Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-09-06
0,.r Edffortal SquaO1Ies.

some of our cotemporarles OF the press ~ ~
into a great passion whenever we chose 70
dissent from anything put forth by them. OF
even gave them mild rap over the knucklas,
10 remind them that the eyes OF others were
upon them. In almost every such case' 'hey
have met US with personalities, with the vain
hope of driving US into silence through lear
Of exposure of our private character; but 'ney
have signally failed in every case, but con'ln-
ne with degree Of perseverance worthy OF a
better cause. "Fool," 'sscamp." ''bfack-
guard" and other equally opprobrious ep'-
thets have been applied to Us, TO lower US 10
the standardization Of community. How lar
their united efforts have been successful is not
fof US to cay, but we can say thas.hey have not
yet, neither can they ever frigh,en us from the
course we have heretofore pursued. Its true
that we have sometimes gone bevond due Inn
its for conducting editorial controversies, 10
exposing the baseness and stupidity OF our as
sailants but for this we plead Justification
From our earliest infancy we have heard II
said that in time Of war the only way to pre-
vent indiscriminals slaughter by tina savages,
killing women and children, is for the soldiery
to play the same game; and we once knew an
old blacksmith who was addicted TO the too
free use of sblue ruin,' who, while under its
Influence, was sure to make clean sweep of
all the .breakable' tableware in the house,
After several times refurnishng her table with
new wares, his wife bethought herself of The
game played with the Indians, by himself,
who was soldier Of the revolution, and dew
pension, and resolved to play it upon her
husband. Accordingly, the next time ne came
home ripe for destruction, he was met by his
wife, with smile Unusual on such occasions)
upon her countenance, which the more deter
m ined him 10 keep up his habit Of deslruc-
,icn. He rushed through the room, followed
by his wife into the kitchen, when he imme-
diately commenced the work of destruction.
That his sport might last the longer. he al
ways commenced first by kicking over the ia.
bic, and then dashing The wares upon he
hearth, one at time, reserving the more valu-
able articles until the expostulations of his
wife prepared him for heavy crush. On this
occasion his wife had anticipated him, and
removed the more valuable articles from their
usual place, by which she stationed herself
No sooner was the table kicked over than
crash came chair upon it-down he dashed
a tea-cup, she plate upon its broken pieces
then plate, she dish-so they continued
that tHhafu,e, , turuUu 70 "o' l.;--.>, Ais
own sne raised large and valuable Chi
ma pitcher. All to no purpose-she gathered
another piece and was in the act of dashing
it to pieces, when he seized her arm and beg
ged her to stop. "No, no." she replied, ''the
pension will soon be due, and Jarnagin g.
Dickson have fine set of Chinaware, and
so here goes for new SET" dashing it upon
the pile of fragments. The old man, little
sobered at this unexpected display of the
courage and perseverance of his wife, grasp
ed her. and yelled out for the help of the SER
wants, telling them tn at their mistress was
crazy, and had broken all The China and Queens
care!' The servants having been apprised of
the plau and intentions of their mistress, did
not interfere, and an explanation ensued. 1t
is hardly necessary to add that the next PEN
sion money was expended in the purchase of
wares, and never more did old Valentine Gun.
nngham try to annoy his wife by the des.
tructicn Of their property, bu: became kind
end sober husband.
These cases are analogous, varying in but
two par.iculars-old Valentine Cunningham
done his country good services, and reformed
his bad habits after learning the lesson from
his wife; but our assailan's have done their
country no service, (save as swine in the fruit
and melon season-removing filthy and there
is no hope of their ultimate reform, as they
are incapable of learning useful lessons from
past experience.
In all our squabbles we have never been
The first TO leave the path s!aked out for edto-
rial discussions; indeed we have gone so far in
most cases, when deemed material, as to CO.
py their bilIingsga,e. while they have confined
themselves to vituperation, SANDER and false.
rood. They have even carried their enmily |
owards us so far as TO get into dispute a.
nong themselves as to who has debased them. |
solves the m ost by their abuse of us, look an |
,ry at others for not uniting with them in their !
work Of detrac.ion, and enarling at those who |
speak of US in respectful terms. This being
he case, our readers will see that we have Just
cause for whatever bitter feelings we have
manifested towards Them, aud excuse our con-
ascension to the means we use, on the score
hat We. like others, have not sufficient philo-