The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-09-26
To Ethen Allen Higgins,

bHAh hih '--IlaNlllg rCau your article referring
to the tailor permit him to thank you for the gener-
Gus and condesccnding manner in which you advert
ed to his trade, his motives and capabilities You
are incorrect in your statement of his motive to
writing the article published in the ,Jounol Of the
9th. His remarks in it were wholly promised on
your statements and assumptions in your paper of
the preceding week you will therefore please
not implicatc the Journal therein. Whether your
business transactions with -Nr. Bailey are such
as you, in his situation, would deem honordJle
is for yourself to determine. Your oracular
advice and warning have deeply impressed
his mind. As a tailor he humbles himself fer
his presumption in attacking an editors; and though
you have wounded him with his shears and over
thrown him with his goose, yet he feels there has
been mercy in the punishment. The same hand
which flung the goose could have thrown that
terrible bomb !" which would have annihilated
him who has attempted to destroy others, and now,
dixie the Australian Boomerang, is in II fair way of
using up Its own motive power. o, that terrible
bomb! In your deliheation of his character YOU
display wonderful discrimination. lie would, as Il
consequence, esteem your appointment rs assistant
to Professor Fowler, to be a national blessing Your
exquisite sense of moral propriety; your utter dis
like of all tTickSters and dishonest politicians, in
connection with the tangible demonstration Of
phrenology would at all times make your opinion
the criterion by which men for Office could be Sc
lected
From the paronzing air you breathe, the tailor is
fearful your recent elevation in the State Senate
has beWildercd your imagination. 1t is possible
you consider yourself heir apparent to the Kingdom
of Cork; if So allow him to say to you, your pat
ronagc in the past has not been the most profitable,
and he does not expect to grow fat over it in the
future.
The balance of your article is so full of the mod
esty which conscious greatness imparts that it is
necessary to quote it entire for the benefit of future
Solon's who may dictate laws to the ignorant You
say: "Hc makes a coat very WELL because that is
II task perhaps not beyond his ability, but when he
attempts to mcdde with politics he at once gets
into water beyond his depth, and we sincerely adj
wise him to stick tc his shears and goose, and to
avoid hereafter interfering in that which does not
concern him." Now the tailor is bold to say that
there is not man in Wood county, who in such
few words can ventilate large an amount of self
conceit, contemplate dctation and silly imperti-
nencc, as his friend Higgins has done in this para
graph. Has the time really arrived when Mr.
Senator Ilammonds doctrine of the nudsill has to
enforced? Are we to be told that as mechanics, as
farmers, and as laborng men, we are incapable of
understanding the system of government under
which we live? Are we to be told that we have no
right to meddle in the administration of this gov
ernment? h? The system of government may and
ought to be understood by every citizen. Even 6
tutor has right in it equal to editor, lawyer or
the manager Of a panoramic exhibition.
The editor does not disparage the tailor by his
silly reference TO the implements of trade The
sur falls on the meanness of his motive.
Permit him TO ask the editor whose system of po-
litical economy he has studied? is it Bentham's,
Malthus, Malte Drun, Mills or Wayland's? Who's,
political teachings does he follows it that of JEFF
ferscn, John Quincy Adams, Clay or Webster p
The tailor apprehends he knows but little of the
one, and certainly does not initiate the others. No
sir, the profound depths to which you refer has no
existence in our system of government or abstract
edly in the details of its administration. The
prOiundity and the depth exists in the modus ope-
randi by which office and its emoluments may be ac-
quircd. In this sense the tailor acquiesces in your
opinion of his ineompetency, and does not again
desire to test the depth of your political puddle
From your readiness to give advice he is assured
although it he for tailor, you will cheerfully ac-
cept the same. When you apply the mcrosc ,pe of
your keenlv Percepdye organs to the character of
your ncghbols for analyzation and exposure, see
to it that there are no spots on its surface Exam
inc carefully your motives, and be guarded by facts
mot by desire. Don't allow yourself to think that
widom was born with you and that political honesty
and an enlightened civization would perish should
you die The affairs of this great country progress
cd previous to your acquaintance with it, and the
belief exists that should you withdraw from it, its
progress would not be retarded
With the assurance that his shears shall at all
times be ready to clip your logic, and the goose on
hand to press articles of your manufacture. the
writer begs leave to subscribe himself as your
faithful friend and brother, The TAILOR.
PoNnnanf Of III 2-o sr, IL