Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-05
from the Springfield Daily Register. Radical of
the worst sort1
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lFrom the Springfield Daily Register, Radical OF
the worst sort.1
"Used Up.''
Who is used up? "thereby hangs a tale''
We are reluctant to expose even our enemy.
But now we must speak. The Ohio Stale
Journal is sused up" Some one may con-
slider this small matter, for a ''short horse
is soon curried." True, every word. We
soon curricd the Journal nag and found him
to be one of the least and most marrowless
steeds we ever undertook to break to har-
ness. Indeed he neither reared nor kicked
after we laid on him vigorous hand. He
got up a backward motion, however, and
persisted in it until he backed away from
us entirely. False horses and cowardly
men come in the same category, and always
go backward in an emergency. This is a
pleasant way to avoid the contact and tur-
moil of battle, but is. rather damaging to
ones reputation for courage.
But our readers will want little light
dropped into the above. We will tell all
with pleasure. A few months ago the Ohio
State Journal (formerly published in Co
rumbus), charged us with compiling the
editorials of other journals into our own.
If this had been true we would have de-
served it. We hate a thief and thieving
heartily. But it was not true. The Jour-
nal knew it was not true and said it simply
because it was talse-because he wanted it
to be true. In such matter there is no
room for sport Only an envious green
eyed man could find pleasure in such grow
Cling work. Sport at the expense of We
racity when character is involved-tbe
character of men and paper, and a paper,
too, chronologically in its childhood, is
wanton and wicked, and no gentleman in
dulges in it. And yet the Journal did the
diity work and smacked his lips over it.
There are birds of rare plumage which
have relish only for unclean things. The
Journals of that feather.
His (the Journdrs) object is patent. The
Advertiser proposed no servile and craven
homage of the Journal. This the Journal
seemed unable to brook. Taking adyau-
tage of his position and the subtitle power
OF falsehood, he proposes to start cur
rent against us. The FOOLS argument was
used-a sneer and laugh. 1t failed to the
evident chagrin of the big Journal It's a
pity we could not see "eye to eye," on a
question that seemed so vital to him. But
it was so.
Well, the game was soon exhausted, the
sequel soon came. After the Journals s
charge, our time came. We administered
to HIM little healthy counsel-said few
sharp words, but said them calmly and
with rare serenity. We told him he had
spoken falsely and with "malice prepense,"
and took care to emphasize that we lived
in the consciousness of our own resources,
and that as he had, by falsehood, provoked
war. we would not relax; though the con-
cussion shook - well, the Journal out OF
his boots. We kept our word. But the
Journal was big-it was edited by q General
and published at Columbus, and it would
pummel the Advertiser till we cried, 'hold,
enough" At first the journal man
was vivacious and frisky to an extent that
promised him to be in for protracted
struggle. But his strokes missed their
mark; his words were witless and wisdom
less, and flat beyond all precedent: In
few months he expired in the "last ditch"
Never had we so easy and cheap victory.
to him at our leisure intervals, for recrea-
tion. But the poor creature perished by
his own efforts. The frictions of his awk-
ward motions exhausted him. And in a