The Daily Bulletin

IMBECILITY.

Our youthful morning contemporary has become feverish again. For several days the fever had shown indications of abatement, with strong traces of imbecility trailing in its wake. It was grievous to see, in yesterday's issue, a violent return of the former, with the continued presence of the latter. We venture to suggest that a little hydropathic treatment, judiciously administered, to avoid "chilling to death," might alleviate the worst symptoms of the fever, and "slow down" the pulse a few beats; but we are sceptical of any method of treatment, old or new, being efficacious to remedy the imbecility. The ailment is apparently too deep-rooted for medical skill to reach.

It is really touching to see a dear young neighbor, who is an expounder of logic and whose progenitor we held in great veneration, in such a pitiable condition of intellectual decrepitude that his every effort to enlighten the benighted minds of his eager disciples betrays innocuous vapidity or subservient cant! But when, as in the startling exhibition of yesterday, he manifests a propensity for prevarication and perversity in preference to candor and truth, and essays to stuff the uninformed with falsehood and fiddle-faddle, he becomes a proper object of contempt.

Those who are familiar with the truth of the matter, concerning which our poor neighbor publishes a series of misrepresentations—to use an extremely mild word under the circumstances—will naturally feel unmeasured contempt for an organ that can wilfully deviate so widely from the line of truth. As for ourselves, we are accustomed to regard with cold indifference the mountebank posturings and senseless drivelings of an unpopular journal that has no particular opinion or meaning of its own, and therefore imposes no tax on the understanding of its readers. We have often seen light-headed egotists, who "write English indifferently well" and prate about "logic" of which they know as much as a cow of commerce, blustering furiously for a brief period, and then falling violently back on their native insignificance.