THE EASINESS OF BELIEVING IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S BELIEE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 44, 22 February 1867, Page 2

THE EASINESS OF BELIEVING IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S BELIEE.

To THE EniTOK OP THE ' EVENING MAIL/ Sir —A clever man, a very clever man, is your correspondent " Pickles." Surely he must have some notion of offering himself as a candidate for the Superintendency. A certain stagnation must inevitably take place if such a clever man as "Pickles" is kept out of office. He must be tbe " coming man," for who can do so much for us as he who believes what another promises to believe —whose political faith is fundamentally " nothing venture, nothing have," and whose ideas of progress consummates itself in "give us a raihvay and behold the change ! Diggers then will come to Nelson for their periodical spree, etc."

The assumed disguise of "Pickles" is too flimsy. Bold eyes ccc too plainly through it. It is doubtful if there be in Nelson two clever men of the stamp of "Pickles." We know for certainty of one who is able to estimate "the value of land without seeing an inch of it." The sound logic of "Pickles" reminds me of Sydney Smith, who was once dining at Holland House, when, among others, he met with a French savant, who, not in the best possible taste, indulged both before and during dinner in a variety of free-thinking speculations, and ended by avoAving himself a materialist. "Very good soup this," said Sydney Smith, " Oui, monsieur, c'est excellente." "Pray, sir," asked Sydney, "do you believe in a cook?" Does such a clever man as "Pickles" need to be reminded that some of our greatest statesmen, poets, philosophers, and politicians were once engineers, shepherds, tailors, chemists, shoemakers, etc., etc. ? I wish I was half as clever as your correspondent ; I should then feel very much inclined to offer myself to the suffrages of the electors. I am. &c, Anti-Pickxes. February 21, 1867.