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From some wincing, we are inclined
to suppose Mr. Barton did not wholly APP.
prove our remarks Of last week. lie
will sometimes happen that gentlemen
dislike to see themselves as others see
them. Yet, if they will thrust them


selves forward for veal or woe on oil
occasions, suitable or unsuitable, they
should not complain five take the lib
erty Of holding the mirror up. We
cheerlully give Mr. Barton the credit OF
standing in the first rank OF county court
lawyers, and we would be the last to


pluck feather from his deserved repu-
tation. But, considered as politician
or man of genuine intellect and infor-
nation, we say, because we are able to
demonstrate the fact, that, by his co-par-
tizans, he is egregiously overrated,-
His strength is in his butfoonery-in
his "red hot poker" stories. He does
not instruct an audience, and, take these
away, he could not long entertain one.
If he had been sent to the United States
Senate, his party would have had reo-
son to be ashamed, not only of him but


themselves. If he persists in pushing
himself forward in this canvass, for the
purpose of earning a share of spoils
when his party may have them to dis
pense, he may learn before he is much
older politician, that even a "village
newspaper" may have the distinguish
I'd honor Of sounding the knell of his
'anced glory.