Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-01-11
Gastern Gimes.
BATH, JANUARY II, 1856.
Mr.. Crosbv-0nce more.


Last Saturday morning, as we had expected.
brought to US through the columns of the Tri-
bune, characteristic article from the editor,
TO which we shall give some attention. Our
notice will be brief, for in the first place the
person in question has proved himself too dir
ty an opponent to justify one in spending much
time upon him. and in the second place he
has produced in the article referred to. nothing
which changes his position as we left him in
our last. We expected he would aim more Of
his filth at us, so that we are not disappointed
in this respect. Nothing from his pen would
disappoint us more than an exhibition of man.
ly controversy, or even of the commonest de-
cency If he has succeeded in producing
disagreeable smell about us and our affairs, he
has done no more than pole-cat might do so
that in this even, he has nothing intellectual
whereof to glory. We counted the cost before
we ventured to disturb him. We have lived in
the country, and know full well the precautions
of those who have the temerity to defend their
hen coops from the little midnight marauder
whose disagreeable efiiuvia is sure to lead
prudent person to give him a wide berth. Let
not Mr.. c. suppose, therefore, that we were
unprepared for repetition of his attack, or
that the vile smell which salutes our olfacto-
res, had not been fully reckoned upon. In
order to give him the full benefit of his last
mental effort and to show readers more of
this refined teacher to whom are committed
the educational interests of their children, we
propose to infiict upon them few choice ex-
tracts. After denying to us personality"
twitting us of Ignorance" calling us man
akin" denying to us even the significance of
"cypher," he says that we are ga piqny IN
form and doarf in intellect" Here is our
sin, or at least one of our sins, in the sight of
the refined teacher of literature and morality
in the Bath High School. Our form is an Of
fence, our "dwarfed intellect a sin "Who
hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he is
born blindF' Perhaps ought to ask pardon
4 of our fellow citizens for the form" which God
gave us-the measure of intellect with which
he endowed US. Parents who have children
small in stature, or not gifted with mental
brlliancy must be careful how they send
them to the Bath High School, for the teacher
has affected to despise all such, and to pass
them under the ban of his contempt.
Mr.. Crosby should not be vain of his sup
posed good looks and noble bearing. Heaven
may have done much for him. and wrought
nightly in his behalf to make man but
when we look over his productions, reflect up
on the spirit he betrays, think of his low taste
and vulgar language when we think what he
might be and contrast it with what he chooses
to become; when We think of being in God S
image. erect and upright in form, finding his
cherished level and his congenial home in the
cesspools of society, sporting in Shiny commu-
things, we confess to the belief that nature,
even, has miscarried, and that Heaven has la
bored in vain.
Mr.. Crosby remarks with more than his ac-
customed truth and fairness, that virtue is
best incuicated by an exhibition OF the evils Of
vice; and, as the ancient Spartans taught their
children temperance by exposing to their gaze
a person in a state of beas,ly drunkenness" SC
we would hope Heaven proposes to beget in
our minds love and respect for a good, de-
serving public teacher, by giving us the pres
ent example of one, to use his own choice Ian
guage, "steeped to his lips, i'll the veriest slang
Of the pot-house.
After calling us scrub" and throwing out
stale fling which his own publisher has re-
peatedly pronounced a dastardly SANDER, hi
proceeds as follows
He had not manness enough, know,
to commit burglary. That was a touch above
him. Grand larceny was above his reach. Ia
the petty and contemplate alone could he as
pire We know him well. We mark the ring
in his snout and know the hand that leads him
We understand TO whom he is mortgaged, and
the consideration. We know the bye wor6
and Kissing which he is among decent men, o
his own party even. We have heard his own.
ers comments him. We familiar with
their distrust of him. All this and more We
comprehend perfectly; and the fortunes o
war force US to the degrading position of al
ludng to him.
Imagine us. then, longs in hand, taking NJ
the Z stern Tines for Jan. 4. Geo. E. New
man, editor and proprietor, get your masters
leave to come and see us a moment or two
Tell him we only want to prove you guilty o
wiltul and deliberate falsehood, and he'll let
you come Here. we'll see to your paddock
Get under this table /!
Imagine that the animal has taken his ap
propriate place
Following this some half dozen sentences
from the Times, running back as far as Nov. l6
to prove his previous accusation that We hae
persisted in personalities" and in slow filings
at him as teacher of the High School. If hi
readers can see how he has made out his case
they have more penetration than we have
We never did an act more cheerfully than We
furnished the Tribune with our files from
which to make the compilation. The truth is
exactly here. The Times has not contained {
familiar or flash word for the last three months
but Mr. Crosby has considered it a "1ing" al
his course in school. Why is it ! The reason
is this Common report says that he is accus-
toned to use such expressions to his scholars
to call the young ladies "hussies," "sluts.'
"hoydens," "troliopes," "liars," and such like
names to talk about coming out from under
.maternal wings" and all such classical and
refined terms have become the current coin in
his school, so that if person happens design
eddy or by accident to use almost any flash OF
=. offensive word, forsooth, he is making "hng'
at the Principal of the High School. and
stealing his thunder By no other rule Oh