, 1877-10-13
OAK HARBoR ". Z. !
October :, ltI1. /

Dear Sir I,have decided to QVit the
NonrulRH STAR both ~ subscriber and
"Ontiibn.or. As subscriber, ior the
reason that cannot afford to pay for 1t,
iilcrciorc | would say please stop send
ing It to mcany more.
As contributor for the Reason that
\ lm tired ot beating tie AIR" through the
non.pubishmrnt on your part OF so many
ot NY articles, and 10 not wish to further
annoy, Where ! cannot please.
Yours Respectfully. F, II. MARSH
The above was written us n private let
ter, aud was not designed for publica-
ton; yet we give 1t to our readers solely
hrcnu-e quite II lrrge class have attempt
rd 20 attach peculiar, and ut the same
time undue significance to the fct that
we have from time to time allowed quite
nuumhrr oi contributions from his pen
to appear IN our columns.
Hr, Mu,h represents very radical
elias, OF srusjyled tiUcml thinkers, who
undcr ,hr name OF liberal thought, make
thrlr articles 10 consist mostly OF neg
atnr criticisms o., the opinions of Others.
While they prc often lines quite sharp
and aways very critical, yet they rarely
furnish any Information OF positive val.
az 10 -teicty Usually such men nave a
few pet principles that they consider the
sole tests toy whrh the acts ~ well us
"puInu, ut others are to lie tested. THIS
was 10 "a marked degree the tloublc with
Mr.. NJ he al.o has an lntcnic desire to
present hls opuions to The pubI,c.
Tl dr,j lrw articles nt MS UtraCted
good deaiot attention. Soon this led
70 a IA olusicaI discussion, that if We
had aut aDppal il, woull have rlu per
haas as long Il, any one would bnye
re.ai he p per, We always wished and
still wi>u Ia publish representative mat
ter, rrWts,H,iug all the different pladcs
Ot tuuuglri s,i,niiic, social, political
and religious; yet dn not intend To al
low any s,ct. class or Ciced to run Us
NJ. NJ, II we w0uld allow him to run us in
ms own narrow groove would readily
enough furnish us each week matter
sufficient 10 ill u paper of the si2r OF the
STAR, and would ihcn patronlsr rs lib
erly Tor 50 doing. Unfortunately We
can not accept 50 much kind ass stance
even il we desire to do 50. Very scon
itwDa perceived that each new article
was only reinstatement ofa previous one,
That few it any new ideas or principles
were advocated THIS made everything
over his signature very unpopular,
With the religious element, So called +,
because they iancied him to be a iormid
able opponent to religion, which they
esteemed to be the only foundation OF
social order On the other hand, real
Libsw'y, WHO were pleased with the first
few articles tor their sharpness, soon be
gun to feel that his narrowness and de
voiion to his own creed was more in
ten.c, ii not more bigoted, than the syr-
tens of religion he so loved to atlnck.
They ic't that bis attacks ON the Chris
tain religion, and praise of liberal prin.
Cipics instead OF b,ncflting literal
thonght, could only awaken disgust Mt
liberal ideas. In other words, that his
articles would be ol the same assistance
to Liberals, AS Petroleum V, Nhsbys
10 the Democratic party, just pr'or to
an election
After the close OF the theological
discussion, we published rs many of Mr.
Ms. articles MS we could and do justice
to our readers, always endeavorng to
publish al! that furnished any new ideas
and was not rehash Of old matter al.
ready published We conycr,ed with
him, and tried very hard to induce him
toinvts,igatc other subjects, and use his
ready pen. writing on other topics.
In few instances he complied, some Of
these articles were published over an
ther mature They were well received,
and we hoped ho might be made
useful 20 society in other .ways than in
criticising the opinions OF others.
But these other subjects seemed to a.
waken no real interest with him, SO now
hrrnnsn W. nm mot fnrthrr nnnish nnr