The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-12
From Los Anpales. Cal.

From Los Angeles, Cal.
] know that II there is sny one
thing in my former letter wlleh
the readers of the CITIZEN have
cherished with fond remembrance
it is that l promised not to do that
way again. Now, while / do not
acknowledge to that letter in toto,
verbatim ct literatim, ct punctna-
tim," l do acknowledge to the
promise and th at it was made In
good faith. I'm afraid that many
of you at first sight of this will feel
inclined to sit down aud write me
a reminder of that promise-in fac |
but for the able defense which
shall presently make, can see
mysel: with crestfallen counte-
nance ambling up to the "adver-
tised" window of the Los Angeles
post office, poking my head clear
through and asking in whisper
for st lose letters addressed to
Ananias B. Duncan, please" You
may be surprised that knowing
the contents, / should ask for
them. Let whoever expresses sur
prise at my asking for anything
with the post Office stamp Of Pu-
laski on it, get railroad ticket to
Seattle and use it. and If he don't
acknowledge within three weeks
that he'd call for letter stamped
Pulaski, though he knew it con-
tanned an invitation to a wedding
at which he had hoped to be the
brides best man, I'll join him al
Seattle for that beats Los Angeles
Why, you don't know what you're
talking about. They say that men
go with joy, here to the Office tc
get letters from "home, back east
as they call 1t, when they know
those letters will be from those
mother-in-law and will contain The
information that those mother-in
law is coming to spend the fal
and winter and spring with them
Wonderful place this.
But to my defense. ] know il
behooves me. in view of the fac
that promised not to write, that
produce reasons that will justify
me in sending this letter, 80 pll pro
coed. Good reason must, of force
give place to better" Beglnnin,
with these words Brutus made
; speech which effectually met Cas-
sius' seemingly immutsble reason
for thinking it unwise to march t,
Philippl to meet Octavius ant
Mark Anthony in battle, an d be
: ginning with these words l propos
by the aid of my incontro yertibi
arguments 20 restore my reputa
ton for veracity to its forme
proud perch away up yonder abov
par and suspicion-higher thar
high-water mark and firmer tha
! rock salt.
Yes, "Good reason must, @
force, give place to BETTER" | hav
good reason for not writing in tina
| promised, but claim that l an
absolved from the promise no,
chat have better reason for writ
t ing. "Argal," it's o. X. There
al iron-clad argument for you
md while can hear some of yo
exclaiming "Shades of Aristotl
and Socrates, Bacon and Descarti.
! Hume, Steele and Mill defendus
| defy you to point out the fallacy
: If there's any young lady of th
, past or present logic class of M.
e. who thinks she discovers fal
lacy whether of ''petltia principii
or "non sequitur" or any othe
species of fallacy in the major @
general or captain or minor prom
Use of that syllogism, let her TAX
D notice that ! will take "real pro
' posals," from this date till retur
: to Tennessee for the erection of
better ode. AS a matter Of cours
= NO progressive teacher would oil
e jtct to this practical method {
D studying logic and ! make n
charges. l will also accept fron
r now till 1882, or even till I'm a
old as Henry AFRO wsmith, o. Wi
Rose and Bob Smith, "sealed pro
Iposals" of any kind that may lea
into your minds at the suggestio
{ OF the above date and names. Com
> now, don't all speak at once. PEI
haps to insure ghost of chanc
for one proposal on the latte
proposition | should extend th
time on up till 1 get to be as old a
Mr.. Cannon or Judge Ward bu
I'm too modest to claim that
. have''honored my father and mott
err" enough to justify me in pre-
Stunning that my days shall be tina
long upon the land. I see that ex
plantations bid fair to crowd GU
the valuable information and in
teresting reading matter wit
e which l could so easily (2) hav
Q filled this letter, but I can't clos
without few words in regard t
that other other letter. It wa
worse than bad emo Ugh as | in.
, tended itsbut it was worse tina,
that when it reached me in til,
CITIZEN. A friend should bear b.
friends (mental) in armities bu
Will Jones or Will Martin or som,
. other friend have made min,
worse than they are. Most o
them may have been penographi-
cal errors of my own and neitheI
typographical of my friends Bill
nor Photographed oyerlooktior
of my friend p. Blake. But there
are one or two things in that letter
that l want to go right square
back on; the others can 60. First.
| ly, do not acknowledge that
got anything, no matter what, out
OF the Arkansas river bed at La
Jnnta, in California when any
school child can tell you that
not wave of the Arkansas river
has ever gilded its crest with gold
dust from California soil. It must
be at least thousand miles from
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