The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-08-24
What the Whiu Saws.

Our readers may be curious to see what
comment the Bangor Wing makes to our
last weeks friendly little allusion to the
editor. Partly to crafty that feeling. and
partly to show the quality of the material
which enters into the construction of the
Wings editorial, we copy its rejoinder
entire
Discounted malice naturally vents itself in
abusive epithets. When the ruffians and muir
derers of the New York mob were throttled by
the iron hand of the law, the first gaspng breath
regained was employed to howl forth curses
upon the guardians of the peace who had
thwarted their bloody purpose; and so it has
been with their advocates and apoligists, smart
ing under exposure and rebuke. When we
recently condemned the course of the Belfast
Journal and Bangor Democrat in pandering to
the elements ofsdisorder, we anticipated re-
turning shower of invectve characteristic of
those journals and the class they represent.
Neither of them have belied their reputa lion,
but in its last ISSUE in default of any answer to
our arguments, the Belfast paper confesses its
discontinue and glorifies its own disgrace by
devoting nearly column of scurrility and
weak SANDER to personal attack upon the
editor of this paper AS the Belfast journal
has attained reputation for obscenity mainly
due to its editorial paragraphs, which has rem
dered it unfit for circulation among respectable
families. its abuse would be to most men more
welcome than its commentator, and while it :
vituperation is unworthy even of contempt,
we do not grudge it the pot-house applause
which has been purchased at the cost of man
hood and decency. Calling an opponent an ass
may be congenial and summary method, but
it is not the most dignified or effective mode of
disproVing troublesome arguments; and the
smile, which fails to respond to the .)Ourn ais
vulgar attempts as stale wit, can hardly be re-
pressed at illusions to the ''sword of Saladin'
in sheet whole ideal of chivalrOuS warfare
has ever been to overpower its opponents with
disgust. We have no special fondness for I'M
sayory encounters, but the Belfast journal may
as well understand that we are not to be intin-
dated by abuse and that our hand will fall none
the less heavily upon vice and its pandere rs
because the culprits give vituperatlve express
sion TO their displeasure. ! Z"
In this city resides an itinerant vender
of CLAIMS, fish and Holsters, whose wares
are daily hauled from door to door by a
diminutive and funny looking little
donkey, but with ears as huge as those of
Nick Bottom when caressed by the Fairy
Queen. Now if this comical quadrnped
should put in an appearance some day
| bearing a label with the inscription II
am an ass ~ and the bystanders should
smile at the sight, they could hardly be
charged with scurriity, weak SANDER,
poi house applause or obscenity. The
smiles would come in naturally and east
ly, and because they couldn't be helped
And so when the Wing appeared at the
doors OF its patrons, bearing the fruits of
its loraging dispensing the savory cod
fish of its unmatched editorial comment,
the lively and notified mackerel of it's
piquant paragraphs, the succulent clam
of its selections, and the armored lobster
of lis areument-hnt with the motive
power OF the machine hearing the label
of the ass why, of course laugh comes
in right there. 1t is simply a coniugaton
of the verb on all sides-I laugh, You
laugh, he laughs; we laugh, you laugh
they laugh-and every body laughs
Hardly anything else could be expected
If there is blame in the matter, it must
rest with the proprietor, who didn't look
the animal over with sufficient care.