LOYALIST'S REPLY.
x (To the Editor of the Evening Stab.)
SiE.—Te Whiti having usurped poor Woods' r&le, the latter is verily much cast about in his own mind, but unlike the noble savage who has a numerous following, Wood has not a single proclaimed disciple. If he contented himself with filling his periodical epitome with indefinite allusions to matters philosophical, historical or political, I would say let the fool alone to his.folly. If the man would but advance a few logical arguments instead of flying off at a tangent, enveloping himself in a cloudy mist of isms, ologies, and archies, one might get something to hit at. A prostitute of history, profane and sacred, accuses me of the crime ; mutilating in quotation a passage in my letter, to tax me with disloyalty in listening to " highly treasonable language." I would inform him, and reptiles like him, that Her Majesty's defenders haw-too much pride in their profession to eet in i|e manner he would, and others of his kidney under such circumstances. The soldier who would creep intp the bosom of a family, on terms of intimacy and friendship, and turn round on them and betray the unwary expressions of its members, I say would be a double dyed traitor. The .Empire must be in a sad strait, when it comes to rest on the espionage of its soldiers. Your correspondent would have made money at the game evidently. Whether I would have let old Guido carry on his blowing up lark or not, would much have depended on the character of the M.P.'s at the time. Out on ye for a backbiter Wm. Wood, and your convenient Fairfax too! I can assure the ylatter that when I visit a Catholic chapel I neither " make the papistical sign of the crops, nor patronise the holy water." Moni soit gui mal y pense my worthy pair. In rotation I will bid the crazy soothsayer and the melo-dramatic—beware ! Beware that your infernally wicked prophesies do not find you yet in the Whau. What about the opening old sores ? My reference to Cranmer, Latimer and to Bocher and Paris does not entitle me to the honour of being dubbed a Romish champion. With the errors of the Bomish Church, she has'also many redeeming points, and shame to the man that will not render unto Csesar, Caesar's due. To whom, let me ask Wood, are we indebted for the progress made in literature and art, in architecture and politics during the feudal ages but to the ecclesiastics of the Romish Church. Are we not as much indebted to Stephen Langton and his fellow bishops as to our warrior ancestors v for the draft of Magna Charta, which has become the very foundation of our liberties. A man can render honour where honour is due without being termed a Romanist or a Puseyite. The transposition of my name " WoodI" appear a Tery " small" matter to me, if it was not an attack on my bread and butter. That, however, I can contemptuously overlook, knowing well who prompted you to fire that charge at a soldier, and, as ever, a Loyalist.
[With this letter the correspondence must close, it is degenerating into too much of a personal character.—E. Star.]
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 25 February 1880, Page 3
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542LOYALIST'S REPLY. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3485, 25 February 1880, Page 3
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