Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-11-13
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0aittd COuItcTs now SometnlnB Hoio
than year, the senior Of that sheet has
sought every opportunity for personal
controversy with the conductors OF the
Journal, and used every possible means
tn in;ure the business of this Office
This was expected from disposition
like his, after he had been refused a
partnership in the Journal Office on any
terms whatever. Notwithstanding these
repeated attacks, and numberless false
reports put in circulation for our iniu.
ry, we have almost wholly omitted to
reply, or correct the statements, believ.
ing our readers would take no interest
in our personal disputes, and that the
public would judge our paper from what
they saw rather than from what they
heard from such source. Not that the
materials for rep'y to personal attacks
were not ready at our han1s. We
knew what the public around us know,
that he had been
every thing by starts, and nothing long''-
an apostaie from every profession and
every faiih--that he had been supported
by others as an object of charity alter
he had defrauded all he could induce
to trus. him--that his creditors had long
since ceased to hope that he would pay
one cent on The dollar of their just
claims--ihet after becoming bankrupt
in character and effects. after having
betrayed the confidence of the public
TO the extent that he must leave or be
come an honest man, he left his family
for his family's good, poor, rnisera.
Bile, worthless yagabond, sometimes
seeking a retreat in the vilest dens of
infamy on Girard street, New Orleans,
and again wandering through Texas,
which then contained fit associates,
whose conduct, like his, had driven
them from the abodes OF honest men
that since he has had control of the
Courier his hands have been forced to
sue for their wages-that his notes, Civ.
en- for the paper he uses as vehicle Of
SANDER and bilingsgate, had been pro-
tested till he could purchase no more of
the same irm-that he had begged sub.
scribers at rs cents and less per year,
for the purpose of lessening the Jour
nails list-that he had inserted Medical
advertisements for less than half price
by underbidding US, notwithstanding he
advertised "no medical advertisement
inserted less than regular rates" We
might enumerate till we had filled our
columns, but we forbear. We have re.
Trained alluding to the subject before
for the reason stated, and we only refer
to it DOW TO show that if we ever think
it necessary to devote any attention to
This Individual. This man that
"Desotes 10 scandal his congenial mind,
Himself living lihel on mankind''-
this ser-
''Mean white curd of asses milk"
we have that TO tell which will both bite
and sting-that if we once assume the
disagreeable task of noticing his attacks
and lying charges, we shall expose a
character that 10 be huted needs but to
be seen; but for the present we leave
- "this bug of gilded wing=--
This painted child of dirt that stinks and sings;
Beauty that shocks you parts that none will
trust;
a wit that creeps and pride that licks the
dust;n
we leave him to his own worst enemy
TO himself. But should we deem il our
duty 10 assume the defensive, our posi-
ton will at once be reversed and the
senior Of the Courier will have TO show
more than his usual wit and energy for
defensive materials. As much as we
dislike all controversy of the sort, and
as much as we have and will submit to
without reply. yet once at it, we shall
be the last to cry, hold, enough.
Now a word touching an article in
explanation of Vinton's vote in this
place, copied from the State Journal by
us two weeks since without remark, and
BY the Courier last week with remark.
We know not from what source the ed
itor of the Journal received his infor-
nation, but be could not have come
nearer the truth had he been knowing
personally all the facts. OF course il
is unnecessary for US TO enter into any
explanation in this community where
the whole matter is where
Vance offered for nomination as Whig
al the primary elections but received the
lowest vote of any candidate-ihat as
soon after the. nominating election as
he could arrange with the Locos to get
a place on their ticket he announced
himself as an "Independenf candidate -