Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-01-04

would look upon his defects with pity rather
than contempt but we confess to other and
less peasurable emotions when we think of
the contortions of moral being, created by
God upright, but so fearfully deformed by his
own free act. This man, in his past life, has
been upon the ascending and descending scale
by turns. True, he is comparative stranger
among us, and his antecedents are obscure.
/ We only know that he assembled to the legal
profession, then descended to the practice of a
pettifogger Next he ascended-by accident
or mistake-to the dignity of pedagogue !;
! he has now descended to the writing of the
dirtiest personalities and blackguardism.-
4 That he can go lower is impossible-that he
,cH go higher is scarcely probable. He has
never yet reached the dignity Of gentleman,
dignity which Heaven has not made accessi-
bic to any mind in which dwell so much vul-
garity and coarseness as the above loathsome
extracts betray The most offensive extracts
made in the foregoing are cut from an article
in the Tribune of last Saturday week. We
!
from last Saturdays issue. Speaking of us,
he says
g His own columns and conversation con-
tain ample evidence that he is actuated BY
personal mslgnity, which only lacks ability
and influence to become dangerous. We did
not suppose that he protested to be the editor
of the sheet in question, when we made this
assertion. We have since seen and learned
that he does. We hold him, therefore, re-
sponslble for its contents.''
Personal maHgnity how unfortunate
this charge, in view of the fact stated above,
fact well known, to wit: that in all our
school troubles we sympathized with the Com
mittee, and had all our best wishes and sym
pathies forestaled in favor of the successor of
Mr.. Wiggin, whoever he might be. Humil-
iating as is the confession, yet we freely and
frankly confess that we looked for improve
ment. How sadly we have been disappoint-
ed, many of our citizens, too many, alas, know
and feel full well.
The last part of the extract above is well
enough. While our name has ever stood as
the editorial name in our paper, he has just
learned the fact. We wish him TO bear in
mind that every word in the editorial columns
of our paper is written either by expressly
for US, and we take the full and exclusive re-
sponsibiity of it. On this head there need be
no mistake. But here comes rich extract
We copy in order:
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of the writers for that sheet, who had been
thrown within our observation. The best ev-
idence of the propriety of this disposal of them
is furnished by the daily lite and conversation
of the persons to whom we allude. In this,
too, we have the concurrence of the sensible
portion of the community
Here is the Pharisee with a vengeance.
''The daily life and conversation of the writ
ers for ouz paper are evidence of their lack of
humanity. OF our own Humanity we
choose not to speak. OF those who OCCASION
ally write at our request, we have only to say
that their daily life and daily characters will
not suffer by comparison with Mr.. Crosby's,
whether we look at him as the editor Of the
Tribune, as teacher of the High School, in
his boarding place at the hotel, or in the even
ing conference, where he is said TO be more
choice in his language than in the extracts
quoted in this article. Huaanny-what is
it! Our notions of humanity lead US to treat
respectfully those whose social position may
be below u.s. 1t would lead US to treat as hu-
man beings-beings endowed with thought
and feeling-even the servants, whose duty it
may be for the time being, to wait upon US
and minister to our wants, and not to be so
brutal towards them, and to treat them with
so much insolence and contempt as to lead
them all to desPise US, and to shun us as they
would very pest-house. These are some of
our notions of the practical workings of hui
mainly. Will Mr.. Crosby inform US how these
ideas comport with his own, and whether they
are according to the true humanitarian stan
dard which ne adopts
The richest thing yet we have held in store
for our readers. Here it is, referring to our
self:
g He might well have presumed that the
keen sense of propriety which actuates all de-
cent men might have saved him from that con-
temptuous exposition his course SO richly mer-
ited''
Who would suppose that the writer of all the
filthy extracts with which we have polluted
our columns above, could command sufficient
effrontery TO talk of his ''keen sense of pro-
priety,'' or to claim to be ''decent man I"
The vanity and arrogance of the fellow are
absolutely astonishing. He must suppose that
all the readers of the Tribune are as innocent
of common sense as the s'rabble" of which he
complains, is of good breeding, or else his own
brain is as completely turned as was ever
poor little Miss Elites, in Dickens Bleak
House.
Keen sense of propridy" This sentence
should be printed on satin, and copy fur
nished to every large scholar in the High
School to every boarder at the Sagadahock
90 wad some power the giftie gle US,
To see oursel as ithers see us,
1t wad from mony blunder frae US,
An foolish notion
Another extract from our man of "keen
| SENSE which smacks quite strongly of pugi-
listic efforts, now follows
'sThat line of conduct, infamous and despi-
cable. which he has entered upon, might, I'M