The Nevada journal., 1858-08-06
For the Nevada Journal.
That SalutatOrY.

"At the request of number" (0OOO1
"of our friends" (save us from them,
"we have assumed" (the lions skin was
"the responsibilities" (can't perceive
them) "of the publication" (you or the
Devil !'') "of this paper, and in doing
SO" assuming or publishing y "we car
truthfully say" with singular sensa.
tion) "that no object has prompted" Gan
object ne, er prompts) Gus to enter the
field ofpublic favor as a journalist "(don't
explain you'll never enter that field
on such garbage-cart as the Nevada
Nationally "save that of a great princi.
pie" Ia sardine and the segment of a
loaf)
Pardon the travesty, George You
say you ask no favors. but really 1 am
comforting one, when 1 whisper in your
ear that those friends of whom you
speak have wheedled you into the fool
isll predicament of the vain Jackdaw.
The bastard feathers will be plucked
from your diminutive corpus, George
and when at the close of the campaign.
you shall essay to re-enter the circle of
your quondam companions, they will
give you cold reception, and charge
their defeat and the fading away of Con.
gressional visions, to the miserable inef-
fciency of their Party Organ.
These are the promon itions of truth
and forethought, George /! and though
you may disregard them now, they will
fash upon you with startling vividness
in the dark day of political reckoning
when you come to "pale" your "ineffec
tual fire" amid such full-orbed 7umina-
ries as the eloquent Dryden and the
chattering Stonehll.
George ! Politics is quagmirc. You
have ventured upon its dangerous bo-
som without chart or compass. You are
standing upon single plank. You are
clinging for support to 4 ST litary straw
a suicidal and blind adherence to the
misguided policy of the Administration
upon one of the great, fundamental
principles of Republican Government
a principle which the ballot-box of Kan
sas will declare, in trumpet tones, to be
sacred and inviolable.
And George, hearken just as GER
tainly as that you are the reputed foun-
tain of the fetid stream of rodomontade, e,
billingsgate and balderdash which cour-
ses through the columns of your brain
less bantling, just so surely will the nat
ural oscillations of the marsh remove
that plank and snap that straw, and
leave you to straggle, unaided and alone,
through the mire of political heresy and
the slime Of party infdelity.
George conglomeration of terms
and epithets such as "unprin cipled bol-
ters", "agitators," "tricksters," "treas-
enable dcmagogues, "fanatical odds
and ends" and "tailings," however apt
ly they may represent your own refined
ideas fpropriety, elegance and taste,
will never convince the advocates Of
Popular Sovereignty that you are not
temporizing, time-serving parrenu, or
that Congress has right to interfere
with the people of Kansas in the estab-
lishment of their own domestic institu-
tions.
And George trust that your natu-
raj shrewdness will not lead you to re-
taliate by saying that this article con-
tains exceptionable language, as, in
that event, | shall enter at once the plea
of confession and avoidance" and con-
tend that it is the very essense of true
gentility that I should address you in,
what seems TO be, your own vernacu-
lar.
George you are not only very in
ferior writer, but you are likewise, mis-
cradle bungler at both rhetoric and
grammar.
Take, for example, the opening SEN
tence of your salutatory, and, with
due respect to the names of Murray and
Kirkham, show me, if you please, the
grammatical sense or connection of the
word doing" which occurs in the third
line.
Pass on to the following sentence
"And so long as the Democracy shall
carry along with it the immutable and
positive political principles inscribed up
on its hanner, so often unfurled over
fields victorious, to make great coun-
try and the heart of a nation beat with
joy"