The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1858-12-02

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The Editorial Corps Of the Civilian in
Ferment.
Ep Our good -natured allusion to one
or two, among the many hundred, mis-
takes, which we have observed in the
Civaian, has thrown big g Incubus"
little I" Incubus" and the whole corps
Of collcge-bred" editors of that delec-
table sheet, into state of violent acetic
fermentation. The effervescence is won
derful to behold, and the amount of filthy
scum thrown off, astonishing to all not
acquainted with the nature of the mate
rails thus thrown into action. These ma
terials were as varied as those used by
SHAKESPEARE witches in forming their
{" charm of powerful trouble" but seem
to have lacked the congruity which distin
guished the latter, because, nolwith-
standing the mixture has boiled and
bubbled," it yet lacks the power of pro-
ducing trouble where intended. There
was the eye of ignorance, nail Of malice,
tooth of jealousy, tongue Of interest,
and head of conceit, all thrown promis-
cuously together into the Civilian caul-
dron, but being stirred with the staff of
gross stupidity, have produced nothing
but nauseating compound of misera-
BILE lies, bastard wit, futile attempts at
sarcasm. a few just corrections, but
good deal of hypercrticism, an amusing
display of college-bred" learning, and
an insane attempt at ridicule. The man
who wrote Anologlcal' is an ass. He
who asserts that we have but ISL sub
scribers-or that we have not two thirds
more than the Civiiian, and nearly as
many as both the other papers combined
he who says that we ever said that the
Civilian "will have to be hauled over the
Goals - and he who says that we ever
wrote " If the people want more slave
states we win let them have them, "-each
and all, who make these assertions, are
contemplate liars. He who criticises the
expression "Jfend Of Slavery" as used
by us, displays his ignorance. We used
it as we would use the expression, if
speaking of himself, j" that ass of crit
ic;;" both would be proper, both true.
In criticising the expression "They are
bit the radiance that precedes the sun,
he simply shows his own stupidity. The
word "but" is used in the sense Of "on-
ly," and properly SO, as he will find BY
consulting Webster. All that he can
make by showing up the one gramma,i-
cal and two typographical errors, which
had been inadvertently overlooked by us,
he is welcome to. 1t will take dozen
more of such mistakes to equal either his
(" incubus or his I" Anological." Please
inform US. oh most pedantic graduate,
what you mean by an Anological Physi-
clan.
The young Brayer and Stabbcr" Of
the Ciailian, has doEe his proportion of
the braying this week. and threatens to
do the stabbing next This viii probably
be done by two or three hundred repeti-
tons Of the title of" Doctor" which he
so sarcastically applies to us. We hard
ly know more pitiable object than
this same thing of an editor. Com
ing into this village a Republican, he has
done nothing since but libel the princi-
pies he professed privately boasting
himself an inidel, he yet loses no oppor-
tunity publicly to slur his creed be-
lieying in the efficacy Of homeopathic
treatment, he yet seems to take great de
light in publicly applying to that system
expressions Of contempt last summer he
maligned one Of the forms of Methodist
worship, and since then, in hopes TO avert
the consequences OF such an unnecessary
and gross attack, he has cranled in the