Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-11-09
For the Gallipolis Journal
"GAUL TO HIS LIBELLERS."

"GAUL TO HIS LIBELLERS."
The above is the title of communi-
cation which appeared in the Gala
Courier two weeks. since, ostensibly an
answer to letter written by myself
from Louisville, and published in the
Journal the week previous. 1t is par
ented by Gaul, but undoubtedly the pro-
duction of herd of contemplate de-
feated ofice-seeking scamps, who make
his Office their rendezvous for scheming
and knavish purposes. A close scruti-
ny of the article does not reveal single
item that needs reply, for it is but silly
appeal for sympathy, and repetition of
his monstrous mendscities and reckless
assertions, which have excited in this
community the most general detestation.
l will, however. crafty this thing and
his satellites, by notice, as it may add
to their vanity, and give them a noto-
riety, which they could no otherwise at
tain. Hereafter l will attend to the
"antecedents," ] promised, as the occa-
sion may require.
The readers of the Gallia Courier,
for the last four years, have from time
to time been nauseated with the effu-
sions of this scribbler Gaul, on the va
rious and peculiar isms which happened
to enter his added brain, and know
pretty well of what sort of stuff he is
made. As his recklessness and base
ness know no bounds, and as no lie is
too base and libellous, to find in him a
ready propagator, it has been found
necessary occasionly to rebuke his SLAM
derous assertions and peculiar ''pets. /"
This has been for the most part the un-
pleasant and very small potato game of
the editor of this paper, who undoubt-
edly feels the degradation he does him
self in chastising anything SO pitiful as
the very remote end of the tail of the
Gallia county bar; but as his position as
public journalist demand these sacri-
fees he has been forced to submit
Having noticed an article rather tartly
in the early part of September. Gaul,
who was wincing under justly applied
lash, answered on the 18th of the same
month, with an extremely shallow and
low-hung article, commencing as fol-
lows: "'The cologne pedlar who wrote
the editorial for the nondescript of the
Gallipolis Journal, etc." Having been
in Gallipolis for few days preceding
the issue of this precious document, and
receiving, after 1 left, several letters
from friends, calling my attention to it,
and assuring me that l was the person
meant, which l verify believe to be the
fact notwithstanding his assertion to the
contrary, / hastily and without second
consideration wrote the article which
lately appeared over my signature. l
confess that had / seen the rhodomon-
tade INDUCED in by this "sanguinary
Gaur' in the article referred to, / should
not SO far have compromised my self re-
spect as to have devoted to it second
thought, much less the notoriety of a
public letter; but since, by handling him
I have become defled, 1 will see the in.
dividual through.
In this last communication about ell
bellers," he squarely backs off the
track, and assures the public that be
did not mean me, but was hitting what
he presumed was very hard lick, al
somebody else, whom he asserted had
so severely raped him over the knuckle;
in the September issue of the Journal
above alluded to. Now l will venture
the assertion that four-6fths of all the
people in Gallipolis would give the lie in
Gaul's face, and say that he did, ever
should he make oath to the contrary
If he did not, as he asserts, how came
he to use this particular expression?-
Did any rule of composition in this in.
stance, demand or entertain it? Or i.
it applicable to an individual in Gallis
county? No, it was simply myself thai
he meant, and none other, for as hat
left the village and State, he presumed
that he could have an easy opportunity
OF presenting his immense scribbling
proportions to the public, and divert {
! scathlng answer from Mr. Harper.
, was the agent for a Perfumery estab
lishment, aad the intimate friend, ant
iconstant visitor Of the Journal establish
ment, and a mind of the peculiar in
stincts and capacities of Gaul. would
give paternity to just such an exnres
sion as this, and deem il applicable