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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 115, 17 May 1870, Page 2

In a slightly contemptuous tone, and with an absence of that courtesy which is usually observed between newspapers — or shall we, in deference to the superior knowledge of our contemporary, designate them "prints" — the Colonist has this morning referred to some remarks that occurred in our yesterday's leader. "It may," says our critic, " suit the role of some prints, the source of whose inspiration, and the altar of whose vows are not far to seek, to accuse the Council of obstructiveness, to insult members as being a " fortuitous concourse " of individuals, whose views are limited, for they must be so if, as is alleged, their election depends either on the personal estimation in which they are held in their individual districts, or on their views as to whether there should be a bridge here, or a roae there, and not on the opinions they entertain upon the manner in which the affairs of the province as a whole should be conducted. It ia the apparent source of this writing that gives it any prominence, and it is the prominence of error, and an attempt to mislead as to facts." With the poetical language ia which reference is made to the fancied "source of our inspiration and altar of our vows" we have nothing to do — it is pretty and silly but nothing more — but we do object to a distorted &nd entirely unjustifiable interpretation beiug placed upon our words. We never said nor ever hinted that the members are men " whose views are limited " notwithstanding the ingenious argument that is brought forward to prove that if we did not say it, at all events we meant it, or should have meant

it. We will undertake to say tbat not another individual but the writer 'of the paragraph we have quoted ever dreamt of attachiog such a meaning to our remarks, and we must enter an emphatic protest against being misrepresented, even by .so influential a "print" as the Colonist.