The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-02-09

Creator: but we like him, nevertheless.
He has peculiar intellect, being genius.
aud common.sense is stranger to his
mind he lives In the atmosphere of the
higher metaphysics aud wants nothing
but brains to be great philosopher; but
We like him. nevertheless. We like him
because he has good heart, and
would, II hc were not afflicted BY al
overwcanina sclflshness. often do good
acts. We like him also, because he is u
good man, and would, upon impulse. be
fair, il he were not the victim OF the belief
that. being an intellectual leader. he
must be cruel In his conclusions and per-
nit the ponderous logic that is being
continually evolved from his great mind
to crush coininon-sense and put behind
it the promptings of all ordinary reas-
oning. The fact Is. our friend Living
ston Is too great and this is the only OBJ
lection we have too him--the only ohiec-
ton any person can have to him. II our
friend Livingston were only hall as
great as he is, he would be man among
ten thousand and altogether admirable.
We think We may say, with confidence,
that evidence Of our friend Livlngston's
too much greatness, is to be found abun-
dainty in his letter printed in another
column. Only man too great could
write such letter. Only dweller upon
the higher intellectual plane could he the
father of It's ideas. Mark with what
skill our .reat-our 700 great friend,
Livingston-tells the story Of the dog
and wolf In all literature there Is not
a parallel to the dog.wolf story of our
great friend. II is dog-oned excellent;
ii is wolfishly delightful. The dog is
well.fed but collared-brass collared: the
volt is half.starved, but proud and indie
pendent. II would rather be poor and
have my liberty says the wolf, and
bounds into the forest and free air. Our
great--our 700 great friend, Livingston
is the wolf. He is hungry wolf and
hali.starved. Being in country of no
chickcn-coops or sheep-folds, he
bounds into the forest and free air. |
That is the kind Of wolf Livingston is.
For what purpose does Wolf Livingsio"
bound into the forest and free sir! 10
seek shcep-iold or chicken-coop' No.
no. Our wolf is not that kind OF woli
A gentle wolf is Wolf Livingstone.
a.. thaf moi |
approach him-Do chicken that he
would eat without first obtaining its
permission. lie is honest wolf, and
lalt-starved hc will remain forever unless
'ome meek lamb or self-sacrilicing chicken
lays to him Honor Inc by eating me-"
let no man cry Wolf" when Livingston
approaches, for, though hungry he may
DE-, he lisa volt we have every reason to be
proud ola wolf without guile. as tender
! wolf az ever sorrowfully sucked the
blood of a sheep or crunched the bones
IF chicken.
But Wolf Livingston does us an in
usticc when he says that we have even
" indirection charged that he and Mr..
Ward are cheap friends of the
iarrow-gau2e road. We did not say
his and did not intend to say it. We
night, IL we wished To be Mt once severe
md truthful. say that those gentlemen
would he dear friends even at the cheap.
,st prices, but In fact, We do not believe
hat either Mr.. Livingston or Mr.. Ward |
mas been induced by money or promises
Of any Kind TO become the champion OF
Messrs. Canda and Searls and the advo-
late Of their cause. On the contrary |
We believe both the gentlemen
are acting without money and with.
but prlce-src honest in their po.
'ition. 1t may be that Mr.. Wards good |
tense Is warped little by business con-
but we are sure Mr.. Living.
ston has taken the position he has on
this question because he knows no bet
ter. The stupidity Of greatness has
made him Obliyious 10 the common-sense
arguments that have convinced every
sensible citizen that il would be better 10 |
compel the narrow gauge road 10 20 Oh |
the outside o.. the new evee than TO per-
nit II 10 either Use tho top Of II
or run upon the inside. We
acquit Mr.. L., as we do Mr. W., Of any
corrupt motive in taking the position that
has been assumed by those gentlemen.
Mr.. l.. is simply not sensible upon tbi.
question. That is all. lie Ia great, but
he 10 too great to be wise In reference to
90 small a matter ~ this.
In another respect Wolf Livingston
docs us injustice. He says he would
have stated the substance Of his
woi letter at the Ward meet
ing II he had not been
interrupted by an ill-mannered crowd
headed by US. This lisa false growl of
the wolf. We did not head any crowd,
and we did not interrupt Mr.. Liyings.
ton. We were anxious to have him
speak his piece. We wanted to hear
him. Therefore Mr. Livingston has done
us Injustice but, then, why not =;
a man who is too great TO
nave any coinm0n-sense must DO also
too great to be in every respect truthful.
Mr. Livingstonis too great to be sensi.
bic, and he has stated about W. what IL
not fact. We pardon him. We would
be unreasonable II We were to hold 40
great man to the statement Of facts.
We have written In haste, and If We
have done Mr.. Livingston injustice we