Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-03-08

will be as well, first, to notice few of
his improvements in propounding ques-
tions" and spelling, which appear in his
different efforts at witty smartness. and
that he may not be Misunderstood or
misrepresen,ed, l will quote from A
Little Criticism what he says relating
to the matter involved in the reference
The paragraph reads, &" From all appear
ances the good man was SO indignant at
my impudence in propounding three ques-
tions, &C. would inquire who ever
heard of question being asked or pro-
pounded. and ending with round 2
And yet we have 1st, End and 3rd, yes.
three IN a string, all terminating with
the same mark of punctuation, and that
too, by the very pink of cri,icism."-
Again, whenever and wherever the word
innuendo occurs in his public (but not
personally documents we find it .horn of
one of its letters. The substitution of
| period for an interrog alton point or the
absence of letter in a word, although
that word might be often repeated, l ac-
knowledge would be of small matter and
less consequence to an ordinary writer,
but for this analytic and synthetic ex-
FOUNDER and propounder of photography,
etymology, syntax and prosody, to indulge
in such Liberties is both strange and queer.
But as this is only the beginning, / will
read again: THAT he" (meaning, sup
pose, my very modest self) " forgot eve-
\ rything else, as the mathematcans would
| say, went off AT a tangent" What? |,
I" the good man. " went off AT a tangent ?"
Howe This may be good grammar, but,
if so, it is in awful bad taste. We will
proceed: " He," (meaning the Superin-
tendeat,) "exhausts " column of print in
invective against PERSONS who he mag
/ ines may be IDENTICAL WITH CITIzEN."
/ Verify this is poser to one who /" cannot
read and write the English language
properly or intelligbly." Our friend
CITIZEN undoubtedly understands it, and
that is sufficient. The tilt," it seems,
% is literary one," therefore ''to illus
trate, l will again "present few ex-
tracts, as the druggists say" We often
hear of soldiers presenting arms, but
really 1t is new to me, this presentation
of extracts. and that too by druggists; !;
still, suppose it is all right or CITIZEN
would not present them. l really
hope however, that he will not at some
future time, In some of his nocturnal ram
bles ''present" an ignited paper cannon
into my dwelling and thereby endanger the
lives OF my family, for it would not be be-
coming conduct in a United States officer.
l find have got little ahead of very
interesting passage, therefore | viii go
back and read: 50 But is a CASE of this
kind, &c." then he goes on with a lengthy
detail of his -" case," and then goes back
and connects what he starts as a question
with, 81 confess a conviction that 1t would
not be even unchristIan TO murmur a lit
lle.r Thus it reads: < But is a case of
this kind i confess, Sc" This must
be something more than execrable
grammar aud worse English" for no
man on earth beside CITIZEN can unravel
the double and twisted kinks that encom-
pass both grammar and English!
Perhaps, Messrs. Editors l have al
ready expended more words upon your
correspondent CITIZEN that the circum-
stances required yet, do not see, all
things taken into account that | could have
said less One thing is certain, that
however much may regret this personal
alteration, | have this to console me (;
I was not the aggressor. Had CIT-
IzES really desired information on the
subject of I" free schools" and their man.
agement, he should have visited them
and thereby exhibited citizens interes
in their internal as well as external work
incs. This he has not done, and have
vet to learn that he has ever made oul
+" free schools" the subject # his " secre
thoughts and private sympathies," or In
any way given the friends of public schoo
education any supposed" cause to think
that he had a care either good or bad
about them until he appeared in ,ht
{ TRIBUNE as an in,errogating and lnsInu
atiug impugner of the motives and officia
L conduct of the Board of Education, ant
because bis - in uendos" were treatet
: in a playful spirl. of irony and jest h'
gets hydrophobic mad, raves, rants an
t spouts " more cxecrable grammar an
worse English" than did any man eve
: before, who claimed the classic honors o
= leuered critic II. VAN DUSEN-
e EE RED Jacket, an Indian Chief {