LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Cromwell Argus, Volume VII, Issue 327, 15 February 1876, Page 6

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —In your last issue, a letter sighed "Nevis" found insertion in your column*, and I therefore crave space to reply to the same, -although the attempt at disguise is so transparent that it requires no very marked penetration to light upon the author. That tbe nom de -fdumti '* Nevis" is but. a miserable subterfuge will bereadily seen when it is remembered that an agent in a Nevis case felt so aggrieved as to be necessitated to seek sympathy from you and all others ; in fact, he has taken the matter so much to heart that I fear serious results to himself will follow. " Nevis" has stated so many gross untruths—has so tortured facts—that a few instances will suffice. He'says firstly that "'Aitchison and myself joined issue in print." This is a sad perversion of the truth, as at the time Aitchison penned his libellous effusion, it is generally well known that owing to an accident received upon the cricket-around I was confined with a broken leg in the Clyde hospital, and that aitchison's letter was not seen by me till weeks after its publication, and then never answered:. Where, then, is the "joining of issue'*f But this is not all. I hastened to the Police Court;, with his wrath at white (not a white) heat, and said, "May it please your Worship, Ac." I never went to the Court to lay the information, and I never saw the Police Magistrate respecting the information, which was taken and made before David A. Jolly, Esq., Cromwell, in his own store, on the 28th June last. So the whole of the related dialogue only exists in the vivid imagination of this traducer, who styles himself "Nevis." It is also well known that on the day of the case being heard, I had to rely upon assistance even to get to the Court, as I was then and for months after confined to the use of crutches. What need to follow the mendacious imposter further ? I publicly call upon hira to disclose his name, or I will unmask him without the slightest scruple, when even not a printed apology, and paid for by himself will not on this occasion save him from punishment and exposure. I prefer fighting a known foe, and having succeeded in exposing the false and slanderous statements put forth by ■• Nevis," I wrap myself in supreme indifference. "Nevis" dare not sign his name—he is a resident of Cromwell, and has already w n golden opinions as having an elastic memory and a very pliant conscience. All these things I am prepared to establish, and if he dare test the troth, let him throw aside the assumed mask, "Nevis," and boldly attach his name, otherwise I shall treat him as a "calumniator and a villain," and utterly beneath my notice. A masked assailant can always afford to make liberal and unfounded statements —I am, &c, Eihwd. A. Drury.