, 1868-02-04
SAMBO.
To the Editor Of the "St. CrOix Avis"
Sir

Your Avis No. Q c~ontains an article headed
Communicated" The author might have
condescended to subscribe himself %"BIRCH", bo-
t~anically speaking classed under the head of the
genus Betula, which would naturally have shewn
him to be a plant, not indigenous to the island Of
Saint CrOir, but a tree which had been import
ed here, to draw its nourishment and to flourish in
this locality, and, like an exoctic plant of the
parasitical class, to twine itself around every
indigenous plant it comes in contact with and
ultimately, to absorb all Meir ritality to ats Op@
particular nourishment and sustenance.
Communicated commences his preamble
by remarking, that the tone of article ii. is
"disgustful.'' 1t is not my opinion that "Com-
municated' is aware of the meaning of the word
"disgustful." Did I subsist on codliver-Ol, |
might perhaps be forced to the conclusion, that
every thing with which | came in contact. was
''disgustful !" but, my taste not being vitiated
by the use of that article, and my mental facul-
ties still being perfect, enable me, by the proper
use of my reasonable faculties, to pronounce
HIS article, not only a very proper one, but also
g%entlemanly expressed, and, any "person pos
sessing o sense of propriety," must perceive the
truth of ny assertion, after a perusal OF the ar
ticle itself.
"Communicated' further declares, that cat
the time the situation, as collector of customs at
Christiansted lastly became vacant, neither the
Government nor the Colonial department at Co
penhagen, had any knowledge whatever of an
approaching cession of the two islands of Saint
Thomas and Saint Johns, to a foreign state
and it can even be asserted with certainty that
at the time Mr.. Anthon's appointment was
signed by His Majesty, on the 18th October
last year, nothing had as yet been agreed upon,
regarding the cession of the two islands"
I am not surprised that communicated"
could bring forward such assertions but, can
the writer suppose, that the public will give
credence to them, after haEimg used a little re-
lection on the matter /? MOI Never !! Ills true
that some individuals have been known to carry
their presumption so far, as even to attempt to
alter the conditions of a treaty, between their
W Government and a foreign one-which
treaty had doubtless been compiled by clever
statesmen on either side-but, to suppose, that
an individual could be. found, who could have
the presumption to declare, "that at the time
Mr.. Anthon's Appointment was signed, by His
Majesty, on the 18th October last year, nothing
had as yet been agreed on, regarding the cession
of the two islands,, when we have His Majesty's
open letter to his subjects at Saint Thomas and
Saint Johns, DATED 25TH OCTOBER 1867, and,
when, at the same time, the Danish papers spoke
also of the transferring of Saint Croix, "as soon
as some difficulties in the way had been remOv-
ed thai HIS Majesty, only 7 days before he
care the a6oyenamed letter, should not haze en-
tered into treaty wiM tie United States, for the
transferring Of these sslands to them, but. thai
the ohole Of the arrangements should haze been
hurried through, IN the space Of 2 or 8 days, IS
a matter which only presumpt@o~s amda0sduats,
could take upon themselves to assert.
communicated still further states, that
.none' tI suppose communicated means
neither) "of the two persons appointed to fill
the situation during the vacancy, had petitioned
for Royal appointment in the post" GRANTED
but Of what avail, would their petitions have
been when Communicated makes the follow
ing ridiculous aud absurd remarks, viz. seer
tain situations, +. |. in, the Customs department
here, are of such a nature, that it could not be