The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-03-02
COME ON. TACDUFF.

NOLAA1 O-Ns AN2AN
Hbeneath the sun there is, in a news
raper. one thing more despicable than
another. it is to fIIits columns with arti-
rlcs abounding in malicious attacks upon
person OF paper who has wished them
no injury, and in which there is nothing
TO interest the general public, justify the
assault, or supply any appetite except
the basest and vilest, and minister to
the most degraded craving of the lowest
class Of humanity. The PosT has for
some time, received the attention of an
obscure sheet in Helena, which has pub
lished extracts from private letter
written by a member of this firm to a
party in Helena. They perverted articles
written in good faith, by one who is as true
10 the Union and the Union cause, in his
heart of hearts, as any man in Montana.
They sought controversy which would
result in no good to them, TO us, or to
the people of Montana; and we declined
il, content TO leave them with almost an
entire paper full of vehement attacks,
unanswered In the Herald of the 21st
instant, in an article, "Who steals Tel
egrams," there are assertions we cannot
pass by. The silence that we had hoped
would have the effect of causing them
to reflect. and be more fraternaI, has
roused the fiendishness of a nature so
dcPraved, degraded and debased, that
when the smitten cheek was turned
unto them they have struck again, with
spiteful, satanic malignity, a treach-
e5ous, personal, and cowardly blow. This
We cannot pass by unnoticed. 1t is a di-
nsct personal attack upon the character
Of a member Of this firm, who stands too
high in the estimation of all Union men,
70 be vilifed and misrepresented by the
miserable presentations of a paper
which envies and hates the Posi- and
rs proprietOrs, with a savage ferocity,
that it smooths over with the nauseating
slime OF anaconda frienship, by saying,
Now, We wish our young friend Dittes
pleasant journey, and all that sort of
ming, and expects people cannot see
beneath the loathsome, sickening, famil-
ar lcastor) oily smoothness of words,
'Ae yindictiye malignity and envy that
Inspires it. We publish that article in
illl in this issue. Hitherto, we have not
lad an unkind feeling against that pa
per. We have loaned them paper upon
which to print their issues, that they
might fulfill their promises to their sub
ssaoers, and they retain it to this day
We have shown them every courtesy in
'lr power, and would have been pleased
" see good Union paper, conducted
-P0A honest principles, issued in Helena.
Oan. K. Dittes, the very man they have
'aLsiied, and has, on different occasions,
Written to this office, asking the senior
member if he had the kind of paper
-4sy used, and requesting, if he had,
.nat he would lend it 10 the Herald.
VOW we propose to settle this ques-
''oa' hilt to hilt and in the struggle,
We Will use every honest endeavor to
Oelea' our adversary. even as we would
Urn 10 crush a venomous viper. In re-
ea'u 10 the telegrans, it is scarcely
worthy Of mention, except as cumula-
ave evidence of the falsehoods contained
- 'le Herald. The following certificate
settles that story:
f, /, certify on honor that the firm OF D. w. Til
~ - . 20. are the only parties in Montana who re-
r., sshpaiohes over this line for publication
buf tazr, seazr, Iilton & Co. have not only agreed TO-
psicIe PAID promptly, for all their telegraph dis
seive - mai they. by contract entitled 70 re
osiv.s e =. news dispatches they
eat Lake OF San Francisco; that they