The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-08-09

EDIToR GAZETTE, please publish once,
for me, the following. The true mean
ing of my remarks will be understood
only by those for whom they are in
tended. If any one who may read
this column should wonder why such
an article appears at all, the apology
| give him, is, that there are reasons.
for it, which, to me, are sufficient.
The difference between the man
who picks your pocket, and takes your
money from the drawer, and he who
exerts himself to detract from your
business, by striving to induce others
to withdraw their patronage from you,
is the difference which the statute
makes, In the one case you cansafE
rest and punish the criminal; in the
other you may suffer to the extent to
which your enemy's malice and inhu-
ence may run, without knowing when,
or how, he works, while he goes on to
the end, unhung, because legislatures
have not provided for his case.
There are those who have treated
mo SO nnkindly as to forbid any per.
sonal intercourse; not even the passing
salutation; but nothing has, or ever
will, seduce me into an attempt at re-
taliation by attempting 10 injure the
legitimate business of an enemy
There lives not q mortal who will so
charge me. | have suffered myself to
say hard things of men that have in.
lured me, neodlessly; but never, direct
ly or indirectly have / caused them to
suffer injury in their business, / have
not assumed the livery of heaven, and
with SOLEMN face and long drawn
breath partaken of the bread and
wine, and then gone out into the world
to damage my fellow man because he
and L in some way were not harmoni-
GUS, or because thought that l could
advantage myself by pulling down
one and pushing up another. 1t is a
cut.throat game not recognized by
barbarians.
A mans political or religious opin-
ions are nothing to mo. | want to
know whether those l como into com.
mcrcc with are true mon and true
women, whether they be Catholic or
Protestant, or, whether outside of the
orthodox churches they profess inf.
universalism, quakcrism or
spiritualism. All this, I repeat, is no.
to me, 1t should be nothing to
any n who only desires to do right.
who are doing the best they can
live the golden rule, will feel no Of
at anything he'e written. If
thore are those who feel hit, ] hope
they will suddenly remember that they
profess civilization and christianity,
and that, after all, thinkers will re-.
quiro of Thorn at least an imitation of
tho life of him whom they profess 10
love and follow.
In that branch of my profession
which have made my speciality, | &c.
knowledge no superior. l have been
filing teeth in this city ovcr a quarter
of a century; and l intend to do so tor
another quarter of n century, if | live1
80 long; and shall have plenty of pat.
rons. WhiIo many dentists have come, E,
and went, still others come. | don't
expect or desire every body to pat
me; all can not go to the same {
any moro than all can buy
heir goods at tho same store, or all 20
tho same church.
| have filled, since l have beon in
Lancaster, over 10000 teeth, and !
that a less percentage OF my
filings have failed than of any dentist
vest of the mountains. My prices can
20 reached by all who need and call
or my services. l repair my filings !
rec of charge, whom it is needed, and i
f the fault was in any way connected
With the workmanship. Z
Now, reader, | ask, is it worth while .
c cut one another's Threats because .
don't think alike, or love each
Their ? II. SCOTT.