The Newest Keepsake for 1840 - Containing the Best Account of the March of Mind; Together With the Speeches, Circumstances, and Doings of the Trundle-Bed Convention, in Session at the Marlboro Chapel, January 8, 1840 #245933

Another of those stupid, silly, licentious productions has made its appearance. Who the dunce is that writes them is of no con sequence. But it is sometimes a matter of curiosity to know what motives can move a man, to try, to appear ridiculous. It is not over strange that a man should feign madness, under certain circumstances, in order to screen his neck from the couse quences of having a sane head upon it. There is some method in such madness. But why a man should lay himself out to appear ridiculous, when no possible motive appears for such conduct, is past all finite comprehension. Here is page after page of laborious trifling, and ridiculous absur. Dity. — Vain attempts at wit, which prove nothing, but the malignity of the author.