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2neet Sound 9ispattll.
Seattle W T. Feb. 5 1871

Seattle W T.. Feb. 1871 II
EGoT1sM. INDEcENcY, MALICE, LYING,
BFTRAY1NG TRUST, ETe.-These are few
Of the vituperative terms by which we
are charterized by the organs of the Land
Ring and the openly ayowed enen les
Of Seattle, all of which are echoed back
through the haieHigencer-a VIGOROUSLY
mercenary Journal, professedly neutral
upon all public matters and open to
subsidy to any cause or personal inter-
est which chooses to employ it-by an
anonymous and irresponsible Bohemian
who has abundant cause to know. the
utter falsity of his charges, and has on
repeated occasions sought and received
such acts of disinterested sympathy and
kindness as give the lie direct to his
charges Of jealousy, sel6shness and ego
tism as motives of action. We can, feel
no rivalry in eur vocation where we
have no rival. The seedy pettifosger or
played out schoolmaster who writes for
his bread at the dictation of others, has
no more claim to rank or consideration
as an editor or journalist than has the
manufacturer of patent medicine adver-
tisements or candy notices; and we can
have no business rivalry with newspa-
per which is in the market for anybody
or anything which will pay for lis use.
and has no higher pul pose tLan to line
the pockets of its publisher. We can
have NO personal controversy with Tie
conductors of such a journal, because
no personal character attaches to it-the
publisher cannot write and the editor
for the time is any impecunious hack
writer whose necessities have dliven
him to prostitution. We care nothing
for assaults upon our personal character
from that quarter, only as they are used
by the enemies of Seattle to discredit
and depreciate the efforts put forth in
behalf of this community, whose battles
We have fought against enemies from
every quarter, regardless of our own
personal interests and to our serious
pecuniary damage and personal detri-
ment. No man can point to asin9le
position which we have taken or main,
tanned under the influence of selfish
motive; or an enemy which we have
made except in defending the interests
of Seattle. We have made no attack
upon the Intelligencer for any other
cause than for furnishing aad ana COM
fort to the enemy. This it has repeat,
edly done, and in every instance its ar
ticles to that inten: have been reprodu
eed. endorsed and approved, in the or
gans of the Land Ring, which omit no
opportunity Of abusing us in connection
with Settle. We may mention in this
connection, McCarver's card, when the
question of the terminus was supposed
to be pending; the article rejecting upon
the business capacity of the first orsani
zation of the Board of Trustees of the
Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad Co.,
which was afterwards compromised for
printing jobs; the attack upon the lead
ing merchants and business men of the
town, calculated to dispa-a3e the enter
prise and business intere5ts of the town:
the insinuated denia! of the auth anticity
of the Cass dispatch, and many Like
smaller ohenses against this communi
ty, all instigated by SPITE against the
DISPATCH. or desire to curry favor with
the Land Ring.
That paper now accuses us CT "delib-
crate falsehood in stating that it had
ever denied the authenticity Of the Cass
dispatch. The Kalama Beacon pCh-
fishes what the Intelligencer did say OF
the subject of that dispatch, with the
following introduction: just as we
expected! The Seattle Intelligencer OF
the 18th ult., thus disposes Of one OF
the Seattle fabrications STATED by tie
clique that run the Dispatch" If it was
not designed to discredit the report, what
object had the Intelligencer in saying
that 1.-THE statement was made without
authority? 10 say it was una thorized
was tantamount to saying that it was
unauthentic, and that was the interpre-
.tatien put upon it by every reater.
The Intelligencer now admits that
there was such dispatch received from
Gen. Cass as we stated, but says in pub
fishing the fact we were ga traitor to
the trust reposed in him. No respon-
sible man las ever made such an accu-
sation to us or within our knowledge
Within twenty minutes afer we first
saw the dispatch, we heard lis contents
discussed uron the street corners, the
next day we heard the same at Tacoma
ana Olympia, we then saw it mentioned
ia I'LL Wy PuPoA1 esAe - ".sS' nv
until after all this that we mentioned the
matter in the paper. To assume that
we alone are responsible for the conse-
quences of its publication, is to concede
that its publicity from any other source
would not be regarded as authentic.
While we confess to the ego 'sm of
giving our own personality to our paper
and not permit any person on earth to
dictate our course, the Board of Direc-
tors of the Seattle and Walla Railroad
and all others with whom we have had
public relations, viii bear witness that
we have uniformly conceded the same
rights to others, without any attempt to
dictate or dominate.
A DOUBLE BEN FACr.oN.-U. S. Mar
shal E. s. Kearney, in recent visit to
the Insane Asylum at Stelacoom, was
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