Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-01-12
THE WINGS AND THE SOUTHPORT TEL.
EGRAPH

In justice to ourselves and frie nds in general we
deem 1t proper to give a statement of the facts rela
I'VE to Misunderstanding, which occurred between
Mr. sholes one of the editors of this paper and some
"i the wings of this village. This statement is the
moro required at this tme for the purpose of disa
oasing The public mind and correctg wrong impres
SONS, which possibly may have been created a.
broad The facts in the are substantially as fol-
COWS On Monday the els Of Dec last manuscrin,
paper, was left at The Office of the Telegraph by an
individual who stated they the proceedings of
n wing meeting and designed for publication The
entire matter for the paper the time of receiving
inc aforementioned manuscript was aIreadyin type
AS Is commonly the case with US on MONDAYS (Tues
day being publication day. therefore no reasonable
man, could have asked Of us the publication of the
proceedings in that week paper
The following week as our readers know very well
we published the Presidents message. The length
OF Tins document engrossed eat share of our paper
ana The aforesaid proceedings together with other
communications on file for publication were passed
over. his omission proved the causeof dssaIisfac.
Won win some individuals, and the manuscript
cohtalhIg me proceedings was called for without any
explanaliun being asked-handed from our files
and subsequently forwarded to the Milwaukee Se2ti-
nef, ana Chicago american, for publication Mr.
Sholes states unequvocally that had he known that
the design OF the proceedings intended TO give
puoicliy to the proposed Wing celebration at South
port no woud'have published the proceedings with.
out iaIi on the second week after the reception Bu
supposlng them simply expression of political
opinions, and not connected with the forth COM
ing celebration, he did not deem their immediate in
seflloh essential. 1t was upon the like supposilion
mat not long since the proceedings of large demo-
cratic meeting, held in this town and brought TO The
Once OF the Telegraph 70: publication, were never
inserted IN our paper Now it would have been an
easy matter and act Of condensation for these in
dViduas, to have asked for an explanation, by on
curing the reasons for emitting the publication of
the proceedings, or informing us why their immedi-
ate insertion was required. These persons knew full
well that IN no single instance, had ever declined
publishing notices and doings Of whg meetings; but
had on all occasions extended equal lberaty in this
respect, to both political parties And since this is
the case they had right expect the proceedings
IN question would be inserted, provided they were
matter of general Importance. We have in our of
flee the proceedings of other meetings of different
characters which have been sent to us for publication
during the last six months but upon the suppositon
shat the great aorty of our readers would feel no
interest IN them, we omitted their insertion Now
II need not have wounded the dignity of any man
10 have told us that the proceedings were something
more than mere village affair." and that they were
Intended for important purposes abroad.
Thus much we have thought proper to say in our
own Justification The public may Judge with whom
he blame lies. We have no concessionsto make-no
promises 10 mend our ways-nothing to confess, for
we are not conscious ofhaving wrongod any political
party.
In explanation why the name of Mr.. Sholes, is
individually used in the foregoing statement it may
be proper 10 say that the senior editor of this paper
was absent on a tour TO Rock River, when the pro-
ceedings in question brought to the office the
Telegraph and the matter of their publication was
left a. th" control of Mr.. Sholes. Mr. Sholes being
DOW atst.l IN a visit 10 the northern part of the
'9utVuy. we have thought proper to make the above
..,,ncut ~ accordance with these circumst ances