EVIL-TONGUED SLANDERERS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5239, 27 July 1876, Page 3

EVIL-TONGUED SLANDERERS.

T<> the Kclitor : Sir,— Ono of the tolor.vnt electors of Fiunkttii last night used the worth, hi relation to Sir Julius Vogel, that he thought it an insult to compare ft poor of tho ro.ilm to a .Tow podlar. I w.n in hopes, nir, that this wrotched stylo of argumont had died out long •inco. Why, the greatest leader of tho ariMto cr.itic and Conservative party of Groat Britain, i* a .Tow by birth. Thou petty ami iutolorant remark* are nil tho moro censurable in a colony whore vro should justly boant of freedom from tho narrow prejudtccs which had long clogged «ociftl life mid individual libei ty at homo, and in otlier European nation*. Look at tho prominent inon in many European countries and aco to what ominonco .Town have attained. .Tewg have shown acknowledged tulonts and ability, and all the miHerahlo coanigminded wpirit that induces inon to throw inHult on thoin and on their icligion will not prcvont tho spread of tho fact that God'a ancient pcoi>lo, oppressed and cruelly uted as they were for centuries, are among, nevertholest, tho elevorest and most peruoveriDg races on tho faco of tlio onrth. When tho chains of ignoranco and bigotry, which Imvo hitherto moro or lew bound thorn aro removed nil this will be olearly yeen, »nd men with a spark of decency will be aslmmod to carry political rancour to tho wickod extent to which somo evil-tongued and low-brod pcr«ioni indulge— I nm, &c, Veuitah. P.S.— I enoloso my oard.~July 2G.