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For the Columbian Fountain
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MEssRs. EDIToRs We are much pleas
ed that you have admitted to the columns
of your valuable paper communication
which processes TO be opposed to the Stem
perance enterprise" You will permit me
to say that such liberality is highly com
mendable.


Your correspondent, Bailey, has made a
strong dash at you for beginning We
would most respectfully suggest to him the
propriety Of regarding the rules Of decorum
in his communications for the paper.
have not much exception to take to his be-
ginning article, as it regards the style and
manner, only that he seemed TO take fire a
few times, and thought there was danger
that his spot would boil over" could
wish that he would be less vehement, and
remember that we are his friends. We were
very much pleased at his Introductory re-
marks. The freedom of speech and the
press ought, indeed, to be highly valued /;
and, as he Gays, we should be careful not to
" abuse SO distinguished blessing. But
Mr.. B. will please to remember that we beg
leave to say that his insinuation that the
writers in favor of temperance are sabus-
ing" the liberty of the press, is entirely an
unfounded assumption, and, doubtless, in
tended for effect Mr.. B. knoacs that there
has been no " abuse . of the liberty of the
press, nor has there been any abuse of the
rum spectators published in the "Colum-
bian Fountain " at any time. 1t is not in
tended, by the intelligent and gentlemanly
editors of that highly valuable sheet to al
low abuse to be spread out on its pure
folds. They intend to reason, and not
abuse The cause they plead is the cause
Of truth and righteousness, and, therefore,
needs no "abuseo Of the liberty Of the
press to sustain it. The advocates for the