THE EDITOR OF THE NELSON EXAMINER.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume I, Issue 22, 16 September 1843, Page 2

THE EDITOR OF THE NELSON EXAMINER.

, Tins person, whom we have never seen, and[ whom we do not know excepting as the miser ; able conductor of a hireling paper, has taken' the libertyof flingingat us some of the low and' scurrilous matter which he so liberally su[v! plies to his best friends. We tell this gentki man once for all that we are not affected lm: the abuse of any of ouv contemporaries. "Wei never return compliments of this kind. We[ regret to perceive the growing taste of our* friends to the southward for this vulgar dislif When our contemporaries descend to abuse' instead of argument, we let them alone. — Our' remarks on the Wairoo Massacre were nei-j ther false nor founded on malice, such s f feeling as the latter we disown. The lettot 1 of one of their 'O\yi settlers, Mr. Tucketf, ! fully corroborates the truth of our statement. 1 and proves also that he himself is the onljj person at Nelson who can view this unfortunato affair either in a moral, religious, or common sense light. The rest appear to k as ignorant of the principles of morality a« f the Editor of the Examiner is of good breed] ing. Ho is annoyed because we disapprove Oi the murderous, cowardly and fatal conduej r of his fellow settlers, and because we do no;, join him and the Gazette in the barbarot' howl for the blood of tho Natives. — We arl ashamed that the leaders of public opinion).^ that even our countrymen should degrad--' themselves by expressing such horrible senjf' timents as have of late disgraced the pagf* j, of tho Examiner and Gazette — none butthji paid servants of the Now Zealand Compan; : ; could so act and so speak. X*