The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1861-09-07
permit him to open bis mouth or to use his

/. That there exists IN the Quaker City an
such feeling as that limited at by the n
famous importation alluded to. l doubt
deny! That community which welcomed
me to her bosom, would repeat the pro
scrip.ion, which l suffered in Secessia
merely because | have not resided here I
major part of my life, is an absurdity. which
could emanste only from the prolific con
cei, of an editorial empiric, whose politica
proclivites are fas, rising to the surface and
incommoding the olfactories Of its loya
readers That sheet, which attacks ths
Government in its greatest extremity, and
threatens "co7iision' between the "Repub
lican masses" and that Government
should, in the same issue, single out as al
object Of assault. my humble SELF is sub
ject Of SELF Equalization on my part. con
sijer it as an evidence of mans SCUM dness
and loyalty to be attacked by the Broadaxe
after its egotistical, abusive and incendiary
editorials Of the 18th and 31st ultimo. The
unsoundness Of the Broakaxe is now patenl
upon its own printed pages. and it attack
. as dangerous, to its corrupt designs. mar
whose every word aud act are uncondition-
ally loyal to the supremacy Of the Govern.
ment.
Ii the gentleman" who wrote the per-
sonal article alluded to. considers / have
not lived here long enough to defend my.
self from his aspersions. he had better pre-.
vent me--if he can ! IF he thinks have
no. lived here long enough to address pub
lie meeting and offer series Of resolution 8.
he had better not insult the intelligence OF
this community by putting his tomfoolery
in print.
For q man to become heated with
misplaced rage and say things offensive is
bad enough; but for fellow. merely be-
cause he happens to preside over the col
umns Of newspaper, to keep his wrath
bottled up for whole week. in order to
loyal citizen. IS too Bad and + ssfs sepa.. sf g
the same tribunal of public opinion, which
ne has sought. and repel. in as public a
manner as the libel was alleged, the mean
attack which has been made upon my lib
erty IF speech. and my rights as citizen of
these United S,a,os
l would have been a. a los. ~.
conjecture why Meataxe should have
made so many misrepresentation of my
h-.--As- --lf. h.a i. nos h--- S-- Aha follow
ing ow-Aung and characteristic attack,
" hich occurs In the same issue of his sin-
gular paper:
eve will venture the opinion that the
who penned the editorial article
in the Palladium, las. week. is possessed of
more impudence and effron,ery than pro-
fessional oeggsr, and. if this community
viii give him rope enough. he will soon
hang himself. He has no reputation Of his
own. and is endeavorng to live on that of
another, notwithstanding that other is in
rather low repu,e in this section just now.
The fact that he aras the partner Of so and
so, which he invariably announces on all
possible occasions. this is ,chopper! will
hardly carry him through. Brains are a
necessary thing (you'I fnd that out. Broad
axe. to your cost! an ingredient his con
stitu,ioo does not possess"
From the words italicised gather that I
am the "individusl' alluded to- admit
''brains" to be necessary thing;" l have
always supposed, too that truth is a 'neces-
sary thing;" bu. in Broada1e I find neither
The one nor the other. Instigated to fury
by mere suspicion, he first attacks me as
he author Of a piece nerer acrote. and
about the authorship OF which l know alb
solutely nothing. and then misrepresents my
public course aud misstates resolutions
.rhfcb did ,crise I never considered the
Brozdaxe worthy of an attack; deny hav-
ing written the editorial in the Palladium"
alluded to, and which has put Mes take into
such rage, that he wants to make sausages
Of every body in general and the writer of
the said editorial in particular. admit.
that Ike my maligner. l have no long
standing reputation to lose;" but. | can
inform him that l have reputation to
make, and reputation at stake. and
I uu1 mot BE- deferred by my short resi-
asnce here from guarding the roots Of that
reputation from the incisive strokes Of the
Broadaxe. in whosesover hands il may be
welded. Recommending TO his repen .ant
the old adage that children
should not handle edged TOOLS proIaise
him that the rebound of his axe will be more
fatal than the blow, when brainless false
hood aims the stroke aud riots in the deed.
II the "Meataxe of Prescription" is
it ought henceforth to be called-consider
it has shown its "5rains." doubt whether
the quantity or qialisy has gained great
celia. Try again. Axeman. but sharpen
your tool with the Damascus Of Truth, and
be sure. next time, TO chop some individual
who is unable 10 defend himself from your
brutality.
Leaving others to !" finish " you in