923. BOOKS, Warfare by.—
After the severe
chastisement given by Mr. Walsh in his
American Register to English scribblers, which
they well deserved, and I was delighted to see,
I hoped there would be an end of this intercrimination,
and that both parties would prefer
the course of courtesy and conciliation, and I
think their considerate writers have since
shown that disposition, and that it would prevail
if equally cultivated by us. Europe is
doing us full justice; why then detract from
her?—
To Charles Jared Ingersoll.
Ford ed., x, 325.
(M.
1824)
