The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-28
A REPLY TO DANF0RTH'S
Secondhand Drivel.
DIR. Bowman Hits the Ex.purser Some
More Hard Blows, and Refutes
His Lies.
ANDALUsIA, Aug. %.

old buzzard quill loose on the copperhead !
den, | expected TO wake the snakes"
but had not the conceit to think could |
make snch center shot. "Wounded
birds are known by their fluttering." By
the same rule, wounded copperheads will
indicate their sense of damage by squirm
ing, Kissing and soldering of venom.
We really feel more like shaking hands
with ourselves than We remember to have
felt before for long time, over the re
suit In his dazed condition he tries to
divert the attention of the public from
the real issue, by retailing the second
hand drivel, gathered up for him by the
few copperheads of Andalusia, respecting
the members of the G. A r., men whose
shoes latchet he is unworthy to un>
loose" TREY were guilty of the unpar>
donable sin Ito him) of having been good
soldiers in the service of the country.
Mr.. Smith is the honored magistrate of
Andalusia, and has been for years sues
cessfully and creditably teaching school
in this immediate region, and is now en-
gagged to teach as principal of the Andas
lusia school for the coming winter. Mr..
Hayes has resided in our place for many
years, raised very respectable family,
and enjoys the confidence of the commu-
nifty as one of its substantial citizens.
Mr.. Reade has not removed out of sight
of his former home in Iowa. He located
| here because his interest and pleasure so
prompted him. His browning offense is,
| that he. more than any other one man.
| has been the means of organizing Post
Of the q. A X. here. But the copper
head scavengers here have found out, or
| think they have discoveries new kind of
political monster, and J. b. ID. trots it
out to the gaze of his gaping satellites
| Ii comes SO apTOpos, to the reason, too
| that he chuckles over it as if he might
get pension from the X. q c., or pat
ent for his second hand invention. 1t is,
for fact, grasshopper; and he savagely
tries to Overwhelm another old citizen
with its crushing weight. The fault of
the good old citizen is. he cannot stom
ach cOpperhead venom. He spits it
| out.
| OF course he honors us by bringing all
his reserves into action. He aims to ami
hilate US at one desperate onslaught.
| Well, we have had the honor of being the
target for one of Danforth's friends,-a
rebel sharp shoOter-we have had
a charge of canister rained down
over rs, had the cape of our
soldiers overcoat lifted by the wind
age of rebel she'll; had the honor
of being the special aim for two rebel
shells, and had other narrow calls; but
we little dreamed of being selected for
the special object for copperhead stink
pots" in full volley. Their aroma puts to
shame the pungent odor of sewer gas
evolved from fostering city cesspools
| We feel flattered; We must surely possess
the quality in an eminent degree, of be-
ing exceedingly disagreeablc' to copper
heads and some other of J. B. ID S specs
ial frends-the thieves. We are sorely
tempted TO expand little, but must
hasten and condense, not to tax your
generosity too severely.
| DanforIh seems to believe that
the reiteration of a falsehood will
make it pass for truth. 1t may
be so among the credulous class who take
his paper, but with sensible, just people,
it only reaps harvest of contempt. He
bowls and shrieks mob! mobl mobll Now
the G.. A. X. has not threatened or con-
templated anything of the kind. TheiI
resolutions speak for themselves, and we
here make him the proposition that if he
will publish them in his columns correct
ly, as an advertisement, We will pay him
at his regular advertising rate, for three
months insertion. He seems to have a
faint idea that he is cute in criticising Oul
use of the word learn" Don't he know
that anybody could teach cOpperhead !
but it takes Il master hand to teach
them the lessons of patriotism. We had
some small hope, but on reading our
Bible we stumbled on a page that dis
couraged us. Ii read about this way
Though thou bray fool [copperhead
: IN mortar with Il pestle, among wheat
yet will not his foolishness Icopperhead
isml depart from him" The brackets art
our rendering of the meaning of the wOrt
> fool. This weakened our courage. w,
! suspect if there was any sign of encOur
& agement it would be dashed by the dog
, like return to his vOmit. He wants us u
wade through the unfathOmable vileness
{ of his utterances during the war. Life i
= too short, and for a choice, We woul,
9 prefer to serve the same time in Stat
prison. He war democrat? Tough
How solid his cheek! Does not he knoS
i that no good soldier that ever saw
y his traitorOus sheet during the war coult
:. by any possibility be made to believ
! that there was single patriotic sentimen
in his groveling soul7 Don't he Know tina
s he is indebted to our frmness for his life
el Twill give scrap of history, the truth {
e which can easily be tested by many Twin
witnesses-some are now in Rock Island
. At the close of the war soldiers re
union was held at Edgington TO welcom
e the safe return of the gallant sons VIII
t. had nobly done battle for their countr
D.. in the dark days of its peril Democrat
and republicans joined like brothers i
striving to insure "A warm. heartfelt WEI
: come to their returning veteran soldiers
,. We had the high honor to preside,
DanfOrth knows, on that occasion, Aft,
such feast, as Edgington is very just
70 celebrated for, there were complimental
N and patriotic toasts and responses /
e such parties as were called out. hs
selected for the close the sentiment Il
our fallen Heroes. had arranged fl
Is the band to play a funeral dirge, as a mo-
2 fitting response to close with. When
IF read the sentiment, and announced Il
dirge as the response, and the closing {
the exercises, copDerhead behind Il
stand called out, Col. Danforth"
turned in the direction of the call, an
with quiet energy replied, | would |
| blanba1 &c 1id thar Jaaaanlol s.