The Hartford herald., 1885-11-18

i've men OF Plymouth and their official
acts. i said nothing If the worst, by
whom i could have shown they out
demoned the inmates of PandemonIum
itself. Nor did / even tell half the
official acts Of atrocity as public order
to burn holes in Quaker's tongues with
red-hot irons, executed a. late as 1857,
and many more Of like import, attest.
But let us see what even Goodrich, that
peuured, partisan miscreant, who has
desecrated the name uf history, which
ought to be spared the violence in seek
ing to stultify and abuse the tender
minds of our Southern children by
fastening an infamous, slanderous lie
upon our forefathers, is forced to say
That Goodrich has "pulledr you Is
neither surprising nor to be regretted,
but enter a solemn protest against our
people patronizing a notorious New
England practice which has once lsved
Of its sons. Now, Bub, don't bite at
this nor that. II you do, III jerk you
out of those trousers 80 roughly that
old prompter who is making a cats
paw of you will he sorry that he has
held you between himself and danger,
I'll snatch you out Of that little hat so
high you'll spin like the button on
barn door.
Goodrich says, after noticing his
three thousand miles journey into the
interior, "the most remarkable ON
record" his treaties of peace, his excel
lent map still extant and wonderfully
correct, and his "indefatigable en-
deavors to establish habits Of order and
industry among the colonists, that
Captain Smith was indeed a most
remarkable man as the fact We have
stated aJuaddntly proces. Few men
could have seen more clearly in what
the true interest Of a rising colony con-
sisted, and still .fe,oer DOuid hare been
"He became so identified with the his
tory of his country and his race, &C."
"The good of his fellow-men seemed to
have been the higher motive of his
heart" "He displayed not only skill
and perseverance, but foresight and
statesman-like wisdom" "The father
of Virginia" 1.-The true leader. who
first planted the Saxon race within the
borders Of the u. S." How does this
ring with Schoolboy's double dealing
and damnable extracts, warped and
twisted till even Goodrich was black IN
the face. Despicable! Why that is not
an adequate word. Some dead Ian
guage may have had one but English,
so far as l know, has not.
Since Smith was the only leader and
representative he dared attack, and l
have nailed the falsehood to the wall
with his own hammer, my task is
ended. AS for the remainder of his
letter it is equally weak at every point
and proves nothing SO clearly as my
folly in becoming serious in bandying
words with a shoe-string simpleton that
knows no more about history than
skillet knows of Immortality, and has
the stupidity and hardihood to misstate,
garble and misquote common school
book.
Whatever / may have drawn from
that greatest of jurists, was not re-
duced to the pitiful extremity Of
slaughtering him to make point, and,
as for the standing Of Black and
Goodrich as political historians, sub
NIT that to the public. l meant no
disparagement to our school houses.
They have warm place in my heart
as they "bring up clustered visions of
the golden past" Your paltry, sense.
less sneer at what you tamely call "sus-
picion" is AS vapid as it is insolent. I
only regret that these dear places, sa-
cred to every heart that beats for its
own native land, have been desecrated
by sneaking textbooks and perfidIous
tutors from New England. "Ostracismu'
Now it is just too confounded ridiculous
for the like of you to set up howl of
persecution you mean-and it knocks
all the gravity out of the question.
But, then it is in perfect keeping with
your sniveling styles. expected to
hear you sing persecution, for it is the
weapon, the derDier-resort of moral
coward; but "Ostracism." Whew
Oh yes, Bub. persecution or some sort
Of Americanized Punishment would
have suited man of your cloth, parts,
caliber, as il were, much better. Now,
If you know what Ostracism means.y you
certainly display cheek 80 transcendent
it would blush government mule.
II you do not, then here is fool stalk
ing in where angels dare not tread.
AS matter of fact, however, can
not only tolerate Republican doctrine
in sensible men, but can admire, even
enjoy it; but when you mix it up in
smart Alec's No. head, then cauter-
ize u with lmpudence, cheek and inn
becility, confess you have a nauseating
compound, which l verify believe would
puke an old 'yaller' dog Jeffersonian
Democracy lays no Injunction upon me
to extend the freedom of the press, or
words to that effect, to little pimps and
tOw-string boys who stIut around in
Goodrich airs.
You must draw line bet ween your
self and men of brains and goodly parts.
There's no danger of your fossilzing-
too watery, no substance you see. But,
yes, there's Ostracism. Let's go back to
that. Now the truth is, even brill
liant Hyperbolus, who had more wit in
his little finger than you ever had in
the whole anatomy of forty of your
generations back, brought disrepute
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