The Nevada journal., 1858-08-13
To the Editor of the "National." :"

Dear George-Whcn we called YOU
attention to the manifold blunders com.
posing your salutatory land delicately in.
timated that the pitiful ignorance ofboth
composition and photography there dis
played proved you incompetent to
instruct even Lecomptonites, we hoped
yoa would be induced to examine the
structure Of the language you so mcrci-
lessly butchered, that your future vul-
garisms would at least be grammatical
~ arranged and properly spelled. But,
alas, George! you seem predestined to
disappoint both friends and foes, and to
write upon each page of the National
the single and only truth, that its editor
is an ass.
Its essential to the reputation Of a
writer. George! that be should have not
only ideas but sufficient acquaintance
with some language to express them.-
And there is an important precept which
seems never to have entered your crani-
um' George! that scurrility will no more
conceal ignorance than a coat of mud
will disguise hog.
AS one of your many blunders, take
Tue last line of your leader. You say:
When Chase made the assertion, or
when any man of ordinary intelligence
makes it, that Southern men control the
Democratic party of this State and hold
all the fat Offices, they utter what they
know to be false" To what does they re-
late-fat offices or Southern men?
But to another: "Chase dare not
deny saying to that gentlemen the above
statements" The elegance of this SEN
tence is only equalled by its proven
falsity.
In your next article, George! there is
delicate intimation to merchants to
forward you samples of their liquors,
and whatever credit you may be enti-
tied to for asking for whisky properly,
you lose it all in the next string of So
norous nonsense, labeled 'Broderickism.'
Take the poetical portion of this, read
ing: "In future, let it be taught our
children, not
The heights by great men reached and kept
Hare not attained by sudd en- fight
Blu; he while his companions slept
Was toiling upward in the night
Now, George if this unintelligible
mess is aquotation. you have convicted
yourself of incompetency TO even copy
correctly, and if original, it has the same
defects that characterize your prosy ef-
forts-absence of ideas and presence of
blunders
You finish the same dclectable article
by spelling 'Caliban' according to your
own dicticnssy. Now, George! we have
no ogjec.icu 70 yoar Illustrating abort
i've hnpadesee by reference 10 Caliban,
yourself. oy ~ othe- despicahle thing,
but - I iasiss, in the name of our much
abused mother sougue hat the words
should be properly spelled. Afte see
ing all these outrpges on the language,
George! the schoolmastei would search
long and closely 10 find a place large
enough to spank.
But George! there are portions of
your bantling that contrast strongly with
tho garbage around them. Your extracts
from the Nevada Journal contain truths
properly expressed, and had you a due
regard for Your unfortunate partisans,
You would make your future issues of
these extracts; for the shallow soil Of
your own brain, George! will be over
worke d in producing those weakly Ma
ttonals.
But, George! give us another issue
about half in italics; it looks so strou o.
Exhaust the little billingsgatc there is
left of you, and perhaps the people will
let you have the balance of "Rufe's"
clcrkship by and by.
Yours affectionately,
NEVADA.