"PROGRESS" A MISNOMER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume 357881, Issue 350, 7 June 1877, Page 2

"PROGRESS" A MISNOMER.

The person who had the impudence to style himself " Progress," smarting under the well-merited reproof we administered a few days ago, has forwarded a reply. As the publication of the reply without that of the original letter would be useless, and as the original letter is, as we have before intimated, unfit for publication, we object to being induced by any system of scheming, cajolery, or intimidation, to print either. We do not for one moment insinuate that "Progress," who is obviously a person whose sensibilities are singularly blunt as regards his neighbours, but particularly keen ..when he i attacked, could possibly see any harm in the letter forwarded to us for publication, and which stigmatised all religionists as hypocrites. But ive did. And were it not for affording " Progress " the satisfaction of stabbing the best members of our community in the dark, and the injury likely to accrue in many other respects, we think that we should risk stirring up religious controversy in a paper never intended for such a purpose. Let " Progress " crawl out of his concealment, and

appear in propria persona, and we will allow him to hold himself up to the scorn of all right-minded men, by producing his letters in the Mail. No comment, we are sure—although, as he remarks in his defence, we do riot know him—would be necessary, for no other but a careless, wild, rabid writer, whose opinions are not worthy of the slightest consideration, would have written the abusive rubbish that he has sent us for insertion in a public journal. We have preserved "Progress"' letters, and now challenge him to authorise us to publish them under his proper signature.