Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-11-25
For the Loudon Free Press.
TODOW, SENR.

For VOL TO put on Sneep ) clothlhSi Vi 40i a"
man of your nature to assume the name OF good,
old Dow for the purpose ofperpetrating a crime,
| say such man (if allowed the expression,) is
to be vigilantly watched. To lie is hateful-a
foul and bitter turpitude To wifully pervert
the language of any person, in order to make
him the butt of sarcasm, land ridicule" is equal
" base and malevolent. Nearly all your would
be-criticisms are nothing more nor less than a
bundles of designing errors-a distortion of truth;
stream of falsehoods flowing from a filthy
| fount-a sickle to cut down the charkser of
your once devoted friend; thinking thereH that,
Won will receive the laud and appreciation of
those who, perchance may read your farfetched
burlesque. To think that man of your "enor-
nous erudition and CLASSICAL attainmeDts" would
so far derelics from the path of truth and integ-
rity of purpose as to write such "scatheing tir.
ade' of false perverted criticism, as you did in
weeks past-how strange! how lamentable! l
am sorry Dow, that you have left your boy-hood
innocency-then your company was as delight
some as the "wreaths of rainbow spray" but
now, since your vanity has been fattered, you
have become the rampant critique" of all ora
tions-truly swelLheade6, inflated bigot.-
When you and were spending our blithe, sun
ny, schoolboy days, little did think that you
would come so near drinking the Pierean fount
dry. But your uncommon wit and deep sense
has caused you to battle with literary intriea
! cies, until you have assembled the column of lit
eratum and you now sit upon the towering bill
of science, looking all the while, with an air of
disdain upon those who are not similarly situa-
ted / remember frequently to have heard you
pour forth your caustic vituperation upon those,
who were endeavering, with yourself, to reach
seats in high places; and Judging from your
last Collegiate history, | am compelled to think
you still possess that dsdainful, inflated, bigot1
ed, envious, malevolent and unlaudable DISPOSE
toni mean spirit to pourforth wholesale de-
nunciations upon innocent and unoffendlng IN
dividuals, merely because they are trying to
make themselves men of character. This per-
version of truth or your whole battery of error,
leveled against Cicero, is evidently the sponta-
neous production of bad heart, ushered forth
from the mind of your dear, magnitudnous,
pampered, big-self 1t is nothing but the scin-
der of "bigoted efferveSscnce," caused by an
overflow of your Shakesperean gala dis
charge of large volumes of foul "gas" from a
stomach and conscience highly bilious in their
nature. l can not imagine what has caused
such mental ebulitiOn, or what has caused you
to deal in such satire ard acrimony-YOu ought
to have known | would allow no such an incip-
lent critic as you, to stigmatize my character
without retorting. You certainly have forgot
ten that you once held the same position in school
that the little boy did, who said he was head,
from the fact, there was more below him. Yon
were then about as far specimen of Critic
as mule is of another long-eared animal. L
didn't fear your knowledge then more than
"Jonah did. when he swallowed the whale" /
now look upon you as did the African upon his
dog; both as ''pupy and dog" I did not once
think you would surpass johnson, Walker, and
Blair, mot W. W. B. in their close criticisms,
nor Addison in his rhetorical dictions, "but lol
greater than Jonah is here" So have come
to the conclusion there is no telling the outcome
of an ''indoent calf or NANCY pig" Bigoted
critics always talk of their neighbors as ignor-
antly as a blind man of colors; but in this day
! and time there are more whimsical satirist than
speakers or writers. To falsely calumniate the
oratorical efforts of any man, is an infallible
sign of M entail weakness. A libel cast upon
any mans character, is an enormous vice, and
is productive of much mischief For man to
select words of hi Oh sounding, qualifying ma
ture and then form new, nonsensical sentences
out them, for the purpose of burlesquing or rid
lculing Mans speech, it is truly intolerable-
An act ungenerous and diabolcall All critical
Dolts act from false and foolish hope of gain
ing superiority over those, who may appear to
be their equals; and of satisfying diabolical
passion In injuring mankind. There is nothing
so easy as that of disseminating idle, maIevo-
lent, groundless censures, and defamatory re-
ports, hence some men resort to this means to
become notorious; and it is either done to graf
lily mind i'll at ease, or with a vain anticipa-
ton of rising higher on the ruins of another
Every one who heard Cicero's speech knows
that Dow Seigu. has lied ''iu extreme and has
endeavored to eriticise expressions, which emf
mated from greater knowledge box than mine.
Tell me, OH tell me Mr. Dow, what infatuation
has seized your brain, and caused you to pub
fish such catalogue of falsehoods and serious
perversions? Hereafter, know you are right,
then go a-head But never, never be so hasty
and inconsiderate in any more of your pubISca-
tions, If so, l shall be found awake to my own
interest in the defense of my character, when,
so unjustly and untruthfully assailed. And as Z
was eloquent with vengeance, you have lied
with vengeance.
CICERO IN PRoPRIA Persona
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