The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1858-12-23

some Of your friends in a category
like that you would place Finley John
son in, by quoting scrap from BY
ron. .... ... ...
But, as before stated, we pass over
most of the communication to extract
the following:
ut is easy to call hard names
Anybody can cry mutton-head, min.
compoop, bIubber.head, ana almost
anybody can afford to be called by
any or all of these coarse, indecent
epilhcts by the Home Journal without
suffering injury, for it is not every one
that can injure by the use Of abusive
language. | learn. also, that Mr..
Slater is young and | am disposed to
regard his article in the light ofyouth.
fuI indiscrction. AS he grows older
think he will grow wiser ! have
much hope for him yet. He has a
good deal of sprighllness, and, with
proper training, will make a crcdita-
bic writer and print more creditable
paper. Even the little article already
written has had II good effect. lie
has taken "Finley's" advertisement
out, and hope that as the scales fall
from his eyes he will leave his other
productions out. This will be one i'm.
portant step. Then | wish him not to
have quite 50 much self in his col
umns. The ncighboring newspapers
compliment him occasion ,lly--he CO.
pies their remarks, and, by modest
disparagcment, "lishes" for still great
rr compliments. II a friend sends
him a box OF apples, or a young lady
boquet, to the one he devotes halt IA
column (Which would be much more
appropriately said in a letter. and for
the other he inserts divers pieces o!
poetry directed 'to her who will un.
dcrstand." Now, Mr.. Editor, to SEN
sibe persons this looks very ridicu-
Ious, and he ought to be told Of it.
His whole article to me is a sense,
less rigamarolc Of indecent and abu
sivr cpilhets, without force and with.
) out application, not deserving an ans
wer. The good Book says "answcr
not fool according to his folly lest
thou also he like unto him. hope
vet that judicious application OF adj
vice with example will make decent
editor of him. though much baldcr'
dash and not a little vainglorious self.
puilery viii have to be coaaed out OF
him. Neighboring editors arc lmpru
dent in speaking OF him as they dc
sometimes. 1t seems that they onl!
} have 10 rub aud praise hin little to
make him bray prodigons|y; hence
they ought to administer commcnda'
tion in broken doses
Now, we will give "N" a fair and
honorable answer to the above, and
: everything else he has written about
us. We will not say it in poetry OF
"doggrel," but in plan-out prose, and
and from the very depths OF oul
! heart.
Mr.. "X':--Wc decline any further
talk with a person who is so coward
r ", so pitful and so skuking as tt
screen himself under Il false sigma
!. ture. We do not know who you are
but we are disposed to surmise, and i
] the surmise should prove true, wei
= let out some things connected will
t your life which will place you in
, rather awkward condition. Nov
l we ask you this question: Are you
, gentleman? Do you consider your
2 sell such! If you do, we appeal t.
t YOU, as a gentleman, to give us you
true name. Poke your cowardly hea'
, from behind the tree and if we thinl
A it worthy of a shot, we'll waste ou
s ammunition on it. You ought to fec
mean, to use fictitious name ii
S which to write against US, while on
h name stands at the head of this pa
e per, and you are perhaps acquainted
r with our past life. You seem to know
;. us verv well, and every one, nearly
S who may read our articles, knows Q
h whom you write. But ue must writ
= against the insignificant letter, "A. =
e Now, sir, "nocns volens," unless yo
d let us know who you are-unless yo
[ come out like man, under your tru
t. signature, Just consider that we hav
|, no more to do with you, and consider
/ too, that if you be gentleman 20
will tell your name. We are in eal
If nest, and we defy you to tell you
e name. .-'..... ...........
s You say you are a regular reader
;. the Journal. We take it then as
n tacit admission that you are a subscr
p Der. Of course, if you are not sui
scribcr you would not read so regular
ly what another pays for, and whic
a is our labor, and of course you wouI
n not take the trouble to indite yor
S, abusive communications against u.s.
y Now, we've almost got you. We'y
5 scanned the names on our list, at yor
1t town. and most, if not all Of then
'e we find to be men with too much pril
'e clplc for US to suspect. New' ~