, 1877-12-15

cratic Press:
9TH Dee. 1877.
Beriah Brown, Esq, Seattle, w. T.
Dear Sir: As you now see fit 10
charge me as being the editor of the
Press, you viii please discontinue
sending the DISPATCH to my all
dress; as, observing the courtesy Of
your profession, you probably ex-
change with that paper.
l have been subscriber to your
paper ever since I came to the Ter
ritory; but I do not feel sufficiently
magnanimous as to pay out money
for newspaper whose editor, after
years of professed friendship towards
me, now assails my character with
out cause or provocation.
Your ob't s'vt,
ii. G. WILSON,
Port Townsend, W. T.
The writer of the above is a
practising physician, claiming
and we do not dispute his claim
to be q college graduate, with
the education and advantages of
association with gentlemen, and
as such we always treated him,
without any intimate personal
relations, or professions of friend
ship. His complaint now is that
We charge him with being the
editor of the Press, and assail his
character without cause or PROV
Ocation.
The "charge," he does not,
and dare not deny, because the
fact is notorious. The nominal
editor Of the paper, as is well
known, has not had the advanta-
ges of education and association
which he boasts, and is not anne
nable in the same degree to the
laws of social intercourse, of
which he is utterly ignorant,
and to that extent irresponsible,
as between gentlemen.
AS to the assault upon his
character, We may say that in
all our newspaper career, we
have ever held to the doctrine
that in becoming an editor it is
not necessary to cease to be a
gentleman, or to violate any Of
the rules of social intercourse.
We have never assailed the per-
sonal character Of any citizen
but for specific acts, clearly pro-
we'd, involving public wrong;
never meddling with the private
affairs of any man, either pecu-
mary or domestic; and we would
as soon pick mans pockets as
we would betray confidential
conversation relating exclusive
ly to personal matters, violate
private communications, or use
clandestine information to the
detriment of others. This the
Doctor learned in his intercourse
with us both in relation to the
Indian Department and the Lu-
natic Asylum. We made no as
sault upon the character of the
Doctor but as q politician and a
public official, and the cause and
provocation was as great to ex-
pose his true character for the
protection Of public decency and
private reputation, as it would
have been had he re-established
his intimate friend Thompson in
sGaaw brothel, shared in the
profits and acted as runner IN
invelgling thoughtlcss youths to
their destruction under the false
pretence of serving the Demo-
cratic party; or like some other
Doctors Of equal ability, should
engage in Infamous and felonious
practices under the color of his
diploma; or should put in circd-
lation, under another mans
name, obscene prints and publ
cations. None Of these practices
would be more eowardly and in
famous than that he has engaged
in under the irresponsible name
of H. L. Blanchard, a half-edu-
Gated attorney, who has neither
the ability to raise an issue on
any public question, or the spir-
it to resent a personal insult.
Under the pretence of publish
ing a Democratic paper, this man
Williston, who never acted with