Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-11-11
sPLENETIC.

The Greensboro ssTimes'' takes in high
dudgeon the simple correction we made last
week, concerning its claim to be 1.-THE only c
Literary journal published in the South, and I
thereupon finds an excuse to deliver itself
of a half column of unkind personalities, and
the retailing of ISLANDERS, which it attributes
to our enemies" concerning our future course
We shall not follow its unworthy example in
our rejoinder.
We still assert that sThe Times is not 'the
only Southern Literary and Family Journal
published in the South" We might emu
we still r~eiterate that our paper is among
those entitled to be classed as such. But
because we put insuch claim, the croaking of
our enemies (who are they p is paTaded
and furnished as an excused for aprofessedfriend
to publish an in~sinuation as false as it IN
founded. The Times ought to know it is no
hard matter for an enemy to falsify the OBJ
iect of its hate.
f. IF 'The Times" had not suppressed a por-
ton of our brief article, but had published
all we said, the refutation, would have accom-
panied this disingenuous allegation. In the
portion of our article not Jcopied by 1.-THE
Times, y we distinctly stated that Temperance
Literature is one of the prominent features
of the Age, but we had not supposed it for
feited its claims to be Literary Family Jour
nal thereby" Why was not this portion of
our remarks put along side of the published
SANDER, borrowed from our enemies" (s
the Times a~sserts) that we intended "~cutting
our colors and hosting a new fagg' We de
fy any one, be he enemy or protested friend,
toexamine our files, from the first number We
issued to the present, and point out a single
number wherein the Temperance cause is no
prominently set forth, both in its selections
7 and editorially. 1t cannot be found; on
eenemies" themselves being judges. Wher
a then can ''The Times find any justification
: for this unjust allegation of oar enemies" o
/ of concocting it for itself? The truth is
/. this charge is a foul SANDER, manufacture
b out of the whole cloth. We have lahore
g long and undeOiating1y in behalf of the caus
IS of Temperance, and expect to do so while "
S, have charge of a press; but we still clail
n that we do not ignore our pretensions to pu
lie fishing a Literary, Family journal" becau
It, Temperance Literature is one of its feature
lg And we know our Temperance patrons a
in pleased with this variety.
IL 1.-THE Times is A good Southern Litera
is and Family Journal"-one which we ha
often recommended to our readers in the W;
n NEST terms, as worthy of their support al
he we do so again. And we have ahoGgs p
US sented the Spirit of the Age to the public
to a Literary Family Journal and it is no n
gy claim that we have just set up in its behal
We haveno reply to make to the dog ste
of 1.-THE Times" We have seen no grow
that we envy, and therefore the story d
ct not apply to US.
of We wish ''The Times" had not supprese
portion of our former article. In that ev
the the necessity of saying much that we h
nd had to write in this article would have b
led obviated. For there Temperance is ammo
ne ced as being one Of the prominent features
the Age. Will it do US justice in thisresp'
yet?