THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
(To the Editor of the Wellington Independents To hear an open slander, is a curse ; But not to find an answer, is a worse. Dryden. Virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Dryden. Wellington, Nov. 28th, 1861. Sir, — " One of the public" having exhausted his stock of Billingsgate, bas given us " his last word in Wednesday's Advertiser. His disingenuousness having been exposed, ahd all his fallaceous arguments successfully combatied, he again crosses the scent with a red herring, hy an egotistical assumption of superior literary attainments, and bas not thought proper to carry out, bis own idea of " dying game," by keeping silence ; but " foolishly displays the wounds he has deservedly received in the encounter, to the pitying gaze of the public." "One of the public" having retired from the field, I presume the combat is over; but in conclusion I would remiud this ejegant writer, that when he" again favors the public with his effusions, to remember tbe old proverb, that "we should be as careful of our words, as our actions, and as far from speaking as doing ill.' Your's, &c, A Constitutionalist.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1689, 29 November 1861, Page 5
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189THE RETORT COURTEOUS. Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1689, 29 November 1861, Page 5
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