Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1855-02-16
Elegant Extracts.


the same time so perfectly consistent in
all its parts, as the following casket Of
gems, which We Gull from the Bangor
Herald Of the 9Th inst,
Our readers, We know, vii, excuse US
if we decline to reply to he attacks Of
The American upon u.s.
OF course they will. They all feel
deeply panied a, the trying position in
which your Jesuit shee. finds itself placed.
John Bapst and Tom White would not
reply to us while we were editor of the
Herald, and the Jack Catholics excused
them. But we are sorry to say tina, many
Of your readers are good and true Native
Americans, who have paid in advance,
and now take your paper because they
want their moneys worth. Hard case to
do so with your sickly looking sheet, is
it not!
1--WE shall not quarrel with him. To
10 so would be wronging ourselves and
our reaeers."
Manfully spoken! You now fall back
upon your dignity. and will certainly
command respect
1--WE publish our paper with view of
furnishing 10 our readers in Hancock and
Washington counties and elsewhere a
good. readable and heightened weekly
sheet"
Readable :" Good idea that-but
how any body can ever read such dim
print. is what puzzles "High-,oned''
We don't exactly know what tn a, means;
suppose il means lofty in aspiration ard
inspiration word, "a touch above
the vulgar
scurrility and personal abuse will
| find no place in our columns. The use
Of such We leave to those who like it.
Those who desire to get down in the
mud and roll over will be lief, 10 do so
without interference or notice from, us"
Good. We like that promise. because
we can rely upon it. Knowing as wedo
the great moral worth of the writer ;
knowing tina, he is the embodymen, OF
truth /; the personi6ca,ion OF candor !;
tina, he despises hypocrisy and deception
abhors SANDER and back-bi,ing. we can
assure his readers that they may deem
themselves peculiarly fort innate in being
allowed 10 peruse his chaste Writings
Take the following for example
"The American Editor, it seems to me
is possessed Of mos. pes,iferous vocab-
ulary. His writings are bad enough
His talk is much worse. Speaking of
several OF the most prominent men in the
American cause be said net long since
tina, he was sorry he did not cut loose
from The ID skunks long ago. If |
had thrown them overheard last fall, said
he, i should have been in good shape
now
We mast certainly ask the readers
pardon for introducing paragraph into
the columns of,he American, so exceed.
ingly "high-.oned," and shall endeavor
to avoid copying from this chaste shee, as
much as possible. To those incapable
of approaching what is really 'high.toned,'
the last extract may appear little OBJ
scure /; but we can assure them that it is
very 'higk.,oned' indeed-fully seven &C.
taves- and as truthful as high.toned.-
If they do not appreciate it. it mus. be
for a lack Of taste for the sublime and
beautiful.
Besides. Jim is poet possessed Of
towering intellect and lofty imagination
the latter is the fountain head Of the vas,
amount OF truth he utters. And Jim is
critic, too a poetic critic. See his
caustic review Of Allie lakewood. Our
good little Allie little dreamed that her
unpretending illusions would so rouse up
the siumbering powers Of his giant intel.
lect How noble in him thus to pounce
upon young, inexperienced writer
and that wri,er a lady. 1t proves that he
is not afraid 10 grapple with one Of his
size. Noble aud generous youth! The
Jack Catholics Of Ellsworth should Ger.
tainly award you lessheT medal.
But TO be serious. II has been said
that "extremes meet" II so, then J. B.
Osgood & Co. sometimes get 50 exceed
ingIy 'high.toned' that they are actually
vulgar and grovelling. Blu. this is not a.
all surprising W hen we remember who
and what they are. The Jim of the
concern will be recognized by many as
The chaste correspondent Of the dead
Freeman. rejoicing over the poe,ico-clas.
sic name Of "QUlz." He continued
warm supporter Of that Jack Catholic
sheet until it expired-then mourned that
so hopeful bantIing had died so young.
Then for time he pretended to be Ma.