The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-08-05

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l militant nuet be tMcel uncomfortable lhtNr Ia
manage. just 10 think that the nctnt Of ever,
| paragraph must be pistol THAT every person.
Atty Involves powder l--&AAs che s,iRhtess ain
Of the pen may he followed by shots l.-lhat The
penalty OF reckleseness mus. be the revolserl--
that oil your fun, criticism and personal iMvee.
live must lead 10 eane, percussion cApe and ball
| cartridgcsl The luxury Of editing paper un.
der such circumstances in New York would be
tootstep heard upon the stairs 70 be INA,
Of an assassin. We should be obliged 10 write
with rife at our side, eix shooter In our
pocket and a bowie-kniie between our teeth,
We ehoOld think II 70 be our duty 10 nut on 40.
ctet armor, like the FIRST aud les. Napoleon. We
should proceed ct once to fOrtify the Office, Tn.
on one side Paixhan gun should grin horribly
up Nassau street at The 1lerald--upon the other
. like instrument Of death should terriN the
discontented deniEens Of Spruce street. We
should keep bull dogs with the squarest chops
and the shortest tails always ~ the door. There
should be . man trap At every landing place.
We would have sentinels and watchwords, and
al that sort Of thing. In Short We should 70 in
for war, and fight il out with as much alacri,v
% u We were after Gen. JAckson's golden tobac.
90 box.
Should it ever be our fortune to conduct
newspaper in Louisville. Kentucky, (which the
rates forefend y all these precautions will at
once be adopted BY 10. We cannot think of
printing oiiice in that place without q moat.
draw-bridge, portcullis, bastion and rampant
We should expect Ut least every other sarcasm
to lead to q siege, and should lay in our proven.
dee accordingly. Those who think such precau.
tons would be unnecessary ought TO read the
accounts Of the great Prentice and Durrett mon.
which have recently occupied go large
space IN the daily newspapers. We have pc
rused them with reverence and with awe. We
have always supposed Mr.. Prentice to be sue
cessful Joker OF jokes" Who has not heard O
wished that it was really the last ? Behold the
funny man transmogrifed into fighting man
See The punster pugnaciOus! How this meta.
norph0sis occurred, we can relate in a very few |
Eords. certain Mr.. Elliott is running for Con. |
gress in Kentucky, upon the Buchan nan interest.
Prentice, with light and elegant pleasantly, de-
,lared that the said Elliott was an unreformed,
nebriate Unfortunately given to whisky skins and
other beverages of like nature. Upon this The
Louisville Courier resorted to the arg. dd hon.,
and made very distinct illusions to the bacchan-
ianpropensities OF Mr.. Prentice. He had been
seen in mellow condition in the streets of
Louisville. He had been noticed awaiting him
self Of the legs OF his friends, his being past
service. Therefore, as The Courier with show
OF justice, argued it did not lay in the boots and
breaches OF Mr.. Prentice to taunt any man with
alcoholic indulgences'
TIE reply of Mr.. Prentice to this charge fills
us with admiration Surprising a cert lin Mr.
Durrett to be the author OF the accusation he
wrote an agreeable billet dour to that gentleman
morning him that II he would be at certain
corner at certain hour, it would give Mr.. Prem
ice the utmost satisfaction to shoot him. Our
'wn way woI,d have been to keep clear of that
'artiesiiar corner. We never were shot; but
'ur impression, derived from observation and
eadlng, IS, that the violent entrance of a leaden
by pain. We suppose, however,
hat Mr.. Darrett had his little idiosyncracy, and
'as the victim of mononana for being shot
1t any rate, he went to the given corner at the
,iven hour. Prentice was there, and popped At
rs foe, who in his turn popped at Prentice.
hey made targets of each other for some time,
nut neither was hit. Each gentleman was no
loubt actt0ted by a benevolent desire to send
he other to the shades; but each, agitated by
rs emotions, took very bad aim. poor Mr.
iinkle, who had an Office on the corner, hearing
he pistols and the wtizzing of the bullets, got
Up to shut his door, and while doing SO received
pumbeous deposit in the calf OF his leg. Was
here ever such a ridiculous blunder? 1t was of
curse necessary to shoot somebody but why
Sould poor Mr.. Hinlle be made the victim
The wrath of Prentice and Durrett was great, but
Shy should HinAie be made burnt Offering to
lppease it? However, after this innocent man
vas shot, the champions had the good sense to
uspend their explosions for the time. More
etters, however are passing between them.
)urrett with great consideration, has invited
'rentice to go to some unfrequented place and
AXE another bout at popping. lie justly Links
hat this pastime should be so pursued as not to
nperii the lives OF innocent persons Prentice
ep'ies that he has such an utter absolute, over
contempt for Durrett, that he does
ot consider that person worth shooting. It
;" says Mr.. p, benevolently and generously,
perfectly immaterial to me whether your life
: taken or not Here is magnanimity which
re think We should appreciate, were we the foe
4 Mr. Prentice. We hope that he will be guided
y the same rule should anything in this article
rove offensive to him. 1t may be "perfectly
to him whether our life is taken or
OF, but it is not perfectly immateral to us.