The Hartford herald., 1885-01-21
Suggs' Solid Shot.
ROCIlPOKT, Jan. is, 1850.

Editor HeroAt,
Through the despicable pretense of a
newspaper article, wreaking with sorjid
ignorance aud ranking with i'll con
cealed malice. breaks the black choler
of :, me ahortive wheip of II straggliug
Ate, Al Il glairs upon mp like hasiii>k.
Just vino, care rs lit,!c rs know.
That poor article hetrays the cluven
foot, and exposes to public view the
creeping pigmy's venom with which |
have To deal. But, if have wearitd
the patience of kind readers with gems
from the Bsld of Avon, ! feel that
stO1riug Ia this hadinagr ami inksling
ing, shivrring NY lance Oh This Vile
anatomy, will incur just disgust in iced.
Why sh,uid soil pen that aspires to
better things with retOrts to canting,
begging, sneaking hypocrite, which
feeds like an ulcer upon society" What
good will come of it? 1t is a task
which ou; fouls Hercules finh labor
and which great rivers could not
cleanse. Vet. "l'n publish right or
WRONG: since daft i. my theme let
satire he my song"
Curdsvi.ie never bred s.Ich IA human
blisler Ill fortune has fastened this
vampire upon that fair people. No
such incubus is Indigenous II this or
that good soil. SEE how his pretext
smokes with lampoon and periiiy,
and ARCHES lecherous hate Of those
who refuse To stand and deliver. Hence
his Internal malignance is a thousand
times preferable to his treacherOuS
piratiral friendship. You know there
are human parasites more loaIhsome
aud insidinus than Koch's consump-
tive germs, and which flourish only
i'll the warm blood of betrayed but
trusting friendship. No lens is needed
TO II c"gnize him as one of these. IT,
in the barren, shrivelling waste of his
py9mean brain, he could comprehend
HERALD readers have evolved, he
would not dare to dictate to its !itor
what their pabulum should he. Ali
ones finer feelings are shocked and re-
volt to find a dwelling idiot mounting
the Judgment seat, self,appoiDted, to
guard intelligent peoples literary tastes
"a fool rushing in where angels dare
not tread. What cOnsummate cheek
1t is almost sublime. No more fit is he
10 judge of my readers mental food
than is the vulture to choose dsntiest
mOrsels for the most fastidious epicure.
Heaven knows never quoted a pas
sage, even fIom B0ccaccio, for his
bes;ial NAV; and o shade of Shaks
pere, forgive, If ever desecratei Thy
pearls before such "A swine
Eat his f, cb!c array of stupid w,rd,
is only IA dissenibIer's bungled mask,
behind which rankles base envy
writhing at anO;her's success, hating
that excellence it cannot reach"
For all | know, this very place may
have been that "old hOme''-not native,
for Heaven knows it could only have
brought him forth as foolish hens at
times hatch vipers bv sitting on strange
eggs" aud he could have got his milk
Only as "he'ige hog, which sucks at
night from the wholesome dam of the
youna bull, until the milk-maid finds.
the nipple sore next day and udder
dry" Let him not call this home, for
its withering, scathing scOrn would
track him down like Nemesis. Yes,
he may have sat like some battish
nightmare upon the very town, feed
ing for time upon its faith in human
ity he may have butchered items for
the HERALD. prostituting the trust by
venting spleen against those he dislik-
ed, and, for all know, like the thief,
he may have embeZZled subscription
funds.