The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-07-19
islander AND A RETRAcTloN.
Some eight weeks ago the folloWil

Some eight weeks ago the following
paragraph appeared in these columns:
MALIGNANT CALUMNIATOR.
"A series of atrocious ISLANDERS on
the personal character of the editor OF
the Irish World appears in the last
number of the New York Tablet.
The writer is one lie
was at one time an employee in this
office. but was dismissed for miscon-
duct and was thenengaged as editor OF
the Tablet. We shall say nothing fur
Their about the matter just now, but III
due time we shall pay our attention to
it in the proper place and the proper
way.
The charges contained in the Tablet
article were OF a most grlevOuS ana
malicious nature. and had no other
means of redress been open to us we
should have felt obliged to employ the
columns of the IRISH WORLD i'll self
vindication. But newspaper quarrels
are not very edifying to the public.
However great your personal grleVan-
ces may be you cannot help boring the
reader with recital of them. 50 we
adopted what our better judgement
suggested as the wiser and more dig
nifed course, and put the matter into
the hands of our leWyer. We did mt
like to be obliged to go even that tar.
! But the blow was not merely personal.
nj aimed at the IRISH WORLD. 1.-The
principles of the IRISH WORLD were
Wantonly assailed.' The secret hope
cherished was, that, by blackening the
character Of this journal, its influence
for good would thereby be damaged
and it's loss would be another papers
gain. SO that a sense of duty, rather
than of personal resentment, lmpelled
us to the step taken. Accordingly 4
note from our lawyer demanding u
full and absolute retractiOn, with pay.
ment of costs, was addressed to the
proprietors of the Tablet. Mr.. DEN
MS SADLIER, senior proprietor. was
absent at the Arkansas Springs at the
time; but the principal manager OF
the establishment, Mr.. POLLARD-a
very courteous gentleman-after hav-
ing expressed regret at the appearance
of the article in question and after
having offered to make full atonement
therefor, with the immediate dismis-
sal Of the writer, requested postpone
ment of action on our part until MI.
SADLIER should return. The request
was granted. And, on the basis OF
the proposition submitted by our law
yer, the following retraction was pub
lished in Il conspicuous place on tho
editorial page of the Tablet
MIR. FORD OF THE 'sIRISH WORLD.
An editorial having appeared in the
columns of The Tablet in the issue of
the Dist. of April last rejecting on Mr..
PATRICK FORD, it's proprietors desire
to state that the article in question
was published without their know
ledge. sanction. or approval. They
beg to tender to Mr.. FORD, the re-
spected proprietor of the IRISH
WORLD. an expression of deep regret
that an article so personal, so offensive
and so unfounded should ever have
been published. They feel that the
columns of The Tablet should not
have proved the medium for such
statements as are contained in that ed.
itorial, while they are also DESTROYS.
of stating that the principles of the
IRISH WORLD were Wantonly assailed
and the personal character Of Mr.
FORD maliSned in an unfounded and
understandable manner. Should the
proprietors of The Tablet find occa
sion to take exception to the policy OF
the IRISH WORLD, they reserve te
themselves the right of SO doing, but
they entirely disclaim the tone OF the
article Of the Dist. of April, and beg
to repudiate it in every possible way
This is fair, honorable, and manly
, apology. and we are satisfied with it
{ It's publication reflects no discredit OF
the Tablet. Indeed the publication
of the slander-thrus into the Table
J while the proprietors' backs wer'
turned-did an injustice to our con
temporary as well as to us
: The dismissal Of the writer--who
name is here suppressed have no
J insisted on. 1t was not vengeance W.
sought, but justice.