The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-01

II A'ytNtcF iIpCal mas very IOOr
opinion of us. OF course we feel bad
about it, but the good book tells us
that we should profit by reprooE. OF
course on the matter of gentiIity, Will
linn is authority, having occupied such
lofty social position. But after all,
William, don't you think it little
for small young man of your weight
of character in this community to
come down on us thuSly, as YOU did ,
and compare us to II hog. Wedon't even
eat hog: We consider il fit only for
people who are confined in military
prisons. We ask you il it is not little
in you to come down from your lofty
position to knock out the pins from
under our slender reputation. OF
course we know you are of gentle
birth, gentle as n sucking dove" and
OF long line of honored ancestry,
which even in this country entities
man to Consideration. Still YOU
ought to consider that, although
we have not enjoyed the life-lonE
opportunities to become the finished
gentleman that you have, still we might,
nevertheless, rise to Il reasonable repu-
tation, II you would refrain from blow
ing your breath of disnpprovaI on our
feeble efforts.
True. we don't know as much about
first class society as you do, but we
don't like to be kicked out of Genteel
society, even by one SO much our Supe-
rinr, without a word of reInonstrance.
1t seems IA little strange 10 us. away
down in the low-wines of society, that
you, who are such a lovely specimen of
splendid autecedentS, should so often
forget yourself, that Notwithstanding
the hiEh-born gentility or which you
are such thorough representative,
you sling opprobiOus epithets Just
as those other cats out in the
field do the perfume which so often
scents the country air. William YOU
should remember that example Is con-
tHgious, especially when set by the
high bred. We don't mean people horn
In garnet, but fine society, of which
You are such "a thorough specimen
People, especially us who know so little
OF genuIity, may get to applying apprp-
-brlouS epithets. We have n whole dir
tioRary full of them and know mighty
well how 10 use them, but thon folks
might think we were vulgar, aud we
don't want them to think so. True we
might In self defence quote from You
AS u teacher OF gentility. We might
refer to yo1r billingsgate slunE out in
such gentle prOfusion on the heads of
people almost AS high ia the social scale
as you. We know You are authority
on the rules of high life. We
don't mean life in the third
story of the.sAthenieum but upper-ten
folks, and people would only excuse
your beastly vulgarity by saving that
You were little disguised, or in other
words, drunk on your ftvorite Giuger
pop Now, from our low status in so
ciety, we are apt to think that to adj
dress q Reverend gentleman as s'Sam >,
is decidedly In bad taste. True. weoft-
en- speak of Uncle Sam, perhaps You
know him, have some amiable recol-
lectiOns OF him. Now William you must
quit such things. You will lose your
family prestige, IL you don't
quit SOME dirty mean ways you
have. We don't mean lying. Ofcourse
you are never guilty OF that, or steal
ing whole articles from newspaperS
and publlShtng them as Your own.
that would be beneath your intellect
ual capacity and your ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
aoility. We just mean some disrepu-
table tricks you are guilty OF now
and then, But You know the good
book says, las worms cause the oint-
ment of the apOthecary to stink
so doth little folly him that is
repnted to be WISE" Be careful tba,,
or people will forget your historic yen,
tility. They will think that YOU are
some low-bred character, Just picked
up out of ilth and, rags, and vino, like
The washed sow, Is ever inclined to re-
turn - her wallOwing in the mire, Re-
member William, that when you saw
man Is not a gentleman, he is
not, because all decent people
take the cue from Won on that
point as regularly as they, the fashions
40 from Fartss be careful then of Your
Posltlou. Don't do anything to fet Tour-
ser ser u0Wn ana the fabric of society also.
We are re only rendering you our advice
not take offence at it. All w. 80 ~. =, =
ahoat, ~ ~ @Fs u poor