Year: 1868

may know where l stand, and why l stand
where L do, and you will confer favor on


Yours, very truly,


HENRY SIBREE.


MANITowoc, Oct. l2.h, 1863
To the Senior Editor Of the Manitosooc


Tribune:


SIR-In an article in your last weeks
paper you saw 6t to make personal at
tack on me, and announced to your read~
ers that had bolted the ticket, popularity
known as the Eastwood ticket" nominat-
ed by yourself, BAETz, WHITE & Co.,
which, you say, has made you glad, &c.
Now, as a matter of fair play between ene>
mics, demand of you that you give this,
my answer, as conspicuous place in your
columns as you gave to the slang of your
attack.


What you say about my boiling you say
upon hearsay, which, among intelligent
men, is considered uncertain testimony
and, as my boiling or not bolting has been
deemed of sufficient Importance to call out
gross personal public newspaper attack,
/ propose now to set the public mind at
rest upon the subject by here declaring
that shall not support the ticket above
referred to, but shall, if alive, vote for, and
support the Democratic ticket to be nomi-
mated next Saturday, for the following,
among othsr reasons:


I. Because choose to.


H. Because | have right to, and allow
DO man or set of men to say who l shall or
shall not vote for.


III. Because don't care to support
ticket made up in part of block heads, and
almost in whole, of my personal enemies,
at the dictation of one or two greedy men,
who always and eternally work for them>
selves alone at the expense of everybody
else and


". Because the success of this "bass-
wood ticket would give large amount
of county printing to you, MIR. Editor, who
are, and have been, my covert enemy DUR
ing all of your feeble career as newspaper
man in this place, and because l very much
prefer to see the county patronage given to
a man who has at least some brain within
his skull, and liberal soul within his body.
In short from this time henceforth | sup>
port my friends rather than my enemies.


Now, sir, the foregoing reasons are
plain enough, it seems to me, even for
your comprehension, and they are perfect
ly satisfactory to me; and whether they
please you or not is matter of no concern
at all to me. That being the case, for the
sake of civilization, let u. hear no more of
your hypocritical drivei about friendship,
good qualities, &C., but rather seem
what you are," than 'seem what you are
not" and perchance in time some one will
learn to respect you.


1t would suit my inclin alton very much
to anayze and show up the absurdities of
the article already quoted and would do
so were it not for an oft repeated admoni-
tion of early life, to wit that you must not
fight with man on his own dungh,U; and
that italicized figure of speech, if ever
meant to apply an ywhere, has surely found
the exact spot in it, application to the foul
hidden o. the Tribune.


But you say you are glad l have bolted.
Well, 80 am l, and hope to stay glad.
But, sir, have you thought of the fact that
bolting has been q pleasant amusement
,th o n
gone by? And do you know that there are
men on your ticket now who publicly say
that they will not swallow all the mess
prepared for them, even with themselves
in as part of the compound2 But trying
to instruct you on bolting is idle, for you
have had some not very ancient experience
in that same recreation yourself. How
ever, swift as you arc to bolt, you are
swifter by far to read people out of the
party for boiting, or otherwise displeaslng
you. Indeed, the latter appears to be
your specially and you do not confine the
bolts of your wrath to the immediate circle
of your own home, but send your fats
abroad to oil points of the compass. Why,
| has not the veteran GREKLY himself been
haughtily disposed of by you because he
chose to 60 bail for JEFF. DAVIS? And
also, more recently, has not the Chief JUS
tice of the United States received expulsion
at your lands? aud further; did you not,
on the 9th day Of April last, in your paper,
get rid of your now illustrious candidate for
District Attorney with flea in his ear and
send IL following bensdiction after him
from the nib of your quill, IN an article
headed Local Election" viz:


For Police Justice Mr.. Eldridge was
elected through the efforts OF ward poll
tician named White. The fellow has pre-