The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-01
NEW York, July 80, 1872.

Cllbipccu III ~
New YORK, July 80, 1872.
James Lyons ID. s.-.s.7
SRI send you a piece cut from the
Tribune to-day. | am Virginian, fought
over every foot Of her soil under the Con-
federate banner. formerly respected you
and did not believe that you could be guilty
of acting and writing as you are now doing.
If Virginia was made up OF such men as
we now know you are, God help her.
The extract'says "you are an ass" Ii
does great injustice to the ass by the COM
parison, for you have turned to be fool
and a knaee, and the ass is neither. Your
letter has only created contempt for you
! IN the breast of every Southern man have
met here-and their names is legion.
CONSISTENCY.
The 50 extract " cut from the Tribune.
'Ialking about Mr.. Greeley as Four
ierite and Communist, in profound igno-
rance of the fact that the feature of Four
icr's faith which MIR. Greeley commended
to American approval was that benignant
policy of cooperation, wherein the most
cautious thinkers of our time now agree is
to be found at once the solution of the
labor problem and the safeguard against
Communism. But the present James
Lyons has made yet more wonderful dis
coveries. lie has found an old and inde-
cent extract from low literary burlesque,
once somewhat known, and pretty yiger-
ously denounced in the Tribune, entitled
"Miscegenation,o and this indecent extract
from this book, which the Tribune de-
nounced, this extraordinary creature pro-
cecds to attribute to Mr.. Greeley Why
dosen't he next accuse that long-suffering
gentleman Of writing Rousseau's Confess
sions, pane's Age Of Reason, Calhoun's
constitution? Mr.. James Lyons the per-
son who once bore your name was q nan
of some knowledge and sense. You are
an ass" 20
TO these we annex a leader from the
Fredericksburg Herald the Editor of
which for some time held his nose and
smelt salts at the very odor of Greeley,)
which deserves to be perpetuated in the
category of elegant and refined criticism !:
MR.. LYONS TURTLE" LETTER.
."Mr. James Lyons, of Richmond has
written letter to DR.. M. j. Griffith. stat
ing why he cannot be present at the Grant
and Wilson Republican meeting in Freder-
icksburg, on the Sth, which will stand in
the world of letters all by itself--inimita-
BILE! 1t is said that the turtle contains
within its upper and neither shell every va
rlety OF meat known to man--Mr. Lyons
letter is redundant with high-strung fancy.
appeals to the women of the North and
South, even to the "Spirits of Lee and
jackson" and has in it besides a little of
every sort of meat on which a wild dis
ordered fancy may feed At one dash Mr..
Lyons flashes his sword in Greeley's love
of womankind, and in the next moment in
forms us what the " Almighty maker of us
all " did, and what lie did not intend, in
the creation of male aud female. Mr..
Lyons gravcly tells "what he knows y
about the $ Higher " intentions, and illumi-
mates thusly -g
= If he had intended men aud women to be
equal, aud women to ride like Mrs. 'Squatting
Bear he would not have given Eve as a help
mate TO Adam would have made Adam hear
children US well as Eve, and would NOT have al.
lowed side saddles TO be made"
1t seems, then that the grandreason why
"Adam was not made to bear children as
well as Eve" was to prove that woman
was not mans "EQUAL!n What grand
calculation oil a great mystery, that has
coniounded mans scrutiny for nearly six
thousand years! And, besides, how preg-
nant with information is this great fact at
this political juncture-how it will loom up
all over the land, in the discussions as to
the merits OF Grant and the disqualification
of Greeley for the Presidency.
Mr.. Lyons tells the Radical committee
here that the invite gave him pleasure"
No doubt it did, for invitations to speak are
probably rare nowadays with Mr.. Lyons.
Mr., Lyons is also "duly sensible of the
honor done Ihiml me-" We shall not pass
Judgment on what Mr.. Lyons considers an
"honor," and what he thinks Mr.. Lyons
can do with impunity-we know him to be
a man Of talent-Tit may be he possesses ge-
mus-but there is one thing We defy him to
do, and that is, "to hite he bottom oaa Off
J'yo9-pan WITHOUT SHUTTING his
NosEp Mr.. Lyons knows how to make
the application.