The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-02-08
THAT DISCUSSION.
FERGUSON vs.. CARSkADON.
rHE JUDGE RALLIES ONCE
AGAIN,
\ nd Storms The Moral Strong
hold OF Prohibition with
BrOadsides Of Rid.
icule.
bon. Thomas r. Cdrskddon:

81 SIR AT laSI nave the Time TO
mare for reply to your Sweet
tempered effusion of December 81,
IN answer to my ''ill-tempered effu-
lion" of a former date. You COM
hence, as usual, with an assertion
4 the strength and power, and
beauty of your own supposed argu-
hents. and the weakness of mine
Ia reply, and declare that I have
kfailsd to answer single point" of
Jour argument showing the nee
Sssity for a new and better party"
Your continued reiteration Of those
ame things leads me to conclude
jhat you place a very high estimate
pom your own powers, and that
lou are very much in love with
Yourself, which is all very well, in
9iAw of the fact that you have 80
ew rivals. But just here / beg
eave to suggest that it is not for you
Ind to judge of the force of our
respective arguments, and as l am
PERFECTLY content with the matter
it stands, l leave it to the public,
De final arbiter in all such matters,
b decide between US. But I want
10 better evidence than your last
literary performance that, even in
-FOUR own estimation, your argu-
hents, so.called, have been com.
IetelY and effectually answered.
II is an old saying as we'll as a true
0ne, that wounded pigeons always
6utter," and the way in which you
Guirm and futter, and complain
q the language of my reply to you,
1hows that you feel that you are an
rwered and wounded, and badly
BOUNDED, in this discussion. You
pmplain Of the language used by
pc in my second reply to you and
Ply that l INDUCED in "abuse, ridi-
cule, sarcasm and personalities, !"
but you concede that in my first
rply | preserved the dignity and
opurtesy that should characterize
Gentlemen contending for great
principles" This being the fact,
Fhy did you not preserve the same
dignity" in your reply to me 4?
md why did you, on the contrary,
PIT loose a TRADE of the most vic.
ent and abusive epithets against
he Republican and Democratic
PARTIES, and against every individ-
4al member of each of them who
Pulsed, and should continue to re.
pse to join in your third party
PLY? Your epithets were low and
parse and insulting, and 1 replied
: you in the only language you
penn capable of approaching. But
deny that | used a single express.
Pm not justified, by the character
your reply to me. And it is
Plaln to be seen that it is not my
enguage under the effect of which
ou are smarting, but the facts and
cures | brought to bear against
pur Quixotic enterprise of NEW
na better party" as a pretended
slp to the cause of prohibition.
and l beg leave here to remind you
pat whenever you condescend to
PINE down from the high moral
Zane on which you are wont to
oVe, and to mix with US common
portals, you must make up your
una to take what follows. If you
LAY at bowler you must expect
po9!oers. And if your righteous
polgnation should SO move you az
cause you to smite a man on the
ght cheek, it is quite possible
pat' instead of turning to you "the
~ Also" he will forget your high
p9 lofty pretensions to holiness
ta purity and give you a whack
Tine nose in return.
Inc ne trouble with you, my good
end, is that you mistook your
isslon, You had read smatter.
y Of the history of the great lead.
OF the old Abolition party, and
Idea occurred to you that you,
would become a great party
faesr, and thereby link your name
lame with those of Garrison,
LoveJoy, and Giddings, and
4. n5n i9 and Phillips, and that
w Them your name would ego
undering down the ages" as the
nder and leader of a party great