This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stoffregen Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nMB.2ACI/69 Message Board Post: This article was from an upset doctor that a journalist took a stab at...... A REPLY Bay, Mo., July 25, 1881 Mr. Editor: In justification of myself you will be kind enough to insert the following in the columns of the Advertiser-Courier, which would regard as a favor! The "Communicated" in the Advertiser-Courier, I call a villainous lie, originated by a base, inferior Soul. True enough the St. Louis Med College, sends out circulars, also my name apperars among those of other students and not among the graduates! Why not? becuase, when I inscribed my name, the names of the students were all put under one head in the order in which the tickets were taken out. My name does not apear among those graduating class of 1881, because if Mr. Aligna will take the trouble he'll find it in the catalogue of 1876 that is five years ago, when I graduated with the greatest honrs, he will find my name in the catalogue of 1875, when I attended as well as 1877. So much for an explanation. Mr. Aligna asks, if R.O. St. can show that he is a doctor etc. I have proven that often an many a time and there is one hundred thousand living witnesses to it right here! Whether I have a right to practice ask our county clerk, or if you perfer, come here and I'll show you my rights. Whether I have a right to hold an office? That office was given my by the people of Gasconade Co. and I am satisified with its smallness and noboday shall doubt my right to hold this office. Finally if there is no other friendship for me in Osage, Franklin or Gasoncade co., but what would be killed by so base a lie as set forth in the "communticated" I can well do without it and there is no cause for powerful a sigh, Mr. Aligna. The whole making up of your piece of writing Mr. Aligna betray a mind ready to seize at any scandaleus outrageous news, equaly ready to spread it with great delight to the detriment of your neighbor. Verily, Virgil and Horace, the speech of Cicero against Catilina and other similar masterpieces, if you have a mind to study them, would give you occasion plentyfully to occupy yourself to better advantage then by throwing dirt at a learned professional man. Surely you would there learn that sense of duty and regard for your's neighbor's rights which is so totally absent from your dirty scripture! There you could learn manners enought to keep from sullying a man's name in publicity before you have abundant proof of vague news, such as circulated in your "communicated" R.O. Stoffregen, M.D.