The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-11-10
THE DfsAsIA AT srANITovac
"Amfcus' Standing on his Head.

principles only. find that every scrib-
bier for the Pilot ignores this courtesy of
letters. Thus exposed, | become tar
get for those who are soft with youth
and mouldy with age. A lot of POI
troons behind fortiGcatlon of rags. ale
noisily firing. Up comes another coward,
"Amicus. with lust for fur. This fel-
low behind log had been watching me
for time. But he could he quiet no
longer for his marrow sizzled, and so be
leaped among his comrades With squeal
Hold, all, lest your rags avail not, ard
lest your fate he like coward [ once
saw, who was smashed by cannon ball
against his back.
These personal attacks betray inability
to discuss principles. But when thus
assailed, defense is allowable. First,
Parent" having shut his eyes, flung
poultics at by heels. But nature compen-
safes, as is seen in this case. Thus, a
vacuum in the brain allows plenum in
the stomach, and so each mindless here
| in enabled to belch from his wide extend
ed jaws.
| The personal attack of "Anaicus" was
one Of the meanest kind-positive impl-
cation. Thus he appears like a back
| stabbing Spaniard.
take "Amicus' from the pack for
| public dissection. "Amicus," count your
beads. Now, sir, whilst [ proceed to
cut you to pieces and expose each Guiv-
ering part, fix upon you an eye of ice,
and announce that I shall prove conclu-
sively that you are silly, that you are ig-
norant, and, furthermore, that you are
an ass
''Amicus' represents me falsely in a
moral sense. This is trick often prac-
ticed by hypocrites The irreverence Of
which he accuses me, is fancy of his
own profane mind. The fact is, ''Ami-
Gus, to my personal knowledge, cares
nothing for the Bible; whereas, I would
fight in its defense. Furthermore, his
morals are well displayed by the spite of
his attack. Mark, too, the hypocracy of
his name, he would cause people to think
he is my friend whereas, he is not
Thus, too, hypocracy points to his char
acter In fact. "Amicus" with bare
head stands before the public, and de-
liberately blows his moral nose.
The heading of his article, "Honor to
whom honor is DUE" looks deaconish
but the frame of his article has a semi
pedagogic-having-s omething-to with
schools color. here was apparently
a rush Of blood to his head, and [ would
here advise him to take treatment in hy>
dropathy.
As | examine his article, it appears
absolutely fiat. Whatever merit it has,
lies in the quotations stolen from me. |
really wish 'Amicus' had spliced to
himself dozen or more of his friends, to
give me handle of sufficient length with
which to operate.
People, 0 people, do you know what
that awful word "Amicus'' means It is
a Latin word, and means friend. He
evidently expected to make Us all dizzy
with his name. When [ read it, | felt
as if drop of goose oil was running down
my throat. Doubtless his mother taught
him that word when he was little boy
in the nursery, SO that he might appear
wise when a man. A foreign nom de
plume in a local newspaper is evidence Of
a simpleton. ] cree knew Of an illiterate
pauper, who had an exceedingly pomp-
Gus name. My nom de plume is CO."
such as may be safely learned from the
alphabet by little children.
''Amicus'' opens with buster suiting
his hot blood He deliberately shakes
his coat-tail fully RESOLVED to enter the
lists hand in hand with o." He is
once determined to give his true name.
But, alas for human weakness, he thinks
of O. ''Nctoriety;" his lips culver,
and SO, by tie help of his wife,
he becomes known as ''Anicus. Sir,
give your9true name. When person
with horse blanket over his head, shows
a black paw, it is naturally supposed he
is an Ethiopian. s ssE7
Our. critic Clothes his article with a
kind Of delusion that Nigh. please
children. He is like barbarian that
wears snowy gauds. Inspect him and
you discover q brssti-h form. Another
figure if you rlease-he is like that
long-eared brute of ancient fable, which,
wore lions skin to scare the PEG
pie. One day,the wind blowing heavily,
he skin was displaced, and the species
Of the brute was discovered. Then it
was the people fell upon him and beat
out his brains. So it viii be with '"'Am-
icus'
He conccals his pinchcrs by squirt
eyed praise. HIS .ainchers, by the way.
are his thumb and finger, whose silhouette
seen by candle light on the public canvas
is that with which old folks sometimes
please children, to-Hit, bjll-a shadowy
bill to be sure, but it looks like the bill
of Anxious" when he cackles.
Irony, when it is we'll used is good
weapon in criticism. But in the hands
of our friend, it has had silly use. :. He
has not only given it silly use, but the
thing itself is of the cheapest sort, and,
still worse, he took this garb to cover his
weakness. His irony, as is clear to all,
is a compound Of the greenness of youth