The Portland daily press., 1871-01-16


declaration that "Alcibiades said that the
victories OF Pericles would not permit him 70
sleep" In case any one should doubt the
commences of the above note 1t can be seen
at this Office.
70 our surprise We soon found that Mr..
Talbot's praises were costly, like those of the
troublesome fellow who asks if you cannot
find room in 'your valuable and interesting
sheet" for long rhapsody in praise OF his
quintessence of burdock. He had then, as
now, weakness for writing long articles Tor
the ne wspapers, and was then, as he has ever
since been, the terror of printing Offices in
the same way that the amiable but importu.
nate proprietress of the State is. The public
were intolerably bored by his articles, but
there was vein of grim, Mephistophelean
humor about them that we liked, and, being
willing to encourage him, we published most
of them. But finding from the frequency of
the protests we received that bis essays would
ultimately have the same effect upon our SUBJ
audience we were compelled TO exclude some
OF them or to alter or abridge them. Con-
greve lived before the era of daily papers, or
he wonld never have uttered that nonsense
about "IIell having no fury like woman
scorned." Compared with an offended con-
tributor "a woman scorned" is an eminently
quiet and conciliatory person. From that
time forward Mr.. Talbot's malice and bitter
ness toward us have known no bonds. He
does not hesitate even to indulge in whole
sale Publications with view to casting dis.
credit upon us. He does not hesitate to bor-
row one OF the Argus most virulent false
hoods in regard to our having been repeatedly
dismissed from this'ofice, the fact being that
we were never absent from it one ddy on ac-
count of any unfriendy action of the pub
fishers, either during the lifetime of Mr..
Foster or since. Another and more inexcus-
able falsehood is the one deliberately framed
by him to the effect that we owe our present
position to the pecuniary assistance of out
side parties, when he kno,cs personally that
zoe occupied precisely the same place as at
present many months before zoe had anything
more than the sightestdcQuaintance, Nth the
gentleman to ,chom he refers. He makes this
statement with deliberate and wilful intent to
deceive. If he made use of such weapons as
these in his practice as District Attorney We
cannot wonder that he became no more emf
nent as prosecuting officer.
Mr.. Talbot's troubles as literary man ale
not yet over. His itch to see his ponderous
heaps of manuscript in print is such that he
paid the Aduertiser five or six thousand dol
lars, supposing that the editor would be will.
ling for that sum to so to the extreme length
of publishing all his creditor might write.
But we understand that our amateur journal
st has been in hot water ever since; he
has still on hand large number of rejected
addresses" This disappointment is extreme
ly hard to bear, especially as there is no pros
pect of his ever seeing his money again. We
exhort him, however, 10 look on the bright
side of things. Let him but consider how
mildly, how gently, how deferentially the
Advertiser just breathes the shadow of the
ghost Of dissent when the creditor tells how
he would pull down the great party that is
still, after the full accomplishment of some of
its specific purposes, as strongly knit together
as ever by the community OF feeling among
its members in respect to human rights, Off
cial integrity and general reform. Does he
suppose this Difference is paid to any weight
in his character or anything convincing in his
arguments? Nay, verify, it is the subsidy.
Three thousand dollars a column is goodly
sum to pay for airing ones animosities and
party treason in the Advertiser!
Our censor refers CONTEMPORARY TO our
controversy with the argus "subs" (Mr. Tai
bots affec!ations of familiarity with jour-
nalism here leads him into blunder that
is as gross an assault Oh the printing of.
flee dialect as it is upon good English, or
good Latin or good anything,) referring
probably to our controversy with Mr.. John
M. Adams, who has no " become Mr.. Talbot's
guide, philosopher and friend. However that
may be, our assailant does not disdain to
plaigarize the choicest of the argus brutali-
ties, where his own invention fails to supply
him with sufficiently false and villainous sug.
gestions. He has set the style of the Argus
"subs" before him as model and.has approx
mated to it verv closely with that slavish
fidelity that belongs to the mere copyist.
Mr.. Talbot was never anything more than
the nominal editor of this paper. He never
assumed orexercised its control, and the few
articles he wrote were commonly used at the
discretion of other persons. On ore or two
occasions he was guilty of conduct, when act
ing In his editorial capacity, that it was char
liable to call, if we may borrow single word
from his vocabulary, "idiotic," and the result
was his retirement from the position which
it had been the ambition of his life to fill.
Mr.. Talbot can now have 'sthe beldame's sat
isfactiou of the last word" if be wants it.