Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-05-13
.AIACKn ON THE COMING MAN.

"Mack, in letter to the Cincinnati Com
mercial, turned loose the following tart and
trenchant paragraph on sold Ben. Wade".
Lord, Lord, how this world is given to ly-
ing" But whether the lying is done BY sturdy
old Ben. Wade is, with unparalleled unanimity
by all who undertake to write about him, not q
settled question yet had an interview with
sturdy Ben. last fall-I wrote about it in the
Commercial, lengthily, and III swear truthfully
but sturdy old Ben. swore it was all id
lie. He never said Grant talked horse oh no,
not he; and US FOR the profanity with which
that letter was favored, why, bless your soul,
that was pure malice on my part. IN be
d-d to hell ii ever | swore in my life" said
sturdy old Ben in denying the contents of that
letter, and made other high-toned remarks im-
possible to insert in the Commercial without
translation from the original Benwadese-the
American court language of the near future,
gentle reader
"Misery leves company" and am happy to
know that am not alone in the enjoyment of
sturdy old Ben's wrathful denunciation. bad
previously an associate in the person of one of
the editors OF the New York Times, to whom
sturdy old Ben. gave the lie for the report of
his agrarian speech in Kansas and on the ques-
ktUu VI sCtutIts tuuN SiV"itk UPt oS-
sured the country that sturdy old Bcns word
was as good as his bond. which take to be
fair warning to sturdy old Ben's bondholders
to sell out ut u sacrifice To Mr.. Seymour, OF
the Times, and the infamous aud unprincipled
Mack. OF the Commercial, is now added Mr..
George Alfred Townsend, who, it seems, has
been grossly slandering sturdy old Ben. For
ney decides the case against Townsend as cir
cumstantial evidence. tmwit: the use OF pro-
fame aud ungrammatic laugaage.u he says 1t
cannot be true that sturdy odd Ben. spoke ill of
Mr. Chase, because Townsend represents him
to have done it in language at once irrcvereut
and unsyntactic. That's F0rney, all over but
to my mind the representation of sturdy old
Ben wiGhoat a swear to every other word,
would be primd fdcie evidence of fiction. ,Fit-
teen minutes as gentleman would ruin sturdy
old BEN, by destroying his strong hold upon
the American heart, which is called blnfDess
in him, but goes by the unsavory title of boor-
ishness i'm others. Z s.ellsse afat fu So
& But sturdy old Ben says its d--d lie. aud
the question OF Yeracity. comes up between him
aud MIR. Townsend, as to whether he did not
abuse Mr. Chase and the Cleveland Leader. L
have seen gentlemen, who were present ut the
md they concur iinvoucAing for
the truth, of Afr. Townsend's statements except
that he omits mach of sturdy old Bens BIAS
phemy. Mr.. Townsend addressed him respect
fully as an applicant for a pass to the report
er's gallery, as the correspondent OF the Lead
ev whefeupon sturdy old Ben. laancAed forth.
into Il torrent of blasphcmous invective Against
the Leader as d ,..G-d d-d Chase paper" and
all that sort Of tfing. am glad of it. | re-
juice that Mr.. Seymour, of the Times, and my
self have found d partner in distress The
Leader pouncrd on me last fall, picked up stur-l
dy old Ben.'s disclaimer and brandished 1t in
my face. '"G-d d-aAd Chase paper" eh and
how does The Leades. like it3 When the scrip
tural raganufiHs made sport ot a venerable
who had no hair On the top Of his head in the
place where the WOOD ought to grow, grow
grow, the bears got after them. The leaders
experience viii be like mine, that every time
YOU refer to sturdy old Ben.ss record, you IRE
sure to .'wake the living Tyre, = under slight
photographed mobilization. Won't somebody
else try their hands at the business The no
BILE army of martyrs is increasing. Three d d
liars will do for i start Seymour Of the New
York Times, the undersigned and Mr.. Towns
end. AN WHO want to join our brigade must
FIRST call 81 stardy old Ben and wfite sonie-
thing about him. Sturdy old Ben! bluff old
Ben! dear old Ben! sweet old Ben truthful
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