The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-21

When man puts up his clcnchcd lists
for a fight, though you may not be con-
scious of having done anything to provoke
his ire, you feel obliged to meet him on his
own ground, and accept battle in the style
he offers. 1t may be BLACKBOARD way
you may prefer more polished weapons
but you naturally strike back in the same
spirit in which the first blow is inflicted on
yourself. Something like this is the JEFF
ferson Brick style of editorial writing or
rather that of the Trumpet of Thunder and
Eagle of Freedom language we sometimes
find in an ambitious country paper. Its pom
derous attempt at crushing is ludicrons, and
really too much of burlesquc itself to be
burlesqued. Unskilled in the use of Ian
guage, the editorial tyro vainly imagines
that popgun can kill an elephant, and
would aim cannon at a fly. To correct a
mistake in the location of a fence post he
would bring on an earthquake, while if the
community were being deprived of rights
of the most important character, he would
utter feeble protest or none at all. But
it is on hair splitting points about nothing,
and in the peacock strut over atoms of in
formation of very little Importance, that
our village contemporary comes out with
five hundred flea power.
In imitation of his crushing editorial
writing when he has pet theme of micro
scopic importance, we notice that, under
pretencc of setting the gaping world right
on village history, he makes a series of
the most glazing misstatcmcnts that ever
emanated from creature three degrees re-
moved from an absolute maniac He actll-
ally begins by the startling assertion that
O. b. Clark, a man whose fame appears to
be dear to the editor of that paper, and
whose eccentric career has enlisted all his
sympathies, was arrested in Madison, Wis
consin, on the second day of August, 1867,
when every school child, not merely of the
high school, but prattling infants who have
just begun to learn their letters, know that
it was on the first. The statement that it
was ON the second could only have been
made for the deliberate purpose of betray-
ing the confidence which the people of the
village Of Rutland have been taught from
the time they were old enough to cry for
the paper, till they departed for their long
home with its name the last word on their
lips,-a deliberate attempt to mislcad theiI
simple, child-like trust. 1t was a base and
malicious falsehood, hurled like firebrand
in our midst with all the fell and hdeo,ls
malignity of a cowardly and brutal incen-
diary The man who could thus intention
ally, for wicked purposes of his own, fall
sify history deserves to be impaled on a
toothpick.
His next most malevoent and wicked
assertion is that Clark was committed to
Jail in Rutland on the 9th or 10th day OF
the same month. We are absolutely out OF
patience with such brazen falschood
such depravity, such stupid ignorance II
is the grossest falsehood ever perpctratet
in Vermont history. Clark was committed
on the eighM or ninth of the same month
and not on the ninth or tenth, as stated by
that editor, with an infamous disregard OF
truth. Let him read this check of his wild
career of mendacty and turn pale like al
escaped felon arrested in hen roost.
That headless falsifier further has the
insolent presumption to assert that on thu
9th day of February, 1860, Clark was sen
fenced by the Supreme Court, and was
committed to the state prison within two
or three days thereafter. "Timc has beer
that when the brains were out the mar
would die but that time has passed, as the
editor OF our village contemporary witnesses
by his petrifed example. The grossly stu
pid ignoramus evidently confuses the time
of Clark's leaving the Jail to be committed
to the states prison with the time when he
entered the states prison. The latter was