The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-06-29
squasdsring tssssands unearnsd, and keeping 9TH
sss ont Of money that is justly theirs have rarely
been urged and enforced as they should be. They
need but be considered and Understood, to Be UNI
vsrsaily losibsd and detested.
We'll Matched.

Well Matched.
Mr. Holhruol Of the Peru Telegraph has turned
defender Of sheriff Hurlbu,'s course in reference
70 the county revenues; he says he is man Of
"unmpeachable character !" but not knowing any
.hing about Mr.. Hurlbut, he gives our charges
and expostions the go-by without showing wheth.
er they are false or not and INDUCES in long IL
rade Of low vulgar abuse against us because we
yentured to lay them before our readers. What
ever could have induced our sleepy friend thus
to get into n passion we are unable TO divine.
He is a singular man. and an editor we have
long been Disguised with him. for we have al.
ways considered him disgrace to the profession.
He is notorious MS man without principle, and
since our acquaintance with him, he has been
wing, democrat, abotionist. no.party man, free
soiler and now milk and water; and under almost
all OF these banners he has thrust himself before
the people for office although Invariably beaten
and at the last April election, rittom opposition,
he was defeated by the SCATTERING VOTE for Su.
pervisor, in his own township--,he place Of his
residsnce--and where everybody knew him
These are all facts Us notorious as the result OF
.he election, and Mr. Holbrook himself cannot
contradict them.-lhe fact is, he is so offensive
so disgusting to the people that they have no con
fdence in him. md are determined not to vote for
him under any consideration; and it really does
appear to us that after MI the kicks and ,hrusts
he has received from the people, during the last
five or six years, he would try TO conceal himself
in some obscure corner, and there, in due time
die peace But he seems like the negro's dog
"tho more you kick him tho more he sticks to
your heels"
And now, then, the pith of the whole matter
is, that this man Holbrook should put himself
forward, unasked, to be the defender OF Sheriff
Hurlbut. Surely they arc pretty span to pull
together And now, since tho subject is up,
will Mr.. Hobrook inform US whether he is aware
that Sheriff Hurlbut, whose character is unm.
peachable," has now, and has had in his hands for
nearly two years, nearly 5000, belonging to the
citizens Of Peru-money which he collected
of Of them as county road tax and for which
he never accounted to the county commissioner
because, the tax was Illegal IF Mr. Holbrook
does not know thisa matter in which he himself
personally interested, he is unfit to talk about
our articles, and should hold his tongue.
For the benefit Of our Peru friends we will
state the particulars in reference to this money
and by shat means give them, probably, better
idea Of the "odmpcachd6ie character Of oar dis.
tinguishcd McriG," than they would be likely to
get from tho Telegraph,
One year ago this spring, a suit wa. commenc
ed in the circuit court at this place against the
county for collecting road tax off the citizens of
Ottawa Judge Dickey decided that the county
had no right to collect road tax Off the citizens of
corporations. Thereupon Sheriff Hurlbut refused
to settle with the county commissioner court
for this tax, as he alleged they had no right to
II. Tho Commissioners knowing the decision Of
Judge Dickey, of course did not insist upon it
The whole amount Of money collected of the CT.
tizens Of the corporations Of Ottawa and Peru
was about s40O. None of this money we believe
has ever been dail book to the tax payers Of Peru
as well as to those Of Ottawa; and we are nclin.
cd to think he does not intend to- md we are per.
fectly satisfied that he is sufficiently mean to keep
IT If he can-Will the people of Peru investigate
this mattcr' NJ