The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-09-04

The Abbeville Medium of last week
drops Governor Simpson and phosphates
long enough to pay its respects to the
INTELLIeENCER, whom it terms "Our
Impudent Neighbor," and styles our ar
ticles of the week before ill-humored,
gratuitous, unkind, impudeut, wanton,
&C., to the end of its vocabulary of ad-
jectives. 1t first takes us up about init
mating that the editor of the Medium
was probably the member of the Legis-
lature who will introduce bill to repeal
the charter of the Savannah Valley Rail-
road, if it is attempted, and says it only
gave the rumor as IN item of news. This
may be, but we only gave our opinion
as to where that item of news may have
had its origin, and do not see anything
in that to rile our amiable contemporary.
He also seems particularly hurt that we
should have said he has no interest in the
Savannah Valley Railroad, and says that
it is untrue, for he is interested in the
enterprise. As citizen who has an in
terest in the whole country the Medium's
claim to an interest may be true, but in
the sense in which we used it the editor
of the Medium is not interested, for he is
not corporator nor stakeholder, he owns
no land along the line and does not live
near it; and, moreover, he will pay no
tax towards building it.
Then the Medium says:
4 second article in the INTELLIGEN-
GEE speaks of the Medium Continuing
its attack upon Governor Simpson" and
entirely misrepresents the drift of an ed
itorial on hero-worship, rs even any half
witted Anderson county man would
have discovered had our critic had the
courtesy to publish the article. We are
not opposed to Governor Simpson have
always spoken of him as high-minded,
able, conscientious magistrate; but Eve
have differed with him upon several
questions, and expect to take different
views of other questions from those he
entertains." This is neither "unreason-
BILE nor discourteous."
From this it seems our contemporary
did not intend to reflect on Gov. Simp-
son, but it is much to be regretted that
the critics of public opinion do not con-
descend to make their language simple
enough for the half-witted people of An
derson County to understand them. We
have no better sense than to believe the
English language means what the die
tionaries say, and this failure to compre-
hend the higher knowledge which our
contemporary possesses must be our
apology for thinking his article on hero
worship was in part an attack on Gov.
Simpson. The article, like many con-
tained in the Medium, was an insidious
and plausible one, which is the most un-
fair and, to certain extent, the most
dangerous mode of attacking any person
an editor wishes to demolish. We do
not think Gov. Simpson is in any danger
of being hurt by the Medium, but we are
tired of its continual attacks on our Gov
ernors upon all sorts of grounds. 1t is
time for our neighbor to quit attacking
every body that attains prominence.
In conclusion, we want it understood
that we are not angry with our esteemed
contemporary, and do not intend to get
so. We only want him to quit habit
which is not calculated, in our opinion,
to advance the public good in South
Carolina. This and nothing else has in
duced us to undertake the review of our
neighbor's course for the past few weeks.