Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-13

dishonest part you have acted. It looks
to. me as though you were in such hurry
to get the letter into type, that you got
into sort of fZz, and went off half
cooked. This opinion is confirmed by the
fact that the issue for that week was only
a half sheet. But, really, William, your
faying machine must be i'll desperate bad
order; for, 'pOn honor, my cuticle ''aint
fetched" auywherc-not even grained; it
is sound as rock. suppose YOU hadn't
skinned anybody for good while, and
you machine was out of order, and want
ed .!ilc"
You think, William, that reflected upon
the readers of the Trginjun. If mistake
not, you did so first yourself When l
asked you to publish n true statement in
regard to matter which had been repre-
sented all over the country, in manner
false as He'll itself, you were clearly of
opinion that it would not interest your
readers in the least, to hear my explana-
tion-thus virtually saying that lie
would suit them better than the truth.
After this demonstration on your part, /
came to the conclusion that had been
mistaken in the character of both your
paper and yourself; and hence WAS driven
to make application to the Editors of the
Intelligenccr, who, entertaining more fa-
vorable opinion of their patrons, publish
ed it without hesitation.
Mister Drinkhard, must have heen toll
erhbly hard run for capital, when he refer
red to private note and few mis-spelled
words that crcpt into my letter to that dis
tinguished, hypercritical parsonage. As
do not wish to sail under false cOlors, ]
freely confess that my scholarship is sleu-
der; especially so, compared with that
prodigy of learning, that walking encyclO-
pepn. that acute critic, that profound
philologist, that good speller, whose name
heads and adorns this article. All the ed
ucation l ever received was in Marion
county, in an old-fashioncd country school;
but limited as it is, it has enabled me thus
far, to conduct my business honorably,
and now affords me the means of admins
tering well mcrited drubbing to a pisywl
t0aIy But, defective as is my literary
training, it is not so entirely wanting as is
the moral training of this learned cOmmcn-
tator, 1t is not, at best, very small
business for an editor of such brilliant en-
dowments as he of the True Tir9iniGn, to
hunt up the petty discrepancies in the or
biography of an 'unlcttcred bOor?'-
"Unlettered boor"-I thank thee, jew, for
teaching me that word.
With respect to the fling that am
sympathiser with John Brown, have TO
tinctly, that that kind of talk has so uni
versalIy become the common slang of low
flung Democratic dcmagogucs, that it is
deserving only of silent contempt.
Mister Drinkhard imagincs my regret
that didn't let him alone. Why, Will
liam, bless your soul. didn't edo nuthin
to yer, and if had, should have no oc-
casion in the world to he sorry for it. lie
is '.thc most peaceable man in the world"
and would like to agree with everybody
Stick to that, Mister Drinkhard. Remcm-
Der, ''Peacc hath its victories no less re-
nowned than War" Besides, Peace Is not
half so dangerous as the grim visaged gem
tleman: so, upon the whole, l would re-
commend you to be Pcaceable and behave
Yourself. 1t is best for some people to do
so. But, mind me, don't you talk TO me
about peace when you're putting in your
very best liclis! but when attacked,
says William, "wc generally try to bear
OurScif so that our adversary may learn TO
fall on us no more. We support those
who support us, and fight those who fight
us''-we does2 There nOw-but who's
afcard? William, you are quite right
there; and always do You hang to that =
when there is no possible chance of get
ting away from fight, either by speed or
strategy, then remember it is your duty to
"pltch m
In pcace there's nothing so becomes man
As modest stiffness and humility.
But then he goes on to say. that when
the blast of war blows, and there really
is fighting to be done, that you, William,
should stiffen up your sincws, also your
upper lip; that you should let your eyes
pry through the portage of your head, like
brass cannon; likewise let your thumbs
pry into the eyes of your adversary; that
YOU should clench your fists. hold your
breath and grit your teeth hard, and finally
when you're ready, Go IN Lemons! This
reminds me of the nneciotc of an Irish
saw-miIl; the powers of its machinery
were such, that it took thirty hands to
tend it, and every time the gate fell it kill
led man. Now, whether you obeyed, in
the fight in which you have recently been
engaged, III! the injunctions OF your illus
t.ous namcsake, cannot say, but consid-
ering your pluck, you've ''fout' right
good fight. But the grave, the momen-
tous question after all is, be you the up
per dog" or the ''under dog in the fight?
Or, don't YOU wish, on the whole. that you
were 'the little lame pup that wasn't
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