Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-10-09
VANDALIA:
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1883.
HE REVISED LAWS AND THE ADvocArE-
LAST TIME.
"Convlnce a man against his will,
He's Of the same opinion stiIln


q to his "History of the Revised Code,n re
e peatlng and simplifying upon some of its
: most suspected passages. The only evi,
:, |dence, however, which is nop furnished Of
i their truth, is second or third assertion
u about in the same words with the original
: draft. The peracity of the Advocate is still
: all the public have to rest their belief upon
o and that, it has sometimes been said, is moi
c above suspicion. Testimony emanating from
, that source is PERHAPS not the best proof
!, Whatever lie the matter in controversy, that
could be adduced. The gentleman has at
last: taken himself to his strong hold, and
there is no getting HIM out oft. Black
| guardism is his forte; in the use of it he is
E perfectly at, home; he has fund of stale
\ barroom jokes and coarse epithets laid up IN
lstore to which he is known to resort, when
other resources fail. In the use of such
weapons we cannot compete with the gentle
man, and therefore we shall take our leave
of him, with brief notice of his late learned
I''suppement r..
i Speaking of the Wing, he says: "IIe (the
Whig) talks Of delivering the last form, as il
delivering one or two thousand copies would
complete the contract for $780," Now it is
we'll known that long before the Advocate
published his history, 5000 copies (all
that the State required for distrbution) had
been sent to the several counties ''throughout
the State;" and that there were then 400
and more copies, complete, deposited in the
biudery. The Advocate knows this, and
admits it in conversation, but says to the
public, "Only one or two thousand copies
have been delivered"
Again he says, "rhe Wing talks of Mr.
Goudy's forfeiture: Mr.. Goudy's bond re-
quires him to deliver the work in fifty days
after the last form is printed and ready for
delivery Now this wisacre had better in.
quire if delivering the last form without de-
livering the rest OF the work would make Mr..
G. liable for the penalty" ..-.... ...,
We alluded to Mr.. G.'s contract only to
show the nice sense of justice, and the i'm
Partially of the Advocate and his protegc,
the secretary Of state Mr. G.'s contract re-
quired him to bind 5000 copies in fifty days
after the sheets were delivered. More than
that number were delivered the 9th of july
and from that time forward Mr.. G. was moi
interrupted day in completing his contract
fer the want of sheets: and though he fell
behind near four weeks, we hear no talk
about suhlecting him to a forfeiture Wheih-
er Mr. G. be subjected 10 penalty or not, is
! nothing to us; if the state pay him the full
amount for his work, let it be so-we pre-
sumo he deserves it-he has done his best,
mo doubt, TO complete his contract in time,
and who could do more? but we do not wish
that his delay should be charged upon US.
that we may be made to bear the odium of it,
that's all. ....
One more short extract, and we shall dis
miss the subject entirely. "We have moi
even hinted." says the Advocate, cat Their
endeavors to get Mr.. Cloudy to give certi
4icate that the laws were all delivered, when
a whole wagon lead remained behind" SC
We never requested Mr.. Cloudy, and the
/ Advocate can get no body but himself to say
: that we requested him, to give us certifi
cate that all were delivered when a wagon
load was behind; nor at any time, withou,
lettering 10 secure him against loss on &C
, count Of deficiencies, by entering into bono
in any sum he might name, and with sucl
, men for securities as he might select; for the
exact number could not, at the time the
Laws were delivered, be ascertainej nor even
for months after, without counting over the
whole of them, and this the secretary refus.
ed to do; consequently, we made the bind
er that proposition, not with view to cheat
! the state, but to obtain our pay for printing
as soon as we had delivered the sheets, as
contemplated by the committee, who were
appointed by the legislature to make the con-
tract. We made 90 such request as the Ad.
| Evocate speaks of-his assertion is false, and
5 he knew it was so when he made it.
DEFICIENCY IN THE LAws-The Advocate
I admits that but few sheets Of two or three
forms are wanting to make up the $500 CO.
{ pies we were bound to furnish; but still in
I, lsists, that our contract is in no sense COM
d pleted. Last week, we stated in reply to a
: Misrepresentation of this kind, that def
!, cheney of even hundred copies in, so large
work as the revised laws, was by no means
Unusual, and that a mistake of that kind. is