Richland beacon., 1875-01-09
LabOratus alias Jupiter TOnans'
Reviewed.

age to your polemic correspondent,
Laboratus, alias Jupiter Tonans, y
Grown Prince of captious dispu-
tants and quibblers." In your issue
of Dec. 26th l find two rather extra,
ordinary communications, covering
five columns of generalties and non-
sense. Your correspondent says: "In
our reply to Mr. Hemler we pay our
respects to him on his own merits,
while our reply to "One of the Com
mittee' includes both and takes them
in tow conformity" Labora,us must
excuse me when tell him that, as a
writer, he comes up to the full stand
ard of presumption, and arrogates to
himself what few intelligent men will
accord to him on his real merit as a
writer and critic; and, if the public
is not mistaken in the identity if your
correspondent, instead Of maintaining
bis present status as pulpit essayist,
be must sink to the level of common
newspaper scribbler.
Laboratus says: "Come, Mr. Hem
Ter, come squarelv up without any
prevarication, or mental reservation,
or any fun about it, and say whether
you include white laborers in these
stringent labor regulations or not. If
you meant white, say white; if you
meant black, say black" Had your
correspondent the sagacity he claims
be never would have exposed his
weakness by asking such nonsensi-
cal question. think the framer of
tho address understood what be
meant, and used language to convey
his ideas to others so as to be under
stood, Notwithstanding Mr.. Presump-
tous arrogates to himself the charita-
BILE office to forgive him for his igno-
rance. He says, December 18th,
"Come, gentlemen, We forgive you
this inadvertency, on the ground that
you are not probably in the habit of
scribbling for newspapers, and that it
would better suit the textures OF your
mental power to be at home" &c. |
In bis criticism on the writer, Dec. |
26th, be says: "You either say what
you don't intend to say, or you don't |
know what you are saying" Oh!
shades Of wisdom! when didst tbv
mantle fall upon this Solomon of the
10th century?
Messrs. Editors, the address does
not say white; the addres does not
say black; it says laborer; 1t means
laborer, both white and black. ask
this young Solomon if our civil law
of Louisiana or the common law of
England and America makes any dis
tinction between the white laborer
and the black laborer 10 a lawsuit to
enforce contract. Suppose Labora-
tus would apply to lawyer Potts, of
your village. to bring suit against a
freedman to enforce contract, and !
tell Mr.. Potts, "you must state in
your petition that be is black man |
or will employ other counsel" /
think Esqire Potts reply would be
about this: "Well, sir, you can get
other counsel, if you wish l am no.
going to place myself before an intel
ligent judge or jury, describing man
BY bis flesh marks"
Had Laboratus asked me to come
squarely up aud say whether in
cluded the black laborer in these strin-
gent labor regulations as the white
laborer's equal SOCIALLY, would
sey, mo; thousand times no!
never was and never can be-" Now,
Mr.. Quibbler, what have you got to
sayf Where are your horns? Where
is your unhealthy dilema! Where is
the dangerous thurst you will give
your (our) farms? Where are your
rats! Give your shuck pile another
tremendous shake" "NARY RATn
What l said in regard to the labor
strikes in Europe and America, was
cited as proof of the impolicy of such
q course, not boastingly-far be such
q thought from me-nor do | vet be-
Ileve that your correspondent believed
the sentence when be penned it.
Quibbler says: "Mr. Hemler here
boasts Of the tyranny of Capital. -
How does this dovetail with his
(Hemler's) fine rhetoric about eleva-
ting socially, morally and financially
the laboring classes ?" LET us see.~
We apply the liberal and fair contract
system in the frst case. and train
them up as good grangers, and apply
the Golden or Grange RULE in the
second case Ito whiets, fearing be may
say ! mean. niggers). do unto others