The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-06-27

CARRIED. This statement we have au-
thority for in tho concessions of each of
the persons representing the papers
above mentioned. AS Mr.. Bailey has
introduced personal correspondence,
when inquired of whether such transac-
tons are gentlemanly or just, he replied
that other state papers do the same. Thus
he would teach principle of ethics to
Justify one ,crong by doing another.
Excusing his own sin or evil doing by
accusing somebody else of similar.
The only compensation or favor we have
eyer demanded of the Register or any
other paper for duplicating our cores
pondencc has been that they should du
ly credit such correspondence TO the
several newspapers who do employ and
satisfactorily compensate us for our
services"
We would say in reference TO the
above, that over year ago communi-
cation from Mr.. Day appeared in the
Addison County journal, asking its
editor if he recognized that this paper
was stealing its county news from his
columns. This also, like most of the
reverend genilcman's personal state
ments which we have met with, was a
falsehood, as we should now call it,
though at that time we did not know as
much about him as now, and we took il
to refer to North Ferrisburgh items,
which up to that time we had OCCASION
ally copied from the Free Press OIL
Herald and Globe. On seeing this
charge above referred to, we immedi.
ately wrote to the reverend gentleman,
apologizing for appropriating his items
and excusing ourself on the ground Of
our ignorance of his sensitive feelings
on the subject, and claimed that we had
done no more than other papers die
which usually depend upon each Other
as sources for local and state news
We furthermore promised not TO out
rage his sense of ownership by copying
any more of his items. We "intro
duced" this personal correspondence,
for the reason that we disliked to hav,
dishoDorable conduct imputed to us b.
: a gentleman with reverend handle t
his name. We have kept our promise
and therefore the statement that W,
have copied his icms for three year
past is falsehood. We received re
ply from Mr.. Day commenting on
good resolution, gently criticising TIN
questionable moral sense we displaye,
in copying any items from other papers
advising us always to pay for our items
and kindly offering his services for salt
D pay. To this magnanimous cpistle
which revealed TO lis little of the char
5 acter of the man, we replied, compli
menting his fine moral sense, condolin
1 with him, perhaps little sarcastically
i upon possessing scnsitivencss whic
+ would injure the health of most ioul
g nalists in a few short years, and dcclir
ing his kind offer upon the ground tina
n we wished a lutte less promiscuous col
: respondent. Our real reason was tina
5 we had noticed that Rev. Mr.. Day
: items generally had so much rcfcrcnc
i to the business of Rev. Mr.. Day an
# family that we did not feel that the rci
: news items would pay for the advertis
d ing of Rev. Mr.. Day. This was tn
IS sum and substance of the "personf
e correspondence" Mr.. Days assertio
y that he only demanded due credit 70
# "duplicating his correspondence
d another falsehood. lie said nothin
i about his terms except that he cxpecte
t all papers inserting his correspondent
|, to pay for it. There are some othe
l. misstatements in Mr.. Days cpistlt
g which, however, are too senseless {
J. notice.
: We dislike extremely to imput
/ falschood OF wrong-doing TO any ma
G on the ground of anything he may hav
a said about us, but Mr.. Day has been S
# extremely reckless in his abuse and hi
o desire TO injure us, for some reason III
known to us, that we deem il but ius
ice to onrself to show the character {
his attacks. We shall give 10 MOI
!, space to Rev. III. c. Day.