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Note to J. K. Bellows

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 25, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 8, No. 21.

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Note to J. K. Bellows.

By James White

You say that your "paper stopped at No. 17, Vol. VII," &c. If your paper stopped before it reached you, after it was mailed, we could have no control over it, but, be assured, that your paper has been mailed regularly. By referring to the old New York list book, we find that your name never has been erased. We are sorry that you did not recieve the REVIEW; but we did our duty.
And we here inquire, Why did you not write to the Office, and ascertain whether your paper was mailed? Why did you first go to that sheet of slander, and there charge us with "double deal," of stopping your paper before the subscription had run out, when our hooks show that we had sent you the REVIEW some time without pay? Had we trespassed against you? Why did you not come to us alone first? Why did you not take the first and second steps, before publishing our supposed wrong abroad? Matt. xviii, 15-18.
Your present remittance pays to Vol. IX. We cheerfully mark you half price, and with pleasure would send you the REVIEW free, should you request it on account of lack of means. And we are sure you would not have said such mean things concerning us and the REVIEW, had you not been drinking of that poisonous flood poured out after us. May the unfortunate error of sympathizing with, and joining hands with, slanderers, prove a beneficial lesson to you for time to come. J. W.