White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1860-10-04

ANOTHER sourRT.-Last weeks Holt
County News has another physic from
the Assistant Breckinridge Electorl This
time he comes less aourishingly, drop
ping portion of his name. and appear
ing as simple livery simple) "Brick
Toppe." It will do to print
MR. MnLxR-Sir Allow me the use
of your aneedote. Instead of fool. I put
it liar. Draw your inference. I prefer
private, to public communications. You
understand. Your Ob't Sev't,
BRICK TOPPE.
P. 8. Iwould say, in this connec.
ton. that in alluding to Mr.. O., Of For.
est City. l did 80 without any authority
from him. The event referred to, was
told me by divers persons. and 1 use it
Is public property. I would regret ex-
ceedingly to implicate any one in diff
Guilty Of mine, for any reason and now
especially for one so tribual. ! can de-
fend myself. D. T.
There it is, principally postscript
like "Brick Toppe" himself. all tho
weight at the lower end! We accept his
amendment. He desires to change our
anecdote, by substituting liar for fool.
The reader will please take last weeks
Chief. turn to the "Squirt" article, and
substitute liar where it reads fool /; then
he will have "Brick Toppe's" estimate
of himself. That's the inference we draw!
Now, amt his communication sock
dologer? He is the same young man
who pompously declared, only tho week
before. that benceforth hc didn't care
what wc might say about him. He now
prefers private Communications What
. pity he didn't think of that, before he
put his foot into it, and exposed his meth
er parts-the region of his brain But
there is deep significance in his words
-"I prefer private to public communi-
cations. You understand" There is
something mysterious. portentous, terri
flying, in those two brief sentences-some-
thing smacking of Ch;ualry. At any
rate. VIC arc beginning to be frightened,
at q venture! Now, the best thing that
young "Brick Toppe's" grandma could
do for him. would be to take him home,
spank him, and have one of those mig
gers put clean "hippin" on him! As
to his communications, in addition to our
belief in the old adsge that "evil COM
munications corrupt good manners" we
have only this to say: He has rendered
himself liable to be sent to the peniten.
tiary, and if he receives his just deserts,
there be Will go. Whether he be con.
victed, or acquitted by packed and per-
jured jury. honorable people will regard
him in the same light. Therefore, we
cannot consent to degrade ourself by far
ther bandying words. either publicly or
privately, with q penitsntiary convict i!
Do you understand
In conclusion. we copy the following
card from the last Forest City Courier.
The gentleman referred to last week, rel
ishcs the dragging of his name into per-
sonsl controversies precisely as VIC sup
posed he would; and the young man who
"can defend himself" and who regrets
having implicated another person in q
matter so "tri6ual!" (good gracious
school teacheri lawyer! Breckinridge
Elector has had to back water. Per-
haps he will not hereafter be so eager to
retail the fabrications of meddlesome gos.
sips. whose regard for truth is less than
their desire to see young man of eek
treme adolescence" las the News recently
so tenderly described him) get himself
into pickle:-
A: R. CoHxLlN-Dear Sir If 1 am
the person referred to in Mr.. Bing. Trigg's
article in the Holt County News of date
Sept. 2l, 1860, I must say that 1 have
no quarrel with Sol. Miller, and did not
authorize Mr.. Trigg nor any one else to
use my name in any matter of controver-
81 or difficulty. Respectfully,
JAMES r. CAMPBELL. I