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ter, hoping that in the meantime, people
should have forgotten oil aboutit, he holds
up st. Thomas as an "unfortunate Mich
Cow" for paying for services received. Is
it possible that the cramped Intellect of II
peddIing island should be so beclouded by
self-interest as not to see the shallow trick?
| am at liberty to suppose that it is so,
since not . voice has been heard against
this interested bIarney. The Tidende also
grasps every opportunity of assuring us
that they intend, if allowed, to shirk their
duty to assist in keeping up steam-commu-
~nication between the islands. IF that is
really the opinion of the whole peddling
land then it is high time, in order to bring
them to their Senses, to remind them that
there is such o thing as 'a Royal Resolu-
ton" | am loath TO believe, however,
that even the I'LL could be found willing
to run out the whole line of this miserable
evasion of duty, although no man can tell
how far that eVer-erring crowd can go in
their scriptural system of demonstrating
their love. From the hopeless heaps of
chatf produced by the Tidende's bantering
column, we may pick one little grain which
involves q recommendation to the crowd of
living men, with sense sufficient to govern
the world, to shirk their duty. If the Ii
dende were in possession of q little more
candour and courage, and, | may add, hon
esty, it would acknowledge that it is
against oil principles of "Truth & Justice"
to try to shirk ones duty under any pre-
tense whatever. If the I'LL p%etitionists
could only obtain that complete separation
of the islands,, which the Tidende pre-
tends to be the acme of Colonial policy,
nothing would please US better !; but as
long as the Chief Governor has to exercise
any authority over this Island, there is
such a thing as a necessity, in our day, to
keep up q regular communication between
head quarters and the outposts. The IN
tellect of st. Thomas may not be equal to
the task of grasping with principles above
the capacity of an average Mich Cow but
there is such a thing as the Diet, and there
is such a thing as a Royal Resolution.
The Tidende says that the harmless ban.
ter, in which it occasionally INDUCES in its
Notc-Colur11n, never descends to the use OF
such terms as ignorant scribbler, "a term
used by me in my last to designate one
"who had recently commenced to take an
interest in these islands"). I have in the
foregoing, Mr.. Editor, given your readers @
few samples of the Tidende's indulgences,
not, as in my case, applied to an individu-
al, who wrote about what he didn't know
nor understand, but used of q whole COM
munity by the Tidende in the name of the
I'LL. In fact, if there is any thing disa-
greeable to the Thomasians, or their ban
tering exposition, in the above, they may
refer to his back numbers, in which occu-
patton they can only find the greatest de-
light, it being supposed to be their own
sensible ideas, and they will find that |
have only broiled them 10 their own fat.
If you will kindly indulge me, Mr.. Editor,
it will require something more than the
bantering column to ''cast me OUT. I
judge from your W silence that you are
against returning "banter for banter,' but
there are many who cannot swallow such
insults, f. j inst, as to be called paupers be-
cause we do not choose to pay with a
smiling face and a good grace" any thing
haughtiIy demanded by 'bantering" up
starts.
Yours etc. an unknown quantity, but
now made known, for
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