The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-11-10

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OF the Charlotte Observer. Those
who read his firstproduction will
be anxious to see the secolm in
stallment, and for their benefit it
is given below:
| DEAR SIR: Your argument in
calling mo fool, is something
new and original. Oh, that edi-
torial How rare! How radiant !!
How rosy! How rich! How glow
Eing! How gorgeous! Pardon me,
[ was to set forth some Of the quail
ties of your mind which will make
you celebrated, as al author. The
striking originality displayed in
your matchless editorial is o most
chaming and delightful quality in
an author, and if directed by sound
judgment and good taste, will fill
your Golfers with gold. and make
you famous. l say gold, because
am aware of your open and out
spoken position for that metal, and
| know you would spurn silver,
with your foot, as q despised and
nnholy thing that you think ought
to be buried in the deep bosom of
the ocean. Cain, sir, before kill
ing Abel, said: Brother, you are
a fool, and then dealt the blow
which laid that brother in the dust.
Hence your style of argument was
in vogue while Eden bloomed and
Adam was still alive and upon the
earth, and but = short time after
he and our beautiful mother, Eve,
walked hand in hand, beneath the
blooming bowers of Paradise. It
shows the greatness of your mind,
slr, and your eminent fitness to
become a great and famous au-
thor that you use an argument
that nobody else ever dreamed of
since the creation of the world.
| 1t possesses, at once, all the ele-
gance of diction which should
adorn the editorials of scholar
and gentleman, the freshness of
originality, the charm Of novelty,
and the grace and beauty of q
broad philanthropy.
In the second place, your cele-
brated argument, in calling me a
fool, shows wide reading and great
learning. That EDITORIAL How
rare! How racy! How magnif-
cent? How great! How grand /
How glorioua! How many thous-
ands of books you must have read
to have found out so much! How
you ever crammed such vast stores
of knowledge in your mind is
amazing: You have read so much
that you absolutely know enough
to call a gentleman fool. Oh
what a pile of knowledge! Like
some great mountain, it rises to
the clouds and fills the beholder
with awe. Your great mind has
learned, in some mysterious man
ner, that the way to crush polit-
ical opponent is to call him a fool,
and publish it to the world. This
learning is immense, boundless
and sublime. It will be the eighth
wonder. of the world. AS [ con-
template it, am lost in astonish-
ment at the vastness of your learn
ing.
"And still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he
knew
What you do not know, would
not fill the smallest primer, nor a
single page of Webster's old blue
back spelling book: You are a
lineal descendant and worthy
scion, sir, Of the, Hon. Hezekiah
| Knowsitall. You have greedily
appropriated all the knowledge of
the times and left none for the
rest OF us poor mortals, and we
have to blunder about in dense 10
norance, and wear upon our
brows, the brand, in bold letters !:
u am q fool" This is a hard and
Illuminating fate to which you
have subjected the rest of man
kind. You and some of the Dem
ocratic editors of the sixth dis
trict, if you will pardon me, lust
simply know too much. Josh Bill
llngs said a man had better. not
know SO much than to know SO
many things that are not so, and
awlcked but witty Republican has
said: am glad there is a devil
Ejust to get Democratic editors !,
l do not share in, this sentiment.
nor quote with approval that state
ment. I honestly wish, as God is
my witness, that all Democratic
editors in the whole world may go
to heaven and walk the golden
streets, Nevertheless, gentlemen
of the Democratic press, I tell YOU
plainly, before you can. ever 90