National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-05-21
A Tremendous Reputation.

It's n pretty dull dag for lawsuits
,h,t AR lanes Fisk, Jr., don't sue
somrboiy for 500 900 in damages.
! Aud when Won come to consider 1t
moment, what reputation Ills
must have been before 1t was ever
fired into! In dimensions how eX-
tensive, in purity how immaculate,
in briltlrness and fragiti:y how sen.
sitive To the bielth OF Suspicion!
Imagine this genial creature FISK
spreading out his moral character
like a map before the country
Think If the ,spriS lltliness with
which he jumped from his peddlsr's
cant into Wall street and conmenc'
ed unrolling to "a gaping universe
the mammoth proportions OF his
personal reputation. 1t was hardly
/ spread, betorea merit hating. homes
ty.conteiniing and modestN-dcspis' |
ing world commenced TO throw rot
ten oranges at it. A shot from
Springfield c;tllipd away Sl00,ooO
worth OF it in the twinkling OF
bedpost-but the great FISK hardly
missed it. With head over his
shoulder, he just said to Ii sattornry.
Bring suit for it,, and kept on
spreading himseif.' From some otll'
,, er source we forget what, for we
: sat gazing SO intrntly At the c!larac'
ter that We hardly noticed whence
:. came The attatkS-au offensive mis-
sile slammed up against II. James
mprel, said OYER his shoulder. Sue
him for hundred thousand, and
1.-THE suit was brought. Then, as the
:. Fisk stood with his face to the Rock
Y Mountains and his back to all ;he
ages, nscrlbny in Orazen letters,
" JAMES FISN, Jv,' a:rJi rlc tci-
!; bone of the continent, Mr. Z. ).
: Bushnell. of New Haven, chunks
:, some ce.aycd fruit ut the picture,
:, in,ic,iug damage to the amount ct
u another Si03,00O for which suit Is
p Immediately brought. Hardly had
y the papers been served, when, with
!, kcl- Nhish. kcr-Slop. the New York
~ Time, let off :, whole bucketinn %
II remarks, damaging the Wilderness o
:. the Fisk character to the tune OF a
= least million judgment tor whicl
~ amount Mr.. Fisk will at some leiS
~ urp moment slip into court and asi
y to have entered in his behalf.
" Wei it's rather II magnliiccn
~ spectacle. 1t exhibits genius, al
~ this. For Mr.. Jane, Fisk, Jr.,
~ we may trust the oath appended t
w. his income returns and here "
IL. mean to step So gently as not t
80 spattrra single cpnl s worth OF niue
;" upun his vrracitN--waslio not success
>" fui in business last year. He ha'
~ no income. Undct oath he says 81
!" Not II cent OF income. lie return
:. one watch, That's all. So llaviu
- 40 money, and hard luck. he has 81
;" NJ this magnificent character, tn
~ LARGEST and whitest ever spread b,
:" fore the American people, and pre-
49,, ,,nsns to take his chances for dan
~ aces against the h,,iu h"yS vii
~. come along rubbing against II,
vs. throw inc water. melon rIIdS at
With an ordinary degree of success
=" he will make Il handsome thing OF j
=" Should he get vedicts in his fay,
~! - in the suits already begun they wi
:" bring him in from one and II half
y two millions, which will keep hi
~ through heyearcon iortabiy. An
;" as the people keep throwing thin:
at him he has good prospect
making II living 10y libel suits #
-, several wears to come.
~ And these things we enjoy. +
' ,n' they make, everything lively. Il
NY sitting liere,tlinkimg it ovcr--wu
NY dering ut the i,nmensity and t
'"' purity of this MANS character, Il
VI" miring the genus viii. which
'''' makes it profitable to hmseli.aS ~
:" ms beautiful to all the world, II
w then remembering that it iIlikClY
''.' cost the newspaper Press of t
~ ~" country untold millions for the pr
&c "a. lcge of firing ut tit oct'urS 10
nav and we make TIE suggcstlOn-;l
81" the Press club together and buy t
whor llic,c,' at IL fair Vainatit
e.. Firing at ii Il; /, tail prices will /
pov,r,Sh everybody. Lat Us Ia
NV n what there is lyi. Of it, nj whoIcsa
~ ~. Then Mr.. Fisk will get il off
.n,, hands, which will really be IL &,
$ scutl To him. and we cam all HAY,
a"r shy NJ i; at a reasonable cost.-Ho
,n. ford EreHing Post.
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