Sib, — Your local contemporary committed himself to a statement implying ignorance of the British constitution so extraordinary, that most people would readily have believed it a mere lapsus pennce, or misprint. Unable apparently to explain it in this way, he resorts to a low and disgraceful style of subterfuge, composed of deliberate misrepresentation and nastiness. "Two single gentlemen rolled into one" (i. e. journalistic double-dealing) is a subject which the News, for its own sake, ought to steer clear of. For a long time now I have thought the Editor of that paper more the finessing Frenchman than the straightforward Englishman, and — I think so still. — Yours, &c, "Act a' That."
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Southland Times, Issue 1596, 25 June 1872, Page 3
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