Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1899-11-02

We presume the Sunday school inter
ests OF the county will experience a very
material enlargement by tho passing Of
such insults. Or perhaps the foOl-kil ler
Is of duty. When he assumes TO dis
charge the functions Of his Office We are
not sure that the author Of the above
insult should be his only victim. -
South Pitts6urg Statesman Democrat.
It affords US the greatest pleasure and
qualification to be able to reply to the
learned gentleman's false accusations
aud distortion OF facts. After tho arti-
Gle be quotes from was in print we deep
lY regretted that we had not explained
the point ut which he takes exception,
at greater length, especially when we
considered his dullness OF comprehen-
sion. However, we consoled ourselves
with the thought that an opportunity
would be given for reply, and it seems
that such has been granted. At the
same time we were conscious that the
good people of South Pittsburg possess
ed sufficient Intelligence to decide for
themselves whether they were insulted
or not.
We have the testimony of highly in
telligent and respectable people OF this
town that the behavior OF certain par
parties, ostonsibly Of South Pittsburg, in
speaking insulHngly of Sequachee,
when it was mentioned, was offensive
in the extreme. When certain parties
fail to contain themselves within the
bounds Of decorum and good manners,
especially when visitors are the subject
of the attack, how can the Statesman
Democrat, or any other highly intellect,
ual organism, expect comment other
than this. The News does not include
all South Pittsburg people in its remark
that would certainly have been the
depth of folly. Even the astute editor
OF the Statesman Democrat could hard
ly be called paid clacq uer, in as much
as be does not want the convention
there at all. Nor do we charge thai
any one was paid for making the noisy
demonstration. We merely made 8
omparison. 1t is very evident that the
editor of Statesman Democrat lacks in
telligence sufficient to understand his
mother tongue. There is the greatest
difference in the world between tha
which is suggested and an actual charge
However, it were worse than useless fol
any one to try to explain anything tt
the editor of the Statesman Democrat
because the ball of grey matter that re
poses at the top end OF his spinal col
umn, is so infnitesmaliy small, that h'
could not understand it, South Pitts
burg people, however, who wore pres
ent on the occasion, and who had sens'
and manners enough to treat visitor
with consideration, will see the justic,
of our side of the question, and con
denim the hasty impulses of those 0
their fellow citizens who forgot tina
they were not at a political caucus or /
bear garden, So many weeds hav
grown up in the Statesman Democrat
garden of good manners that it canno
appreciate the good manners of others
One can express approval in a quie
dignifed way just as we'll as by nois,
ostentation and uproar. This those @
the South Pittsburg people who had re
spsct for themselves and their town
) did.
just here it is only proper to max
some mention of the friendly feelin
manifested by the Jasper people K
wards Sequachee and its representa-
2 tives. With that modesty and respeC
: for the feelings of others which has a.
? ways characterized the people of OF
l town, when the voting was commence
the Sequachee delegation did not thru
r itself forward and below out its vott
but did it in a quiet, digniaed manne
= and consequently could hear II othei
were voting for them; and they wei
n both surprised and delighted to fir
Q that the good people of Jasper were so
idly in their favor, 1t was compl
It ment, indeed, which they esteem higl
'' ly and will return some day.