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Letter to Editor
May 25, 1819
The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
What is this article about?
An extract from a letter from Richmond, published in the N.Y. Evening Post, satirically criticizes Mr. Clinton's vulgar and abusive ten-page refusal of Gen. Scott's challenge, imitating Gen. Jackson's style, and includes poetic mockery of his 'drowned honor.'
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FROM THE N. Y. EVENING POST.
We are authorized and requested to publish the following by a gentleman of respectability, whose name is at the service of any proper person on any proper application.
Extract of a letter from Richmond.
"I understand that Mr. Clinton has declined Gen. Scott's challenge, in a letter of ten pages, even more vulgar and abusive than that of Gen. Jackson, of which it is an imitation, and partially a copy indeed, as the ground occupied by the original was coextensive with Wapping and Billingsgate, it was impossible for Mr. C. to take that direction, without finding himself immersed in another's mire. and of there be, 'in the lowest deep a lower deep.' he has certainly, by a mighty and ponderous plunge, attained it."
Next Clinton div'd: slow circles dimpled o'er
The quaking mud, and clos'd and op'd no more.
"There let his 'drowned honor' forever remain."
We are authorized and requested to publish the following by a gentleman of respectability, whose name is at the service of any proper person on any proper application.
Extract of a letter from Richmond.
"I understand that Mr. Clinton has declined Gen. Scott's challenge, in a letter of ten pages, even more vulgar and abusive than that of Gen. Jackson, of which it is an imitation, and partially a copy indeed, as the ground occupied by the original was coextensive with Wapping and Billingsgate, it was impossible for Mr. C. to take that direction, without finding himself immersed in another's mire. and of there be, 'in the lowest deep a lower deep.' he has certainly, by a mighty and ponderous plunge, attained it."
Next Clinton div'd: slow circles dimpled o'er
The quaking mud, and clos'd and op'd no more.
"There let his 'drowned honor' forever remain."
What sub-type of article is it?
Satirical
Provocative
Political
What themes does it cover?
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Clinton Scott Challenge
Vulgar Refusal
Gen Jackson Imitation
Political Satire
Drowned Honor
Letter to Editor Details
Main Argument
mr. clinton's refusal of gen. scott's challenge is a vulgar, abusive imitation of gen. jackson's style, sinking even lower in impropriety.
Notable Details
References To Wapping And Billingsgate For Vulgarity
Quotes 'In The Lowest Deep A Lower Deep' From Milton's Paradise Lost
Satirical Verse Mocking Clinton's Honor