PLEASANT CONTEMPORARIES.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 191, 28 August 1869, Page 4

PLEASANT CONTEMPORARIES.

Last week we printed a piece of twaddle from the Nelson Colonist, of August 13th, which was simply a personal attack on Mr. Sinclair. On the 14th appeared another in the Evening Mail, partaking of the same characteristics, only that the person attacked was Mr. H. Dodson. The writer swears “ by all the stock-whips that were ever cracked in the swamps around ‘ Beaver,’ ” and thinks before we created “all this hubbub” we should have waited to see whether Nelson would have us back again, or even whether “if the truant Province were to go on her knees and ask us to take her under our fostering wing once more, we would lend our ear to her prayer ” He then diverges into a flight of fancy and retrospect about the first sitting of the Marlborough Council, which has nolhingtodowiththequestion, and finally winds up with an avowal that ‘ ‘ on the whole, we are not disposed to invite Marlborough to sit down with us to a dish of fatted calf.” Some three days later, the same paper contained some further silly remarks upon the language used in a letter which appeared in our columns, headed “ Annexation, forsooth !” ; but while quoting half its contents, carefully avoided either quoting or replying to one line of the argument contained, or any allusion to the treatment which caused our Secession. The Examiner has not yet spoken on the subject. Turning to the Wellington papers, we find them equally devoid of any argument, while the Post contains some flippant remarks, from which we extract the following : “ It really seems bard to understand what our Marlborough neighbors want, or, failing annexation to Nelson, what they intend to do with themselves. They set up on their own account long ago, and have so mismanaged their business that they have spent every shilling of their capital, and plunged themselves into helpless embarassment. They can never hope for another start such as they had at first; they have no more land to sell; they are utterly bankrupt; and have confessed that they are unable to get along by themselves, and yet, when the only possible chance of assistance is offered them, they scornfully refuse it The best thing for the Government to do, is to leave them alone till they come to their senses.” On the fallowing day, the same paper thus apostrophises;— ‘ ‘ Poorunfortunate Marlborough has snarled and showed its teeth so much about being reunited to Nelson, that Nelson is naturally disinclined to receive back such a disagreeable prodigal into her family; and, such being the case, the Government is going to allow Marlborough to have the whole of its Customs revenue instead of half, and let it try to maintain a separate existence a little longer.” Again on the 24th, after quoting a portion of our last week’s article, the same writer says:—“ Marlborough is quite jubilant... Poor Marlborough! What will she do when this newly-acquired wealth has followed all the sums that have gone before.” It will be observed that no writer in either of the sister Provinces has a single word to say in reference to the injustice which Marlborough has been suffering under at their hands for the last nine years ; nor do they bring forward any arguments to show that two unwilling parties should be bound together in wedlock. We are glad that the contingency has passed away, and that Marlborough is not to be robbed of its political rights and power of self-government, as well as its revenue, while we join with our Picton contemporary in the hope that when our new Council meets, it will be prepared to initiate an entirely neW system.