The Hartford herald., 1885-11-18

snggs Hits sehooIboy u Few More.

suggs Hits SehooIboy u Few More
Editor Herald:
Your correspondent baited pin hook
with very thin ruse and angled for q
vain little sucker, and the gentleman(? !?
from Massachusetts, the first, the only
and hope the INSTRUMENTATION who
ever championed the corn thieves ol
New England, has laid hold of that
bait like tanners dog to raw-hide
He tugs away 50 ingenuously and with
80 much vigor my sympathy is aroused
and l don't know whether to just let
him tug or land him high and dry His
efforts are conclusively that of mere
boy, intellectually, at least, and have
some compunctions IN handling him so
roughly. But here, isn't it a little
strange that a boy who has just begun
to "spark" the girls will take such
pOundings just for the fun there is in il?
/ IL looks little suspicious, and argues
that, if he is not like one of Napoleon's
raw recruits, there must be something
at the bottom working this jumping
jack. | have an idea that some old
cOdger is skulking behind this poor
boy, patting him on the back, and tell
ing the little "tige" to ''go fur 'em."
Upon this idea shall train my battery
and try to make it so hot for the old
coon that he will either betray signs OF
sympathy for this human shield and
dupe or show to what extreme he can
carry his cowardice. 1t il true, my
father used to tell me never to strike a
fool or insult ali idiot, and doubtless the
good maxim should be applied in a
literary sense but, in this instance,
will avail myself Of the benefit of the
usual eight per cent. exceptions.
Now it is plain, Sch Dolboy still be-
lieves his thumb-paper fustsin is really
argument, and will doubtless go down
to his-nine acre (?)-grave believing
he smOte Democracy with a terrible
scOurge; 4; believing he mounted, not
Pegasus Boots, Pyrois nor Orelia, but
the fiery hoofed Clavileno el Aligero
himself, and, welding the seething
bolts of despair, came laundering down
upon the haple-s colony, dealing out
destruction and death to the sbrieking
Virginians. He seems incapable of un-
derstanding that We ridicule a thing,
when it is worthy of nothing more
serious unless pe are angling that
contempt is had only for the worthless.
Bu6, you have fiattered yourself that
the reason / ridiculed you was because
you were unanswerable, haven't you
Well, now, you ought not to be so
easily taken in. at gives you dead
away" Nothing could have made the
green stand out more tangibly, As il
were, and it may yet stamp you as an
unmitigated idict, marked on your
front, to wander, like Cain, contempt-
ible through the land. And, for the
Lords sake, don't "bring up' any more
history-of the kind-for the mere hint
that you still have more of such trump
cry makes us groan.
An old darky preacher once asked a
lawyer in Texas what he thought OF
his preaching. "Uncle," said the law
yer, "you have as fine voice as / eve Z
heard, but you haven't got d-n bit OF
sense" Schoolboy may have a good
voice for history, but the trouble is he
hasn't - SO
Now, to show you it was your stun
ming bosh other than your stunning
logic that made me resort to ridicule,
and that you are very easily answered,
let us examine some of your paralyzinR
history. l will even } ield an invalu-
able advantage i'm the argument by
throwing away my own weapons, meet
you on your own chosen ground and
fight you with your own Oracle OF
Delphi, Goodrich, for whom / have no
more respect than have for a country
nigger's egg-sucking hound. Few could
surrender their own authority in an
argument and thus unarmed come to
time; neither could l, if the question
was not butchered by its friend.
First, you prove yourself capable OF
any sort of subterfuge and literary dis
honesty, in comparing jamestown in
1910 with Plymouth in 1910, the pirates
and convicts of jamestown with the
prominent leaders Of Plymouth, and
absolutely despicable in trying to make
anyone believe that the libertines were
representative characters of jamestown
and i'm illustrating u class of respectable
cOlOnists by its worst, e extreme elements,
ignoring all the good men, save one,
whom alone you dared attack and at
tempt to beslime with slander not
justified by even the contemplate
Goodrich. l had just as soon say the
cut-throats, NabaTzanes and Bessus,
whose bloody deed made Alexander
weep, were of the faithful troops who
shouted and pledged the last drop of
theiI blood in defense of Darius when
he said "who rObs me of my diadem
shall take my life" had as soon be
caught whispering to skeptic that
Judas was Christ's best disciple. Would
no. incur universal scorn and execra-
tion to tell my readers that Goodrich
and his puny disciple, the little polit-
ical skin-fiint who is hawking snivel-
ling apologies for Massachusetts in de-
cent peoples faces, are Heradoduses,
Zenophens, Palybuses and Plutarchs ?
You admit by your own quotations
that this first colony were not only all
single men, but, that out of the 500,
only go were lett and of course these
remaining represent the colony. Aud
yOu are yery unfortunate i'm quoting