Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-05-06
THE REFINED PROTEST OF THE
ELEGANT" WRITER. DOM.

two way in which Dominic could
act in reference to my criticisms of his
extraordinary production which APP
peared in your pages on Sunday,
viz: either TO keep silent or abuse me
personally, and in the latter case cast
such clouds of dust in the eyes of your
readers as would enable him to cover
his retreat. He adopted the latter
course, and has descended to person
%alities, which might have been excus-
able if they had been used by a Five
Points hoodlum, but are wholly in
appropriate, and very disgraceful,
when employed by a teacher of youth,
who desires to be regarded as a gen
tleman, capable of setting a proper eX-
an ple of self-control. What has my
I" physical characteristics TO do with
this contest? III -peaks of my "targid
phrases" false criticism" "sense
less ungrammatical twaddle." ~''sense-
less babblings of infancy" "dreary
dwellings Of second childhood" of
my "thick skull" of 'twaddle upon
Subjects" of "Jcthro's stupidity"
and then talks of giving me a "spank-
ing" AS if he were green enough to
imagine that he could work off his i'll
humor by undertaking an enterprise
of that sort. These are only the CAB
blings Of a goose, and do no injury to
any me but the person who forgot
himself by giving them atterance.
From the way the Dominic ends his
effusion of yesterday it is plain he has
got a terrible fright. He cries out to
- " -..t ~ ,sth AS11
stretched above his head in an implor-
ing attitude, to :. stave" me of, and
for "mercy's sake" to save him from
being "ridden to DEATH" as he terms
he ex p~erience lie is passing through,
for a .'modern old mar of the sea .
is after him with a picked stick. /
have no wish to hurt the affrighted
deer, nor the trembling jackass rab-
bit, but if n one strikes me in the
face with an inflated bladder. and tells
me | must believe hat it is one Of the
stars, which having shone for ages in
the far off sky, has now descended to
earth to shine there perpetually, l
think it my duty to put a pin i'll it and
bring its sides together. The Dom
inie's hair is, no doubt, standing on
end, and his eyes are mayhap pro
truding from their sockets a. If he
we're at his wits end. l confess feel
sorry for him, for he is really in a bad
plight, and will have to 90 to school
again to study composition in present.
able English. He came before the public
in your pages as a great teacher; he
got you, MIR. Editor, to direct attention
to the 'elegance" of his production,
and when / turned to it. expecting to
find it worthy of IA Macaulay or Cob
belt, / found that while it contained
some good advice on e~ducdtional ma
tiers, il was, with the exception of a few
sentences, no hing but literary trash,
witch | conld not allow to go out mo
the world labeled by editorial authori-
~ as correct writing. l am neither a
dominic nor a critic; l am not a great
writer, and have never once asked TO
he ''puifed" in your pages as such.
In the Random" articles l have
written for the SENTINEL | showed
plainly by the caption that | did 10
intend them as finished productions.
but simply a. hurried jottings OF
thought, occurring to me from day to
day. But | do know enough of the
English language to declare, without
any hesitation, that Dominic does not,
and apparently San not, write that Ian
-tIEC ttIlttNll NIt't VIZ k'hbt 4 WI
guarantee to End more plumbers in
his two letters of Sunday and yester-
day than can be found in the whole of
my "Random Thought" articles writ
ten during 1874.
In regard to the all -pervading vul
garity of the Dominic, l need only
quote, in proof of its exi-tence, por-
tons OF two of his sentences in your
Yesterdays is.ue: "IIad my hypo
lhetical parent said" y n
"'Our children he would have i'm
nlied that'' - u $ "Some win
bachelor had assisted in the paternity
OF his little ones, and been soundly
'caudled for slandering his wife,"
Then in his "spanking" illustration
he speaks of an inoffensive little boy
who could no Longer sit down com
fortably," and i%ntiniates that he would
serve me the same way If he only
could reach the spanking place" /
humbly apologize to your readers Tor
presenting these very low bred utter
ances of my opponent in this let er. l
present them 10 allow Dominic to
| speak for himself in language such
as | should be ashamed to use ex
cept in quotation and for the purpose
| have indicated. If he had been
| pure minded; II he had been a re-
lined scholar; il he had possessed any
desire to show that he could set "A
noble example before the youths OF
our town in writing a decent reply to
a just criticism, he ought lot to have
employed words which could only
prove injurious and discreditable to
himself.
| shall divide my further critical
| remarks into two parts, and treat
first, of the refined letter OF yesterday,
and second, give new criticisms of the
"elegant" production of Sunday.
Yesterdays Letter.
"Dominie" says: II had made a
supposititious father say, 'our taxes
are unprecedentedly heavy and in
the same sentence refer[red] to my
responsibility aid to my Children
Jethro objects, and for a lady's reason,
The change from plural to singular is
without good cause The sentence is
absolutely without flaw; the change
was not only proper but necessary"
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