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Show CUIXU IOO ADTHE ELECTION tAHS. tik Lake City, Jan. 7, 173. Edihiri H dt L'ike HtroXd: Permit me lor the lat time to notice ill-; hul-j'.':t cf the capti'.'Q ut" this letter. Were it oo'- liiM principled of right and truth are nivo v.d in it, 1 would 1 p-at tho ignorant presumption and fiju.ittion of temper of tlic jcurnl!uu Chin? x with thsiient wulemiK ol winch his vulgarity and mean nee-de.-t.rve. But I eousnlor it a duty which every citizen, who lids iut-T-ested in our Iwal welfare, owes to the community to expose tho tolly and i.ifinfrauoj of euett tuau bcnbblers. I am turlher led to thia cjutbc by a third party, writing f ri-tu Tintie, (igned "A. It," e:it-.ritig the th-ld, aLd attempting to defend Clung Foo. lliu trinity and unity biuady Tail to make out one bingitt point. It only astooished uiu that tln-y cannot se their want of comprehension aud tact; itid do nut know the di Here loo bc-tweeu bc-tweeu presumption and argument, mere asoertiim and proof. "A. Ii." sets out to do a (jn-at deal, but after soaring on his heavy wings comes down " kcriiummax " and splashes him-elt only, with mud aud water this weather. wea-ther. iJcfore fullowing Chine Foo in bin dirty i'ootmarks 1 wear arctics for protection let me say that the standing stand-ing in " the people column" of the Tribune sta'.ej : " its columns are open - to all having something to say, requiring only that it bo said respectfully." Now if the slang talk and impudent epithets ol Cning Poo in his miserable produe.ioo ol Jan. 3(Mn that paper, are deemed respect! ul or respectable, tuen 1 nave some idea of 4heir raising and respectability, respec-tability, "O wad eomo power the giftio gio us," .Etc. liut it actios they could not defend their owu position ia championing Poo, and now think to strike me over his back with his whip; but it is too short, too weak; and too dirty to reach me, and only bespatters their own hands and faces. , Now lor Cbing Poo. lie says his first articles, or rather oommcnta, on tho law wero written "not for any glory ho might obtain by its publication," publica-tion," but "to show the people," &o. ; Now, sir,, I deny that ho wrote any i comments on the law. He made 1 bold assertiona only. Ho doea not scorn to know the difference betweon comments aud assertions. IIo does, thott, expect "glory" sometimes by his effusions. Poor fellow 1 -- --' ' If for tlinlloliconiitn Etronm . llo iooLiai.Uir.it, utnl aimtiHiuiosdroaui llo'll not asini liiko TnnliiltiB iu ljutbo's tivori 1 -l'luDnou to llio chin. lio'! strive butnovor Cud wot his lip. lie says that I use such "highfalu-tin" "highfalu-tin" phrases, that nobouy in tho world can understand, iu luot, somo of them cannot" be .found in Webster's unabridged, una-bridged, etc. llcally, sir, ho is the most innocent of common principles and knowledge of any person 1 over saw : belbrel So " lur aa "highl'alutin ! phrases" uro oonoorucd, lot me say that if 1 had used tho slang terms suitablo to his low mind and mean acquirements, or "Bohemian Scotch fiddle," ho would have understood mo better. 1 pill inform him, however, that l.ho . "hightalutin words" aro in YVcbstcr,but ho docs not actually know where to find them, bo ignorant is ho of tho commonest expressions used by writers. " Ho states, "no ono in' Llo world can understand them.',' That is tho man that pretends to pronounce on tho election law; because ho docs not understand them, common though they are, ho thinks "nobody in the world can." Ia not ho a good judge, an excellent critic, a great "commentator" "commen-tator" on laws I It is just such as he that prato so muoh aoout the laws thuy do not understand for want of oompreLcnsion and attention, and yet, forsooth, ho recommends me to read tho Organic act, and lawsl 1 have done , so to somo purpose, it seems, and it has made him aud his ilk as mad as March , hares, liut he advisci me, in his puerilo attempt at wit, to go to Little. Cottonwood, for the I snow will euro softening of the brain, i kleptomania and "sioh like." I question ques-tion the correctness- of his advico in this as in other things it has not oured him' of those disoaseB, for his brain is softer than ever. Perhaps as misery iu him wants company ho would liko me there, to give me a pounding as he suggests,, ' , , , j. ' His elegant phrases indulged in, suoh as "demented phool," "supercilious "superci-lious purp," "unmitigated liar by the chronometer," "brazen effrontery" because X criticized his grammar "apostate Centile, minus brains," "imbecile, diminutivo braioB," etc, otc., show his acquirements, education, and that, what he cannot meet by argumont, he will try to besmear with filthy slang ! Keep your temper, Ching Foo, shut your mouth, and you will not be known bo well. Of course such classic writing compels me to associate him with his nom de plume, and Bhow that there is muoh "in a name." I did not feel interested enough in him to go to the omee to ask his true name, as ho says, for a fellow that has a false name is often a suspicious oharaoter. On thia matter see hia jumble of thoughts, wishes and wit (!), in the following: "do far - as fighting my moot deplume is concerned, it matters not whether ho fights that or my true name, so long aa I could have tho assurance as-surance that he would bo likely to bat-tor bat-tor out his imbecile, diminutivo brains, and by so doing rid iho Territory Terri-tory ,of a great nuisance, namely, name-ly, an apostate Gentile minus brains." Ja ; not that Attic wit, kindly feeling, gcntlo wishes, and noble eentimout? Does he want to commit murder, or hope I will perpe-trato perpe-trato suicide ! Now are not those great arguments against tho outrageous election law Aro they not powerful witticisms and logic to annihilate mo I Great is the cause that has such a champion. A Uoliah surely to threat- i en this littlo David. i I (eel pleased that he tells us he is not President of tho United States! If he wero, what would he do to the people .here, and the laws, and iho "Church?-' Mypr r ?vc-i o u-s ! What a long tail onr cr.t curies!. Others no doubt would he'p him, as we learn from tho Petition hitely, and as the means j.ustifijs the end, they would, no djubt, carry out hii threats beforc-hand, beforc-hand, if they could. "Liut it they coukln't, how could they," tte ? . iiitt, crtouily, , be attempts no aigii:tiint; produc.s no cjmmenf, displays dis-plays no wrong, nor does ho even attempt to reluto the fnw arguments a id ii!'jstra(i"tis-that I give iu my lampoons. Again, he makes up an imaginary ! man a Federal official, whom he i thinks he tilted agai:nt,aud fights him I tor me. I quietly s:and a.-idc and see ! tho (.port, and lauch off the effects of his tremendous blow at me. He is j about r.s correct in his Furmisings about the federal officer aLd me as about, hia other osertious in relation to election j law. hot tncsay to hfm, I don't care a dan; about ymi; and knowing the old saying is true, "If you bray an ass's j head in a mortar, ho wiil io an ass i stiil," 1 11 say do more to yoo, or about ou uutil the next time only Farewell. |
