The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-01-01
4 Little More Of Bomtastic Lorenzo

4 Little More OF i}omtastic Lorenzo,
e. LORENZO is evidently hard pres
sed for new terms whorewith to keep up
the controversy so bombastically com
menced by him. AS long as his slang
and epithets hold out, he evidently i'm
AGNES that he is powerful severe, but
when they fail him he loos0s confidence,
His memory is charged with a certain
quantity Of bllingsgate, and when that
is exhausted you have got pretty much
all there is OF Bombastic but his hair
and whiskers. Sometimes, after good
deal of brain work, he conjures up an
original expression, but it Is sure to bear
evidence of his intellectual shallowness
An instance Of this is found in his last
article, in which he calls us the inctpi
! em little editor" Webster having de-
fined the word +" incipient' TO mean
4" beginning" or " commencing" makes
| this expression of Lorenzo's very SEN
sible and intensely sarcastic one.
Lorenzo don't like it because we did
not let his lies go uncontradicted. We
hardly thought that our article would
please him. We know he much prefers
to tell his stories when and where refu
tation is not permissible, as is apparent
from the way in which he has endeayor-
ed to keep all replies to his articles out
of the Civilian. But so long rs Lorenzo
continues to lie about us, so long must
he expect to have the falsehoods pinned
upon him. Unfortunately the disease
has become chronic with him, and we
fear that only long and severe treatment
can cure him.
Bombastic shows his great Immature
and total lack of deeency more plainly
than ever in his attack upon Messrs.
DOMAIN and INGALLS, because they found
it necessary-as Mr. DoSNAN has more
than once before--to show Lorenzo how
he has lied. One of these gentlemen he
belabors because he is orthodox, and the
other because he is skeptical Verify
Lorenzo is hard to suit But il is GER
tainly amusing to hear Lorenzo Moore
a man possessing the respect and conf
dence of hardly man In the communi-
ty-a man branded as "a liar and as an
illnatured, quarrelsome, contemplate
fellow" by a large number of the peo-
pie of this village--a man whose name,
with many, is a synonym for baseness-
we say it is amusing to see such a man
read homily upon truth and morality
to w. Ct. DOMAIN and ALFRED INGALLS,,
men universally respected, and who
have received abundant testimony of the
confidence OF their fellow citizens. Ey-
en- PoLLocK's Hypocrite would be inca
pabla of such effrontery, and only Lo-
renzo Moore has brazan assurance sufii-
/, Gent for the deed Lorenzo Moore a
! teacher Of morals Hear that, Oh peo-
pie Of Quasq ueton Listen, oh cilize rs
of Indepen dence
1t seems that Lorenzo cannot even tell
the truth about himself In his last ar
ticle he says
Il will re-atiirm my former statement, that
Mr.. RicH did refuse to 90 with me and confront
the ladies at the time their affidayts should be
taken by either Justice Of the Peace
The trouble about this is that he made
no such former statement. His state
ment was that we " in the most positive
manner refused to confront the ladies :"
and this refusal, Lorenzo argued, showed
our guilt. Mr.. Moores own witnesses
testified that we did express a desue to
confront the ladies, and had they ex-
planned the matter, as they were bound
to do as gentlemen, they would have full
~ GorrQborated Mr.. DoSNAN's and Mr..
INGALLS, statement, that we offered q
money guarantee that we would do so---
They know lhat we told Mr.. Moore that
our sole object was 10 keep him away,
and that We knew that if we were pres
ent, he would also desire 10 be there,
and We therefore proposed that neither
should be. They know We offered to 60
if Mr.. Moore would stay away. To this
Mr. DOMAIN and Mr.. INGALLS, are ready
TO testify by affidavit, and if forty wit
nesses such as Mr.. Moore brings, would
testify to the contrary, it would not in
validate their testimony in this county.
Mr.. MooRE's witnesses also give him
The lie on another point. lie says that
be reduced the bet They say just what
we and Messrs DoSSAS and ISGALLs stat
ed, that he simply struck out his second
proposition. but refused to reduce the bet
on the point in controversy. AS to the
matter Of swearing we care nothing -
/, we know We never used the language,
and our friends are certain we never used