The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-09-24
natural History.

It is commonly reported and believed that
the Lion-tbe Kingof bruIes, is attended on
his hunting excursions by couple of Jack
alls. who run down the game, help to kill
| it. and then stand off at respectable dis
lance while his Majesty gorges himself up
| ON the choicest morsels--after which tkey
fall to and devour the fragments. Those
Jackalls are very well hammered and well be-
haved animals.
We mean no offense TO them when wesug
gest comparison between them and the
editors of the Lawrence Herald and Tepe-
ka Tribune. We beg pardon of the Jack
aIls in advance for making such compari-
SON. We agree with Dogberry that :'com-
parsons are odorous.'' but still they are
necessary.
The Elk Brigadier General of the Border
Ruffian. Kansas Militia. Gen. Ea.lin, edit
or of the Leavenworth Herald, has started
out on his grand fall hunt, and behold, G.
w. Brown and j. F. Cummings are the
things that go out before him to run down
the game and make themselves generally
useful at he killing time And who is the
game they are anxious TO run down at
the bildlng of Gen. Eastin Why Mar
Gus J. Parrot, to be sure.
And what is the provoeation Mr.. Par
rott has given them? Why simply this:
When Lawrence was besieged and Browns
life and press in danger from Gen. Esstin
and Lis crew of Border Ruff1an Militia,
Marcus j PARROT shouldered arms and
marched to the rescue and defense. When
Free State men were arrested, indicted and
imprisoned by the hundred on false and
trumped-up charges in the Border Rufian
Courts, presided over by Judge Jefries,
Lscoaapts. and S;roggs g. Cato. Parrot.
was always ready ana willing to volunteer
for their defense. Now he is to be hound
ed down by such ours as these "Indepen-
dent Editors" who bark and run at the bid
ding of Gen. Eastin, and his particular
friend Judge Johnson. We begged pardon
of the Jackalis, but we need not of the
ours for the comparison-for ours wi IL run
and bark at the bidding of those who whip
and feed them. And surely those indie
pendent Editors have been both whipped and
fed by their new masters. We know of
but one word that can express truly the
contempt We feel for such creatures, and that
is term not to be mentioned to ears po-
lite. However. it is sanctioned by no less
a master of pure English than Horace
Greeley. 1t is related on good authority
that during the long and desperate strug-
gle in Congress whi@h resG lied in the cleo
ton of N. P Blnks, as Speaker of the House
of Representatives. Greeley's righteous and
ardent soul was sorely vexed at the vacilla-
ton, treachery and sel6shness of certain
few who were elected to their seats by Anti
Nebras ka or Republican votes, but still, day
after Cay, and week after week, kept bobbing
around among various candidates instead of
coming square up to the work MN fashion.
AT times Greeley's patience and philosophy
became completely exhausted at their con-
duct, and as he paced his room at the Ma
tional Hotel with awkward strides and de-
ncunced the paltrv wretches for their heart
less traclery, which put in jeopardy the
Freedom of Kansas and the best interests
of the country and the human race, he
finally taperedi down his comments upon
their conduct to the single exclamation
Poor b--tches !'' Poor b-tches % which
he continued to repeat again and again
as the nearest approximation to the terms
expressing their baseness. S, with us
When w take up the so-called Herald IF
Freedom and the Topeka Tribune and read
column after column of their vilainous and
venal stuff intended to injure The men and
the measures of the Republican party, and
to build up on its ruins the very Rufianism
TO which they were So nj 81 proving mar
tyrs--we can but echo the language of
Greeley, and exelaim from the very bottom
of our soul,-"Poor b-tehes ~ Poor
b-tches !''i