Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1871-07-15
For the Clarion.
EMMITsBrRG, July 10, 1871.

MIR. EDITOR :-AllOW me Spact
enough to record my earnest protest
against the character Of certain utter
ances upon the part of some OF your
correspondents from our town. l a.
lude to the personal references in which
they have indulged in their writing
The proceeding has continued under
more or less palliating forms for some
time, but the latest expressions have
reached APPOINT that can claim no in
diligence; they have become unmanly,
wanting in dignity, and are down
right impertinent: injurious not only
to the success of the CLARION, but to
the good name and moral bearing OF
our village. Unless we are to be re-
garded in the character Of the Athe-
mans, spoken of by st. Luke in that
remarkable porenthesis of his, just
preceding his record of st. Pauls
speech on Mars hill, who "spent their
time in nothing else but either to tell
or to hear some new thing" the nam
ing Of persons, directly or indirectly
in matters of no public concernment,
should hereafter be omitted.
That there may be no misconceptlon
| will instance some of the objection
able cases; Of course know not who
those writers may be, nor could |
desire to do so. One brings prolni-
nently before the public, by initial. a
young lady "of sweet sixteen, IN the
connection of the late festival Now
as every person could at once rccog-
nize the individual alluded to, pro
nouncc the matter an unwarranted
indignity. "SANcno,' in the last
issue atte nptS to censurc the Band,
charging it with "lack Of energy as
if It had anything TO do in that matter
Of "the history Of a cake and then
in truly QuiHotic style, fights the bat
tie of Young and old, striking hither
and thither, wouudiNg friend and foe
but as IN the case Of the rcdoubtablc
squire of old, whose name he has so
aptlv adopted, being in the end him
self the most wounded of I'll and at
length winds up with personalities, 50
open and barcfaced, THAT every gentle
man must r,co;l from them as from
venom double distilled
Because one sanguine writer IN the
cxuberanco # spirits commits an
error, or don t come up to this one $
expectations, the Band is 70 be cen
sured, whm all the while that body
had acquitted itself in the very best
possible manner they could have
adopted. Without show or scnsclcsS
parade they received the timely con
sideration and assistance Of the ladies,
and made their Acknowledgements to
them IN person, and not to the unin-
tcrcSted public, as would have been
the case had they rcsoTt"d to the
press. Indeed, in the highly crcdita
bic character Of that festival through
out, there was nothing more so than
the honest and unassuming conduct
of the body Cor whose benefit it was so
successfully carried through.
Next, "B.' takes occasion TO tell
your readers Of the private matters of
a gentleman OF refined and unassumlng
manners, soiourning IN our village,
whose general information, and genial
disposltion dlltusc joy and gladness
among the Young and the aged who
know him. lie says, naming the gen
tleman, that he gave a delightful
pie nc at his own expense GAIN that
magnificent, how else should the gen
tlcman have done y to the citizens Of
Emmitsburg, &C. OF all things the
man who makes history should be
SIRE of has facts, Now if I am rightly
informed, the last clause Of that quo
tation is certainly incorrect. The
gentIemans party was, on the occa-
sion, of a family event personal to
himself, which he celebrated in a
company with a number Of invited
guests, and there his own private at-
| lolfS, as Wen US OtlcE lclcltlltcS Vi llllS
writer are thus unwarrantably carried
distance off to the press
Is this the way to encourage the
growth of our town and ncighborhood
to attract the presence of strangers
here to enjoy the richness and tho
beauty Of our hrayen-glven scenery
and delight in the Acalth-eiyihg III
! hucnccs Of the mountain air.
Such ridiculous and vulgar gossip
would be beneath contempt were it not
for the injurious effect its publication
must have on our character as a COM
munitv, as well as on the dignity and
responsibility Of the people in which
it is published therefore in the name
Of that community protest against
the spirit that can originate such
things, and trust we shall have no
more OF 1t.
"Curscd be the verse, how we'll 50 er it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe,
Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear,
| Or from the soft t-cycd yirrin steal tear "