Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-07-02
EDITORS TRANSCRIPT:

Quidam in the last Messenger is on
his horn of the dilemma again, and judg-
ing from his communication he must
have taken il hard, with a stick in it.
In his or her production, somebody says:
Here are two sentences, one of expla-
nation, one of unwarrantable blarney.
AS to the first, Water Wheel has taken
the "horn of the dilemma" that he did
not know what men, hence his former
communication was the scnseless TRADE
against yourselves, which | called it.
x He does not know me, nor |
him. | may be the mar he thinks |
am and | may be boy, although he
thinks | am not.
May be man and boy and thinks |
am not That's good rhetorical trash.
Is there no turning point from pig to
hog ? | will not ask you to copy the
whole article, as what is here given is
sufficient to indicate his style and logic.
But to return to the original article in
the Messenger termed "Ancient Lights"
and over which he stumbles. After
protesting against the obstruction it
"respectfully petitions public scnti-
mcnt to impress Mr.. William Poster,
commonly known as Bill Sucker, to
cause said obstruction to be removed
further down the street, &C., &c, land
as in duty bound, will ever pray"
PubIc sentiment of what? Boys and
women? From what has already been
said it is to be understood that | claim
that the original article in the Mcssen-
ger encouraged the destruction OF the
Bill Board and melted men to destroy
il or remove il it further down the
street. Quidam replies, how do you
know il to have been the work of men,
if YOU were not personally present?
Sound logic-l suppose it had not oc-
cured to him up to this time, that it was
as much the work of men or full grown
boys to destroy the board as to construct
it. Quidam knows whether the article
excited him to the misdeed.' 1t is folly
for him to attempt to speak for any one
engaged in it? so, he was either pre-
sent or knew what was being done. Or
will he argue, for the credit of the town,
that the Wiad was melted by the Mes
sengcr to blow it away; or that the Mes
sengcr has no influence to inaugurate
anything? Is he positive of anything?
Does he know that he believes any
thing? Has he any idea of what he is
endeavoring to get through him or into
his horn? Or is itself nothing but
critic-"May be man and boy and
thinks | am not? | think that his
premises indicate that he thinks him
self a lawyer; his choice of language
that he is Il boy. He may be neither,
and woman, foraught | know. From
his premises and the probable if not
positive manner in which the board
must have been removed during the
night after the Messenger encouraged
it, one would suppose he was unaccus-
toned to manual labor. From the man
ner in which he struts in his cOrrespon-
dence, one would naturally suppose that
he would arrogatc to himself the rank
of director of the job. Hard words and
epithcts amount to nothing, Let the
people judge of the article, what followed,
and the great anxiety OF Quidam to de-
fend it. ] hardly think it profitable for
him to continue, but if the man and
boy or whoever she may be wishes to
proceed, by all means he should have
the right to divcst himself When Quid-
am is writing nonsense somebody does
nothing worse. WATER WHEEL