The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-01-06
" Junior,s'' Personal Matters.

his paper of December 23l, 1868,
again pays his respects to us in a two
column article. His preface shows clear
ly one fact, that we had more than sus-
pected heretofore, viz: that he is happy
in the possession Of a most fertile imagi
nation-an Imagination equaling that Of
JAMES, or REYNOLDS, or SYLvANrs CoBB,
or any other of the noted writer's of fic.
lion-and that it is only his meagre abil
! ity which prevents him from becoming
famous as manufacturer of stories.
Juniors imagination has led him to
believe that the Civiiian-that shee: of
can unopproachuJle character"--has
whipped us out--csused us to s'bacaa
down"-and made us crawl through a
very small hole" in order to escape utter
humiliation. 1t is rather pretty mag
mary castle that Junior has conjured up,
but unfortunately as is the case with all
such editices-a peculiar mental state is
requisite in order to discern it, and so
far, no one but himself has been brought
into that pleasant condition, and conse-
quently, no one else sees what is appa-
rent to himself
We hardly like to dissolve the "airy
fabric" which Junior has built, and
bring him back to uninyiting,. disagree
able actualities, but just regard for his
welfare impels us to disturb him, and to
show him that it is not real edifce-
that it is superstructure without a foun-
dation-that it is a mere mental delu-
sion-a creation of fancy-a vision seen
through the media of desire, hope and
expectation. We must insist that it can :
not exist compatible with existing facts
in view of the obstinate, hard headed
reality that every assertion made by us,
every position that we have taken, stands
unrefuted, unassaulted, unassailable-
The great Ciuiltan's critics criticisms
have been criticised and demolished, and
not a charge, or an assertion, that we
have made, remains unsustained. 1t is
true we have acknowledged that in point
of scurrility, the editors of the Ctviiian
have surpassed us, but they must recol-
lect that we made no pretensions in that
conneclion-it was an honor we never
disputed with them-and consequently
has no bearing in the premises.
There is no necessity for US to follow
Junior through his personal explanations,
for they are in every sense admissions of
our positions. On the question of Re
pub,icanism, we want, however, to make
a remark in reference to the false con-
struction that he puts upon sentence
used by us. When we said that Junior
had told gentleman that the reason he
voted for Fremont was that he thought
him better democrat than Buchanan,
we did not give the assertion us evidence
of Juniors Republlcanism, but simply
as proof that he did vote for Fremont
because that fact, when established, was
direct contradiction Of his assertion
that he had always been supporter of
the principle of the Kansas Nebraska bill.
No man could have voted for the candi-
date of the Philadelphia convention, and
still have supported the principles of that
bill.
He refers to Judge TABOR, in proof of
his political position. The Judge states
emphatically that he always regarded him
as a Republican when they were together
in the Civilian Office.
"Junior" tries hard to relieve himself
of the onus Of that fraud upon the county
Treasury in the publication of the tax
list, and to do SO, makes some statements
as false as others are ridiculous. He adj
mits that bonus" as he calls it, was
paid by tie county to the proprietors of
the Civilian, but says that that is Gus
tomary. This is not so. The proprie-
tors of the Civilian published their adj
vertising prices. This was a contract
to do work for certain sum. They had
no right to charge sla3 more than their
contract, after the work was performed.
To do so can be called by no other name
than dishonesty. Such jobs are profit
able enough at legal rates, and no bonus
is ever asked, or should be paid, for their
performance.
Junior searched long and anxiously at
the Court House for something that
would convict us Of unfair dealings with
the county, but falling in that attempt,
he takes method OF his own to arrive at
the desired result-another evidence of
the fertility Of his imagination. He as
sumes that we, too, received bonus for
publishing the Tax List last year. and
uses the following brilliant and ingenious