The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1881-06-10
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,b.s. Ladies' may be mistaken in ihei
riew.. can he admitted to he quite possible
II no one, save yourself, has ever ques
toned their perfect a, otion, their per'et
sincerity, their perfect unsel6shneas. J.
the article 10 which I refer, you also made
an often. i've and false alusion 10 the IN
rrRroR JOURNAL For this took occa-
sion TO administer TO you gentle rap Oh
the knuckle-, using, however. no worse Ian
rusge, you may remember,thsn to call you
a "Peripsteiic Pedagogne," which really
hoped you might come in time to regard ss
a sort Of compliment. Icertainly made no
sllu-ion whatever TO your Family" which,
for sught know, or care, may lie very re-
spectable. Subsequently, you wrote me
very foolish and threatening letter. which
I charlsbly fsrsbore to publish and only
noticed in facesious paragraph. This, ~
rights, should have been the end Of the
natter. But 10 last weeks Dsnvills TIL
bvre, whose chsste columns present week
IL feast to the eye and nose. l find from
your pen a lengthy "Reply to W. T.
Walton In the course Of it, with deli
cacy as we'll o. vigor Of invessivs that
had not suspected in you, you sontrive 70
call me . "low bully" "pimp,' "bssar
on horseback" "deprsved piece Of humsn-
ity," 'fnsolent upstart," 'shoddy srisfo-
crst," &C, &c. These be brave and bitter
words, beloved, but / am somewhat used
to taking as veil as giving koocks, and l
smiled serenely, o. I read, until ] came 10
this harrovi though ungrsmmaiic, dis
scription Of my personal appearances:
"Physioloxically, he strikinsly resembles
the contracted Uranium Of a prehistoric
man, perched on the running gear Of =
jumping jack allow no man to ssperse
my personal beauty, even 10 good English.
All the lion in me was aroused and my
wrath was something terrible 10 behold,
and had you then but been in reach of
this arm full many an urchin, into whos-
bare breech you have switched the iudi'
ments Of q polite education" would have
been instantly and signslly avenged.
Ibegsn at once to mediate a more re.
fined, but not less wicked, vengeance. The
peripstetic pedsgogue J. always exceed
ingly vain Of his mesgre stock Of common
school learning. 1 resolved, thsrefore,to dis.
sect the English Of you" reply.r would ask
to know what you meant by "litsraiy Ell
qustts." would sternly inquire what
precise idea you attached TO the ''liter,ry
instincts Of gentleman, "Sc. would de.
mand Of yen aloud, and in public. to pars.
this last tremendous sentence, on which
you had evidently lAbored long, and into
which you had poured the whole strength
and feryor Of your aliteray instincts. y
al say TO this iasolsnf upstar and slsddy
aris,eerof although broken down by tho
war. and ataoonised in my profession by
that selfish ring, bigotry and ignorant ia
usticism. that hare brought shame and ruin
upon Kentucky education, 1 may be very
! poor financially. but / have struggled with
all my powers Of mind and bsdy TO rear a
large family. and 1 sm now rich in the
possession of moral and we'll educated
children, whom 1 shall protect from the
base aspersious Of any foul cbarlatan with
more pertinaeity than would my own
person from the dagger Of the midnight as.
n. -. - LII. A..