Lancaster Gazette

The editor of the Portland Yankee, Mr. Neal, established his paper, if we take his own word for it, to reform, purify, and give a more elevated tone to, the newspaper press of this country. Indeed, he says, "these mere newspapers shall be put down—that is if I live long enough." Long life to you, Mr. Modesty—and may much success attend your enterprise.

Being disposed to lend Mr. Neal a helping hand in his laudable undertaking, we quote from his last paper a few epithets which he has applied to one and another with whom he is at present engaged in controversy. They will serve as examples for the editors of "mere newspapers," who by dint of perseverance and strict adherence to the original may, in time, bring (up?) their paper to the level of the Yankee. One editor he calls an "inconceivable chatterbox," and a "courageous blockhead;" another, a "blundering idiot," a "liar, and a scoundrel," an "impudent scribbler," and a knave," and so on.

And every one of his papers furnishes similar evidence, in a greater or less degree, of his endeavours to purify the American press by his own chaste and beautiful example.