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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 283, 27 November 1872, Page 2

*** We are desirous of affording; every reasonable facility for the discussion of public subjects; but it must be understood that we are in no way responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. To the Editor op the Nelson Evening Mail. Sir, — I willingly admit that my letter must be somewhat hard upon you; but I hope you will also fairly admit that your statements or extracts must be hard upon me, and upon the bo-iy whom they affect. If you feel it hard to be told that you are in the wrong, after it has been, more than once, proved to be so, you must consider that it must be harder upon me and upon others to hear repeatedly narratives, which, when searched into, are generally found to be, not only incorrect but in reality false; and I do not see that articles of that description are of such great interest or utility for the public, as to be so necessarily promulgated to the great dissatisfaction of a large number of your readers. You say that I have no right "to make the sweeping assertion that everything that appears in this journal, of which he does not approve is either a fallacy, or a ialsehood, or a forgery." I b g to remark that you make me say more than I do in reality; for where I say that "articles .... have been proved more than once " I do not say "everything" "every time." / r You suggest that I should write more courteously. Well! I feel that I am necessarily somewhat slow in my conversion to your views though I thought I had already conformed to a great extent. When I used the word " lie " to express my sense of untruth you objected to the word as too strong; in correcting my expressions I substituted " falsehoods " or •' forgeries " (for I would not go so far as to call falsehood truth, even to please the Editor of the Evening Mail). Yet you still add that I should be a little more temperate in my language; others must pronounce which of the two requires it mo.st. However Iwill submit to your oastigations. and hope you will in future try. not to provoke my "fulminations." ,'■ : ■''•'.; 1 8m, yours, &c, ■ - - •„ . ■ it A. M. Gaein.