Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — FINIS. [ARTICLE]

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winch wh pnlliihiit ia Thb flra»an» of July 19, 1819. that it fwU W tka cum ot envious criticism, base personal attacks, low livsd caloauaim aad disgusting ribaldry from the Editor of the Reporter. Tat cash he boon tho can* through an wish, desire, or fcalt of mine. I have refrained from taunting him with any personal and physical defects ha may pomam and for which the Almighty alana is rsspsnsihls. Hat sa with him. la hat wash’s issue of the Reporter his Billingsgate vernacular having ran short, ha tarns apod an affliction with .which my acquaintances knew I have suffered for years and be sappaaes ha was witty. Search creation over, rake the bagnios of New Orleans and tan loose the lowest dance hoates aad brothels of the Five Points in New York and not one among thorn all, is found so lost to all sense es manhood and decency, so utterly devoid of self respect, honor, or eourage, as to bring lata a controversy the im • perfection or maladies placed upon the human frame by the hand of God. My first article in Tbs Standard drew from him, envious, unfriendly, un gentlemanly and unfair criticisms, and be at the same time indulged in personal insinuations which he : knew to be false as doss everybody who knows ms. Since then every issue of the Remington Reporter hss contained assertions from bis pen which he knew to be ' false, as was every charge he has made against me, as can be proven. He says in his last that “G. W. H. makes light of the attention ahown Jimmy Dunn” etc. I defy him to produoe anything to prove a word of troth in the assertion. He was evidently whipped in his early youth for accidentally telling the truth and the panishment was effectual 'He has never been known to do tbs like since. As to his strings of blatherskite balderdash of last week, I have onlj this to say. No one but a low lived, mean, sneaking, contemptible and cowardly cur would ever inaugurated such a, newspaper controversy as he has. He (Utters himself that in the coarse of a 45 years life he will amonnt to something more than a country school teacher. He will be under the necessity of rising faster than a geometrical progression would take him, with a ratio of 7 and the number of terras 24. Ohe feeling of safety he can take through life with him. There is no medical writing of an idiot ever becoming insane. All his allusions to me thus far have produced the same result as was experienced by the Irishman when he fired the old musket at the squirrel. Tne recoil sent Pat into the mod and slime, while the squiirel whisked joyftilly up a tree. I feel a little as tbough I had been kicked by a jackass, but then I consider. An owl sitting > on a tree looked below him and spied a crow. Said the owl, “You are a poor miserable black cuss.” Replied the erow, ‘‘Well that don’t hurt. Nobody but ad—d fool said it.’* So I look upon the sensational writings of “Cox.” Feeling that this dissension has been uninteresting and to the half doien readers of the Reporter, disgusting, this will close oo my part, all allusions to the hoodlum apology for an editor and nothing he can say will bring a reply from me. I never could see either profit, pleasure or sense in uring a seige gun to kill a grasshop-

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G. W. H.