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The Grand Master And The "Observer Party."
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The well known aneo ^ instructions contained in . the brief oi ^ attorney , * ' finds aii apt illustration in a letter w ^ present nnntk ^ that we will not h ave our justice ouestibned , and will give no oppor
exact impartiality wMch we ( lesire to observe , or to charge us with refusing insertion to the correspondence of those with whom we differ in dpinioh , we should hesitate before we published the letter referred to , and should feel obliged to offer some apology to our readers
for permitting such a document to appear before them . It must however be understood that forbearance has a limit ; our pages shall ever be open to any and every Brothei % no matter of what shade of opinions lie may be , who desires to bring forward any particular view , or enforce any particular argument ; but for the future we shall abstain from publishing any correspondence , no matter whence or from whom it may come , which is not couched in respectful and becoming language . We cannot , even to gratify Bro . Binckes , permit our pages to be
made the vehicle of unwarrantable assumption or personal abuse ; nor should we permit his letter to appear now , if we did not feel that a just appreciation of the " party" whose mouthpiece he appears to be , will be arrived at in no better way and upon no more unmistakable evidence than that supplied by himself . We have no wish , as he supposes , to write him down ; no one can , or has done it so effectually as himself . We have given him rope enough—and we are glad to think that he begins to have a glimmering suspicion that he has had
as much as he may require for some time to come . If any confirmation of the opinion we have expressed on the " party " now represented by Bro . Binckes were required , we should find it in the singularly stupid and inconsistent farrago of abuse in which our deluded Brother has now indulged . We must give him credit , however , for a certain degree of impartiality in his various onslaughts ;
no one escapes—he attacks all indiscriminately . Now it is the Grand Master— -now the su bordinate members of the executive—now th < a Yol . v , 3 , k
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Grand Master And The "Observer Party."
THE ^
The well known aneo ^ instructions contained in . the brief oi ^ attorney , * ' finds aii apt illustration in a letter w ^ present nnntk ^ that we will not h ave our justice ouestibned , and will give no oppor
exact impartiality wMch we ( lesire to observe , or to charge us with refusing insertion to the correspondence of those with whom we differ in dpinioh , we should hesitate before we published the letter referred to , and should feel obliged to offer some apology to our readers
for permitting such a document to appear before them . It must however be understood that forbearance has a limit ; our pages shall ever be open to any and every Brothei % no matter of what shade of opinions lie may be , who desires to bring forward any particular view , or enforce any particular argument ; but for the future we shall abstain from publishing any correspondence , no matter whence or from whom it may come , which is not couched in respectful and becoming language . We cannot , even to gratify Bro . Binckes , permit our pages to be
made the vehicle of unwarrantable assumption or personal abuse ; nor should we permit his letter to appear now , if we did not feel that a just appreciation of the " party" whose mouthpiece he appears to be , will be arrived at in no better way and upon no more unmistakable evidence than that supplied by himself . We have no wish , as he supposes , to write him down ; no one can , or has done it so effectually as himself . We have given him rope enough—and we are glad to think that he begins to have a glimmering suspicion that he has had
as much as he may require for some time to come . If any confirmation of the opinion we have expressed on the " party " now represented by Bro . Binckes were required , we should find it in the singularly stupid and inconsistent farrago of abuse in which our deluded Brother has now indulged . We must give him credit , however , for a certain degree of impartiality in his various onslaughts ;
no one escapes—he attacks all indiscriminately . Now it is the Grand Master— -now the su bordinate members of the executive—now th < a Yol . v , 3 , k