Nebraska advertiser., 1863-01-03


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honor, and on what side is meanness and
lying say who belongs to the tribes Of
CamanGhes, who are plunderers,-to the
tribes Of Flalheads and Snakes i--who is
ashamed and shameful,Zwho hides ID
bite like snakes and who dares 10 come
out, openly and publicly, without fear.
Should an impartial jury be summoned to
decide in the case, who would they de.
eide ia favor Of
About Towns communicates denotes
q mind so obtuSe, so malicious and SC
mean that it cshnot have been produced
but by a silly head, and a black heart,
Invested of every principle of honor and
probisy.
4 S wriftepp in a negro style. both as
to the spelling and the ph~raseology as
to the IDEAS and the knowledge il con-
tains and the purpose aimed at, j. is
shameful, and can have been written only
by a shameless man. ) sH aa ,l
It was, evidently, intended to cast re-
Elections upon me; bur / wOuldratheF by
far be reflected upon by such men than
TO receive their appreciation; for, the
appreciation of malicious and lying men
is always a disadvantage.
l wrote seriously About Town, un-
aole 10 refute my arguments and my
charges, leaves them on the shoulders of
those they were intended for and turns to
ridicule, but il such a manner that be
himself becomes ridiculous.
la About Towns communication, there
is no shrewdness, no manifestation of in
@tellec;, no truth, no plabsibility, in any
sense Of the term ina word, tits, from
the very beginning to the very enc, a
lac, an exhibition of ignorance, Of malice,
Of jealousy, of fear, of cowardice, of in
sipidity.
Dull, short-minded, ~1at-headed, snak-
ish. About Town, think not that 1 will
compare with you, unless you make your
self known, and openly, c~ourageously and
publicly dare to throw down the gauntlet
Of bravery on the arena. / will not COM
bat in the dark, without knowing whether
you are a worthy antagonist or not and
any blackguard in the country may do as
well as you have done; throw venemous
weapons al a distance in the dark to the
unawares ) such weapons and such men
are contemplate. Still, if you keep
lurking out to %iniure me by your SANDERS
and Ies,-to bite me, 10 the dark, as
snakes do, and as is also the habit of the
FIatheads,-of ignorant and cowardly
men, / shall be on the lookout for YOU
l shall conquer or I shalpdie ; but / shall
rot die, because l can conquer you. l
desPise a man who hides himself, when
be SANDERS an other.
Vile slanderer, you can bring forth,
and say, truthfully, nothing which can
stain my character, my aims, my knowl-
edge, my intellect, my truthfulnes, my
honor, my honesty, my probity, etc; |
defy you. Can you defy me, also, on
these points? Let me know who you
are. so as to give me a chance to get al
you. a.
Indeed at first, / had a certain desire to
know you and look at you as IN object Of
curiosity but an idea struck me that you
were less a curious than a degenerated
object, and | never did nor do l care
about beholding the freaks of nature,
such, for instance, as a Tom Thumb ge-
MUS. 's'.
Mr. About Town, | own that, when I
heard that you were 10 come Qut against
me. | thought I should Bsv to fight q
noble. mighty Lion, but you are, indeed,
only a miserable HaWck. -. rly
sa.r a A, G9pFRE1.