To CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 735, 30 April 1853, Page 2

To CORRESPONDENTS.

Wo cannot gratify “ An Elector” by permitting him to make our columns the medium of his attacks at once upon Colonel Wynyard. the Ministers who signed the Requisition to that gentleman, and ourselves. He should address himself now, as he did in the hist instance, to the Southern Cross, whose proprietor he is practically supporting ; and even then, as he is assailing persons whose names are before the world, he should have the manliness to attach his name to his letter, that the public may weigh one authority against another. If vve had, as he alleges, “ calumniated” him, we should readily have given insertion to any correction of our statements as to facts. Eut tve did not do so. What we said was that his accusation against Colonel Wynyard of compt liuiq the Pensioners to parade on the Lord’s Day,” was an assertion palpably opposed to facts, winch, if he did not know, he should have enquired into before he advanced the charge. This was not but simple unvarnished truth.. There is “ calumny in the case; hut it is not upon ns that the guilt of it rests. We shall not he led into the arena of theological disputation with 'our correspondent notwithstanding his chivalrous permission to “ shake bun to pieces if we are able,” We believe, as firmly as he can, in the perpetual and universal obligation of the Fourth Commandment; but we would suggest as an inquiry for his private meditations, whether the Ninth is not equally binding on every well-instructed conscience.