Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-09-29
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u''e "ouu oe uenied through the columns Of
the Picayune, | ask Of YOU the favor or ;,s 10
ser'ion in your paper. Having alway, bssn - .
Democrat, | claim the right 10 investigate d.
claims Of oil candidates who are presen,od r.
the sutirnges Of the penple-and our party bnr.
ing nominated Joseph Cable for Congress. -
the exercise Of that right. wish to INQUIRE WIN,
claims he has either religious, moral, or poIi,i.
cal. have usually voted FOR the nominees os
my party, but at the same time, have ceytaip
rules OF qualification that candidates mus, nos.
sess TO entitle them TO my vote. What claims
then, ask, has Joseph Cabel The only thing
he has ever done, or the only sacrifice he has
even seriously made for the religion Of the conn.
try was, the publishing of Humes Es,ays onr.
lgion; vile nhdel pamphlet gotten up for ile
express purpose Of proving the Bible false, and
rdculing the doctrines Of miracles, as taught
by the Saviour. This pamphlet has been cir.
culated, broad cast, over the land, by.the inf
dels' Tor the purpose Of poisoning The minds of
young men and converting them TO this damna-
bic doctrine Of "non-responsibility." This ia
What Joseph Cable has done for the advance.
ment OF that religion, by the aid of which civil
government can alone stand. Now, Cable does
not come up TO the rules that govern me in
casting my vote; and as an honest man, who
make humble pretensons TO religion, | cannot
vote for him, and know many good Democrats
who, like myself, will, from a sense Of duty,
be compelled TO withhold from him their sup.
port
l., however. no objections Of the above cha.
racter could be urged against Cable, il does
seem TO me that the moral sense Of the demo-
cratic party must have been very much blunted
in making him the nominee. Is it not facE
known 10 the people OF both Jefferson and CO.
lumbana counties, as well as Carroll, that he
came into Carroll county with strange suspi.
cions resting against his moral character. His
course since that time has been any thing else
than Of moral tendency. He has been an idler,
living upon the earnings Of others. While he
has been eOdingthe life offs loater, he has
permitted no opportunity to pass when he could
stab the reputation Of any one whom he might
happen to dislike, or who he was hired 10 SLAM
der. 1t is n fact known 10 every person who
has read his filthy pro'ucto s, that he is but
common sewer Of defamation, and his business
is 10 prvateer upon the regulations of better
men, because, as | suppose, they could not
kennel with so degraded creature as himself.
In times of high political excitement, can ex-
cuse great deal that is said, by one politician
Of his opponents; but Gable cannot be excused
in that way, for many Of the best democrats in
the district have suffered from his poisonous
bels. For one have not forgotten his mean
abuse Of DR.. John Thompson. Of New Lisbon,
Of George Y. Hampson, William Holmes, James
Cameron, A. L. Luoll, VIM. Deford, C. V. Nc
Millen, |, Atkinson, A. W. Morrison. james
Forbes. Sen. and one hundred other good &c.
mocrats of Carroll county, who, if one tenth
part that Gable charged them with was true,
the Penitentiary is too good for them. All these
things are of public notoriety; yet, with what
what audacity this thing can come before The
people Of this disuict and ask them 10 elect him
TO seat in Congress. 1t is asking honest, mo.
raj, and religious men TO make sacriice of
principle that they never will nor can make.
But come row to examine into his claims
upon the Democratic party. think am doing
| injustice to no one when say that the CASTER
ing biackguard, rant, and the libelous effuson
of his irresponsible sheet, has, for years, defeat
ed the Democratic party in Carroll county,
! No one, presume, doubts the fact, that the d.
vision in the Democratic party in 1843, occa.
stoned by Cable, elected Eckey to the Senate,
and three Wings twice to the House from this
district, which gave the Wings the ascendency
in the Legislature, and enabled them so to dis
trict the State as gHvethe Wings the ascendency
ever since. When the rest of us Democrats
were Iaboring day and night, to secure the elec-
ton Of our ticket in 1843, Cable was weekly
correspondent Of tho Free Press, over his own
signature, bespauering and slandering the DEM
ocratic candidates, whom he denounced in his
very chuste and modest way" "as liars, scoTn-
drels, uiHianS, cliqueS, hIPOcrites, &c. &c.
declaring ut the same time, that Hampson,
Holmes, Cameron, and ToIan might look else
where for votes than 10 him, that they (Ihe
Democrats) had refused to nominate him, and
they shall take the consequences. Not con.
tent with his opposition 10 the ticket, he lravell
ed out oft TO crafty his malignity towards 9TH
er Democrats, who were giving it their Jealous
support. Who does not recOect the unwar-
ranted abuse hcaped upon Mr.. Littell, who, az
that time, was the editor oCIhe Democratic pa.
per; and not only Npon him, but his family and
connexions also, derdng them as the FLAP
doodle famiy''-and Geo. Y. EIampson "as the
plant tool of Dan. McCook's inlamy." DR..
McMillen as the "leing blue pill eater
William Holmes and James Cameron "as the
corrupt and icompeient Office seekers, who
had helped to cheat the Jeff3rsonian Office out
of one hundred dollars" and Isaac Atkinson as
ga scoundrel ia politics and an Gpostate in reli-
gion." But | need not trace this collection Of
base epthets farther; it is sufficient at this Ime
to say that nearly all the Democrats, Of any
prominence, came in for share Of his abuse,
until the vocabulary of billingsga.e was exhaus-
ted, in his low and dirty illusions to the Demo.
cratic candidates and their friends. Who does
not recolIect his abuseful attack upon the fami-
ly of D. McCook, and his malignant attempt to
indic three or four Of his children for an alleg-
ed crime. Is not truth, generally known,
that he collected the subscription 10 the Jeffer-
sonian, when its dues belonged TO the company
who owned that paper, and who afterwards col.
lected the same claims a second time, and up to