Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-10-22

ounce, on BUSINESS we were treated IN the
most ~gen,lemanly manner.
We have been led 10 make these re-
marks, from a sense Of justice, the
men, we believed so unjustly traduced,
as a matter of principle, and not from.
my feeling toward any one. II I'VE had
any i'll feeling, The columns ora paper, is
the last place, in which we should at,cmp'
to exhibit it, ever if we had the privi-
lege; and least of all, should we think Of
dong IT, IN Ton, vulgar bia'ugsguts. We.
have long been disguised with such a
course, and especially with certain papers
in the Territory. The public do not wish
such slang, in a news paper; and as for
the immediate patrons of a paper, they
do not want to pay for such vulgar twad.
die and foul aspersions.
Besides, every paper should be, more
or less, u family news paper--devoted to
the interest of the family /; one that the
family must have. But q paper thus con-
Quoted, is no, fl to be introduced into the
family circle. Where is the parent, who
would allow his children TO reed, week af-
ter week, such harsh and uncoulh Ian
guage, as we often find, in many Of the
papers, claiming to be jevoted to the fam
lily INTEREST," No one, who has any re-
gard for their purity, aud correc, moral
training. A profane swearer, if he is not
too vile n wretch, and too deep sunk in
vice, will usually, be careful of his Ian.
guage, in the presence of his family ;
and such, we should conceive to be the
case, with those members of the press,
whose papers are all besmeered and be.
spa,tered, with the filth and corruption Of
their W de6lement. If a paper is not
fit to be taken TO an editors own
family, certainly he can not expect that il
is fit for the family Of others. We have
heard these very statements expressed, in
reference 10 those very articles, in the
paper under consideration, and we would
suggest to Mr., r. and to every other ed.
itor, who is guilty of such foul mouth
slanagan, that the public do not wish it,
disapprove il. They may not speak t. an
editor personally about it; but IL who is
miagling with them, often hear their dis
appreciation expressed. .I-
Suppose a man has been DETAINED or in.
jured, the columns of a paper is not the
place to seek redress. With all such mat.
ters, there is a right way 10 remedy them.
and the right way is the best way.
Squabhles are usually confined to q
few; the public have no interest in them
and why should they be pestered with
them? We humbly submit, that it is the
hight of %impudence, to seek to obtrude
such personal matters, upon the public
through the columns of a public journal.
But when no injury has been done, ant
men are pursuing the even tenor of Their
way, in a quiet, unobtrusive, gentleman.
manner, for a journalist, because he ha
the columns Of a paper at his control, t
defame and blacken the character of such
or strive to do so, the case is still NOR,
agrivating.e Character is the most sa
cred thing, under the sun when ono
lost, all is lost. The man who ,amper
with ii, especially without any provocatior
is unworthy a place among men he is
dangerous man; he puts his fingers, a
contaminated, into the most sacred plac
that can be found upon earth. An edito
, who flches a mans purse, is a saint, cor
pared with one, who will endeavor I
blacken his character, and wontonly de:
, troy his reputation, through the column
of his paper. na.rra
, The press, certainly, needs reformin
in this respect. If the adage is true
" Like priest, like people," how muc
more true is this of the pressl The ii
Auence of the press is far more poten
than all other influences combined; hent
the imperative necessity, tina, that inf'
ence should be, of the highest and pure
: character. It's tone Of morals ought
be healthy and vigorous, rather than
mass of moral rottenness and impurir
Personalities and abuse, so often found
journals of The day, are a disgrace
!. them, and stamps their authors with me
tied disgrace. Such bnse imputatiou
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