The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-10

<He tuhottoh - Inc EDITOR ot{n8 <emo<
crst says that we misinterI,retei his meanI1c
Welcould only judge his meaning from hislan.
|goage, and that we correctly ipfefpteted the
latter i evident nom tlafac hat several other
persona understood i as we did and sorne Of
them were Of the same party with bur neahbor.
And we quoted the whole editorial, 50 that our
readers could decide for themselves whether our
iuterpretationwee correct It was not said
that we were ''alwsys ready to wound" but
that the political editor wounds grads. from
which all who read the article would infer that
In the estimation Of our neighbor we felt no re-
luctance to inHict wound. Adding that we
|'charge q Fee for healing made the iusinuation
still more pointed, and added another which was
unjust, and has not been retracted or explained
away, though we have reminded our neighbor
that we have no pecuniary interest in the adj
vertising columns of the Banner.
When the Democrat says, concerning any
thing charged upon u, sis it right, is it chris
tiani" And proceeds to remark "the political
editor makes some pretentions, we beleve;' who
can fail to perceive an insinuation that we make
pretentions to christianity, and do not come up
to theml
But the Democrat explains its meaning thus,
"Who Of us arc perfect in the practice Of the
virtues? Certainly our neighbor will not claim to
beso. Who is there thattloe not make some pre-
tentions, or in other words, claim to practice the
virtues to greater or less extent? We honestly
believe our neghbor does; yet when we presumed
to say 80, he charges us with "aspersing private
character and limiting the charge OF hypocricy."
We insert this that our readers may Judge for
themselves how far it states the meaning which
they would at first attach to the words previously
usedby the Democrat.
In regard to any misrepresentation of Mr..
Singleton's speech, as we did not hear Mr..
Pugh, we were unableto set him right. Hap
the Democrat confined itself to prove that there
was misrepresentation, and had also spared
US the words and sneers" which were. as we con-
ceived, unjustly directed against us, we would
not have sneered back. But having cast oul
. insinuations in reference to Col. Battaile's let
ter, the Democrat, in the same number, under
took to prove. Mr.. Pugh to be a fool. w.
thought it worthy Of a sheer. Mr.. Pugh informs
. us that it is he who is misrepresented. Tha
he did not call Mr.. Singleton fool, but mus
have been misunderstood BY The editor of thu
4 Democrat.
, We would remind our neighbor Of the edito
. rial warfare recorded in the Pickwick Papers
between the Eatonswill Independent, and ID
Eatonswill Gazette. We are not emulous 0
1.-THE position Of either Mr.. Pot Of The one pa
. per, or DIR. Slurk of the other. Not to detrac
. from the merit Of our neighbor. we will stat
that we do not imagine ourself to besof suff
cient importance to the public to parade our in
" diyidual matters before them continually.
quarrel between two village editors may saffor
some entertainment to their readers, but not
Il a character very creditable to any party col
70 cerned. Hence we shall endeavor hereaft,
d to have very little to say about our neighbor
n. ourself. He says he did not mean what / SUI
" posed; 1 only have to request him, when
!, deems it necessary to speak of US, to be lit
- more careful to frame his sentences in such
n manner as not to seem to express ungenero'
IN {insinuations which are not intended
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