The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-02-08
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r. have business of more importance
Eabeat which TO busy myself, than to tstoop
Ito apply persoHel abuse to- D. H.. Baker.
And were The News only circulated ia
Breckenridge county, | should not con-
+ slider It worth while TO reply TO his snap
pings and snarliRgs.ai Blu, when ie; is re-
/ me mbereds that slandsrsiuHmetla always find
anchorage in some minds, I7shsll be excused
for simply repelIing the villsnous attacks
made upon me by this same Baker. ~
In order to show that these attacks have
/ bsen u6pfovoked on my part. propose
first o "a dice that, he accuses ms of roorn
/ m5nqing lhegsItack. in my Egstaliels. TIE
on T. sIiasion made 20 any wr ter u IN the
subj ct of raising wheat IN that article; vas
Il, s:Y6uhg Farmer. (which was courteous.
1respeetiufs GO HIRE IL is: z:As wheat Is d
10 ,faeeeplanf. can badly indorse the po-
lsiiion of rrYnung Farmer which, il. that
he roots penetrate the earth 10 he, depth
df three feet % n v, this expression is al
lBs kot had ASE base his assertion on ti,at I
assaulted A,ns with Salgar language. and
that lie hid used my weapons "a, nv de.
feat Rather cool, { take il / dill no,
aliuAe t. he's article which h. says appeared
lin THE News of prior date. for he beet Of
all reasons, that / had never seen II, AMI
have not to this das; aud as lie dos not
claim le be tie author of .Yqung Far
m-r." it follows that the personal abuse
| h aped upon me in his reply of Cctpbe,
5th. was gratuitous. uncallei-for. an out
rage upon common courtesy. This Is
telearIy shown by these expressions oh.
LiudIey oh. Df,Sau sure, Dr.. Lqnberrs
Sprengle. Li+bg. Sir Humphrey Dayy, a,
host of Others what fools you are. or
have been-in particular SprengIe. who Is
acknowledged TO he the best author of the
day. Lo!li w. F. knows more than you
ALI" Was not this personal abuse? And
then follow similar illusions. to the end OF
his chapter. Bat still he didn't make the
attack Oh. no. not he
q In my reply 10 him i gently limited that
such expressions usually proceeded" from a
class of men who went 10 bed with dirty
| feet; but at the came time exonerated him
from any such filthy habit. think /
used the word brother, whenever aliutiing
to him in that article. / have not used the
expression since. because he publicly sck
nowledges himself liar. ! am not liar,
and therefore cannot brother man who
puh!i.ly acknowledges himself to be one
And besides. he admits that he has some
familiarity with such dens of vice as the
Five Points stating in his last that be
had visited these places in two different
cities Baltimore and New York; have
never. thank God been polluted by rub
hing against any such sirks Of crime. And
the man whose tastes lead him TO such
places, can be no brother of, mine. ? H ~
In this connection he travels ont Of the
way TO impress the public with another.
ialSehood!! h(The reader viii remember thai
he publicly acknowledges himself liar;I
and if should call things by their names,
in The future. / trust II will not be regarded
as ungentemanly L TX at the rsscaily5
libel: He Foster1 insinuates that the nan
who earns his bread BY The sweat Of hi
brow stinks in his nostfis." Could false.
hood be more barefaced 81 Notice what. he
made this out. of. The paragraph in my
article reads thus: 7:'As well might / assert
that because one Baker graduated first At
The Five POints. aud item as a fireman in q
Philadelphia machine shop. aud 6nally wa
able 10 deal ia such literary gems as. veru
bunkem ct literfiunkem.' batch of sopl--
Ii-try,' 'biIiingegate,' de-. DC, was, NOT
hereafter to fill the chair Of chemistry in
the 4 Agricultural SabooI 70 be established
IA Central Kansas. thus plainly iadieat@c
ing progress. Ii i had asserted even a Al
!
! ave behind him his filthy habi, Of visiting
broLhels. dc, the paragraph could not even
then have been reasonably interpreted O re-.
| feet sup'in the Ati,e0r of labAr Aad mas
much as he has endeavpred to -iDprese the
public with the IDEA that despiSed the
| poor laboring man. il will lie allowable on
my part to simply eay, that there is no class
vi men in The land ferIR hon 4 Eav6 ever
l,.ho -
boring class. The thrifty. Woodworking
farmer, the, industrious blsck-nith, the
till r. the shoemaker. the cooper. tie
carpenter. the mason. the ssddier.s TIE sill.
versmiIh. TIE wagon cnakefs the SURVEYOR,
he decsoE.7 ihe,steacher.R tFe printer. the
lithographer and ,engrsver. the, book biHder.
several spheres of usefulness The intel,
Iecsual giants of the nation have in many
instances been mechanics Ben. franklin. :
voice, was an humble printer: while Roger
Sherman. of Revolutionary memory. was
shoemaker. Men. in all the avocations of
life. are really estimated By the true mar, .
hood they display Under the genids1 OF
our free .institutioass the tailor oEztbs sshosz
maker is as eligible to the highest Office ia,
I the gift of the people as-is the man of pro-
| fession.=, ,s.sszss-es .E]sogasxss1 SIT
He takes, another twist in his tiseus Of
misrepresentation, when he says that ]
took tie position that chess eprang from
nothing Itook no such POSITION Nv pS
fsision3was. that ichess sprsBg fsom achpss.
wheat from wheat tsdpf3ss from 4adpelAs.
! ] do nos presead that these ara The wofia.
but the article Is still in txisteBee IN THE
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