Tennessee staatszeitung. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-187?, 1866-08-21

HSls@ ssPLUCKY. The dutch radical organ came
out yesterday in vilainous attack Mayor
Brown for trashing Rexford We wager a new
hat that the editor would not have dared-to
subscribe his to the language in
English" FL
There are three falsehoods con
tanned in the above short paragraph
clipped from the Sundays Banner,
viz: es..'s@ ss1s Se~S
FIRST: our paper is not rdutch''
but german" the difference of the
two nationalities of course the Ban
ner'' not being educated enough to
understand. 5faf& @t@+tA6
SECOND there was neither vii
famous" one nor an attack at al
against any person or persons in the
article referred to by the Banner"
We leave it entirely to papers of the
Banner strife to make their columns
the sinks for personal villainous
attacks; while we understand it
very well and exercise this under
standing in all cases, to seperate
persons" from the cause" We re-
gard the duties of a journalist far
higher, than to use our paper for the
special injury or the special benefit
of any one person.
But we also consider it one of our
duties to give utterance to the prin-
ciples, which werepresent, whenever,
wherever and by whomever any
thing may be committed, which we
believe is in contrast with those
principles.
We would not believe ourselves
worthy to occupy an editorial chair,
should we ever allow personal or
material interest conflict with our
duties, which are to speak truth and
not withhold the truth-or on the other
hand should we ever allow personal
good or i'll feelings dictate, what we
write for our paper. We are cosmo=
politan, which the Banner editor"
cannot sayTof himself. II
THIRD: we have never hestitated
to subscribe anything written by US
in any language, if it was translated
in to another = provided, the trans
lation was correct one. Of course,
we would not subscribe to any trans
lation, which mispresents the origi-
nal so opportunity willful and malici-
Gus as does the above contemplate
paragraph our article in regard to
the Brown Rexford matter.
We hardly ever give room in our
columns to any personal controver-
sizes, but we could not abstain from
publishing the above paragraph and
add at the same time another one
taken from the Sundays Dispatch:
GAN EDITOR ON THE RAMPAGE. The
Substituting" of this city, is paper of the
Teutonic persuasion, edited by Mr.. John Ruhm.
Yesterday morning the sheet came out in an
article somewhat savagey rejecting ON Mayor
Brown for his action in connection with the
Rexford difficulty. We not informed as to
what influences have been brought to bear on
MIR. Ruhm since then, but the Story is that he
comes out this morning in ''card'', gracefully
denying that he intended any offensive refe ction
on our worthy Mayor"
As to this reflection on our paper
we would refer to what we said
above in regard to the Banner"
and further we would state, that
there was no influence brought to
bear upon us, 1--WE never allow any
outside personal influence to dictate
what we write) nor did we publish
"card" to the contents of the above.
But what we did is the following:
A gentleman called upon and had
a conversation with US about our
article which we wrote in regard to
above affair After a social chat,
the object of which was the explain
alton of said article which, written as
it was in german, was not without
our assistance comprehensive to the
gentleman we were in a most
friendly and cordial. manner asked
by the latter to say something in our
paper in regard to the article for the
beueft of that class ofthe population
which does not understand, as we do,
to separate personalities" from a
cause. We cheerfully agreed to
write the following, which is a verbal
translation of what appeared in our
Sundays paper:
ut is hardly necessary to men<
ton that our comments about the
Brown Rexford matter were not
intended against any one person
or persons. AS our readers are
very well aware, it is never our
way or manner to attack any one
personally. What we said in above
connection was merely the deela<
ration of principle, represented
by US. y
We are at any time willing to
make statements of that character.
We did not retract anything what we
said, nor was there anything to be
retracted We do not insult any
one knowingly or wilfnlly. We
have o right, to do h at-but
we have right and we mean to
exercise ito criticize any pnblic
occurrence Ia the community and
make our opposition known if such
Occurrence 10 contrary to our views
and principles. 5S 1881