The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-05-18
M.N1rowoo. Nav 18th. 1871.

that he really feels all the wrath that his
last article displays, and yet it is a mon
strous error to suppose that mere epithets
add strength or dignity to ones style.
They are evidence either of some secret
purpose OF of bad temper badly control
led. But if the gentleman really means
ell of his excited personal reflections, he
places himself before the public whose
judgment he expects will accredit him
with courage, fortitude and proves, IN
the attitude of one dashed into rage by
his antagonist and smarting under the
yigor Of blows he could not parry. Call
ing names is the menial service of "scur
Wy politicians. -
Neither will [, like the gentleman, de-
sceud to the grossness of calling my OPP
ponent dishonest. But it will be no
fault of mine if [ proUe him to be so for
[ am not responsible for the statements
made This articles. In his Ourangou-
tangs and Booneran9s" he gracefully
pats me on the cheek and says good
fellow" In the same article he informs
me that on me rests the burden of proof
and this notification, as he subsequently
states, was made to the end that / might
''form habits of honesty" That is, while
he believed me ''good fellow he also
believed me destitute of the practice of
common honesty. Such being his no.
tions of 'good fellow [ would say, go
on with detraction. but spare me from
farther compliments. l would have
these statements pilloried before the eyes
of our readers, and then for their cpl
taph I would write Felo de Sc. Again,
he declares that promised 10 bring him
to disgrace. My statement was that he
ought to have care lest the superiority
which he arrogates, "proves merely the
badge of his dishonor and the measure
Of his disgrace Also he says | warned
him not to hazard his reputation by not
cultivating panegyric. I told him not to
hazard it-''by persisting in detraction
and abuse These sentences which he
distorts, though so plain that the way
faring man though .fooz, need not mis-
take them, are, of course, not beyond
the reach of willful misrepresentation.
/ have no objection to his vision Of me
wandering over the earth and expectora-
ting for the good of humanity. But /
will add that no wilder freak Of the I'M
agination is requisite to paint him in the
background as my Jealous. attendant
lick-spittle.
Upon one point I shall say few words
and then drop it forever so far as this
public discussion is concerned. The gen
;leman has repeatedly endeayored to dis
parage my candor and fairness by affirm
ing that to me belongs the aggressive
part of this discussion and that he ought
to do nothing but test my arguments.
To this | surely would not demur if
had began the contest and could have
chosen before hand my plan of argument.
But my opponent gave the initiatory, with
out my knowledge, in the form of few
weak ISLANDERS on the character of the
supporters of female suffrage, and few
more very clear limitations that he had
facts to prove the injustice and inexped-
iency of the measure. After volunteer
ing his 'indisputable facts he says l
have no right to deny their conclusive
ness, but must either believe or must
submit to the labor of showing his views
wrong by proving mine right He speaks
Of my forcing myself into the controver
sy." This allegation EFFORTS from me a
statement which I, otherwise, would
have spared. After the appearance OF
his first article, and before [ had tho
about taking up the discussion, | was in
formed on unlmpeachable authority that
the gentleman wished me to answer him.
No person of spirit could regard this
otherwise than as a challenge. [ accept
ed Have | not the choice of weapons
and position? On this explanation the
matter shall rest. [ am ayerse to SO
many silly personal preliminaries, but will
not suffer myself to be beaten by mapeu-
vers by one whose warfare consists in
little else. If my opponent continues to
make this discussion mere scramble for
personal repute, he STALL hear but little
more from me.
As the Indian medicine man shakes
the same mysterious rattle over patients
afflicted with the most unlike diseases so
the gentleman practices the same quack-
cry in augmentation by holding up the
Law of Average as the talisman of every
difficulty. He talks as if there were no
eternal principles of right and as if every
thing we're controlled by the fiat Of Aver
age. Average has its place but never
should it be used where definite princi-
pies can be applied.
1t is never resorted to by wise men
(save my opponent) except in cases, the
inherent difficulties of which make ordi-
nary rules Intellectual. With pompous
parade Of few ''battalions' and vain
display of his acquaintance with the
--latest by Telegraph from France and
Prussia. he repeats for the third time
Politics average masculine; hence wo-
mans exclusion. This statement, at
first untrue, he has made stale also. |
reply that the simple Law of Average,
unsupported by other considerations, no
more proves the Justice of excluding wo-
men from the ballot than it proves the
Justice of excluding her from mercantile
and manufacturing establishments, be
cause these average masculine. 1t is
| mere lunacy to urge this point unless he