PROFESSOR STRACHAN IN DEFENCE.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 978, 11 June 1872, Page 2

PROFESSOR STRACHAN IN DEFENCE.

" Let Iluroules do what he may, Wg/' The cat will mew, and dog have his rtjßb; (To the Editor of the Westport Sib, —I had hoped to have read frß.an Editorial chair, a more brilliM|§ efiussion than the one producedßp your issue of friday last, in way critique, (or) as- I should say, insJßl port of the Social Entertainmentsgi«|; in this town for so noble a caus&Ml thought (father editor) you wijft have spoken in a more paternal ner of my efforts, but while astonisJß at the (heterogenous) mixture : absurdities, I suggest that an AmatJß" is at all times open to correction,fl|": even-censure, which should be prolH ably recieved, when it is judicousH given, but when Socratis chosesfroH Billingsgate his language, the amatJßa loses the edification, but rises jjjjj superiority this being the case, I cJBi sider a continued discussion (In fraJt 1 may state in order to encourage cH" fellow townsmen and amateurs not iM intimidated by the scratches of flfl severe a pen, while I treat withceM tempt the descordant effusaion. f ; Benjamist Sthachajt. WSt' Westport HwM [Josh Billings, who has studiedtlfl frailties of weak humanity aaj3:-8| " Flattery alwus makes a wize tnafl humble and kerful, but it has thesanM effek on a phool fchat a band ov mpM has on a plough boss the fiust time hfljf hears it." Without insinuating thn Mr Benjamin Strachan is a " phooMJ it is very certain that flattery has beefl too much for him. As a specimen ofl incoherent balderdash his letter iS unique ; but, as he insists on its pubH lication, we submit it to the criticisaSf of our readers.—Ed. W. 21] r