Smyrna times., 1880-09-08

In your last issue IS" gives your readers
the opportunity to Judge for themselves
whether Byron was or was not justified in
embodying in verse =
Another writer ,rh0 inlicts again
More trash and nonsense on the Of men.
for we supposed in his day as well as ours
there were those who had elevated views of
their literary ability, and were always
ready to air the same when occasion or ex-
cuse offered, happily ignorant that the
amusements their productions thus al
ford the public was Of the kind that
the public would have enjoyed and per-
haps paid for at Punch and Judy show,
where shallow mockeries, and silly imita-
tions are expected but when natural born
unmitigated donlleys 30 exhibiting them.
selves gratis in the newspapers we always
feel like plying the afflicted party fo: thus
mstaking their calling. Now IS" has
chosen US as target for his scorn in long
winded TRADE of abuse which he thinks
argument-a common mistake OF writers of
his cuHGcr-fOr " IFid IS MT lViSll0m" In
writing our letter we had three purposes to
serve. First to shame the young man into
silence concerning the petty occurrences
of the place and which he took such
delight in reporting. Second, because he
used the cloak OF the reportcr to give pub
licity to a guQrfcL Of lis o,CH, or rather grow
ing out of a quarrel of his own in which
the truth was distorted till there was
scarcely any real scmblance to the real
facts OF the case. Third, the subjects Of
! his attacks are women who would as soon
think of resorting to the dueIo or code of
! honor for satisfaction and dcfcnsc-as to
! the newspapers, and it should not surprise
IS" to find that Others are not so scrupul-
| Gus. The attacks on these ladies were
made in an indelicate manner, and the
vindictiyc spirit Of your correspondent
cropped out in his production. In refer.
ence to self rs" writes" lie SAYS we tried
to show he was biased toward Mr.. Wright
in the Wright, Bailey case" We did not
try to show that he was biased t0t0ard
Mr. Wright or that he was biased array from
him, but if being in sympathy with Wright
constitutes a bias in Mr.. Wright's direction
then he was biased. Biased or not we
know his tales are not Stratgh, and may hc
biased too, and are crooked anyhow. We
never tried to make Of "S.'' butt of cen
sure" because we do not know what but
OF censure" means or the meaning of am
portion of the sentence Herewith connect
ed. We have read Popes Essay on Mar
and Gray's Elegy in Country Churcl
Yard, but have never read Popes Essa,
on Criticism or Goldsmiths Elegy on MAJ
Dog, but as we are advised to read the tw'
last we will do SO provided as" will tel
US where the same may be procured. Ii
return we suggest s." read Smiths Eng
lish Grammar, and Goldsmiths History Q
the Animal Kingdom, and perhaps the tw
works may enable him first, to write a NOR
correct letter, and secondly, to find out t
what class of animals he naturally and b
divine right belongs. Your readers mus
feel toward as" after reading his las
} letter like people Of the village in Colo
smiths Village School Master:
: And still they gazed and still the wonder grow
How one small head could carry all he knew"
We will finish our correspondence lit wi
be the last you will hear from me on tn
r subject,) with the following from renne!
sons Maud:
There are longnecked geese of the world that al
ever Kissing dspraiSe
Because their natures little and whether we hee
them or not,
a Where each man walks with his head in cloud
a poisonous ties'
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