Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-03-23
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MINERAL PoINT, Mar. 81, I849.

MINERAL PoINr, Mar. 81, 1919.
Reader must again ask, or take the priv
ilece of few remarks, previous to submitting
my friends letter to the public view, not that
they stand In need of either comment. illus
tration or explanation from me; though fiat
ter myself that one better Understands the
different actions, feelings, thoughts, and inn
pulses of my friend, than my very humble
self. J-R- does not deserve even passing
notice, but his vanity (which is only equalied
by his folly,) shall for the once be battered
he shall enjoy the honor of being rub d down
In company with his great luninaries, yet his
first dressing shall be private one, and the
admirer of our friend Flick shall not increase
his agony by laughing at him; if he will bear
his stripes in silence, we will not follow him
into his hole. But if he persists in being
champion without cause, we shall snatch
the disguise of j R from him, and show
him in his nudity, until even he shall compre-
bend his own littleness. He wears Johns
coat SO badly and dishonors it so perfectly,
that we doubt not, were that worthy indiyidu-
al here, this hopeful scion of genius would
receive a cowhiding for his pains. Thou
miserable imitator of the very style you affect
to call "a low vulgar one,'' in vain you dis
tort your sentences, misspel your words, and
sign them with an irIshman's initials, there
is no wit in it, and j R. not even when
drunk, ever let fall from his pen or lips SEN
tence as fiat and pointless as the best which
you have attributed to him.
Thou foul mouth-piece of dirtiness--thou
minion of minions, hide your head, deny your
name, leave the country and take your defence
OF nastlness with you; or the verItable Doc
TOR Will In an angry moment crop your ears,
and who would blame him. Fool, do you
think that because self has ever occupied your
puny mind, 1t will justify or excuse leoisla-
tor in forgetting principles, people, and every
thing else, for few dollars in his own pocket.
Have meanness and criminalty been so long
familiar and customary with you, that it has
become a law, then indeed are you more fit
subject fer the penitentiary than for news
paper conflict. \ our phraZes tfntekieet,'
s'diStinguish,' and s.interest Of tie people at
heart" and your justification of boot licking,
in connection with the wonld-be Congress-
man, is severe satire than friend
Flick has pronounced upon him. TO propa-
gate large family of great men is an honora-
bic thing, but in the language Of our friend
R--f, that in which every jackass is our
equa! and every billy goat our superior. is no
great boast. That they are pre-eminently
great in the generating faculty, we have seen
too much with our own eyes to deny. The
desire to extend themselves has carried some
| beyond law, decency, and the boundaries of
the United States. But we will not usurp
the place Of our friend.
The name of boiler is not new one, that is
the capacity IN which Flick speaks of politics
and politicians, his business is not to build
himself up, but to tear others down who would
rise the ruin of his party. His grounds
are, that the late Democratic ticket so called)
was made up of ''land sharks and political
pirates withoutp principles, he bolted not from
Democracy, but from becoming the tool, the
stepping stone, the dupe of a plot for the eie-
walton of adventurers so utterly worthless that
had they been elected. the party must have
been disgraced. If a stone is called bread
must we therefore eat it, if gaul is called wine
must we therefore drink it, if a thief belongs
to a church is he therefore a christian, if sot
belongs to the ''sons" is he therefore temper
ate. If THINGS name is on the Democratic
ticket is that thing therefore Democrat-whc
will not answer, no. Because that things
name is there, is it entitled to our support as
Democrats. We say that provided 1t is the
wish Of majority OF the party fairly express
ed; then caucus regulations would require us
to swallow al, the majority rules in party mat
tiers as elsewhere, where a minority meet by
stealth and nominate themselves, it is right
that we should put them down as we have
done, we, the boilers speak not as disappointed
ofhce-seekers, but as voters who believe that
the whole transaction of the late convention
was corrupt, ana therefore voted against II,
and not without some effect.
Now j R. mark our words-we respect
reason and argument, but we despise man
who can set up no better defence than recrim-
nation Ue have no desire to defend the
guilty. and we feel confident that our friend
Flick has neither pets nor idols in this coun-
try to spare or worship. Desist from daubing
over facts with the mud of your brains, for it
is only murky darkness that makes the lamp
br glitter shine. If your genius is hired for
gold, your employers will never get value re-
ceived, for your defence is the unkindest cut
of all. If desire to see yourself in print is
the moving cause, GO on, and our next notice
shall crafty that desire to your hearts con-
tent, we are in the possession of some written
documents, which you supposed were de-
stroyed; and we hope that this bare allusion
to them, not understood by others, will be suf-
ficient to induce you to return from your trav-
els, and permit your goose to nurse her quills
for some more useful purpose than recording
observations.
To return will eos. you no great pains, for
allowing the printer one day, your very re-
markable letter reached us in two DAYS after
its date, from some indefinite part of Califor-
nia--spelt with phi, this is your grand coup
de main, the brilliant sally Of wit, which is TO
captivate yonr groggery companions.
ELIcK's FRIEND.
Panyrammy,
Feb. 25th, 1S49.
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