PARTY SPIRIT.
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A species of mental vitriol, which we
bottle up in our bosoms that we may squirt
it against others; but which, ia the mean
time, irritates, corrodes, and polsons our
own hearts. Personality and lnvective are
only proofs of a bad argument, bat Of a bad
arguer; for politenessi is perfectly compatible
with wit and logic, while it enhances the tri-
umph Of both. BY union of courtesy and
talent, an adversary may be made to grace
his own defeat. as the sandal tree perfumes
ihe hatchet that cuts it down. Casar's sol
dler's fought none the worse for being scent
ed with unguent's, nor will any combatant
be weakened by moral suavity. The bit
teness Of political pamphlets, and newspa-
per writing so far as acting as a tonic, de-
bilitates and dishonors them. A furious
pamphloteer, on being reproached with his
unsparing acrimony, exclaimed, "Burke,
and Curran. and Grattan, have written thus,
as we'll as l." cay" said his friend, ''bul
have you written thus as uell as they ~
Political writer's and orators must not mis-.
take the rage, the mouthing, and the contor.
lions oftho Sibyl for her inspiration.