The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-04-11
For The BQzirar Bulletin.
Letter from J. E. Miller.

Dir. EDITOR Some individual. address,
/ ing from AUSTIN Ark, and signing himself
f. NJ, has come outin your issue of 2Sth
March, with an article that notices some
/" superfuous things that appeared in nv
Sketches Of Travel recently published
4 Under ordinary circumstances / would
feel myself justiGable IN refusing to notice
anything thar emanates from the pen OF. one
who is entirely ignorant that there is such
a thing as courtesy, even among critics
but there are times when the insignifeance
of the critic is lost in the magnitude Of his
abuse. / am 9. comparative stranger in this
Esection, and as g feso might think that
my past conduct warrants such ungentle-
manly dealing, I must notice the slanderous
I intimations that arc conveyed in this foul
! and frothy efervescence from the mind Of
one whom Arkansas ought to disclaim.
Would that could return good for evil, but
in such'a case 3it would be as though casting
pearls before swine. In the first place, 1
must inform the thick-headed doIt that the
:" sketcheso Of Travel" were penned with no.
hope of pecuniary remuneration, but were
written to impart information concerning a
State about which very little is generally
known, and to crafty a caco8ethe2 8criJaad5s
Thinking they would be somewhat interest
ing to the Hardeman people, 1 submitted
them to the Bulletin for publication, not
/ dreaming thatI was throwing a missile that
would come back to me barbed with the
poison of SANDER
After writing -something about the tradu-
GERS Of Arkansas-intimating thatI was ore.
Of them he says, but is getting time for
such nonsense to be stopped How -dicta-
torial How imperative As though his
scribbIings could stop anybody And my
freedom of thought and speech must be
curbed, to crafty him, who probably has
a little piece of land to sell, and is afraid my
humble opinions will deter some person,
who has the money, from emigrating to his
| section Of sraUing aeAeat fields, and straw
berries and cream. "Be easy, T. NJ, and
if you can't be easy, be easy as you can. -
Come down, We men of the North, be you
dressed IN whatever color you like come
down, 1rtth yotu cash, go straight to q f. NJ, !"
of Austin, Ark, he viii spread before you
the most bounteous gifts OF Providence, he
viii Kill the fatted calf, viii wash your steps
with butter, while thousands Of the women
and children Of his own country, aye, many
of his own State, are suffering for a morsel
of bread.
IIeave it to any candid aud unprejudiced
reader, who has sense enough to grasp the
meaning Of a sentence written in our pure
vernacular, whether there is anything in the
{" Sketches " that wrote that sayors Of a
desire to damage any person, or any. .coun-
try. Is Arkansas paradise, ribBoned by {
no streHms but those of silver, and famed
by no breezes save those that wax faint
Ger the gardens of Gul2" Did write one
word, disparagingly, Of a place that deserved
complimentary description And if
choose to look at things through a more po- /
etieal medium than ' f. NJ. is accustomed
to do, IS 1t any business of his Why does
he rage about descriptions that the aaeultt
rated cannot appreciate ? Again, are there
not places in every State that are repulsiye ?
Are there not men there also that unblush-
ingly come cut against the laws of grammar
and good sense And F. M makes
great hullaballoo because / write that an
Arkansian says dar" instead of there. He
says, white men in. Arkansas use no such
language Look, hypercritic, look at your
SELF " F. n nor be SO sensitive about the
mote that is in your brothers eye, until you
have first taken it out of your own eye
Look at the grammar in the following ex-
tract from your diabolical TRADE. Are you
/ bctter than them Does not thousands of
our boys in gray now sleep beneath
a level of the vegetable creation? Are
/ you better than them, J. e. NJ p Why
showed it to a little friend Of
mine, only ten years of age, and
on asking her to do so, she Immediately
corrected it. Now, L. M p If the educated
of Arkansas fI am afraid I tradalce her by
supposing you a specimen Of that elass) use
such language, what better than +" dar can
we expect to hear from the lips Of those who
have had no educational advantages lie
says = do not believe a man can be found
within the limits of Arkansas who would
turn a lot of travellers in the night from his
door without assigning some plausible rea-
stay for love or money" I know many
families IN the State, within whose sacred
precincts the foot of the slanderer can never
intrude, for love nor money" though be
be net dressed in blue.
\ Ladies Of Hardemanl Ladies Of Ar
kansas Read His intimations towards
you are of the most insulting kind. After
accusing me -of wilful falsehood, and leaving
alto infer that belong to the blue coat ?
band which he makes synonym for all
that is base, dishonorable and criminal, be
(. goes on to remark Of my style Of writing,
. This is ali very pretty, indeed, and if J.
Z. Miller ii young and unmarried, such
courting talk whispered into the ear Of his
fair senoritsa, bile sitting in some flower
. garden, on summers eve, with the moon 8
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