Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-02-27

We have now had charge of the editorial
d .partluvnt Of the "Gnauirr' ior nearly year,
nad w" most respectfully but firmly ehali,rGe our
friend Il the Journal" ta r"fcr his READERS TO II
s,ngls line or single wort which has appeared du
ring (! a time in cur columns As editorial Tat d.
r,etir or ndjrec,iv ''casis 'nin unnD the N"ho-
d - church Or airy q her church N Christrndnm.-
We have been, Si,cnt # this cAy nrarly five
years, nni chsil"rgr the Etnr of thr Jaurn&l'
to prodrs, n siege expression 'lat We have used
during tina, time, eth'r IN lriv?e II in public thai
could he construed n'o cas- ing "ud lIa' upon "ny
religious society in this e'y.
The above appears in tue hrq'i fr OF this
week, in connection with more than half
column Of similar "5ile" which our st let
ares on the hastv notice given by that paper
concern; = Mr. MunSon, las: week, seem to
have stirred up. knowing that Mr. Biies.
whose name is the onl, one that is given AS
responsible for What appears in that paper.
has been resilient Of this place but abe,:
two years, we naturally conclude that +. Ii.
Thayer, who was editing the Enquirer during
the last election cainpa gn, is still engaged in
that capacity and wrote the above. We
make this allusien to d'sabusc the minds Of
those of our cit zens who may suppose that
Mr.. Riies wrote the vcnOmous article from
which the above extract is taken. We found
during the political mpasn last fall that
Dir. Tkayer lor Julga lhayer, for dignity.)
had an extremely short memory. We did
no. presume. however. that he would be so
forgetful Of what he wrote but q few weeks
age as to challenge us in the above manner
IL meet fully the challenge We have only to
refer the readers Of the inquirer to Its &C
ssunt Of the dance foistcd on the late ''old
clothes party" In that article the opposi-
sion made by majority of the churches to
dancing as sinful dissipation is shame
lsssly ridicue cd. If anything else than an
an a,temp, to ''cast odium' upon them is
intended by it, We CO. fcss we are unable to
see it. We have no disposition TO do injus-
tiee to Mr.. Thayer, notwithstanding he
charges us with being notorious for call
.nny and approximations We have
net at hand the copy of the paper in which
the article alluded to was published, and
failed to obtain one even at the Office Of pub
LEGATION but Il he will furnish it to US, We
will publish his remarks entire and leave the
public to say whether We have, as he charges.
"wilfully and malicionsly published a gross
and pslpablc falsehood from motives the
mos. vindictiv. and revangeful.", We have
no revcngcful feeling towards him. 1t is
true the char hat we have become ''noto-
rious for oalumnv and misrepresentation" is
grave one, yet we rest easy under it, know
ing that we have lived long enough in this
community and that our editorial career has
been such rs to give it a fiat denial, and be-
lieving also that it cmanatcd from it's author
when he WAS not ''holding his temper and
lad not that dae regard for truth as he ought
to have under all circumstances.
Ne do not claim TO be the champion of
the Methodist or any other religious denom-
nation; but we are ever ready to defend any
respectable society OR individual that may be
anjustly assailed. AS a journalist, We have
nothing to do with Mr.. Thaycr's private
character or his reputation for morality, mol
should he have anything to do with ours
Therefore, we shall not, as he suggests, at
tempt to prove our assertion by what he ha:
said in private. Wewill let his public RECORD
speak for him. If he insists that We have ma
ligned him-which we believe he dare not dc
we shall have something else to say on this
subject. What we have heretofore said ha.
bees by way Of admonition; but the bellig
erent attitude he has assumed has induced
as to put "a rod in pickle" which We shall
reserve for future use, if it should be re-
CURED.