Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-08-15
To FAIR PLAY.

SenqeT, unueF In0 IFluHpNtnG dhhOuHNS
ment that "Clyde would have full justice
meted out to him." Did your vanity dictate
that announcement? You entered upon
the work under it, and pressed into service
the most senseless jumble of words ever
made use of by man, that like a mess of
drunken coblers without knowing why, reel
ed, danced and diddIed throughout your ar
ticle.
You informed me that you are a man of
very staid habits, never meddling in politics
or interfering with your ncighbors; how
then could so contemplate parsonage as
YOU would make me out TO be, and "non-
descript" besides, disturb your well formed
habits of life, and cause you like second
Pauly Pry, to stick your nose into other
peoples affairs? 1t was your vanity, your
want to show your learning and see yonrsclf
in a newspaper. Under these circumstan-
ces, with what grace do you charge me with
/ meddling in others quarrels? DID you ever
think how ridiculous you made yourself, in
complaining of me for Withholding my real
name, doing the same thing yourself, by
signing that very complaint with false
one? Would not some of that reason you
talk of, be useful to you9 You cannot be
witty; try and be sensible. The DAYS of
chivalry and knight-erantry have passed,
and great was my astonishment when l
found you in the arena mounted like brave
Knight with visor down, and fixed lance,
ready to shiver it in defence of such an un-
worthy cause as you voluntarily espoused.
1 concluded that you had got hold of some
old book treating ofchivalry, supposed it a
pleasant institution, and cried "to horse and
combat"
Sr'ously, if was an intermedlcr it was
on my own account: you entered the field
by procurement; you took dirty job on So
licitation. You are a scholar, You string
epithets as a girl does beads and your fig
ures and metaphors hold a perfect fairy
dance throughout your article, but was it
not great pity that so great a scholar and
gentlemen should waste so much talent in
criticising the typographical error of the diff
ference between HMessieurs" and "MeSsieur
When you told your story of the Paddy
who was cut out for gentleman, but de-
frauded in the making up, was sorry that
your weakness had led you TO relate YOU
own misfortune, and your beautiful figure Of
D the annointment is so feelingly expressed
q none but man of deep experience could
have done it. For it is evident that you
was abundantly annointed from that 'gourd
of Skunk's grease" by the Messenger mar
and his imps to make you strong in the
work assigned YOU. 1t was very charitable
in you however, after having experienced
u the benefits from such an unctious coating
9 to recommend it to your friends. Your re
/ peated exclamations breathe so much O
+ deep anguish and sorrow, that l know no
whether you intended to address them t
+ Heaven as repcnting sinner, or whethc
II you are an old maid suffering hypo, because
some one has trod on the tail of your pc
a cat.
l. Now my frieni, let me ask you seriously
J. what business ha you med ling yourself il
d other peoples affairs? But if you woulC
a why did you not answer my article Ike ;
G man in a serious and sober way, and no
l. seek to cover up common defamers, by wri
L ting a mess of trashy nonsense. address
: ed the editor of the Messenger, in a plail
manner, and with facts, because he had Sian
dered and abused the people without caus,
If or provoeation, in vile and wantonly man
It ner; but it is sufficient for my purpose, tha
a the editor shrinks from answering, and trie
a to whistle it off through you. l took IL,
Y part between the papers and had your hon
e esty been equal to your vanity, you woul
i not have made that charge, for had yol
; given as much attention to the p"rual 0
my article, as you did to the composition o
n some of your silly sentences, you would hav,
Y learned how l know that the editor of tn,
r Messenger does not write the editorial fn
!
!. for that paper, for l stated that the foot
prints of certain pair of imps could be a
distinctly traced in its columns, as footprint
upon the sands Of the beach.
. Your demanding my name and antece
. dents, bctrays both weakness and an eyi
\ spirit, could You not answer plain facts with
out knowing the author3 There you show
ed your weakness. You wanted my name
and anteccdents that you might serve you
master by making personal attack OIL
me. There you showed your viciousness
l know you are said to be "Judge," bu
there is an appeal, your departure from th'
issue exhibits you as pettifogger.
! 1 will profit by your a.lmonition, now prof
it by mine. Mind your own business; neve
~ make a fool of yourself for the sake of be