, 1872-05-04
TIE "AVIS."
g:r;stta@ss23, 81, groiz.
4TH MAY 1872.

1t Is unfortunately no rare occurrence in
daily life to find men who, when arguing
Oh any question whatever, always consider
their W individual opinion as the only
correct one, and who "emain unaffected by
all the sound rrasonings and arguments
brought to bear against them. We gener-
ally look upon such men as being so per-
tlnaclously self-suf6cient as to exclude the
possibility OF any other correct opinion be-
sides their own; or we ar, i~nvoluntarily led
tosuppose that suchmen's intellectual facul-
ties are by habit or nature so formed, that
it Is really imp sSible for them to perceive
and conceive the force and conclusiveness
of reasonable argument. In all such cases
1t becomes necessary to avoid entering upon
any sort OF argument or disquisition with
them; in fact, better get out Of the way
OF men having that peculiar disposition.
But it is too often the case that Just such
persons are most intruding ; they follow one
almost every where, and they seek on every
occasion to Introduce and establish their
opinion the question becomes in the long
run, which of the two ways Of treating such
persons will be most profitable to avoid
them, or to lay them bare to others. For,
sometimes, silence only makes them more
audacious and moreintruding ; they believe
then they have the better of the question.
1t is, however, in our opinion. from moro
reasons that one, always better and safer to
let persons Of such tendency remain in their
own c%onceits or in theirown ignorance; SOON
er or later they will run into the fire and be
sCorched.
The st. Thomas Tidende has much in
common with an individual of that d%esrrip-
ton. Those who like us have followed that
little self-supposed standard Newspaper will
~hayenoticed how ~fruitless arguments and rea-
souings of every sort are upon that paper !;
those who have had the patience to read
the correspondence and leaders of that
sheet will have recognized whata Sisyphus
work it is to try to convince the Tldende
of he very first elementary doctrines and
maxims. We have, as our readers will
have noticed, politely and prudently declin-
ed eli sort of discussion with the ST. Thomas
Tidende we have declined accepting as
good currency from the Sist II Island
the Tidende's regular issues of " Bogus
colonial notes" 1t has been manifest
10 US an 10 IlulllUclS vi JULIUS licIC lud1
ever since the Tidende dined with the IA
nous (shall we add chimericaD I'LL on
monarchicai "tobescowse," ne has been
having royal eructalions, which have only
served to convince him, that there is some
thing'of a Sovereign in him, that he was born
for a throne, and that he is now in his
right place and,-Majesty is infallible.
We have always believed, and We have
been strengthened in our belief by the
opinion of some honest and thinking IN
fuencial men of St. Thomas, that the
Tidende is no true organ of popular opin-
ion in that island, at all events not as re-
CARDS the sentiments of the good people
there towards tn Mothereountry, the
sister colonies and friends and neighbours.
And we want it distinctly understood that
we are not addressing the Tidende in the
following lines, but the rational and sober
minded Peep e of St. Thomas, with whom
we in this Island have lived and are living
and hope ever to live on a kindly and frien-
ly footing, despite the Tidende's in-grown
propensity to cause strife and animosity ;we
desire to set before them some few censidera-