American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-07
CORR iGSpONDE
DENNIS KEARNEY IN PRIN'

menter of the present financial sys-
TEN, | suppose this must be the
Identical individual, Ivy the ear
marks of his profound article,) has
at last landed in the metropolis of
Madison county. Dennis suppose
to he the same " Magnus Apollo "
that has agitatrd his adopted State
from centre to circumference on the
"heathen Chinee" question, and
has, after n. respite from his labors
In the larger cities in the interest
of that "Lowell' statesman, b. +.
B., concluded to turn his attention
and artillery to weightier matters,
and seeks to do so by appearing in
print in one of our favnrite Journals
in Canton as "a mediator in the snail
fry poll ical situation that exists in
this county at present.
1t is generally believed that this
distinguished individual is a self
made man, and has more confidence
in what he has wrought with his
ingenuity and limited advantages,
than in all that has been accom-
plished by the combined aud accu
mulated intellectual and physical
resources of several generations. l
have never met this California
Irishman, but confess that, next to
seeing Henry Ward B,'echer, l
would like to behold the smiling.
benign physiognomy of Dennis
Kearney.
Dennis undertakes to play the
role of satirist, and strains point
to administer gentle rebuke to
one of your correspondents from
Beat No 2. Your numerous read
ers would like to know IN what part
of Ireland Dennis KiIlkearny lived.
eighteen centuries ago, when your
correspondent leaped the "chasm,"
POSSIBLY it was bloody when C:e
sar crossed the Rubicon, that dark
and fatal stream, and erased the
landmarks of the Eternal City,
about which Dennis truthfully says,
II don't know TO the contrary"
Thus endcth Dennis ON historical
issues.
We notice Dennis i'll act second ::
1t is possible this gentleman may
have imagined himself addressing
one of his "rag tag and bOb-tail !"
audiences in FaDueil Hall, when he
talks about calcium light" We
unfortunate, hard-fsted tiliers OF
the soil are frequently glad to go to
bed without any light, when the
days labor is performed; and il
compelled to have u light, are very
we'll satisfied with coal oil or talIow
candles at reduced Rates. Mr..
Kearney, evidently, from the tone
of his "calcium lucuhratiohs, as
appears from his article, must have
fallen, on his arrival, into the hands
of some of the attorneys at the
s'bar," although it is said that cat
home he is also a great temperance
agitator,l and as a natural result
makes one of his celebrated sham
Efforts to defend the lawyers
against whom, as a class or profess
sion, very little of a derogatOry ma
ture could be truthfully affirmed or
maintained. Dennis argues in this
wise, with his usual fortiter IN re: II
a c;irpen er is the proper person to
build house, why not have the
legislative body, that makes the
laws, represented by lawyers In
short, If carpenter can build a
house, why not lawyer frame the
law? There are very few unskillcd
mechanics, doubtless, in California,
and like whisky, suppose, they
have no second class s'memberJ of
the bar"
Now, / am painfully apprehensive
that Dennis will, by his convincing
logic, and irrepressible syllogisms
as to the amount of tax it costs to
live in CantOn-and the irremedia-
BILE pdblIc calamity of none OF the
tax ridden lawyers of this fnaDciaI>
ly oppressed city being able to de-
vote their time and talents to the
duties of some public Office Of high
trust and small eInOlument-induce
another exodus among the members
Of the bar, which will not only in.
l1ict the property owners of the
great Mississippi valley with anoth
r. convention, but possibly bank.
Iupt the banner county of the State
rs to the legal department, distin>
yuished SO long for its lore and cnl
lure, possibly for generation. Let
Us hope that gentlemen of the legal
p ofessiOn will not be uudulr infiu-
.nccd by the persuasive sophistry
,f this "suave" agitatOr. I insist