Middletown transcript., 1868-12-05
Correspondence Of ths Mdqtetovn Transcript.

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"Great Modesty ofthe PampAistesr Att,la.''
Attilla comes out in card against "Cosmopo-
lite, our correspondent at Savannah, Ga.-
His pamphlet is not q Crack-brain Literature
1t is original and ingenious"=It caused the
Spanish revolution and dethrgnal of Isabella
And will dethrone Victoria, Of Great Britain
Isabella 10 aaHe, Victoria comes next-War to
the knife to fsmais Suffrage and its advacates,
&c. &c.
New YoRK, Nov. %, 1868.
EDIreR TRANscRIpF, SIR My private
secretary at Cincinnati. Ohio, sent me a
number of Western and Southern papers,
(your Transcript of the 14th inst. among
them) which denounce the author of the
pamphlet "Attila" az the most infamous
creature on earth, calling him an inidel,
wretch, &c. An ingenious editor goes
even so far as to dethrone John Allen of
Water street notoriety from his elevated
position as the wickedest man in New
York." and placing me far above him, as
the Z" wickedest man in the world"
Well, do not much care about that.
When issuing my pamphlet, did it with
the firm knowledge of the things to come
I well knew, that the name "Attila" would
be the target for the arrows of many, and
my mind is not at all uneasy to see my
predictions come true. have before me
the Galveston Bulletin and the Dallas
(Texas) Herald, which are engaged in a
fierce controversy about Attila. They
call me a yankee infder' who dares to
base the proposition, that woman is no hu-
man being. upon the holy Bible. The
farspread "Daily Times" of Cincinnati,
kindly takes my part, saying, !" Attila is
no Yankee infidel, but a Western man. %
''The Israelite," Of the same city, (the
first Jewish paper in America, says my
secretary edited by the learned Jewish
Rabbi, DIR. Isaac M. Wise, SO renowned as
the great agitator among his people to op-
pose the election of Grant, calls me the
"woman-hater, the literary monster of the
10Th century, and the pamphlet itself, ''an
unheard of blasphemy. The Boston In
vestigator, the great representative of
treason in our age," the grand German
Volksblatt of Gin. and host of others,
abuse the author and his absurd idea,
but none of them can help acknowledging
the essay itself to be "original and inge-
NOUS" I allude to these facts simply to
show that, I am not at all noticing those
remarks. what my silence until now fully
indicates. / am far from getting excited
about it. On the contrary, am delighted
to see them raging with dogmatism, while
none of them dare to approach my argu-
ments with weapons of logic and reason
ing, They we'll know why they do not
doiit. Logic cannot contradict logic. and
reason cannot initiate against reason.
hence they attack Attila as an individual
but not his pamphlet. It reminds me OF
the drinking scene in the opera .. Faust, !"
where the courageous students apd soldiers
threaten and rage with fury, but not one q!
them is able to attack Mephistopheies.
Let them take their tiill of pleasure in de-
nouncing me. II gives me great deal Of
amusement. Like swarm Of mosquitoes,
serenading the gentle reposer, shielded by
an imperviable bar, SO they are serenading
me- Besides, it is the best advertisement
my pamphlet gould possibly have. And
| see it plainly in the fact, that my first
edition Of Attiia. consisting of 100, ,00O
copies, Is nearly exhausted, and I am
ABOUT issuing second. As aforesaid,
1aa etfSffp ~ sSnS ~ ssy pam nPaAaos AeSoAh Ae
not abused. @
i But, l find in your Transcript CORES.
pondent of yours. from Savannah, Ga
"Cosmopolite." denouncing my pamphlet
itself as . ''crack brain literature" and
that is something shall not endure. Il
is unknown to me Whether you allow you
correspondents and unrestricted freedom
or not. But your publication Of that let
ter proves that you endorse she opinion o
said Cosmopolite. win therefore attemp
J (and / am sure, suceeed) TO prove that mi
! pamphlet Is more than . tserack-brain lit
erature. and hope. for the sake Of justice
, you win CORRECT the wrong committed b,
your correspondent.
- The pamphlet .'Attilap "crack- -brail
liteFatpre!V most enphatically disclaiu