Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-11-15
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We regret tiat WE are cdmpdaed
to notice the. r on sseseseaaah
this week, ca wa hate IA aqserti&
a paper vsith lfl6e lpursiaistA taB
lent as that displays. what We say
THE

ourseM, for we need no defence, we
simply Hish.t to explain
while we are q ssliar,r they are fools
for want ii sense tfgtrativeiy speak
ing that rhs moser they Gay The
less brains they shaYrrbas Mlpt we
say, we want i destinctlE unddrstood
does nes refer 10 FEFEofs Rise d the 81
lent editor, for Ne never knew awhiter
Ter mar, II every sense Of the word: !,
While At follegeso We loved and re-
.specsed him and alwass shall what hd
and his nas deceased fsthsr did for
US while nj college will never be or,
gotten, and vi know. that he has no nc,
in. ttliR .batder and dash the
other two editors take such delight in
giving us--Ah, this is9saI beautiful
pair shieh We shall now proceed,
TO ''dEaw teS jar . led5
In tie firstpiaee theresis the con-
sequential man, ex-prof. failure as
an attorney, Excuse as an editor,
want-te-be schoei commissioner, N.
ID. Thurmend. He is C high, as
you would see ''if' you only knew
him." Andthen there is the heavy
weight. The man that does the
phunny business. Gets off the puns,
tickles himself so he can laugh at his
own foolishness, his title is ex-prof.
ex-school commissioner, Fresh edi-
tor want 10 be county collector, j. L.
Nichols. lie is q whole team, A.
Tar Bucket and a. dog under the
wagon. This is the pair we wish to
"draw to-" one is ace high-toned.
They both are t'duce''--d low. Neith-
er one of them believe i'll personal
journalism, at least that is what they
say in their every valuable Sheet"
but you see they think they are a sue
cess in this line, and for this reason
they 90 back on them selves and
araise us" every chance they get, but
if they viii only stay with us we will
show them that when ''they don't
got some they don't best bet"
Last week they made a brilliant at.
tempt to answer our article in reply
to Lex but all they could say
was like the school boy, ''you lie,
you lie, you lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, and
then they run. Now we ought tt
shout ''you anotDler," but we simply
say if it suits, you morbid fancy, tc
thirk we lie, and if you are happy ii
this tho ught, why, don't forget it.
| but gentlemen you did not, and what
is more, You can not answer our ar
ticle, all you q do is to throw YOU
vile ISLANDERS at us and thus avoid thC
| question, you insist that We try tc
yillfy Galloway county. That is ;
most unmitigated lie, we never thought
of such a thing. Mo one has morf
respect for the brave and true mef
(not forgetting the fair ladies) oil
Galloway than we have, but it is ours
ed with Il lot OF foul tends, whose
part the Gazette seems to take pleas.
Te in backing. What we said last
week and what we may say i'll the fu
; ture. il not meant for the whole coun
ty. but for that element OF i 70
every true man in the COUNTY
bushes, and the only a the Ga
zettc knecls to it, is 20 gain favor
i Gentlemen, you know that this is tn
| truth, and that it is the truth we tell
= and not the s~'lics," that makes yol
, soucai so. Eli! What did 20
say! You say this is no: a quos
: ton of your seeking" Why the
did You spring it. Oh, guess you al
getting sick of yGyr bargain are yor
you jumped the wrong boy did you
When VIC used To go TO school to yot
you used to tell us to try, try again
and now we echo, and if you contiI
ne to "'vilify'' the LEDGER in the fl
ture, we will open II gatlin gun 0
:, you, and then you WILL THINK 70
heard something drop.
We are tired Of this affair and wal
it stopped where it started, and if
u not-well, you will hear somethin
fall. so each Of you owned a Ii
> tie Ratchet when boys" Well,
you don't run your paper on Il soui
der platform, you will not have the
when you s'grow DID," darling. 5
= sail that stuff about Galloway mol
= bingits sheriff and prisoners, is sin
ply another attempt at ~vilification, a
right. 1t was meant for you Gazett
> and you can smoke it In your pip
SO you think that the greatest fai
ure Galloway is guilty of, is that 81
tried three years to make somethin
out Of the editor of the LEDGER, bl
failed" Now we don't think you nee
g worry about our being a failure, 3
e you, all professional men, jump Q
o boy scarcely p years of age an
yet he gives you such a hauling 20
r don't known which way to turn, an
all you can say is, you lie, yon liz
s lie, lie, and then swell up like a toae
D Talk about failing, both of the actin
: editors Of the Gazette have failed {
t every thing they every took hold {
even as bad as they now fail in joul
nalism. Berry had been killed thre
A.. or four weeks before you made an
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