Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-02-19
OyERmATCHED HIMSELF.

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The editor of the Boise City Statesman has
ALWAYS plumed himself on his ability as first
rate BLACKBOARD. and boasted that he could
! "sling filth" with any onc. We have never met
/ any person, who continuously read his paper
that did not acquiesce in the belief that, il
REYNOLDS were not a first.class BLACKBOARD, he
4 certainly was as foul, and nasty, and unscru
pulous, as any Backyard ever ought to be.
come. Blackguardism, and that of the nastiest,
most malignant style he. could think of or re-
sort 10. has ever been his forte. Toss ut him a
good-natured squib, with not particle Of in.
tended sting or concealed venom in it. and he
would retort with something akin to q, Chinese
stink-pot; hit him with scrap of gently spiced
wit, and back would he hurl the dirtiest COB
of billingsgate that he could rake from out the
reeking pit of his own noisome vernacular.
He has fairly sloshed in filthy language and
malignant rejoinders, until decency of style,
propriety of speech, or courtesy of retort, act
like SO many emetics, or eruptives, or convul-
sions upon him. His mode of newspaper war
fare has been to ascertain what he could say
of or against his adversary, without regard to
truth, propriety, courtesy, decency, or that
respect for entirely private matters which only
the basest of degraded sanderers and black
guards fail to hold sacred, to injure the repu-
tation or wound the sensbilities of that i'd
versary, and then to blurt it out, turn it over
and over, present it through his columns in
this shape and that, press it, and shore it, just
SO long as he thought it panied or ranked in
the old raw place.
He has gone long time unanswered in bis
own mode. Some, who could have "slung
filth" with him, did not care to do it in 50 pub
lie channel as newspaper, and, besides,
they may have had wholesome dread of the
effect Of such reprehensible encounter upon
their readers and patrons senses would
soon have revolted at the noxious warfare.
But ut last Reynolds has not only found one
ready to engage with him, but who, armed
with singing. decorating, terrible, damning,
absolutely true facts. has completely defeated.
his own chosen field,-aye, from his own filthy
dung-hill. Walton Browne. of the Boise Dem.
ocrat. has retorted upon Reynolds in such way
that the latter has no escape left him in honor
through language. All of his powers of black
guardism all of his readings after viler nast.
ness of expression than be has ever yet re-
sorted to NIL of his UNANIMOUSLY false and en-
tirely fabricated or copied calumnies upon or
against Browne, avail him nothing. Nor can
he rightfully complain, nor solicit interference
from hackers, nor ask sympathy from com.
panions. In his haste to write down Browne,
he had recourse to weapons Of language which
no decent or hoporable antagonist would use
He tried to crush Browne with the mass oil
filth he hurled at him. Poor, depraved, hope
lessly crushed slandercr Tho but opened the
way for Browne to demolsh him by his own
mode Of war, and terribly, overwhelmingly has
the latter done so. He comes back ut Rey-
nolds with facts, each one OF which constitutes
not only penitentiary or capital offence. but
further. reveals depravity, malignancy,
and q revolving inhumanity Of heart. which is.
fortunately Tor the word, found but very rare.
", and then only in beings who resemble mon.
sters rather than men. Reynolds hurled ut
Browne what he wished the people to believe
Of the latter, without regard to truth Browne |
has retorted BY telling truths which Reynolds
would wish buried deep as his own wretched
victims from the ken or vision Of the world
but which do ever haunt and torment himself, |
turn from them or endeavor TO escape from
them as he viii. These dread spectres are
none Of Brownies conjurings; he has only
opened the eyes Of many, hitherto uniformed,
to the terrible fact that Reynolds il tormented
BY them, day and night, and that he has these
skeletons in the house" through inexorable
decree. tho just penalty for bis own terrible
deeds. ri 20" s@ ~"
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