Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-01-04
eastern Gimt3.
BATH, JANUARY 4, 1866.
The Tribune and its Editor.

will infer that we are to be personal The in
ference is correct one. We have measure
bly, prepared ourself for the labor now imposet
by work of penance from the frequent ne
cessity OF which we fervently pray to be de-
livered. That penance consists in reading
torial articles in the Tribune of the two last
Saturdays, headed with the name of our pa
per. Although we commenced this reading
deliberately, and with fixed purpose TO go
through with it, we were imprudent enough
10 provide no hartshorn or other restorative
for the occasion, not even lozenge 10 ward
off drowsiness or peppermint to prevent
nausea, yet we came off conquerar, and sue
ceeded in keeping perfect command of ourselt
through the trying scene. For this success
we have only to thank strong stomach and
a determined will
We have limited that we are TO be personal.
We regret that necessity requires the present
labor at our hands, for we never willingly IN
fict upon our readers anything that we are
conscious will tend only to trouble still more,
waters already turbid With these remarks,
we come directly TO the work before us
Since the passage of the Compromise meas
ures of 1850, the Eastern Times has had
but one voice in relation to the respective du-
ties of the North and South We approved
of the Bath Union Meeting, in which nearly
all of our commercial men were united, and in
accordance with the views then and there ex-
pressed, we have ever maintained that Bath
merchants and Bath interests had nothing to
gain, but much, very much, to lose, by keep
ing up an unholy and useless cry against tho
South. Whether we have been right in this
course, we submit to our fellow citizens, will
ling TO abide their careful judgment. Ga the
topics here alluded TO The Tribune and our pa
per had no controversy. But during the past
season, and particularly since the September
election, we have seen editorials in the Tri-
bune at variance with its former course-arti-
cles which we deemed adverse to the best in
terests of our people; articles which have
called forth the praises of the most rabd and
fanatical anti Union papers of the North and
true to our convictions of duty we promptly
rebuked the course of our neighbor, and ap-
pcaled to our people to know if such senti-
ments as that paper put forth, were the senti-
nents Of our merchants and commercial men.
We knew that many of the whigs-the
"straight out whigs"-were mortified at the
course of their organ, regarding it as gone
over TO the enemy, and that the authoritative
journals of the party, such as the ''Boston At
las" had virtually read it out of the wing
fold. For all this we cared nothing. We re-
garded it as family quarrel in which we had
no concern, and in the final result of which
we had no interest. Up to one fortnight
ago, we had only raped the paper for Its abo-
h,ion proclivitles, and its treachery to the best
interests of our city and State. Not word
had we uttered, not syllable had we printed
having personal reference to any one in that
concern or interest-some few peasantries
excepted, perhaps-when in the Tribune OF
last Saturday week came an explosion editorl-
al, which for coarse ribaldry, low blackguard
ism and disgusting slang, we have never seen
equalled in any paper claiming the least re-
gard for decency. That article we passed
over editorially as lightly as we could, know
ing its authority, and feeling absolutely
ashamed, as citizen of Bath, to think that
man in the station of the writer would descend
TO so mean a work. We regretted that cor
respondent should see fit, in an ironical style
to give him gentle thrust, and destroy his
incognita ; for although conscious that he
richly meried a dressing, and that he had no
claims upon us TO spare him, we felt too much
regard for other city interests and for the hon
or and good name of some of our cherished
Northern institutions, TO feel inclined TO wound
them by doing Justice TO him. For these rea-
sons we then spared him, passing his low
rgmarole as lightly as possible consistent with
Justice to ourself and all concerned.
But since the article of last Saturday has
come to light, we feel that ''forbearance is no
longer virtue" and conscious duty impels
US to strip the mask from this newborn law
giyer and Judge, who has so recently domi-
ciled himself among US, and who, in violation
of all the rules of modesty, has attempted to
pitch a tune for all the citizens of Bath TO sing
by. If the caustic we propose to administer
should burn, it will be because of the soreness
of his parts. We come then 10 the point at
once by saying that the editor of the Tribune
the author of the two delectable articles re-
ferred to, is no other than Mr.. CROSBY, the
Principal Of The bath High School" We
have not a word to say in this connection, of
the propriety of Mr.. c. course in taking up
ON himself the editorial care of Tri- Weekly
paper, while employed at higher salary than
his predecessors ever claimed, to devote his
exclusive attention to the interests of the High
School We may speak of this before we
Icave him. That Mr. c. is the writer of the
articles in question, he-taciily admits in the
following extract, taken from his last article );
4" Whatever the Tribune has TO say is 10 be
viewed through the medium of the High
School, and anything bearing upon the one is
10 be applied by this sheet [lhe Timesl to the
other"
OF this he complains, thinking perhaps that
he should be known 10 US only an editor
not in his other relations. The complaint, it