The Davenport Gazette

AN APT ILLUSTRATION.

The editor of the Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette, in a dignified reply to an insulting communication, abusing him for supporting Gen. Taylor, forcibly illustrates the position of the 'disaffected Whigs' by a striking simile. He says:--

'Our writings against the nomination of Taylor are quoted with all imaginable absurdity, as if they pledged us to oppose his election after the question is reduced to him or Cass. We are accused of dishonesty, and asked why we do not go to 'picking pockets for a living, if we cannot afford to be a man?' We can afford to be a man, but not to be an idiot, and feel that we can no more justly be charged with dishonesty or inconsistency than the man who should refuse to take passage across the ocean in a packet ship because he had objected for some reason to that particular ship being put upon the line. According to these wise casuists, he should throw himself into a mud-scow, without the slightest regard to its capacity of ever reaching the destined shore, and do all in his power, by torpedoes, fireballs and false lights, to wreck the ship to which he has objected.'