Alexandra Times at KellyGang 16/10/1875
(ADVT.)
TOWN V JOHNSON
(To the Editor of the Alexandra Times)
Sir, -"There is some soul of goodness things evil would we observantly distil it out," and the low, vile, and untruthful abuse delivered by that foul-mouthed brawler and common road-maker, William Johnson, affords - if rightly considered - ample scope for the development of goodness. I think, Sir, all respectable men after reading his letter will shun the presence of this pest of society. I need not draw his picture; he has done that for me himself. His letter shows he is an untruthtul slanderer and an unmitigated scamp. Never, I think, did such a vile, libellous, and scandalous production ever find its way into print before. The letter clearly shows the man who wrote it is a low pot-house bully, destitute of every spark of manly feeling. His letter portrays him in all his naked villainy and horrid deformity. The man who could pen a letter like his could do, anything else. It is well that he has so thoroughly unmasked himself. People now will know him, and profiting by his unmasked villainy will shun him as they would a dire pestilence. his deliverance is a fair reflex of the class to which he belongs - a class that I polluted and polluting, eating up the very vitals of our moral system. I know the man was fit to utter nothing but howls of the vilest Billingagate. But, Sir, I certainly thought a gentleman of your attainments and culture would have refused to pollute your columns with the insertion of a letter bristling with lies and villainy. My character for sobriety, openness, and fair dealing is well known in Gobur, and on reading Johnson's letter of Saturday last a feeling akin to horror was felt by the respectable portion of this community. If people spent no more money in alcohol than I have done there would be far more prosperous and happy homes than there are. Had I spent my earnings in the public houses I should not be now in the comfortable position I am. No person in Gobur can possibly believe such wild utterances as those contained in Johnson's letter, and any of your readers will, I feel confident, refuse to believe the statements of that low, unprincipled libeller and foul-mouthed brawler. Trusting in fairness you will insert the above, I remain, &c.,
SAMUEL TOWN
Gobur, Oct. 11, 1875.
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