The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-02-13
From the Nashville Patriot.
ScWanec--''Warren" Again.
DEcnERD, Feb. /, 1858.

DECHERD, rcD. i, looo'
Editors Of The Patriot :-"Warren'
IS out again, and although he does not
touch Sewanee, he comes very neal
killing me--not by his arguments by
any means, but by the advantage he
took OF me on the score of "old wo-
men," SO completely did he take me
down on that point that ! was at first
tempted to believe that he had called
some old blue stocking to his assistance,
and was ready to take off my hat
and surrender at discretion; but then
again | concluded that he was cer-
tainly too generous to take such an ad-
vantage as that Of poor fellow-man,
and have determined to give him an
other fight.
am not surprised that he is tired Of
a newspaper controversy, but it is GER
tainly very strange that he should COM
plain of epithets after making use Of
the term imbecile in the connection
he did. Probably, if he had listened
more earnestly to his mama he would
not have belittled himself so much
as to make use Of an expression that
CRATES so harshly on the hearts olmen.
| have one retraction to make--l told
you in my former article that he was
Il Solomon; but, when | see that after
calling a great and good man an i'm
becile, he turns around and says he is
willing to hear him expound a text,
am constrained to conclude that he is
laboring under some kind of mental
alteration. But | wish you to under
stand that although do not non think
him q Solomon, yet | think he has some
kind Of martness, which is evinced
by desire not to prolong the discuss.
ion, and also by the evident inclination
he manifests to practice the virtue of
silence.
He has undergone one important
change since he favored the world
with his first great article. He then
wrote in such a grandiloquent style
that ordinary mortals would readily
imagine that there was some relation
between him and Jupiter on Olympus
ruling the Gods-he wrote SO much
like he was some great Bishop Adviser
seated on Ben LoMoND calling the bish.
ops together to point out their course
of action. But in his late article he
seems to have iogotten his high mis-
sion; he terminates his article by say
ing that if "They choose toavail them
selves Of such (hisD knowledge very
well, ifnot still very WE'LL" what fall
ing off is there
He says do not deny the existence
Of the NIilksick poison in the vicini-
ty Of Sewanee. | do deny there hay
Ing occurred single case in that Vi
cinity during my residence in il, and
persons whose acquaintance with the
country is of longer duration than
mine, deny the occurrence of case
for mnch longer time. and The non-
Of the disease is the stron-
gest possible proof Mut the poison does
not eTist.
But he has something to say about
the surroundings of the Tunnel. Let
us hear what others say:
"This is to certify that have been
living within one mile and a half of
the Jesse Pelham place for thirty-nine
years, and | never knew a cow to die
with mik-sickness, and | have never
seen any skeletons on the margin or
branch of the spring near that place -
given under my hand and seal.
J. +. ANDERSON.
February lst, 1858.
"This is to certify that | am a SON
in-law of JAMES CowAN, and that |
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