, grasp a broom stick, or embrace in his arms the kitchen maid, as she stood at the table washing dishes, or his grandfather's coat, hanging against the wall, while at the same time he thought he had you in his clutches. The avidity with which Major Conover clutches at the sayings of the editor of caught a gnat, has pounced upon us like a cat upon a mouse, and caught us as certainly as aforesaid boy caught the gnat. To this modern Don Quixotte, who is perpetually combatting shadows and running tilts with monsters of his own muddy brain's conceptions, we would say in the language of a metropolitan bacchanalian to a charley, "You are an awful complaint you are so catching

But to the charge contained in the paragraph which we have extracted from the Whig. It is not true. We have not endeavored by word or deed to identify Gen. Harrison with the party which supported the alien and sedition laws. We only published Mr. Randolph's opinions upon that subject, and recommended them to the consideration of our readers.—And they are well worth consideration.