The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-03 00:00:00

CORR h SPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Will you oblige me by giving itym tion to the
accompanying letter in your next paper? 'The truth-
loving Mercury will doubtless be thankful to you for
such a service in the cause of truth, and it may tend to
neutralise the false witness of those who would " accuse
a servant to his roaster."

I am, Sir, your obedi,'nt servant,
CHAS. RITCHIE

ICrown-street, 31st January, 1846

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL 2•IERCURN
Sir,--My connection with " _
entitles roe to join you in calling on " Veritas" to produce

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reasons f.r reliance" on his statements; and also on
you for the statements themselves; for although you do
not say what those statements are, yet
your manner of
noticing them certainly implies that he had given infor-
mation very discreditable to the " railway servants "
there. So far as the railway works here are concerned, I
challenge him, whoever be may be, to shew that any
one's politic, or religion is interfered with ; and unless
" Veritas" shall produce his reasons and reel name, I
shall be entitled to say, in the words of " the Prince of
Peace," that it is " because his deeds are evil."
In the meantime, the simple rule, " Do as you would
be done to," ought to have kept you back from giving
publicity to such insinuations. until you were satisfied
that they were well founded. What is said by you about
Orange parsons" is disci., ditable to you, and unworthy
of any notice from me, further than that it is inapplicable
to the railw,..y works here. The man that will say that
any Orange pars,in interferes here, is Mendax, not " Ve-
ritas." Is your correspondent ashamed of his name ?
Pos,ib'y he has need : he is the best judge of that. But
I can tell him that I am not ashaqier of mine, nor yet
afraid to challenge biro from his dark lair. I also beg to
remind certain one-sided religionists, that " the Prince
of Peace" is also " the faithful Witness"; and his sub-
j' cts and followers may well ask, " What hast'thou to do
ith peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jeze-
bel arid her witchcrafts tire so many ?" Peace indeed !
For shame, Mr. Editor ! You talk of peace, and what
the Prince of Peace has done, while you are lending your
helping hand to the " accuser of the brethren," and sow-
ing tares broadcast? You, sir, will one day find that the
" Prince of Peace" is " Ile that in righteousness doth
judge and make war." Let those who have " the mark
of the beest" then glory in their having " spoken lies in

I wish, however, in conclusion, to return to your so-
called " Veritas," and entreat him to uncoil himself from
the brushwood where he has hid him-elf, that we may
admire his glittering scales and slimy trail. Thee is no
fear of his breaking my bones : his forte lies rather in
besmearing the grass, and " biting the horses' heels."

CHARLES RITCHIE

Railway Works, Crown-sired,
3011 s January, 184 G.

P.S —I could "unfold a tale" of army radical attempts
to get up g,rievances against me here, by partirs whose
great grievance was, that they could find none ; and had I
not been 100 food ff peace I should long since have ex-
posed their conduct. C. It.