The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1854-08-11
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It As Amicus has 20 freely expressed his opin.
j. ion Of me, ! shall take the liberty Of giving
!. my opinion of him. First then I must say
y ne is one Of the most fscetlous, witty and
= humorous writer's, have ever known. In
the opening paragraph Of his last communi-
: cation for instance, he speaks Of the torturss
which he is inflicting upon his antagonists,
t with cool and quiet humor, that is eminent
!, ly quaint and drell. And thon how we'll does
he exhibit his msgnanimity and his Latin,
7 both at orce, with an admirable dexterity
that is unequalled by anything outside Of tn,
t Comic Almanac. ..k
Secondly he is q GENTLEMAN and q scholar.
The former 10 evident from a remark he
! makes. "Though they (Amicus means the
scrboIers) seem to shut :her eyes against
the Highland pe.severe in reiterating their
stereotyped ISLANDERS, lies and n1isrepressn.a.
ttons," &c. Now could any other than gen.
tleman have penned that sentencel Is Il
not rhetorical, sublime, and comprehensive
Such mild end gentle epithets! Such nice
discrimination! Such chaste and elevated
dction! o, if all gentlemen were only like
Anxious, it would no. be so hard to find one
now a days
Anxious is undoubtedly scholar for hs
quotes Latin and French too He is evident
ly great man, for he thinks 80 himself and
his essays 60 TO prove it. lie first proceeds
to demolish "Observer," after which he con-
descends to destroy your humble servant. As
"Observer" appears to be fully able to take
care of himself, shall only attempt to de-
fend myself.
After dschargng complete mud machine
, at me, and borrowing my own idea TO re-
proach me with, (what could be more cruelD
this Barnard Braddle Scroggs proceeds to un-
load himself OF the only thing like an alusion
to the real subject in hand to be found in his
production, more noticeable for bad English
than good Latin. He speaks Of "the rights
of the Southern members Of the confsderacy
which had been wrested frem them by a too
| liberal construction of the powers of Congress,
and which has been submitted to from motives
Of patriotism till fitting opportunity offered
/ for their restoration by the introduction of
the Bill organizing the territories of Nebras-
ka and Kansas
| Now, Amicus, leave of scolding fer little
while and explain what you mean by the above.
| don't want to call you foel, liar, traitor,
hobgobn, scare-crow and all that; I can see
very little sense in it. A couple of fish wo-
men in the Billingsgate market would far ex-
ceed you in such business. For my part I
am poor hand in quarrel. scorn "to rail
like wanton women, or vituperats like angry
school boys" Let US have argument. Point
out where my conclusions are absurd. or my
premises untenable, ridicule my hypothesis,
and zeal severely upon my propositions, but
do not "let your angry passions RISE" As
long as you con6ne yourself to argument /
am not afraid, but you must excuse me from
stepping into the lists when yeu commence
using the language Of backguards.
! ANY man can call hard name-it is no proof
of genius to string together half column Of
denunciatory epithets. You call me small
J yelping cur, might retort by calling you a
great stupid Jackass. Would that tend to
the elucidatlor Of the points in controversy.
: Rest assured, my dear sir, whether you are
, gentleman or not, shall still continue to
regard you as one till you forfeit all claims
: to that designation. Anxious is beyond doubt
! scholar, learned man! look at his Latin!
look at his French, Who but a scholar
could have found out that nom de plume meant
) in plain English demagogue! Oh, wor.
thy Mr.. Amicus! Oh, noble Mr.. Anxious! Oh.
scholastic Mr.. Amicus! can't you give Us
! the English of mons Uerrons!
Lastly, Anxious is great man. Fancy,
Mr. Editor, the exultation of this worthy gen.
tleman as he sits pondering over his last
communication in the Gaeetts, and contem-
plating the writings of your anonymous
scribbers," when in the magnanmity of his
soul, he resolves not to kill, only to pelt us
like a school-bcy pelts the frogs on a sum-
mer's afternoon.
Let me then offer consolation to you, Mr..
Editor, and to you, ye friends, "Observer"
and "Veritas'-Amicus will not kill US, he
only wishes to amuse himself, to laugh at our
writings, and grin with satisfaction at our
futterings
oh cruel, cruel Mr.. Amleus!
To treat US so; to treat us so!
\ have also noticed one Democrat, whose
starting out was like the lofty flight of the
American Eagle in tie clouds, and whose
fall has been like the strug, les of broken
backed goose in mud hole; but shall re-
serve him for another paper.
! Whenever Democrat" or "Amicus" have
any propositions to discuss, they shall not
want for antagonists. In the meanwhile let
them stake out the beam from their own
eyes, before attempting to cast out the moat
that is in their brothers. eyes"
some oP THE PEorIE."